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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the same may not traverse, connect or border on
said district.

Estimate of
money neces-
sary.

And the said local boards of each primary dis-
trict shall, as soon as practicable after their organ-
ization, make an estimate of the sum of money
that will be necessary to carry out the provisions
of this law for the ensuing year, and proceed to
levy and collect a tax upon the basis of the assess-
ment for other county purposes, not exceeding fif-
teen cents on the one hundred dollars [the amount
required] and to expend the same in manner and
form prescribed by this Act ; a similar estimate,
levy and collection to be made annually there-
after.

Right to
discriminate.

152. Every person subject to tax under this law
shall be permitted to work out eighty per cent, of
it, either in person or by deputy, and the whole
of it, on agreement with the board of supervisors ;
provided, however, the supervisors or contractors
under them, shall have the right to discriminate
between the value of his own or his deputy's ser-
vices and a full hand; and, provided, that one
dollar and twenty-five cents shall be allowed as
the value of a day's service, for one person, in
lieu of taxes under this Act. The supervisors for
each sub-district, or the contractor for any portion
of a road, to give a certificate of the amount due
any person for labor on the road, which certificate
is to be received in lieu of the tax imposed for
road purposes.

Lay off and
divide.

Within thirty days after the election, the Boards
of Supervisors of the several Primary Districts
shall proceed to lay off and divide the public roads
of their respective districts into sections, of not
more than one mile in length ; shall number and
describe them in a book to be kept for the purpose
in each Primary District, which shall be called the
road-book of Primary District number one, num-
ber two, number three, &c., as the same may be ;
and the Boards of Supervisors shall also distinctly
specify therein what they deem necessary for the
improvement and keeping in good repair the said
roads and bridges ; and when the Supervisors shall
have so laid off the said roads and bridges as
aforesaid, they shall, within sixty days thereafter,
give at least ten days' public notice, by five hand-