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(except as hereinafter provided,) at least two days before he in-
tends working on said roads, exclusive of the day of notice and
day of meeting, and notify them of his intention and the time
and place of meeting to work on the roads, what utensils and
implements they must bring, with carts and teams .if necessary.

154. The persons so notified shall furnish one-half of their able
bodied male hands, (if required,) except in time of wheat harvest,
not under eighteen nor over fifty years of age, and also such
utensils and teams as they have and may be required by the
supervisor, under the penalty of one dollar for each hand and
each team they may be required and shall fail to famish; to be
recovered by the supervisor in the name of the State before a
justice of the peace as small debts are recoverable.

155. The justice of the peace at the hearing of each case so
brought by the supervisor may, in his discretion, allow reason-
able excuses for such failure.

156. All sums of money recovered by the supervisor under this
law shall be appropriated by him to the employment of hands to
supply the deficiency of labor occasioned by such delinquencies,
in which case, but in no other, the supervisors may employ per-
sons not taxables.

157. No supervisor shall employ more than half of his own
able bodied hands at any one time, nor at any other time than
when he calls on the taxables of his district, except to repair
bridges or remove accidental obstructions from the roads.

158. The following shall be the rates of compensation for labor
on the public roads in Caroline county, to wit: for every able
bodied hand, the sum of seventy-five cents per day; for every
cart and team, the sum of one dollar per day.

159. The supervisors shall annually return to the county com-
missioners a true account of all work done on the roads, and by
whom done, in order that persons who have labored thereon may
be credited by them in the county charges.

160. Any supervisor, in whose district any free negroes be-
tween the ages of eighteen and fifty years may reside, who are
not taxables, may require them to work one day in each year
upon the public roads, and if any free negro shall refuse or neg-