490 CHARLES COUNTY. [ART. 9.

twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered and applied as
directed in the last preceding section.

89. The said commissioners shall annually, on the first day of
May, impose upon every dog owned or remaining longer than
five days in said village an annual tax of two dollars, and upon
every bitch an annual tax of five dollars, and upon payment of
such tax shall issue a license or permit to the owner of such dog
or bitch, therein describing such dog or bitch, to keep the same
in said village for twelve months.

90. No dog or bitch kept closely confined upon the premises
of its owner shall be subject to such tax.

91. The bailiff of said village shall kill any dog or bitch going
at large in said village without such license to its owner, and
shall receive such compensation for so doing as the commis-
sioners shall think proper, and upon failure of any bailiff to per-
form the duty required of him in this section, he shall forfeit the
sum of ten dollars, to be recovered in the name of the said com-
missioners before any justice of the peace for said county.

92. All taxes, fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by the
said commissioners, by virtue of any law or ordinance, shall be
applied in such manner, for the use of said village, as may from
time to time by ordinance be directed.

ROADS.

93. The several road supervisors in Charles county shall at all
times, when the roads in their respective districts require repair,
notify the taxable inhabitants in said districts to furnish the
necessary labor, carts, ploughs, teams and materials.

94. Whenever by the report, under oath, of any supervisor
that he has used his utmost endeavors to procure labor sufficient
to repair the roads in his district and that he cannot procure the
same, and the county commissioners of said county are satisfied
of the truth of such report and that the supervisor cannot pro-
cure such labor at the prices fixed and allowed, the county com-
missioners may, in their discretion, increase the prices allowed
for labor, and may require the taxable inhabitants of such dis-
trict to furnish such number or proportion of laborers employed