ART. 10.] DORCHESTER COUNTY. 627

BO ADS.

' 154. The supervisors of roads in Dorchester county shall keep
all the public roads in said county cleared and grubbed fit for
travelling, twenty feet wide at the least, except in such parts as
the county commissioners shall direct them to be of less width.

155. They shall make and keep good and substantial bridges
over all the heads of rivers, creeks, branches and swamps, where
the same shall be necessary for the convenient and easy passage
of travellers with their horses, cattle and conveyances.

156. They shall remove all nuisances which obstruct the pass-
age or annoy travellers, and well and sufficiently causeway all
places which require the same.

157. They shall fell and remove all decayed or dead trees on
either side of the public roads, whose limbs, or any of them, hang
over the same and may by their falling injure travellers, and
shall top and cut off all limbs or branches of trees hanging or
projecting over said roads within fifteen feet above the surface
thereof.

158. Any supervisor failing in the performance of any of the
duties prescribed in the last four preceding sections of this article,
or who shall in any other manner fail or neglect to perform the
duties of supervisor prescribed by law, shall forfeit and pay not
less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offence
in the discretion of the Circuit Court of the county, to be re-
covered by presentment or indictment of the grand jury as other
forfeitures.

159. No supervisor shall be required to perform, or shall be
punishable for not performing, any duty imposed by this law in
the time of wheat harvest.

160. The several supervisors may, as often as necessary, dig,
take and remove any stone, gravel or earth which may be found
on any lands adjoining the public roads, and use the same in
repairing the roads.

161. They may cut down any trees growing on any of the
next adjacent lands to places where bridges may be necessary,