676 KENT COUNTY. [ART. 14.

155.^ The filling up or obstruction of such avenues or open-
ings, may be punished by the Circuit Court for Kent county by
presentment or indictment aa for obstructions of the public
roads.

156. They may require of the owners of slaves as many male
slaves as they may deem necessary to work on the roads, not
exceeding half of the number belonging to such persons on any
one day; but such owner shall not be required to furnish such
labor during the season of harvest; and for every slave so
required and not furnished, the owner shall forfeit sixty cents a
day, to be recovered by the supervisor as in case of small debts,
and accounted for on oath by him.

157. They may call upon any free negro residing within their
several districts, not being under eighteen or over forty-five
years of age, excepting such as are employed by the year by
a white citizen, or whose assessable property exceeds the sum
of one hundred and fifty dollars, to labor in repairing the roads
in said county.

158. They shall not call on such negroes to labor more than
two days in any one year, and they shall make and return to
the county commissioners a correct list of every male free negro
subject to such call; and the county commissioners, in the event
of any excess of labor in any one district in said county, may
make such regulations as will secure such labor in some other
district.

159. Any free negro called on by a supervisor as aforesaid,
who shall refuse or neglect to attend at the time and place by
him appointed, or upon attending shall neglect to perform the
duties required of him, shall pay a fine not exceeding one dollar,
to be recovered at the instance of the supervisor, in the name of
the State, before a justice of the peace of the county, and ac-
counted for by such supervisor.

160. If any person shall alter, change, obstruct or encroach
upon any public road in said county, or cut down, destroy or
injure any of the bridges, causeways, boundaries, marks or
directions therein or thereon, he shall, on conviction in the
Circuit Court for said county, be fined, at the discretion of the
court,'not exceeding fifty dollars, the same to be paid to and