698 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 15.

43 of this Article, or the value thereof, in any Circuit Court, or
before any justice of the peace of this State, having jurisdiction
thereof.

ORPHANS' COURT.

46. The regular terms of the Orphans' Court of said county
shall be held on the second Tuesday of every month of February,
April, June, August, October and December, and the said court
shall, if necessary, be held on the Tuesday of every week in the
year, and oftener if need be, according to its own adjournment.

47. Any one of the judges of said court shall have power to
hold the said court, at a stated time of adjournment, only for the
purpose of adjourning; any two of them shall have fall power to
do any act which the said court is or shall be authorized by law
to perform, and any two of them may hold a court on any
day not named in an adjournment, on the application of any
person having pressing business in said court; Provided, notice
thereof be given to all, and in such case the register shall record
that such notice has been given.

EETATLEKS.

.48. The clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery county
shall not grant a license to any person to sell ardent spirits at
any place within three miles of the line of the District of
Columbia, on or near either of the roads leading from George-
town in said district to Brookville, Frederick City, or Seneca
Mills, nor shall the said clerk grant such license to any person in
the village of Brookville, in Montgomery county, or within half
a mile of said village, without, in either case, an order in writing
from the judge of the said court; and the said judge may grant
such order if satisfied, from representation in writing of respect-
able inhabitants of said neighborhood or village, as the case may
be, of the necessity and propriety of granting the same.

ROADS.

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