ART. 15.] MONT&OMERY COUNTY. 699
50. 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 all male negroes liable 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.
51. Any free negro called on by the supervisor as aforesaib,
who shall refuse or neglect to attend at the time and place by
him appointed, or upon attending, shall refuse and neglect to
perform the work 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 accounted for by the supervisor.
52. If any person shall alter or change, or in any manner
obstruct or encroach upon any public road in said county, or cut
down, destroy or injure any of the bridges, causeways, bounda-
ries, marks or directions therein or thereon, he shall, on convic-
tion thereof ?n the Circuit Court, be fined in the discretion of
the court, in any sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty
dollars, according to the nature and degree of the offence; such
fine to be appropriated to the repair of such damages and im-
proving the roads in said county, and to be paid to the super-
visor of the district in which the damage shall be done.
EOOKVILLE.
58*. The inhabitants of the town of Rockville in Montgomery
county are a body corporate by the name of The Commissioners
for Rockville, and by that name may have perpetual succession,
sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal.
54*. The limits of said town shall begin at the corner of
the lots of Mrs. Elizabeth Braddock, and of that occupied
by Zachariah Holland, on the Darenstown Boad, thence to
the south-west corner of the lot of the male academy, and of
the lot of Basil Barry, thence to the female academy, thence to
the south end of the street or lane between the lots of Price and
Stonestreet, thence to the corner of Austin's lot, thence to the
south-east corner of Bowie's lot, and of the fair ground or the
Georgetown turnpike, thence to the north-east corner of the lot
of Samuel C. Viers, next to Brewer's and England's land, thence
to the north corner of Beall's lot in England's lane, thence to
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