734 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 16.

to and returning from the sessions of said court, over and above
six miles from his place of residence.

OUT-PENSIONERS,

124. The county commissioners of said county shall have full
power to allow pensions to all persons residents and citizens of
said county who, in their judgment, may be entitled thereto.

EEGISTER OF WILLS.

125. The Register of Wills in said county shall be entitled to
an annual allowance from the county commissioners of said
county, sufficient to supply his office with fuel.

EOAUS.

126. If any person shall alter or change, or in any manner
Obstruct or encroach upon any of "the roads in said county, or
cut down, destroy, or injure any of the bridges or causeways,
boundaries, marks or directions therein or thereon, he shall, on
conviction thereof in the Circuit Court for said county, be fined,
in the discretion of said court, in any sum not exceeding one
hundred and thirty dollars, to be paid to the supervisor of the
roads in the district where the offence has been committed, and
accounted for by him.

127. All gates on the public roads in said county shall be
strongly and substantially made, and so hung as not to canae
unnecessary delay or hindrance to travellers.

128. Any person who shall tear down, destroy, remove or
leave open any gate on the public roads in said county so made
and hung, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
be liable to a prosecution, in the name of the State, before a
justice of the peace of the county, and may be punished by fine,
not exceeding ten doB»r8, for the use of the county.

129. Any slave who may be guilty of any of the offences
enumerated in the preceding section shall, on conviction thereof
before a justice of the peace of the county, be punished by the
infliction of any number of stripes, not exceeding thirty-nine, as
the justice shall direct.