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

186. If any landholder shall refuse to send his hands after
having received the notice aforesaid, the said supervisor shall
cause him to be summoned before a justice of the peace for said
county, and upon conviction thereof, he shall be fined not less
than five nor more than ten dollars for each offence, in the dis-
cretion of the justice, to be paid to the county commissioners,
to aid in repairing the public roads.

137. The said landholder shall, for every day his hands shall
work upon the public roads, be entitled to receive one dollar and
twenty-five cents for men and one dollar for women; for a boy
not less than ten years of age, seventy-five cents per day; for a
yoke of oxen and cart and driver, two dollars and fifty cents per
day; and for a plough and two horses with ploughman, two
dollars and fifty cents per day.

138. The supervisors of roads may call on. any free negroes
living in their respective districts, over eighteen and under
forty-five years of age, and not in the employ of any white citi-
zen by the year, and not having, assessable property exceeding
one hundred and fifty dollars, to labor on the public roads in
their respective districts.

139. No supervisor shall call out any free negro, under the
preceding section, more than two days in any one year; and
each supervisor shall return to the county commissioners a
correct list of all free negroes in his district liable to be so
called out.

140. If any free negro called out by a supervisor, under the
provisions of section 138 of this article, shall refuse or neglect
to attend at the place and time appointed, or attending, shall
neglect to perform the duties required of him, he 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, and to be paid by the supervisor to the county commis-
sioners, and applied to keeping the public roads in repair.

141. If there shall be at any time an excess of labor in any
one district in said county, the county commissioners, shall make
such regulations as will secure the labor of the free negroes
therein upon the roads in some other district of the county.