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license is intended to be used for the benefit of the person only
in whose name the same is applied for, or for the use or benefit
of any other person.

139. The said clerk shall not grant such license if it shall
appear that the same is not intended for the sole use and benefit
of the person applying for the same, under the penalty of fifty
dollars, to be recovered as small debts are, one-half to the in-
former and the other half to the use of the county.

140. "Whenever any trader shall be brought before the Circuit
Court for said county or the judge thereof, under the provisions
of section 186 of this article, the court or judge shall examine
by the oath of the party charged, and by any other competent
witness brought before him, whether the party charged was
dealing on his own account or on the account of any other
person.

141. If the court or judge shall be satisfied that the party has
been dealing on account of any other person, the court shall
give the facts and circumstances in charge to the grand jury
then sitting or at the next term of the court thereafter.

ROADS.

142. The Supervisors of public roads in Anne Arundel county
shall mend the public roads within their districts by the fifteenth
of August in every year, and upon failure to do so the commis-
sioners of the county may authorize the owner of any land
through which any public road may pass, and which shall not
have been mended by said day, to mend the same.

143. The county commissioners shall require from any owner
of lands, who shall mend the public roads agreeably to the last
preceding section, an account, under oath, stating the number
of hands and teams employed and the length of road mended,
and shall, if the same be reasonable, allow such account.

144. The supervisors of roads 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.