954 WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 22.

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ROADS.

96. The supervisors of roads in the several districts in said
county, whenever the public roads therein shall need repairs,
except in wheat harvest, shall call upon all persons within their
districts, or as many as they may deem necessary, who shall
have paid or are charged with county taxes, (except owners
of water mills over the dam or raoe of which a public road
leads,) at least two days before they intend working on the
roads, and notify them of the time and place of meeting, and
what tools they must furnish; and the persons notified shall
attend at the hour appointed, with all the able bodied males
which belong to them or are in their employ and under their
control, under a penalty not exceeding seventy-five cents nor
under fifty cents for every hand or person required, to be re-
covered before any justice of the peace, in the name of the State,
and paid and accounted for under oath by the supervisor to the
county commissioners; but no white male over fifty years of
age, or under twenty-one, and no slave over sixty or under
eighteen years of age, shall be obliged to attend.

97. The supervisors may also summon all white male citizens
of said county, who are not assessed and who pay no tax,
between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, in their
respective districts, to labor on said roads two days in any one
year.

98. They may also summon all able bodied free negro males
residing in their respective districts who are not assessed and
pay no tax, to labor on said roads three days in any one year.

99. They may make such commutation of labor for teams
and carts or wagons, at the time of such notice, as they may
think proper.

100. There shall be two supervisors of roads elected in the
first election district of said county, one of whom shall be a
resident of that part of the district lying south and the other of
that part lying north of the following lines: beginning at the
Pocomoke River at the mouth of Carey's Creek and running by
and with the said creek to Mason's mills, thence by and with
the county road from Mason's mills to Marshall's mills, by the
way of a place known by the name of the "Sheep House,"