| 1816.
CHAP. 65.
Supervisors to be
appointed. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said levy court,
or a majority
of them, shall proceed to appoint a capable and suitable person
to each district, as supervisor of the said district of public roads,
and to signify the same to him, by warrant, under the hand of the
clerk of said county, and seal of office, according to the number and
divisions of said road, as the same shall be ascertained upon their
records; and that the said justices may adjourn from time to time,
until the said roads shall be duly ascertained and supervisors appointed
as aforesaid. |
Penalty for refusing
to serve.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person appointed
a supervisor
in virtue of this act, and refusing to act as such, and comply
with the requisites thereof, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten
dollars, to be recoverable in the name of the state, before any justice
of the peace of said county, and applied by the levy court toward
defraying the county charges; Provided, that no one person shall
be
compelled to act as supervisor on any of the public roads, more than
one year in every three years, without his consent. |
Court to supply
vacancies. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any supervisor
appointed under
this act, shall refuse to act, remove out of the county, become
disqualified, or die, it shall and may be lawful for any two justices
of the said levy court, to supply every such vacancy so happening
by the appointment of another suitable person to act as supervisor,
under the same penalties and regulations as if he had been appointed
by a majority of the said justices, and the said justices
shall certify every such appointment, under their hands, to the
clerk of said county, within ten days thereafter; and the said clerk
shall within ten days after being so notified thereof, issue a warrant
to the person so appointed, and deliver the same to the sheriff
of the county aforesaid, to be by him delivered to the person so
appointed, or left at his place of residence, within ten days after
receiving the same, under the penalty of ten dollars current money
for every neglect by the sheriff or clerk respectively. |
Levy authorised
for repairs of roads. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Caroline county
shall, at their first levy in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen,
and at their annual levy in every year thereafter, levy and
assess on the assessable property in said county, such sum of money
as they may ascertain from the different supervisors, for the
repair of the public roads in said county, and to be collected as
other county charges are. |
Penalty on persons
refusing to furnish
hands |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of each supervisor
to call on the taxable persons within his district, at least
two days before he intends working on said roads, and to notify
them of his intentions, and the place of meeting, whose duty it
shall be to furnish one half of their able bodied male hands, if required,
except in time of wheat harvest, under the penalty of sixty-seven
cents for every hand so required, to be recovered before a
magistrate as other small debts are recovered in this state, and returned
by the said supervisor to the levy court, to be applied as
they shall direct. |
Wages for labourers,
&c. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of regulating
and establishing wages for labourers, carts and team, the said supervisors
may employ able bodied male hands to work on the said
roads, at the rate of sixty-seven cents per day, and for cart and
team hauling dirt, timber or other materials necessary for the repair |
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