| 1817.
CHAP. 110. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the person or persons to whom it belonged, and collected as other
county charges are.
See 1818, ch. 30, s. 5 and 6. |
| Wages allowed. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of regulating
wages for labourers, carts and team, there shall be allowed for
each cart or wagon and sufficient team not exceeding two dollars
per day, and for each labourer one dollar per day, and for each
supervisor one dollar and fifty cents per day, to be regulated by the
levy court of said county; and the supervisor may employ able bodies
hands to work on the roads who may not be bound to work,
and they shall be allowed as those who are bound to work. |
Account to be
rendered to levy
court. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the supervisors
shall render to
the levy court in April eighteen hundred and eighteen, a true account
of all work done on said roads, and by whom, and also all
team and carts or wagons employed on the road, and to whom
they belonged, and the person or persons who shall thus work or
furnish team, shall be allowed in the levy list for eighteen hundred
and eighteen for the same. |
Court to meet to
reserve accounts. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
shall meet at
Snow-Hill some time in the month of December eighteen hundred
and eighteen, and in December annually, having first given notice,
by advertisements set up in the public places in the county, of the
time of meeting, and each supervisor shall meet and render an account
to the levy court, on oath, of all work and services done on
the roads, and of all timber used as aforesaid, not rendered before,
and by whom the work was done and to whom the timber belonged.
and a like account, on oath, of his own services, including his services
for notifying the hands to work, for which services in notifying
hands to work, the levy court may allow each supervisor not
exceeding ten days; and the levy court shall direct their clerk to
make out the amount due to each person for his services as aforesaid,
with an alphabetical list of the names to whom the same may
be due, and the clerk shall deliver said list to the collector of the
county, within twenty days after the said court shall order the
same to be made, and the collector shall pay the same to the persons
to whom due, out of the money collected for the county levy, or
allow each person the same in their levy list, in the same manner
that he is bound to pay other county charges. |
Supervisor not to
work with less
than five labourers. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no supervisor
shall proceed to
work on any public road with a less number of able bodies labourers
than five, unless it be for removing some fallen tree or trees, or
other obstructions, repairing bridges or washes, on forfeiture of
his wages for the time that a less number shall be employed by him
as such. |
Court to keep
bridges in repair. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the levy
court of said county, and they are hereby directed to keep up the
necessary repairs of all framed bridges in said county as they have
before been kept up. |
Owners of mills to
keep roads in repair. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all owners of
water mills over
which public roads pass, shall be bound to keep in repair said roads
as has been done heretofore, under the penalty not exceeding ten
dollars for every day such road or bridges shall be out of order, the
same to be recovered before a justice of the peace, in the same manner |
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