| 1817.
CHAP. 110. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
may be an appeal from the decision of the levy court to the county
court; and when a plot of any road or roads, so laid out, shall
be returned to, and confirmed by, the levy court aforesaid, the
same shall be transmitted to the county court of said county, and
there recorded among the land records of said county. |
Roads, how to be
kept in repair. |
30. AND BE IT ENACTED, That instead of keeping
up the said
roads in Worcester county as provided for by this act, it shall and
may be lawful for the justices of the levy court of said county, in
their discretion, to keep in repair the said roads, according to the
provisions aforesaid, or under the provisions herein after contained,
either as respects the whole of the roads in said county, or any
part thereof. |
—To be laid off
into divisions. |
31. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court of
said county shall meet at Snow-Hill on the first Monday of April
next, or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, and in like manner
every year thereafter, and when so met shall lay off the said
roads into as many divisions as they may see proper, and shall then
appoint a day or days when they or any four or more of their body,
shall meet at Snow-Hill, or any other place or places in said county,
and contract with any person or persons for keeping up any
particular division of said roads for the lowest sum. |
| —May be let out. |
32. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said roads
shall be let out
in a public manner to the lowest bidder, and before any road is let
out under this law, the justices of the levy court shall give at least
three weeks public notice thereof, by advertisement to be set up
in the neighbourhood of the roads to be let out, of the time and
place of doing the same. |
To contract for
divisions. |
33. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court of
said county may contract with any person or persons for keeping
any particular division of said roads, for a period of time not
shorter than one year, or longer than three years. |
Recognizance to
be taken. |
34. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court letting
out any road, shall take a recognizance in the penalty of two
hundred dollars to the state of Maryland, from the person or persons
who may bid off any particular division of said roads, with
one or more sufficient securities, conditioned that the same shall be
discharged upon the party or parties who are the principals therein
keeping the road contracted for in proper order, together with all
bridges and foot ways across water, where the same may be necessary. |
To be lodged with
county clerk. |
35. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any recognizance
taken under
this act, shall be lodged with the clerk of Worcester county, within
ten days after taking the same, to be by him recorded in his office;
and at any time when the levy court of said county, or any
member thereof, shall know or be informed, or any neglect of duty
of any person or persons, the principals in a recognizance taken
by virtue of this act, it shall be the duty of the said levy court, or
the member thereof receiving the information as aforesaid, to cause
a scire facias to issue out of the county court of said county,
upon
said recognizance, against the principal and securities named therein,
and if upon trial neglect of duty shall be established, the court
shall fix the sum to be paid by the parties named in said recognizance,
and shall give judgment therefor, together with costs of
suit, to be applied towards discharging the county charges of Worcester
county. |
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