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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 99.

AN ACT to repeal section eighty-one of article four-teen of the Code of Public Local Laws, title '' Kent county, " sub-title " County Commissioners, " and to amend and re-enact the same with amendments and to add a sub-section thereto, and to provide for the appointment of two County Commissioners by the Governor, to serve until the next general election.

Repealed, amended and re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That section eighty -one of article fourteen of the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Kent county, " sub-title "County Commissioners, " be, and the same is hereby repealed, amended and re-enacted with an amendment, and to add a sub-section to said article and section so as to read as follows.

Commissioners.

81. There shall be five Commissioners for Kent county.

General supervision.

SUB-SECTION. The county commissioners shall have the general supervision of the public roads in Kent county, and the work done thereon, and for this purpose they shall at(their first meeting in January after their election and qualification, assign among themselves the different districts of the county, one of said commissioners to each of said districts, whose duty it shall be to supervise all the public roads in the districts assigned to him, and to go over said roads at least one and not more than two days in each month, for which services they shall be entitled

Per diem and mileage.

to same per diem and mileage as for other duties performed by them; and before the accounts of any person appointed as supervisor under them by the board of county commissioners are passed and paid by the said board, they shall have first the endorsement and approval of the said county commissioner thus assigned to, and put in chaise of said district.

SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted by the General Assembly, That until the next general election there shall be appointed by the Governor, two persons of