JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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era, and all bills of costs for hire of persons and

teams, or for other expenses incurred in repairing

the public roads, shall, when approved by the county

commissioners by endorsement thereon, be receiva-

ble for the party to whom due, or his assignee in

writing, in payment of county taxes due by the law-

ful holder thereof.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the several super-

visors shall make general repairs of the roads, within

Repairs—
When made

their districts, at least twice in each year; once prior

to the fifteenth of May, and once prior to the fifteenth

of September, and the county commissioners shall

fix and regulate, from time to time, the prices to be

paid by supervisors for the hire of necessary teams

and laborers to execute any work under this law.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the several super-

visors shall report semi-annually, in June and No-

Report semi-

vember, to the county commissioners, the state of the

annually.

roads within their districts and the expenses by them

incurred under this law, the amount of money paid

out by them in constructing and repairing roads,

with the vouchers for the same, that each supervisor

shall be entitled to receive two dollars per day, for

Compensati'n

each day he is actually employed on the roads for

the said commissioners, and shall be wholly exempt,

during his time of service, from militia duty and

from service on juries.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That in addition to. the

proper proportion of the general road tax, levied for

ordinary expenses of roads and bridges within the

Additional
special tax.

county, the county commissioners shall have power,

in their discretion, upon the petition of thirty or

more land owners within any road district, to levy

upon the assessable property, within such road district

an additional special tax of not more than ten cents

on the hundred dollars, to be collected as other

county taxes, and to be expended under the direc-

tion of the county commissioners, in the improve-

ment of the roads within said district.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That any supervisor may

be sued before any justice of the peace in an action

May be sued.

of debt, in the name of the said commissioners, for