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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and if any road supervisor shall wilfully fail to file either

the annual report, above referred to, or either of the above

Penalty for

mentioned semi-annual reports, with the said County Com-

failure to do

missioners, within ten days from the time herein required,

so.

respectively, his said office shall be ipso facto vacated and

the said County Commissioners shall immediately proceed

to appoint some other person in his stead.

235. That each Supervisor shall receive as full compensa-

Supervisor's

tion two dollars for each and every day of eight hours each,

compensation.

he may be employed in actually superintending persons duly

summoned and actually engaged in clearing, smoothing and

repairing the roads of his district, and also ten cents for each

person summoned as aforesaid; provided, the number so sum-

moned shall not exceed ten persons at any one time; and if

it shall become necessary for any road supervisor by reason

of sudden flood or by reason of accident or other emergency,

to work upon the roads of his district alone, or to repair

bridges, without the assistance of persons liable to road service

and regularly summoned such road supervisor shall be entitled

as his full compensation for services thus rendered, to the

sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per day, for each and

every day of eight hours each in which he may be actually so

employed and if under any circumstances any road supervisor

shall find it necessary to furnish a horse and wagon or cart.

while engaged in road service he shall receive as compensation

for such horse and cart or wagon if in the judgment of the

County Commissioners, such horse and wagon were neces-

sary, the sum of one dollar for each and every day of eight

hours each he may have employed said horse and wagon but,

Compensation
for use of

under no circumstances shall un Y allowance be made by the

horse and

County Commissioners to any road supervisor for the use of

cart on roads.

any horse and wagon or cart, unless such horse and wagon or

cart was actually and necessarily used by such supervisor in

the discharge of his duties; and each supervisor shall be re-

quired by the County Commissioners to give bond to the

State in the sum of five hundred dollars with surety to be ap-

proved by the County Commissioners conditioned for faithful

discharge of his duty; and said bond shall be on file in the

office of said Commissioners and may be put in suit by the

said Commissioners, or any one suffering from the neglect of

said supervisor in keeping his road in proper order, or any

Bonds to be
furnished.

other failure of duty; and the said supervisor shall also be

liable to indictment in the Circuit Court for Somerset County,

and on conviction for any violation of his duties under the sub-

title of this Article shall be fined not exceeding two hundred