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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ter 628 of the Acts of 1902, be and the same are hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as

follows, and two new sections are hereby added to be desig-

nated as Sections 130 and 131, and to follow Section 129:

Control of
same.

113. The County Commissioners shall control and regulate

the public roads in Wicomico County.

Sub-dividing

114. They shall subdivide each or any of the election dis-

district.

tricts of the county and appoint a supervisor for each of said

road districts.

115. All able-bodied male citizens of the said county between

Citizens to

the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, who do not reside within

work on high-
ways.

the limits of an incorporated town, shall be compelled to work

not less than two days in every year on the public roads in the

road districts in which they reside, and the road supervisor,

whenever the public roads shall need repairs, shall summon all

such persons in his road district or such number of them as

he may deem necessary to make such repairs, giving at least

two days' notice of the time and place of meeting and what

tools they must furnish; provided, however, that no non-taxpayer

shall be compelled to work more than two days in one year,

and that no person shall be compelled to work more than four

miles from his place of residence.

116. If any person from whom such labor on the roads may

Exempting in-

be required under the provisions of the preceding sections

capacitated
persons.

shall make it satisfactorily appear to the County Commis-

sioners that he is physically unable to perform such labor, it

shall be the duty of the said Commissioners to exempt such

person, if he is a non-taxpayer, from the performance of said

labor.

117. The road supervisor may make such commutation of

Commutation
of labor.

labor for teams, carts and wagons as they may deem proper.

118. Every person liable as aforesaid to labor on said roads

Failure to obey

who shall fail to obey the summons of the road supervisor or

summons.

to furnish a substitute, shall pay to the said supervisor upon

demand the sum of one dollar for each and every day he shall

fail to perform the said labor ; and the said supervisor shall

collect and account under oath, at least once a year, and as

often as may be required, to the said County Commissioners,

for all sums of money so collected, and shall apply the same or

pay it over to the said Commissioners, as they may direct.