EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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119. Any person failing to obey such summons and refusing

upon such demands to pay to the said supervisor the sum of

Failure to pay
to road super-

one dollar, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon com-

visor.

plaint made by such supervisors, shall be arrested and brought

before some justice of the peace of the said county upon a war-

rant to be issued by said justice in the name of the State of

Maryland therefor, and upon proof of such summons and fail-

ure to obey the same and refusal to pay the said sum of one

dollar, shall be fined one dollar and all costs of the proceedings ;

and the said justice in order to enforce the collection of the

said fine and costs shall have the power to issue an execution

therefor against the property of the defendant, and the party

against whom any such judgment is rendered shall stand

committed to the jail until the said fine and costs are paid, the

said confinement not to exceed in any one case ten days; pro-

Proviso.

vided, nevertheless, that the defendant shall have the privilege

of an appeal to the Circuit Court for the County.

120. The road supervisor of each road district shall enroll the

names of all persons in his road district liable to service, in

To enroll

a book kept for that purpose ; he shall also keep a separate

names.

list of those who work when ordered and a similar list of those

who fail to obey his summons, which list shall be subject to

the examination of any citizen of said county when desired.

121. The County Commissioners shall require the road su-

pervisor appointed by them to give bond to the State of Mary-

Road super-
visors to

land, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by them,

give bond.

in such sums as they may deem proper, conditioned for the

faithful and diligent performance by the said supervisors of all

the duties required by them ; which said bonds may be put in

suit for the use and benefit of anyone suffering by reason of

the neglect of the said supervisors in keeping the public roads

in their road district in proper and safe condition ; and the County

Commissioners shall have full and sole power to fix the price

to be paid for laborers on the said roads and to authorize the

said supervisors to hire such numbers of them as the said

supervisors may deem necessary, and they shall pay the said

supervisors such salaries or per diem as they may deem just

and reasonable.

122. Every road supervisor shall be liable to be presented by

the grand jury of the county for malfeasance in office, and

Liable to pre-
sentment

upon conviction thereof before the Circuit Court for the

county shall be fined in each case not less than five nor more

than twenty dollars, in the discretion of the court, and the

bond of the said supervisor shall be liable for said fine.