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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

123. The County Commissioners shall have power at any

Removal from
office.

time to remove from office any road supervisor for what they

may deem a neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, and to

appoint another road supervisor to fill the vacancy for the resi-

due of the term ; and the term of office of each supervisor shall

end with the qualification and induction into office of every

new Board of County Commissioners.

Public roads

124. All new public roads hereafter opened in Wicomico

to be thirty

County shall be made thirty feet wide, except where the County

feet wide.

Commissioners shall deem that the public convenience and good

may require them to be less or greater than thirty feet wide,

and shall determine the width of any new road; in the com-

mission issued to the examiners to report on such new road,

all new roads shall be well drained and graded, and it shall be

the duty of the County Commissioners to reject all such roads

if not put in the most complete order ; and they may make at

any time such further rules and regulations as they may deem

necessary for the better keeping of public roads in said county

not inconsistent with the sub-title of this Article or of the

Public General Laws.

125. They may cause to be placed at such of the forks of the

Finger-boards.

public roads as they may think proper, finger-boards or signs

showing the prominent places to which said roads lead and the

distance to such places, and any person tearing down or defac-

ing such finger-boards or signs shall be guilty of a misde-

meanor, and on conviction thereof before a justice of the

peace shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than

ten dollars, and shall stand committed to the jail until such

fine and costs are paid.

126. It shall be the duty of the supervisors of the public

Supervisors to

roads in said county to examine all public roads in their re-

examine
roads.

spective road districts, and if any of said roads are found to

be less than thirty feet wide, and if the said supervisors find

that at any point said roads cannot be improved or repaired

without widening the same, they shall respectively have full

power to remove fences, fill up and remove ditches, cut down

and remove trees or any other obstruction so that the said

road may be rendered passable and convenient ; provided,

such widening shall not exceed thirty feet.

127. If any person shall feel aggrieved at the action of the

Right of ag-

supervisors in the performance of their duty under the preced-

grieved par-
ties.

ing section in removing his fence or other obstruction, he may