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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 509.

AN ACT to provide for maintaining and keeping

in repair the public roads in Anne Arundel coun-

ty, and to repeal the act passed at January session

eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter one hun-

dred and ninety-two.

Repealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the act of the General Assembly of

Maryland, passed at the January session, eighteen

hundred and seventy, chapter one hundred and nine-

ty-two, relating to public roads in Anne Arundel

county, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Com-

Appoint road
supervisors

missioners for Anne Arundel county shall, during

the month of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-

tour, and in the same month in each succeeding

year, or as soon thereafter as may be, appoint one

suitable and competent person as supervisor of roads
in each election district of said county, who shall be

a resident of said district, and who shall serve one

year and until his successor shall be appointed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That whenever any per-

Refuse to

son so appointed shall refuse to accept the appoint-

accept

ment of supervisor, within twenty days after notifi-

cation thereof, he shall pay a fine of twenty dollars,

to be recovered by action of debt before any justice

of the peace in the name of the county commission-

ers for said county, to be appropriated to road pur-

Proviso.

poses within his district ; provided, that the commis-

sioners may remit the fine upon being satisfied that

such person ought not to have been appointed, or

should not be required to accept such office; and

the commissioners shall have power to remove any

supervisor who shall fail in or neglect his duties and

to appoint some person in his place.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty

Duty of each
aupervisor

of each supervisor to cause all public roads, within

his district, to be kept in good repair, with suitable

drains on each side so as to afford at all times free,

safe and easy passage for wagons and carriages along

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such roads, cause bridges and culverts to be made