PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1465

Ibid. sec. 169.

440. The supervisor of each road district is authorized to
hire horses, wagons, carts and plows, and to employ not less
than six able-bodied men hands to work on the repairs of the
public roads and bridges in his district, and he is required to
commence the ordinary repairs of said public roads and bridges
in the month of May, and to complete the same by the first day
of September, in each year.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 16, sec. 170.

441. Each supervisor is required to keep an accurate account
of the number of days he was engaged on the repairs of said
roads and bridges in his road district as supervisor, the num-
ber of hands worked each day, and the number of days' labor
performed by each hand, the number of horses, wagons, carts
and plows used, and the number of days they were in use, and
report the same under oath to the county commissioners.

Ibid. sec. 171.

442. If any supervisor shall render to the county commis-
sioners a false statement of account, or shall be guilty of wilful
neglect of duty, he shall be liable to indictment by the grand
jury, and if convicted in the Circuit Court for .said county shall
be fined any sum, in the discretion of the court, not exceeding
fifty dollars for each offence.

Ibid, sec, 172.

443. The county commissioners are authorized to purchase,
for the use of the county roads, scoops, hoes, shovels and picks,
for the purpose of repairing said roads and bridges, to be dis-
tributed amongst the several supervisors, who shall take care
of them and pass them to their successors when called for.

Ibid. sec. 173.

444. The county commissioner for each district shall have
general supervision over the several public roads and bridges in
his district, and it shall be his duty to see that they are kept in
good repair; and he is empowered to suspend any road super-
visor in his district for neglect of duty; and in case of such sus-
pension, he shall report the same to the board of commissioners,
who may dismiss such offender.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 16, sec. 174.

445. The county commissioners shall determine the per
diem to be allowed to the several supervisors, hands, horses,
wagons, carts and plows, and the number of hours that shall
constitute a day's work, and cause the same to be entered upon
the minutes of their proceedings, and shall notify the super-