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in all cases be given to the owner or owners of the property taken for such
roads or left upon the premises in case the owner is unknown of the amount
or amounts of damages allowed to such owner or owners and all the benefits
awarded against such owner or owners; and provided further, that in case
the damages allowed by said examiners to any person or persons or body
corporate shall be increased either by order of said Road Directors or by
the Circuit Court for said county upon appeal from the decision of said
Road Directors, or in case the amount of benefits assessed against any per-
son or persons or body corporate by said examiners be decreased either by
order of the Road Directors or by the Circuit Court for said county upon
appeal from the order of the Road Directors, then the parties petitioning
for said road shall pay pro rata according to their assessments the deficit
caused by said increase of damages or decrease of said benefits, the same
to be collected in the same manner as assessments for benefits as heretofore
provided; and provided further, that no work shall be done on any road so
ratified or confirmed until all the assessments for the construction of said
road shall have been paid or in the event of a reduction of any assessment
for benefits or increase of any damages upon appeal or otherwise as above
provided until the amounts of the deficit thereby caused shall have been
made up and paid by the petitioners.

Symons v. Road Directors, 105 Md. 256.

1904, ch. 282, sec. 216P.

559. Whenever the cost of building or erecting any new road or bridge
or of altering any old road or bridge shall be estimated by the Roads
Engineer to exceed one hundred dollars, the Road Directors may, if
they see proper, have such road or, bridge erected or altered by con-
tract upon plans and specifications to be furnished by the Roads En-
gineer and approved by the Road Directors, such contracts to be let
to the lowest responsible bidder after due public notice by advertise-
ment in some newspaper published in said county; the contractor in all
cases to give bond to the Road Directors in double the amount of the
contract price to be approved by the Road Directors, and the work to be
done subject to the inspection and approval of the Road Engineer; and
in all contracts shall be provided that no adult labor shall be employed at
wages less than one dollar and seventy-five cents per day.

1904, ch. 262, sec. 216Q. 1929, ch. 79.

560. The Road Directors shall not be liable in any action whatsoever
growing out of or caused by any of the existing roads in Allegany County
being narrower than required by law or growing out of or caused by their
being narrower than they were originally planned; nor shall said Road
Directors be required to keep the public roads in Allegany County free
from snowdrifts; nor shall said Road Directors be liable to any action for
damages caused by snowdrifts, snow, ice, nor any accumulations thereof;
nor shall said Road Directors be liable for damages of any kind unless
the person injured, or someone in his behalf, shall give the Clerk of the