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not be required to pay more than sixty per centum of the cost of removing
such snowdrifts. But nothing in this section shall prevent the said county
commissioners from removing, or causing to be removed, snowdrifts from
any public road without application or petition of such residents.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 424. 1918 Code, sec. 682,

704. The Supervisors of Roads in Frederick County shall erect and
keep up at the expense of the county, at all public cross roads, and where
public roads fork, indexes or finger boards pointing to the nearest town,
mill or other public places where the roads lead, with the names of such
places and the distances thereto legibly inscribed thereon.
See Acts of 1916, ch. 279.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 425. 1918 Code, sec. 683.

705. If any person shall wantonly deface, injure or pull down any
euch index or finger board, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding
five dollars for each offense, to be recovered before a justice of the peace
in the same manner as small debts are recoverable, one-half to the informer
and the other half to the use of the county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 426. 1918 Code, sec. 684.

706. The county commissioners, in appointing road supervisors, shall
not appoint any one road supervisor to have control or supervision over
more than ten miles of public road.

See Acts of 1916, ch. 279.

1912, ch. 420, sec. 1. 1918 Code, sec. 685.

707. It shall be unlawful for anyone owning land along and abutting
on the public highways of Frederick County to build or renew fencing
along said public highways of Frederick County, except it be a barnyard
or garden fence, with any other material than wire, excepting the posts
used for the construction of said fencing, which may be wood, iron or
other material.

1912, ch. 420, sec. 2. 1918 Code, aec. 686.

708. All new construction or renewals of old fencing requiring new
material in part shall be subject to the provisions of this subtitle.

1912, ch. 420, sec. 3. 1918 Code, sec. 687.

709. The Board of County Commissioners of Frederick County and
the Road Engineer, if there be a Road Engineer in said county, shall
have full control and power to execute the provisions of this subtitle.

1912, ch. 420, sec. 4. 1918 Code, sec. 688.

710. In any case of a refusal on the part of the land owner (who
elects to have a fence along the public highway) to comply with the pro-
visions of this subtitle, it shall then be lawful under this subtitle for the