3106 ARTICLE 14.

REGISTER OF WILLS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 14, sec. 102. 1870, ch. 3.

241. The register of wills shall be entitled to have and receive from
any person depositing in his office for record, any will, bond, guardian's
account, administrator's account, inventory, account of sale or release, the
same amount as is now charged by the clerk of the county, for the special
purpose of keeping up and continuing a general index of the same.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 14, sec. 103. 1870, ch. 3.

242. He shall make out, from time to time, as may be necessary, a
true and correct statement of the services rendered under the preceding
section, so far as they are therein charged against the county, and shall
certify the same, under oath, if so required by the county commissioners;
and he shall furnish said statement, so made, to them, at least ten days
before the day upon which they shall determine and order the annual levy
for the county; and it thereupon shall be their duty to place on the said
levy, for the use and benefit of the said register, such an amount of monies
as he shall be entitled to, according to such statement.

ROADS.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 14, sec. 104. 1870, ch. 142. 1894, ch. 130.

243. The County Commissioners shall, if they deem it expedient, on
the first Tuesday in March in each and every year, or within thirty days
thereafter, appoint one or more supervisors of roads in each of the road
districts of said county, who shall serve one year or until his or their
successor or successors shall be appointed.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 14, sec. 105. 1870, ch. 142.

244. When any person shall refuse to accept the appointment of super-
visor, fifty days after notification thereof, he shall pay a fine of twenty
dollars, to be recovered by action of debt before a justice of the peace, in
the name of the county commissioners, to be appropriated to road pur-
poses within his district; which fine the commissioners may remit upon
being satisfied that said person ought not to have been appointed; and they
shall have power to remove any supervisor who shall fail in or neglect
his duties and to appoint another person in his place.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 14 ,sec. 106. 1870, ch. 142.

245. It shall be the duty of each supervisor to cause all public roads
within his district to be kept cleared, smooth and 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 such roads; to cause bridges and

*Ch. 620, 1892, proposing amendments to this subtitle was defeated on referen-
dum vote.

Ch. 485, 1922, authorized $540,000, and ch. 355, 1924, $200,000, of bonds for roads,
and authorized the levying of taxes to pay interest on and to redeem said bonds.