4616 ARTICLE 21.

1902, ch. 232. 1916, ch. 532.

351. The County Commissioners of Talbot County shall pay annu-
ally to the Commissioners of the town of Oxford in Talbot County, out
of the County taxes levied upon the property within the- limits of the
town of Oxford, such sum of money, not exceeding the sum of Three
Hundred and Fifty ($350.00) Dollars, as may have been expended by
the Commissioners of the said town of Oxford for the repair and main-
tenance of the road bed of the streets of said town; provided, that the sum
of money so required to be paid to the Commissioners of said town of
Oxford shall not exceed in any one year the sum actually used and ex-
pended by the said Commissioners of Oxford upon the road bed of said
streets; and provided further that no money shall be paid hereunder until
and unless the Commissioners of the town of Oxford shall, on or before
December 31, of each year file with the Commissioners of Talbot County,
an itemized statement with vouchers, showing the actual amount of money
so used and expended by the Commissioners of the town of Oxford upon
the road bed of the streets of said town.

1910, ch. 626, sec. 1 (p. 1145).

352. The year for improving and repairing the streets, lanes, alleys
and thoroughfares of said town under this Act shall be reckoned from the
first day of June, inclusive, in one year to the first day of June, inclusive,
in the next year.

1910, ch. 626, sec. 2 (p. 1145).

353. Every able-bodied male person between the age of twenty-one and
sixty years who has resided in said town five months shall be bound to
work on said streets, lanes and thoroughfares for two days in every year,
as the year is herein defined, and if any person who is liable to render
such services fails to attend as directed on notice from the bailiff of said
town of Oxford, or who shall appear and fail or refuse to work and render
proper service as by the person or persons supervising the work he is
required and instructed to do shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof before a justice of the peace of said county or in the
Circuit Court for Talbot County shall be fined two dollars, and shall be
adjudged to pay said fine and costs and stand committed till fine and
costs are paid.

1910, oh. 626, sec. 3 (p. 1145).

354. At or about the first day of April in each year, beginning with
the year 1910, the town clerk, assisted by the Commissioners of Oxford
and the town bailiff, shall make out a list of all persons who on the first
day of next June will be liable to render service, and as soon as may rea-
sonably be convenient this list shall be delivered to the town bailiff, and
he shall call on each person named therein to pay the sum of one dollar.
Each person who pays the same shall receive a receipt exempting him
from service for the current year, beginning on the first day of June fol-
lowing; within five days before the first day of June, the town bailiff