4910 ARTICLE 22.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 334. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 231.

702. The supervisors shall return a correct account of the expense of
erecting and keeping up said indexes, to the county commissioners, to be
by them levied as other county charges.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 335. 1860, Art 21, sec. 232.

703. If any person shall wantonly injure or deface or pull down any
finger-board, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five dollars,
to be recovered by warrant before a justice of the peace, in the same man-
ner as other small debts, one-half to the informer and the other half to
the use of the county.

P. L. L, 1888, Art. 22, sec. 336. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 233.

704. The pay of laborers upon the public roads in said county shall be
one dollar per day for each laborer.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 337. 1880, ch. 311.

705. It shall not be lawful for any person to encroach upon or to
obstruct the county roads of Washington county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 338. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 234.

706. If any person shall alter or change, or in any manner obstruct or
encroach on any of said roads, or cut down, or destroy, deface or injure
any of the bridges, causeways, boundaries, marks, directions or other es-
tablishment thereon, he shall, on conviction in the circuit court, be fined
at the discretion of the court, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, according
to the nature and degree of the offence.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 339. 1830, ch. 311.

707. Upon complaint of one or more taxpayers of the county to the
county commissioners, of any person having encroached upon or obstructed
the county roads, by setting out fences, or hauling or throwing obstruc-
tions on said roads, the county commissioners shall direct the county sur-
veyor to make a survey of said road and ascertain the correct location of
the center line, and after marking with stakes the outside lines of said
road as originally laid out, he shall report to the county commissioners,
at their next meeting, the name of such person who has encroached upon
with fences or otherwise obstructed said road; the county commissioners
shall then pass an order notifying such person to set back his fences so
as to give to said road its legal width, or to remove the obstructions, as the
case may be, and place a copy of said order in the hands of the sheriff of
said county, who shall notify the person to whom, the notice is directed,
by reading the same to him, and return said order to the commissioners,
with the day and date of the giving of said notice to the person therein
mentioned, endorsed upon the same.

1924, ch. 520.

708. All persons who own improved lands along or adjacent to any of
the improved public highways or roads of Washington County are re-