62 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [Am. 28.

day for each day they shall be engaged in the dis-
charge of their duties, and mileage at the rate of ten
cents for every mile over five miles from their place
of residence.

In force from June 1, 1865.

PUBLIC ROADS.

1867, c. 290 enacts the following as applicable to the counties of Worcester, Somer-
set, Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Calvert and Montgomery:

1867, c. 290. s. 1. Road districts	29. The county commissioners of the several coun- ties shall have the power to subdivide each or any of the election districts of their counties into road dis- tricts, and to appoint a supervisor for each of the said road districts.
Ibid. s 2. Labor on roads.	30. All able bodied male residents of the counties between eighteen and fifty, who do not reside within the limits of an incorporated town, shall be compelled to labor not less than two days in every year on the public roads in the road district in which they reside, and the road supervisor, whenever the public roads shall need repairs, shall summon all such persons in his road district, or such number of them as he may deem necessary to make such repairs, giving at least two days notice of the time and place of meeting, and
Proviso	what tools they must furnish ; provided, however, that no person shall be compelled to labor more than four miles from his place of residence.
Ibid s.3. Exemption from labor.	31. If any person from whom such labor on the roads may be required under the provisions of the preceding section shall make it satisfactorily appear to the county commissioners of his county that he is physically unable to perform the said labor, and is not able to pay the fine hereinafter provided, it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to exempt such person from the performance of the said labor.