ART. 3.] BALTIMORE COUNTY.

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and, provided, that one dollar and twenty-five cents
shall be allowed as the value of a day's service for one
person, in lieu of taxes under this act. The super-
visors for each sub-district, or the contractor for any

Proviso.

portion of a road, to give a certificate of the amount
due any person for labor on the road, which certificate
is to be received in lieu of the tax imposed for road
purposes.

Certificate.

Sub-Sec. 2. Within thirty days after the election,
the boards of supervisors of the several primary dis-
tricts shall proceed to lay off and divide the public
roads of their respective districts into sections, of not
more than one mile in length; shall number and
describe them in a book to be kept for the purpose in

Sections

each primary district, which shall be called the road-
book of primary district number one, number two,
number three, &c., as the same may be; and the boards
of supervisors shall also distinctly specify therein what
they decin necessary for the improvement and keeping
in good repair the said roads and bridges; and when
the surpervisors shall have so laid off the said roads
and bridges as aforesaid, they shall, within sixty days

Road-book.

thereafter, give at least ten days' public notice, by five
hand-bills put up in as many public places in each of
said districts, designating the time and place where

Notice

they will offer at public sale to the lowest and best
bidder, the said roads and bridges as described, one
section at a time, until they are all sold or disposed of

Sale of sec-
tions.

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to be kept in repair for the term of five years, as spe-

Repair.

cified in said road-book; provided that not more than
five sections shall be taken by any one contractor, and
that no supervisor shall, in any event, be interested in
any of said contracts.

Proviso.

Sub-Sec. 3. And if any section or sections of said
roads or bridges shall remain unsold, on account of no
bid having been made for the same, or if the board of
supervisors shall consider the bid too high and exorbi-
tant, it shall be their duty to let out the section or sec-
tions, so unsold, at private sale, or by the day, for a
period of one year next following the general letting ;
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Letting out sec-
tions.