298 CAROLINE COUNTY. [ART. 6.

and provided further, that the said treasurer shall not pay more than one-fourth of
the whole amount appropriated under this act in any one year.

2. That if the whole or any portion of the fund appropriated by this act shall not
be demanded, according to the provisions of this act, by any of the counties referred
to, that then, and in that case, the aforesaid five hundred thousand dollars set apart
for and intended to be applied to works of internal improvements in said counties,
shall be held sacred, and the faith of the state pledged that the said amount shall be
exclusively devoted to works of internal improvements in said counties, and subject
to the disposition of any future legislation of this state.

3. That when a demand shall be made for any portion of the aforesaid sum of five
hundred thousand dollars, and in the judgment of the treasurer the condition of the
treasury should require it, it shall be the duty of the treasurer, and he is hereby
authorized, to cause bonds of the state of Maryland, not exceeding the amount of
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in any one year, in denominations of
not less than five hundred dollars each, and bearing coupons for interest payable semi-
annually at six per cent, interest, to be issued in the usual form, and proposals for the
sale of the said bonds, made by advertisement, in such papers as he may select

4. That for the payment of the interest and the redemption of the principal of the
said bonds when due, there shall be levied upon the assessable property of the state
a tax of one cent on the hundred dollars, to be collected as other taxes are now col-
lected, and the proceeds of said tax shall be paid to the treasurer of the state, and
be by him set apart for the payment of the interest and for the redemption of the
principal of said bonds, and be shall invest the surplus of receipts from the said
tax, after paying interest as a sinking fund for the redemption of said bonds.

ARTICLE VI.

Caroline County.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES. 138. Number of Justices and constables. ROADS. 162. Road districts. 153. Labor on public roads : proviso. 154. Exemption. 155. Commutation for teams, &c. 156. Penalty : fines. 157. Liability to arrest: fines, how col- lected.

168. Supervisors' bond price for labor- ers : supervisors' salaries. 169. Certificates. 160. Drafts on county commissioners . ex- penditures. 161. Accounts of supervisors, returns to commissioners. 162 When work to be done on roads. 103. Width of roads . notice obstruotions. 164. Rules and requirements. 165. Altering, &c , public roads : penalty. 166. Finger boards or signs tearing down, &c, same: penalty.

CIRCUIT COURT.

The clerk of the circuit court for Caroline county is authorized by the act of 1868,
c. 280, to purchase a suitable book in which to index the land record of said county,
and the county commissioners of said county are empowered to levy a sum of
money sufficient to pay said clerk, &c.