ART. 9.] CHARLES COUNTY.

in order to avoid too large a levy and burden upon the
tax payers of said county in any one year, the said
county commissioners, if the proper prosecution of this
system shall require it, may negotiate a loan or loans,
upon the bonds of the county, at not less than their
par value, bearing six per cent, interest, payable annu-
ally, and said bonds payable in annual instalments in
such order as may render their payment not onerous to
said tax payers, and they shall provide in the annual
levy thereafter, for county purposes, for the payment
of said interest, and of said annual instalments, until
said bonds shall be fully paid off and redeemed.

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103. The superintendent of roads for Charles county,
shall have power to procure earth and gravel from any
lands adjacent or convenient to the public roads, for
filling up and raising same when necessary, where he
cannot obtain such by agreement with owners of said
land; and he shall return to the county commissioners
a statement of same in such cases, with an estimate of
its value, and shall also give a certificate or certificates

Earth find gra-
vel from adja-
cent lands.

thereof, to the owners of such land or lands; provided,
such earth or gravel shall not be taken from the arable
and cultivated land of any person, except by his con-
sent, nor his crops or fields injured in getting at and
procuring same. And said superintendent shall also

Proviso.

have power in draining roads to let off the water there-
from upon the adjoining lands, at such places as may

Draining roads.

be proper and necessary; provided, he shall take care
to do so with as little injury as possible to such owners
of land, and to that end, shall have power to continue
drains through such lands, so as to prevent the spread-
ing of the water so let off the roads over cultivated
fields.

Proviso.

104. Any person who shall obstruct, fill up, or
otherwise wilfully injure the drains made by the super-
intendent of roads or supervisors thereof, under his
directions, shall be subject to presentment by the grand
jury of said county, and upon conviction thereof in the

Filling up, &c.,
drains.

circuit court of said county, shall be subject to a fine in

Penalty.