ART. 13.] HOWARD COUNTY. 339

ROADS.

1868, c. 358 entitled an act to provide for the repairs of the public roads of Howard
pounty, enacts the following, and repeals all laws or parts of laws inconsistent
therewith:

40. The county commissioners of Howard county shall have power to sub-divide each or any of the election districts of said county into road districts, and to appoint a supervisor for each of the said road districts.	1868, c 358, s 1. Road districts.
41. All able bodied male residents of said county, who have resided thirty days in said road district, of the age of twenty-one and upwards, who do not reside within the limits of an incorporated town, shall be compelled to labor at least one day in every year, on the public roads in the road district in which they reside; and the road supervisors, whenever the pub- lic roads shall need repairs, shall summons all such persons in his district to make such repairs, by giving	Ibid s.2. Road service.
five days' notice of the time and place of meeting;	Notice.
provided, that no person shall be compelled to labor more than three miles from his place of residence.	Proviso.
42. If any person from whom such labor on the public road shall be required, under the provisions of of the preceding sections, shall make it satisfactorily appear to the supervisor of said road district, that he is physically unable to perform the said labor, and is not able to pay the fine hereinafter provided, or to fur- nish a substitute, it shall be the duty of the supervisor to exempt such persons from the performance of the said labor.	Ibid s.3. Exemption.
43. The said county commissioners shall furnish to the road supervisors whatever implements or tools may be necessary for the repairs of the roads, and the	Ibid s. 4. Tools, &c.
said supervisors may make commutation of labor for teams and carts, or wagons, or furnish the same as they may deem proper, and the said county commis- sioners are hereby authorized to fix and establish the	Commutation.