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HOWARD COUNTY. [ART. 13.

amount to be allowed to the owner per day for the use
of such teams, carts or wagons.

Ibid R. B.
Failure to obey
summons.

44. Every person liable as aforesaid to labor on the
said roads, who shall fail to obey the summons of the
road supervisor, or furnish a substitute, shall upon
demand made by said supervisor, pay to him the sum

Fine

of one dollar and fifty cents, and the said supervisor
shall collect and account under oath to the county
commissioners for all sums of money so collected,
and shall apply the same under the directions of said
county commissioners, to hiring laborers to work on
the public roads, and shall pay over to his successors
upon the order of the county commissioners any sur-
plus that may remain in his hands; and the said super-
visor shall make a report once in every three months to
the county commissioners of the money received and
expended by him.

Ibid. s. 6.
Penalty

45. Any person liable to labor on the said roads as
hereinbefore provided, who shall fail to obey any sum-
mons made as aforesaid, or to furnish an acceptable
substitute, and who shall refuse upon demand made
as aforesaid to pay to said supervisor the sum of one
dollar and fifty cents, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall upon presentment, indictment and
conviction thereof in the circuit court for Howard
county, be fined a sum not exceeding ten dollars, and
shall be liable for all costs of prosecution, and shall be
committed to the county jail until such fines and costs

Proviso.

are paid; provided, that when any party committed to
jail under the provisions of this section shall have
remained in jail for the space of ten days, such party
may be discharged therefrom by the order of the court
ordering the commitment; and all such fines shall be
paid to the county commissioners of the county afore-
said, to be by them applied for the purpose of repairing
the public roads in said county, and the judges of the
circuit court for Howard county, shall give this act in
charge to the grand jury of the county at each term of
said court.