ART. 2. ] ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

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240. The several supervisors shall make general
repairs of the roads within their districts at least twice
in each year, once prior to the fifteenth of May, and
once prior to the fifteenth of September, and the county
commissioners shall fix and regulate from time to time
the prices to be paid by supervisors for the hire of
necessary teams and laborers to execute any work
under this law.

Ibid. s 6
When repairs
to be made.

241. The several supervisors shall report semi-annu-
ally, in June and November, to the county commis-
sioners, the state of the roads within their districts,
and the expenses by them incurred under this law;
the amount of money paid out by them in construct-
ing and repairing roads, with the vouchers for the
same; each supervisor shall be entitled to receive

Ibid s. 7
Supervisors to
report semi-
annually.

two dollars per day for each day he is actually em-

Per diem.

ployed on the roads for the said commissioners, and
shall be wholly exempt, during his time of service,
from militia duty and from service on juries.

Exemption.
from militia
and jury duty.

242. In addition to the proper proportion of the
general road tax levied for ordinary expenses of roads
and bridges within the county, the county commis-
sioners shall have power, in their discretion, upon the
petition of thirty or more land-owners within any road
district, to levy upon the assessable property within
such road district an additional special tax of not more
than ten cents in the hundred dollars, to be collected as
other county taxes, and to be expended under the direc-
tion of the county commissioners in the improvement
of the roads within said district.

Ibid s 8.
Road tax.

243. Any supervisor may be sued before any justice
of the peace, in an action of debt, in the name of the
said commissioners, for any dereliction of duty under
this act; the amount to be recovered not to exceed in
any case the sum of one hundred dollars, according to
the aggravation of the case, either party having the
right of appeal to the circuit court, as in other cases of
small debts; and all sums so recovered shall be applied
in aid of the road fund of the district where such su-

Ibid s. 9.
Supervisor may
be sued for de-
reliction of
duty.

pervisor acts, or he shall be liable to indictment in the

May be indicted