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COUNTIES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 22.

under the directions of the said county commissioners, to hiring
laborers to work on the public roads, and shall pay over to his suc-
cessor, upon the order of the county commissioners, any surplus
that may remain in his hands, and the said supervisors shall make a

Report.

report on oath, once in three months, to the county commissioners,
of the money received and expended.

Id s 7
Refusing to
labor on roads,
etc
36 Md 229.

39. Any person liable to labor, as aforesaid, who shall refuse to
obey such summons, and shall refuse to labor on said public roads,
as hereinbefore provided, for one or two da3's, as hereinbefore speci-
fied, and shall refuse or neglect, upon demand made as aforesaid,
to pay to said supervisor the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per
day, for one or two days' labor, as aforesaid, or shall refuse or neg-
lect to furnish a substitute, as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, upon complaint made by such supervisor,

Penalty.

be liable to be arrested and brought before any justice of the peace

Warrant from
justice of the
peace.

in the county, upon a warrant, to be by said justice issued, in the
name of the State therefor, and shall, upon proof of such summons
and failure to obey the same, and refusal to pay said sum of one
dollar and fifty cents per day, for not exceeding two days, be fined
to an amount equal to said sum of one dollar and fifty cents per

Proceedings

day, for not exceeding two days, and all costs of such proceedings
before said justice, including the pay for the witnesses for the prose-
cution, and the said justice, in order to enforce the collection of said
fines, shall have the power to issue an execution upon the judgment
therefor, and to make it a part of said judgment, and the party
against whom any such judgment is rendered shall stand committed
to the county jail until such fine and costs be paid, but said impris-

Proviso

onment shall not exceed ten days for any one offence; provided, that
any party against whom any justice of the peace may render a judg-
ment, under any of the preceding sections of this article, may at
any time within ten days from the rendition of such judgment, ap-

Appeal to
Circuit Court.
Proviso.

peal from such judgment to the Circuit Court for any county wherein
the same may have been rendered; provided, the party so appealing

Bond

shall give bond, with surety, to the State of Mainland, to be ap-
proved by the said justice of the peace, in the sum of fifty dollars,
with condition to prosecute such appeal with effect, and to pay and
satisfy the fine imposed by said justice of the peace, in case the
judgment shall be affirmed, as, also, all costs adjudged by said jus-
tice of the peace, and, also, all costs awarded by the Circuit Court

Fines payable
to county com-
missioners

for the county to which said appeal shall have been taken, and all fines
collected under the provisions of this article shall be paid to the com-
missioners of the respective counties, to be by them applied for the
purpose of repairing the public roads in said counties, and the
judges of the Circuit Courts for the counties to which this article

Grand jurors.

applies, shall give this article in charge to the grand jurors of then-
respective counties.

Id s 8.
Bond of
supervisors.

40. The county commissioners shall require the road supervisors
appointed by them to give bond to the State, to be approved of by