1062 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.
1884, ch. 166.
265. The register of wills of Dorchester county is authorized
and directed, upon application and at the expense of any person
interested, to record in a well-bound book, used or kept in his
office for that purpose, the copy of any last will and testament, or
of the record thereof, together with all the certificates thereon,
which appear to have been duly made and certified under the
official seal of the office of the register of wills of said county
prior to the burning of the court house of said county, in the
month of May in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and
the said register shall, on the back of said copy when recorded,
make an endorsement of the recording thereof, and of the page
or folio of the book in which the same shall have been recorded.
Ibid.
266. Whenever any such copy shall be filed for record in the
office of the register of wills of the said county, the said copy
shall thereafter be retained and preserved in said office, and filed
as original last wills and testaments are filed; and duly certified
copies of the same, or of the record thereof, shall be evidence, to
all intents and purposes, as are like copies of original last wills
and testaments, or the records thereof.
ROADS.
1878, ch. 477.
267. The county commissioners shall have general supervision
of the public roads of the county, and shall have power to sub-
divide each election district of said county into road districts, and
to appoint a supervisor for each of said road districts; and upon
any supervisor refusing or neglecting to discharge the duties of
road supervisor after being so appointed, he shall, upon proof and
conviction thereof in the circuit court, be fined a sum not exceed-
ing twenty-five dollars and costs of conviction; provided, no
person shall be compelled to serve more than one year in three
years.
1880, ch. 451.
268. All able bodied male residents of said county, above the
age of twenty and under fifty years, who have resided thirty days
in said road district, and who do not reside within the limits of
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