1064 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

person fined to stand committed until the fines and costs are paid;
and in all such prosecutions the supervisor shall be a competent
witness for the State; provided, that in all cases in which fines
may be imposed under this law, any person may appeal to the
circuit court, as in other cases, giving bond with good security, in
the penalty of twenty-five dollars, to prosecute his appeal with
effect.

1878, ch. 477.

271. All fines collected by any justice of the peace under the
preceding sections shall be paid over by him to the road super-
visor; and these fines, together with all the monies paid to road
supervisors by persons in lieu of their work on the county roads,
shall be spent by the supervisors in employing other laborers and
hiring teams, or any other necessary expenses in repairing and
improving roads; and the supervisor shall furnish a statement
under oath to the county commissioners, of all monies collected
and expended, and of each day's labor employed on the road, his
own labor being separately itemized.

Ibid.

272. It shall be the duty of the supervisor to assign to each
individual a reasonable and uniform amount of work each day,
and direct him bow to perform it; the ditches on the sides of the
public roads shall be cut and opened so as to furnish the best
decline for running the water off and draining the roads, and the
earth from said ditches shall be thrown into the centre of the
road so that the centre shall always be kept higher than the sides;
all holes shall be filled with solid material or earth, and no hills or
banks shall be left on the sides of the roads; and the supervisor,
his agent or deputy, shall, with the assistance of those laborers
summoned, make and keep good and substantial bridges over all
the heads of rivers, creeks, branches and swamps, and all other
places where bridges are necessary; shall drain the roads, fill and
remove all the decayed or dead trees on either side of the public
roads where limbs hang over the same, and may by their falling
injure travelers, and shall top and cut off all limbs or branches of
trees hanging or projecting over said roads within fifteen feet
above the surface.