2078 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23.

ROADS.

1870, ch. 479.

113. The county commissioners shall control and regulate the
public roads in Wicomico county.

1874, ch. 135.

114. They shall sub-divide each or any of the election districts
of the county, and appoint a supervisor for each of said road dis-
tricts.

Ibid.

115. All able-bodied male citizens of the said county, between
the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, who do not reside within
the limits of an incorporated town, shall be compelled to work
not less than two days in every year on the public roads in the
road district in which they reside; and the road supervisor, when-
ever the public roads shall need repairs, shall summon all such
persons in his road district, or such number of them as he may
deem necessary to make such repairs, giving at least two days'
notice of the time and place of meeting, and what tools they
must furnish; provided, however, that no non-taxpayer shall be
compelled to work more than two days in one year, and that no
person shall be compelled to work more than four miles from his
place of residence.

Ibid.

116. If any person from whom such labor on the roads may
be required under the provisions of the preceding section, shall
make it satisfactorily appear to the county commissioners, that he
is physically unable to perform such labor, it shall be the duty of
the said commissioners to exempt such person, if he is a non-tax-
payer, from the performance of the said labor.

Ibid.

117. The road supervisors may make such commutation of
labor for teams, carts and wagons, as they may deem proper.

Ibid.

118. Every person liable as aforesaid to labor on said roads,
who shall fail to obey the .summons of the road supervisors or to
furnish a substitute, shall pay to the said supervisor upon demand
the sum of one dollar for each and every day he shall fail to per-