2080 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23.

of the said supervisors in keeping the public roads in their road
districts in proper and safe condition; and the county commis-
sioners shall have full and sole power to fix the price to be paid
for laborers on the said roads, and to authorize the said super-
visors to hire such numbers of them as the said supervisors may
deem necessary; and they shall pay the said supervisors such
salaries or per diem as they may deem just and reasonable.

1874, ch. 125.

122. Every road supervisor shall be liable to be presented by
the grand jury of the county, for malfeasance in office, and upon
conviction thereof before the circuit court for the county shall be
fined in each case not less than five nor more than twenty dollars,
in the discretion of the court; and the bond of the said supervisor
shall be liable for said fine.

Ibid.

123. The county commissioners shall have power at any time
to remove from office, any road supervisor for what they may
deem a neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, and to appoint
another road supervisor to fill the vacancy, for the residue of the
term; and the term of office of each supervisor shall end with the
qualification and induction into office of every new board of
county commissioners.

Ibid.

124. All new public roads, hereafter opened in Wicomico
county, shall be made thirty feet wide, well drained and graded;.
and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to reject all
such roads if not put in the most complete order; and they may
make at any time such further rules and regulations as they may
deem necessary for the better keeping of public roads in said!
county, not inconsistent with this sub-title of this article.

Ibid.

125. They may cause to be placed at such of the forks of the
public roads as they may think proper, finger-boards or signs,
showing the prominent places to which said roads lead, and the
distance to such places; and any person tearing down or defacing
such finger-boards or signs shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, shall be fined
not less than five nor more than ten dollars, and shall stand com-
mitted to the jail until such fine and costs are paid.