686 CAROLINE COUNTY. [ART. 6.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 6, sec. 152.

206. The county commissioners shall annually levy upon the
assessable property of the county such sum of money as they may
ascertain from the supervisors of roads in the county to be prob-
ably necessary for the repair of roads therein.

Ibid sec. 153.

207. Each supervisor shall call on the taxable persons of his
district who are actually chargeable with taxes, and none other,
(except as hereinafter provided,) at least two days before he
intends working on said roads, exclusive of the day of notice and
day of meeting, and notify them of his intention and the time
and place 'of meeting to work on the roads, what utensils and
implements they must bring, with carts and teams if necessary.

Ibid. sec. 154.

208. The persons so notified shall furnish one-half of their
able-bodied male hands, (if required,) except in time of wheat
harvest, not under eighteen nor over fifty years of age, and also
such utensils and teams as they have and may be required by the
supervisor, under the penalty of one dollar for each hand and
each team they may be required and shall fail to furnish, to be
recovered by the supervisor, in the name of the State, before a
justice of the peace as small debts are recoverable.

Ibid. sec. 155.

209. The-justice of the peace, at the hearing of each case so
brought by the supervisor, may, in his discretion, allow reason-
able excuses for such failure.

Ibid. sec. 156.

210. All sums of money recovered by the supervisor under
this sub-title shall be appropriated by him to the employment of
hands to supply the deficiency of labor occasioned by such delin-
quencies, in which case, but in no other, the supervisors may
employ persons not taxables.

Ibid. sec. 157.

211. No supervisor shall employ more than half of his own
able-bodied hands at any one time, nor at any other time than