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LAWS OF MARYLAND,

159. He shall be entitled to thirty-five cents a day

Compensa-

for each prisoner committed to the jail of said county,
and to the following sums for taking convicts to the

tion

penitentiary, to wit : When a single convict is

taken, thirty-five dollars; when two together, twenty-

five dollars each ; when more than two, twenty dol-

lars each ; to be levied as other county charges.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

When effec-
tive.

effect from the first day of January, eighteen hun-

dred and eighty-one.

Approved April 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 286.

AN ACT to add new sections to the Code of Public

Local Laws, artitle one, entitled " Allegany

county," sub-title " Roads."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the following sections are

Additional

hereby added to article one of the Code of Public

sections

Local Laws, entitled "Allegany county," sub-title

" Roads."

SEC. — . The county commissioners of said county

are hereby authorized and empowered, in the month

of April, eighteen hundred and eighty, and in each

second year thereafter, to appoint one person, a res-

ident of said county and qualified voter therein, to

be known as General Supervisor of Roads, whose

Appoint gen-
eral road su-

duty it shall be to take charge of the public roads
and bridges of said county, and superintend the

pervisor.

building and repairs of all such public roads and

bridges, subject to the control and supervision of

said commissioners in all respects ; and said commis-

sioners shall have full power to make rules and reg-

ulations fixing and determining the duties of said

supervisor and the manner of performing the same ;

and said supervisor shall hold office for the term of