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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 451.

AN ACT to repeal sections one hundred and fifty-

five and one hundred and fifty-six of the Code of

Public Local Laws, title "Dorchester county,"

as enacted by the act passed at January session,

eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chapter four

hundred and seventy-seven, relating to " Roads,"

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That sections one hundred and fifty-

five and one hundred and fifty-six of the Code of

Repealed and
re-enacted.

Public Local Laws, title "Dorchester county," as

enacted by the act passed at January session, eighteen

hundred and seventy-eight, chapter four hundred

and seventy-seven, relating to " Roads," be and the

same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-

ments so as to read as follows :

155. All able bodied male residents of said county,

who have resided thirty days in said road district,

above the age of twenty and under fifty years, who

do not reside within the limits of an incorporated

town, shall be compelled to labor in repairing the

roads at least two days in every year ; and every

man owning horse or ox team shall be compelled to

Perform road

labor in repairing the roads at least three days in

labor.

eyery year ; provided that nothing herein contained

shall prevent any one from employing a substitute

to labor on the roads, or pay to the road supervisor

seventy-five cents per day for each day he is sum-

moned to labor ; and provided, that the road super-

visor shall be authorized and empowered to call out

said residents for such additional days' labor as they

may find necessary, to keep the public roads in order.

156. Whenever the said supervisors or their dep-

uties shall deem it necessary to call upon said indi-

Summon by
notice.

viduals for their labor upon the roads, they shall

summon them, giving at least three days' notice of

the time and place appointed for their labor, except