ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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above provided; tax-payers shall have the privilege of hauling

stones upon the roads to the extent of two-thirds of their road

tax; provided, they deliver the same in such a way and at such

prices as shall be agreed upon by the tax-payer and road commis-

sioner of his sub-district, prices for hard material on the road at

designated places shall be fixed by the road commissioners of the

several districts subject to the approval by the county commis-

sioners; one-third of the road tax expended in any district shall

be used in the purchase of stone or other suitable hard material

for macadamizing or making hard roads.

SEC. 194. The road commissioners herein provided for shall

take charge of all the roads and bridges in their respective dis-

tricts, and shall see that no obstruction, hindrance or injury is

permitted upon any road or bridge under theii supervision; and

when any road or bridge shall form the boundary between dis-

Duties.

tricts, the county commissioners, shall assign to each district its

portion of said road or bridge; any person placing obstructions

of any kind whatsoever on the public roads or in the side ditches

thereof, shall be liable to a fine of five dollars and costs for each

and every such offense, which shall be imposed by any justice of

the peace of the district within which said offense shall be com-

mitted, upon the complaint of the road commissioner having

charge of said road; provided, said person having been notified

to remove said obstruction by the road commissioner, shall fail

to do so within two days after notification; and provided further,

that the person so placing said obstructions on the public roads

or in the side ditches shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for

each day that he permits said obstruction to remain, the said fine

to be in addition to the original fine of five dollars, after the ex-

piration of said two days, to be imposed by said justice and en-

Fines.

forced in like manner as said original fine, said fine to be paid by

the justice to the county commissioners of Baltimore county, and

placed by them to the credit of the district in which it has been

imposed, said fine to be enforceable as other fines imposed by jus-

tices of the peace.

SEC. 196. That the county commissioners shall annually levy

upon the assessable property of Baltimore county, at the time of

making the county levy, a sum of money not less than ten nor

more than fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars, for the use of

public roads and bridges in Baltimore county, which shall be col-

Levy.

lected as other county taxes are collected; that the said county

commissioners at the time of the annual tax levy for the year

eighteen hundred and ninety, and each succeeding year, are here-

by authorized, directed and required to make a special annual

levy of ten cents on each one hundred dollars of the whole assess-

able property of each of the election districts of Baltimore county,

to be collected as other county taxes in said county are collected,