FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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bridges in their respective districts, and shall see that no

obstruction, hindrance or injury is permitted upon any road

Obstruc-
tion.

or bridge under their supervision, and when any road or

bridge shall form the boundary between districts, the

County Commissioners shall assign to each district its por-

tion of said road or bridge ; any persons placing obstruc-

tions 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 offence, which shall be

imposed by any justice of the peace of the district within

which said offence shall be committed, upon the complaint

of the road supervisor having charge of said road ; provided,

said person having been notified to remove said obstruction

by the road supervisor, shall fail to do so within two days

after notification, and provided further, that the person so

placing said obstruction 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

Penalty.

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

the expiration of said two days, to be imposed by said

justice in like manner as said original fine, said fine to be

paid by the justice to the County Commissioners of Balti-

more 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 justices of the peace.

SEC. 194. And be it enacted, That the County Commis-

sioners shall annually levy upon the assessable property of

Baltimore County, at the time of making the county levy,

Annual
Levy.

not less than fifteen cents nor more than twenty-five cents

on the one hundred dollars, for the use of the county roads

and bridges, which shall be collected as other county taxes

are collected, of which, five cents of the hundred dollars,

shall be set apart as a general road and bridge fund, and be

applied to the general use and the benefit of the roads and

bridges in Baltimore County and to no other purpose, and

Use of tax.

the remainder of the tax so levied and collected for roads

and bridges, shall be set apart as a special road and bridge

fund which shall be for the use and benefit of that district

from which it has been collected and for no other purpose.

SEC. 195. And be it enacted, That of the taxes levied

and set apart as a special road and bridge fund, not less

than three-fourths thereof shall be expended in the purchase

of broken stone, or other hard material, to be used on the

roads in such manner as the commissioners, with the assist-

ance of the supervisor, may determine, unless on application
of tax-payers resident in the neighborhood, the commis-

sioners may determine upon any section of road to devote

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