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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

person shall have been notified by the road supervisor to

remove said obstructions and shall have failed so to do for

the space of two days after said notification, and provided

farther that the person so placing said obstructions in or

upon the public road or in the side ditches thereof, shall be

liable for 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, which said additional fine

shall be imposed by said justice and enforced in like manner

as said original fine, and the said justice of the peace shall

pay over to the county commissioners of Howard County

said fine when received by him to be placed to the credit of

the district in which it has been imposed, and said fine shall

be collected as other fines are collected by justices of the

peace.

SEC. "110. And be it enacted, That the county com-

Levy for

missioners shall annually levy upon the assessable property

roads.

of Howard County at the time of making the county levy

not less than twenty cents or more than thirty cents on the

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

shall be collected as other county taxes are collected, and

the tax so levied and collected for roads shall be set apart

as a special road fund which shall be for the use and benefit

of that district from which it has been collected, and for

no other purpose.

SEC. 111. And be it enacted, That of the taxes levied and

set apart as a special road fund not less than three-fourths

Road
fund — how

thereof shall be expended in the purchase of broken stone

applied.

or other hard material to be used on the roads in such

manner as the commissioners with the assistance of the '

supervisor may determine unless on application of the tax-

payers resident in the neighborhood the commissioners may

determine upon any section of road to devote a larger pro-

portion than one-fourth of such fund, to grading or other

pressing needs ; and the county commissioners may, if it

shall appear to be in the interest of economy purchase one

or more stone crushers out of the fund set apart as the gen-

eral road fund for the purpose of crushing stone for use of the

roads to be operated in such manner as they shall determine.

SEC. 112. And be it enacted, That whenever any person or

Private

persons shall desire to improve any road to an extent beyond

contribu-
tions for

that contemplated by the county commissioners, and the

public
roads.

supervisors of the district when it is located, he or they

may make application to the commissioners by petition

setting forth the location of the road to be improved, the

extent and character of the improvement, and the probable

cost thereof, and if the county commissioners after consid-