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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Repealed and

the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter

re-enacted

two hundred and eighty-seven, entitled " An act to

with amend-

add an additional section to the Public Local Laws

ments.

of Dorchester county," be and the same are hereby

repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to

read as follows :

SEC. 154. The County Commissioners of Dorches-

ter county shall have general supervision of the

public roads of said county, and shall have power to

May divide
into road dis-

sub-divide each election district of said county into
road districts, and to appoint a supervisor for each

tricts.

of said road districts ; and upon any supervisor re-

fusing or neglecting to discharge the duties of road

supervisor after being so appointed, he shall, upon
proof and conviction thereof in the Circuit Court, be

fined a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and

costs of conviction; provided no person shall be

compelled to serve more than one year in three years.

Who are

SEC. 155. All able-bodied male residents of said

compelled to

county who have resided thirty days in said road

labor.

district, above the age of twenty and under fifty

years, who do not reside within the limits of an in-

corporated town, shall be compelled to labor in

repairing the roads at least two days in every year ;

and every such man owning horse or ox teams shall

be compelled to labor in repairing the roads at least

three days in every year; provided that nothing

herein contained shall prevent any one from employ-

ing a substitute to labor on the roads, or pay to the

road supervisor seventy-five cents per day for each

day he is entitled to labor.

SEC. 156. Whenever the said supervisors, or their

deputies, shall deem it necessary to call upon said in-

dividuals for their labor upon the roads, they shall

Summon and
give ten days'
notice.

summon them, giving at least ten days' notice of the
time and place appointed for their labor, except in

such extraordinary cases as may require shorter no-

tice, and if any person being summoned shall neglect

or refuse to attend with proper implements to do

the work, or provide a substitute, or to pay on de-

mand by the supervisor, his agent or deputy, the

sum of seventy-five cents per day for each and every

day he is summoned and entitled to work, he shall

be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor ; and the super-