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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 499.

AN ACT to repeal chapter two hundred and

thirty-eight, passed at January session, eighteen

hundred and seventy-six, entitled "An act to

provide for the repairs of the public roads of St.

Mary's county," and enact the following as a

substitute therefor :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That chapter two hundred and thirty-

Repealed and

eight of the acts passed January session, eighteen

enacted in

hundred and severity-six, entitled " An act to pro-

lieu.

vide for the repairs of the public roads of St.

Mary's county," be and the same is hereby re-

pealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof,

so as to read as follows :

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the County Commis-

sioners of St. Mary's county be and they are

hereby authorized and empowered to control and

regulate the public roads of said county. They

Regulate

shall levy upon the assessable property of said

public roads.

county a sum of money for the repairs of said

public roads, at their levy term for each year;

provided, however, that said sums so levied shall

not exceed in any one year the sum of five thou-

sand dollars.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the County Commis-

sioners of said county are authorized and re-

quired, immediately after the passage of this law,

to make and adopt any and all rules and regula-

tions that they may consider necessary to secure

Adopt rules

said repairs on said public roads ; to appoint dis-

and regula-

trict road commissioners, and such other agents or

tions

supervisors as they may deem necessary : pro-

vided, however, said rules and regulations shall

be uniform, and the pay of said district commis-

sioners, agents or supervisors shall not exceed the

sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day, and that

only when actually at work on or superintending

the repairs of said road.