ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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two hundred and ninety-four, of the acts passed Jan-

uary session eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled

" An act to add additional sections to the Code of

Public Local Laws for Charles county, under the head

of "Roads," and re-enact the same with amendments,

and to add a sub-section thereto.

SECTION 93. The county commissioners of Charles

county shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to

provide for the repairs of all public roads and bridges

Repair bridges

of said county, and to that end shall levy upon the

and roads.

assessable property of the county, and pay the expen-

ditures for such repairs and all incidental expenses

arising therefrom; provided, such expenditure shall

not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars for any

one year; and they shall divide the county into road

districts, and the roads into sections, and appoint

supervisors over the same at a fixed annual compen-

sation of three hundred dollars, who shall hold their

places during the term of office of said commissioners,

and until their successors are appointed; and it shall

be the duty of said supervisors to keep in repair the

Duty of super-
visor.

roads and bridges of said county, under the direction

and regulation of said commissioners; for any neglect

of duty, they shall be subject to removal from office,

and to deduction from their compensation by said

commissioners, and for that or any other malfeasance

in office, be also liable to indictment in the circuit

court for said county.

SUB-SECTION 1. That the wages allowed for the pay-

ment of laborers hired to work on said roads shall not

be less than one dollar per day, and it shall be the

Wages of road
laborers.

duty of the county commissioners to provide for the

payment of said laborers in cash within one month

after such work has been rendered.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect on and after the first day of March, eighteen

When effective.

hundred and eighty-five.

Approved April 8, 1884.