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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

than the sum of eight thousand dollars; and
they shall divide the county into road dis-
tricts, and the roads into sections, and appoint
Supervisors over the same not exceeding five

Supervisors.

in number, at an annual compensation to be
fixed by said County Commissioners, not to
exceed the sum of three hundred dollars for
any one year; said Supervisors to hold their
offices during the term of office of said County
Commissioners, and until their successors are
appointed; and it shall be the duty of said
Supervisors to keep in repair the roads and
bridges of said county, under the direction and
regulation of said Commissioners; for any
neglect of duty they shall be subject to re-
moval 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

Repealed and
re-enacted.

said county; and be it enacted, that sub-section
one of chapter four hundred and thirty of
acts passed at session of eighteen hundred
and eighty- four, regulating wages of laborers
on the roads, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SUB-SECTION 1, That the wages allowed for

Wages.

the payment of laborers hired to work on said
roads, shall not. exceed one dollar per day;
and it shall be the duty of the County Com-
missioners to provide for the payment of said
laborers within one month after said work has
been rendered.

SEC. 2. And, be it enacted, That section ninety-
five of the acts of eighteen hundred and sev-
enty, chapter two hundred and ninety-four,

Repeal.

entitled an act to add additional sections to
the Code of Public Local Laws for Charles
county, under the head of "Roads," be and the
same is hereby repealed.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1886.