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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 628.

and shall dispose of the same in such manner as
will be most convenient and best for the public benefit ; and
all bills for contracts and for labor and material supplied in
the roads shall be sworn to and approved by the supervisor
before payment by the County Commissioners.

Roads to he
divided into
sections, etc.

116. Each road supervisor shall divide the roads of his
district into convenient sections and number them, and if
desirable, make sub-divisions of his district, and he shall keep
an account of all work and other transactions pertaining to
the roads in his district, showing the kind and quality of the
work done on each section of road, by whom the work was
done and the cost of the same, which shall be returned
monthly to the County Commissioners, who shall keep a
record of the same, to be at all times open for public inspec-
tion.

Record books
to be kept.

117. The County Commissioners shall keep a record book
for each district, in which shall be recorded all the roads and
bridges of the district, and all surveys and other proceedings
which may be had in reference to any road or bridge in that
district, the cost of procuring such books to be paid for out
of the general road fund.

Authority to
take charge
of all roads
and bridges,
etc.

118. The road supervisors herein provided for shall take
charge of all the roads and bridges in their respective dis-
tricts, and shall see that no obstructions, hinderance or injury
is permitted upon any road or bridge under their supervision,
and when any road or bridge shall form the boundary between
districts, the County Commissioners shall assign to each dis-
trict its portion of said road or bridge ; any person placing
obstructions of any kind whatsoever on the public road or in
any side ditches thereof, shall be liable to a tine of tive dollars
and cost for each and every offense, which shall be imposed
by any justice of the peace of the district within which said
offense shall be committed, upon the complaint of the road
supervisors having charge of said road; provided, said
person having been notified to remove said obstruction by the
road supervisor shall fail to do so within two days after notifi-
cation ; and provided further, that the person so placing said
obstruction on the public roads, or in the side ditches, shall be
liable to a tine of five dollars for each day that he permits
said obstruction to remain, the said fine to be in addition to
the original tine of five dollars, after the expiration of said
two days, to be imposed by said justice in like manner as said
original tine, said tine to be paid by the justice to the County
Commissioners of Wicomico County and placed by them to
the credit of the district in which it has been imposed ; said
fine to be enforceable as other tines imposed by justice of the
peace in case of misdemeanors.