FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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SEC. 193. And be it enacted, The road supervisors herein
provided for shall take charge of all the roads and bridges in
their respective districts, and shall see that no obstructions,
hindrance 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 Commis-
sioners shall assign to each district its portion of said road or
bridge; any person placing obstruction of any kind whatso-
ever on the public roads, or in any side ditches thereof, shall

Obstructions
on roads and
bridges.

be liable to a tine of five dollars and cost for each and every
such offence, which shall be imposed by any justice of the
peace of the district within which said offence shall be com-
mitted, upon the complaint of the road supervisor having
charge of said road; provided, said person having been noti-
fied to remove said obstruction by the road supervisor shall
fail to do so within two days after notification; 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 tine 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 fine to be paid by the justice to the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore county, and placed by them to the credit
of the district in which it has been imposed, said fine to be
enforceable as other fines imposed by the justice of the peace.

Penalty.

SEC. 194. And be it enacted, The County Commissioners
shall annually levy upon the assessable property of Baltimore
county, at the time of making the county levy, not less than
fifteen cents nor more than twenty-five cents on the one hun-
dred dollars, for the use of the county roads and bridges,
which shall be collected as other county taxes are collected, of
which five cents on the hundred shall be set apart as a general
road and bridge fund, and be applied to the general use and
the benefit of the roads and bridges in Baltimore county, and
to no other purpose, and the remainder of the' tax so levied and
collected for roads and bridges shall be set apart as a special
road and bridge fund, which shall be for the use and benefit of
that district from which it has been collected, and for no other
purpose.

SEC. 195. And lie it enacted, of the taxes levied and set
apart as a special road and bridge fund, not less than three-
fourths thereof shall be expended in the purchase of broken

To levy tax
for roads
and bridges.