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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Impairing
road beds

103. It shall be the duty of the supervisors, in preparing any
road bed where they have to throw up earth to allow proper
drainage, to make such places in said roads wide enough for
two vehicles to pass each other, and to remove obstructions at
least ten feet from the centre of said roads, and to require all
owners to move their fences which infringe on said road, ten
feet from the center of the same, if the public convenience
shall require, and in all deep cuts and sharp curves, to make
the same wide enough for two tracks when the same can be
done without excessive cost or inconvenience.

May hire
teams

103 A. The district supervisors of each election district shall
have power to hire such horses, oxen, wagons, carts, plows and
other implements as may be necessary to the successful per-
formance of his duties hereunder, unless or until the same be
furnished by the County Commissioners.

To lew tax
for roads

103 B. The County Commissioners, at their levy-laying ses-
sion for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, shall levy
a sufficient sum of money to pay off all outstanding county
paper on account of roads, and shall also then and annually
thereafter levy a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars for
the use and repair of said roads in any one year; and the
accounts of expenditures in this behalf shall be kept by the
said commissioners and published in conformity to section 11,
of article 25, of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"County Commissioners."

Bond of
supervisors

103 C. And the said supervisors shall be required to enter
into a good and sufficient bond, in the penal sum of five
hundred dollars, conditioned to the proper appropriation of
such funds as may come in his hands, and for the safe return
of all scoops, scrapes, road implements, etc., which shall be
furnished by said County Commissioners, or hired from others,
ordinary wear and tear excepted.

Draining
roads.

103 D. If in the construction and repair of the public roads
of the county, it be necessary for their proper drainage, it
shall be lawful for the said supervisors and assistants to let off
the water therefrom upon the adjoining lands, at such places
as may be proper and necessary; provided, it shall be done
with as little injury as possible to the owners of said lands,
and that the drains through such lands be continued so as to
prevent the spreading of the water so let off over cultivated
lands.