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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

bond to the state in the sum of five hundred
dollars, with surety or sureties, to be approved
by the county commissioners, conditioned for

Bond— where
filed.

the faithful discharge of his duties ; and said
bond shall be on file in the office of the said
commissioners, and may be put in suit by the
said commissioners, or any one suffering from
the neglect of said supervisor in keeping his
road in proper order, or any other failure of
duty ; and the said supervisors shall also be
liable to indictment in the circuit court for Som-
erset county, and, on conviction for any viola-
tion of his duties, under this act, shall be fined
not exceeding two hundred dollars, and stand
committed until said fine and costs are paid. All
fines under this section to be paid to the county
commissioners, and applied by them to the use
of public roads in Somerset county.
SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the county
commissioners of Somerset county shall each

Levy special
tax.

year levy a special tax, not to exceed four cents
in the one hundred dollars, upon all the taxable
property of the county, the proceeds of which
shall constitute and be called " The Public Road
Fund," and shall be used exclusively for the
improvement and betterment of the public roads

Public road
fund— how
used.

in said county ; and the said commissioners are
hereby directed, out of said fund, to purchase a
road machine of the best and most useful kind
for the use of the county, and employ the same
under the direction of the road supervisors in
their respective districts, and if it shall be found,
after actual trial, that such machine or other
labor-saving appliances are useful and economi-
cal, they are authorized and directed, in their,
discretion, out of said fund, to purchase such a
number and distribute them among the several
road districts in the county as they may deem
most conducive to the public interest.
SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That, in addition
to the general fund provided for by the pre-

May levy on
road district.

ceding section, the said county commissioners
shall have power, in their discretion, upon the
petition of twenty or more respectable freehold-
ers within any road district, to levy upon the
assessable property within such road district an
additional and special tax of not more than five