ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That no expenses
shall be incurred by Queen Anne's county in the
conduct of any election under this act.

Expenses.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 4, 1888.

Chapter 300.

AN ACT to provide for maintaining and keeping
in repair the public roads of Worcester county,
and to repeal all laws inconsistent therewith,
so far as the same apply to Worcester county.

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General As-

Effective,

sembly of Maryland, That the county commis-
sioners Of Worcester county shall have the power
to sub-divide each or any of the election districts
of said county into road districts, and to appoint
a road supervisor for each of the said road
districts.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every male

Sub-divide
election dis-
tricts.

inhabitant above eighteen years of age, and
possessing taxable property assessed at five hun-
dred dollars or upwards, and every other male
inhabitant between the ages of twenty and fifty-
five years of age, who shall have resided within
the limits of Worcester county for one month
next preceding the date when his services may
be demanded, shall be required to labor two days
in every year on the public roads in the road dis-
trict in which he may reside, and the road super-
visor, whenever the public roads shall need re-
pairs, shall summons all such persons in his road
district, or such number of them as he may deem
necessary ; provided, that he shall not summon
the same party twice until he shall have ex-
hausted the whole number liable to such duty in
his road district, giving notice of the time and
place of meeting, provided that at least one
whole day shall intervene between the time of
notice and the day on which the work is to be
performed ; provided, however, that no person

Labor on pub-
lic roads.