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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

judgment shall be affirmed, as also costs adjudged by said justice
of the peace, and also all costs awarded by the Circuit Court
aforesaid ; and all tines collected under the provisions of this
Act shall be paid to the County Commissioners, to be by them
applied for the purpose of repairing the public roads in said
county, and the judges of the Circuit Court for the said county
shall give this in charge to the grand jurors thereof.

Bond to be
given.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners
shall require the road supervisors appointed by them to give
bond to the State, to be approved by them, for such sums as
they may deem proper, conditioned for the faithful perform-
ance of the duties required of them, which said bond may be
put in suit for the benefit of any person suffering by the
neglect of the said supervisor in keeping the roads in his dis-
trict in proper order, and the said County Commissioners shall
have full power to fix on the price to be paid for laborers on
said roads, and to authorize the said supervisors to hire such
number of laborers as they may deem necessary, and that said
County Commissioners shall pay said supervisors a salary not
to exceed three hundred and fifty dollars per annum ; and the
said road supervisors shall give their whole and undivided
attention to the supervision of and work upon the said county
roads during the entire year.

Placing of
finger
boards or
signs.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners
shall cause to be placed at such of the forks of the public roads
as they may think need the same, finger boards or signs show-
ing the prominent points that the said roads lead to and the
distance to said points ; and any person tearing down or defac-
ing such finger boards shall, on conviction thereof before any
justice of the peace in the county, be fined a sum of not less
than five nor more than ten dollars.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said County Commis-

Empowered
to widen
county
roads.

sioners for Worcester county are hereby empowered to widen
said county roads to the width of forty feet and to straighten
same, by cutting down and removing all trees and bushes, and
by removing and setting in all fences and gates, such as may
interfere with said widening or straightening of said roads,
whenever in their judgment they may deem necessary ; where
objection is made to the said widening or straightening of said
roads, the method of condemning the land in contention shall
be the same as now provided by law for making roads, alleys
and streets.

How
construed.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed as rendering tho County Commis-