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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and instruct the said supervisors as to the manner in which
the said roads shall be repaired, widened and permanently im-
proved, and the order of time in which the work is to be
done, and it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to
furnish to said Board of Road Commissioners such books of
record and accounts as they may require.
113. Each of the said road supervisors shall employ laborers,
the number so employed to be designated by the road commis-
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Laborers to
be employed.
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sioner of his district, to work with said road supervisor on the
public roads in his district. He shall keep an accurate account
of the exact hour at which each laborer begins his work and
the number of hoars tie is engaged therein each day he is so
employed, and he shall be present with said laborers the entire
time, directing and assisting them ; and at every monthly
meeting of said Board of Road Commissioners he shall sub-
mit to said board the account herein required to be kept as
aforesaid, and make oath, to be administered by one of said
board, that the said account is a true statement of the exact
number of hours each laborer was engaged in active work on
the public roads in his district daring the preceding- month,
and that he was present with said laborers the entire time they
were so engaged ; and if, for any reason, the said supervisor is
compelled to be absent during the time the said laborers are
engaged in work on said roads, by sickness or otherwise, he is
hereby required, authorized and empowered to select some
competent person to act in his stead, who shall receive the
same compensation as said supervisor so absenting himself, to
be deducted from the said supervisor's salary ; and the said
supervisor shall state in the-monthly statement to be submitted
to the Board of Road Commissioners as aforesaid the number
of hours he was so absent and the reason therefor, and if he
shall fail to keep and produce at said monthly meeting an
account as above provided, or if any account so produced shall
contain any false statement, or if the said supervisor shall fail
to perform all the duties required of him as specified by the
preceding section, and therein specifically set forth, to the
damage of the public, or the satisfaction of the said Board of
Road Commissioners, he shall be at once dismissed from his
position by said board. And the accounts herein required to
be exhibited by said supervisor shall be kept on file by the
Board of Road Commissioners in their office at Prince Fred-
erick.
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