674 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

lion shall be held by the judges authorized to hold the general
elections, and the three persons having the largest number of
votes shall be deemed the duly elected road commissioners for
the said county, and shall constitute a commission to be styled
the Board of Road Commissioners of Calvert county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That on the second Tuesday in
March succeeding their election, the said Board of Road Com-
missioners shall meet at Prince Frederick, in an office to be pro-
vided for them by the County Commissioners of the said county,
and shall qualify by each taking an oath before the clerk of the
Circuit Court for said county, "that he will faithfully and
diligently, and to the best of his ability, execute the office of
Road Commissioner of Calvert county," and shall then or-
ganize by electing one of their number to be the president of
said board, and on the same day, or as soon thereafter as pos-
sible, they shall appoint a person from each election district to
be the road supervisor of said district, to serve for two years,
or until removed by the Board of Road Commissioners, and it
shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of said county
to provide an office suitably furnished for the use of the said
Board of Road Commissioners, and such books as they may re-
quire.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That before the first day of April
next succeeding their election, the Road Commissioners and the
road supervisor of each district shall ride over and inspect the
public roads and bridges in their respective districts, and the
said Commissioners shall advise and instruct the said super-
visors as to the manner in which the said roads and bridges
shall be mended and repaired, and when the roads are to be
widened and the order of time in which this work is to be done.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said road supervisors
shall each employ necessary laborers, not above the age of fifty
and not under the age of twenty-one, to work with him on the
public road in his district. He shall keep an accurate account
of the exact hour at which each laborer begins his work and the
number of hours he is engaged therein each day he is so em-
ployed, and he shall be present with said laborers the entire
time, directing and assisting them, and at every monthly meet-
ing of the said Board of Road Commissioners he shall submit to
the said board the account 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 the active work on the public roads
in his district during the preceding month, and that he was
present with the said laborers the entire time they were so en-