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permanent improvement of the streets and road beds of said
town of Easton.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of Chapter 189 of
the Laws of Maryland, passed at the Session of 1904, as applies
to the town of Easton, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 626.

AN ACT to provide for the improving and repairing the streets,
lanes, alleys and thoroughfares in the town of Oxford, and
to require the services of certain citizens of said town to
assist in such improvement and repairing of said streets.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the year for improving and repairing the streets,
lanes, alleys and thoroughfares of said town under this Act
shall be reckoned from the first day of June, inclusive, in one
year to the first day of June, inclusive, in the next year.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every able-bodied male per-
son between the age of twenty-one and sixty years who has
resided in said town five months shall be bound to work on
said streets, lanes and thoroughfares for two days in every
year, as the year is herein defined, and if any person who is
liable to render such services fails to attend as directed on
notice from the bailiff of said town of Oxford, or who shall
appear and fail or refuse to work and render proper service as
by the person or persons supervising the work he is required
and instructed to do shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof before a justice of the peace of said county
or in the Circuit Court for Talbot County shall be fined two
dollars, and shall be adjudged to pay said fine and costs and
stand committed till fine and costs are paid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That at or about the first day of
April in each year, beginning with the year 1910, the town
clerk, assisted by the Commissioners of Oxford and the town
bailiff, shall make out a list of all persons who on the first day
of next June will be liable to render service, and as soon as may
reasonably be convenient this list shall be delivered to the
town bailiff, and he shall call on each person named therein to
pay the sum of one dollar. Each person who pays the same
shall receive a receipt exempting him from service for the cur-
rent year, beginning on the first day of June following; within
five days before the first day of June, the town bailiff shall
make a list of all the persons who have not paid the exemption