DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1828

CHAP. CXV.

A Supplement to an Act to provide fur the Pepim
of Public Roads in Montgomery County, passed at
December Session eighteen hundred and twenty-six,
chapter two hundred and twenty -seven.

CHAP. 115.
Passed Mar 3, 1829

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the judges of the levy court of Montgomery
county be and they are hereby authorised and required, af-
ter the time shall have expired for which the present super-
visors are appointed, to appoint annually, in the month of

tion, shall think the public interest and convenience may
require, not exceeding three in any election district in said

may occur.

Supervisors to be

appointed

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the levy court, where they shall appoint more than one su-
pervisor for a district, to apportion the roads in said district,
in such manner as they may think best, among said supervi-

Apportionment of

road

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the supervisors so ap-
pointed, shall provide themselves with a strong plough
and dirt scoop, or scraper, at the expense of, and to be-
long to, the county; and proceed to complete the repairs
of such of said roads as shall be severally assigned to them
by the said court, on or before the first day of September in
every year thereafter, in the manner prescribed by the act to
which this is a supplement.

To provide
ploughs, &c

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the several inspectors of
public roads in said county shall, and they are hereby re-
quired and directed, to report to the levy court of said coun-
ty, the number of miles of public roads in their several dis-
tricts, as nearly as they can without surveying or measuring
the same, on or before the last day of November next.

Report of number

of miles of public

roads, &c

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the second, sixth, se-
venth and tenth sections of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, and so much of the third section of the same act,
as requires the supervisors to examine each breakwater of
his district, after every rain calculated to do injury thereto,
be and the same is hereby repealed from and after the last
day of November next.

Repeal

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That wherever a public road
in said county may cross the line of an election district in
such manner as to be inconvenient for the supervisor of such
district to attend to the same, it shall be lawful for the levy
court to assign any road, or part of a road, so situated,
to the supervisor most convenient in an adjoining dis-
trict.
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Assignment of

roads