JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

team occupied in hauling dirt, timber or other materials
necessary for the repair of the public roads, the sum of one
dollar, current money, per day, and that the supervisor shall
receive for his services, the sum of fifteen dollars per
annum

1834.
CHAP. 304.

Sec 8 And be it enacted, That if any of the supervisors
appointed in virtue of this act shall not sufficiently clear or
cause to be cleaied, amended and repaired, the public roads
within his section, or shall suffer any fallen trees, or other
obstructions to remain in or across any of the said public
roads, whereby any carriage earn, wagon or vehicle shall
or may be obstructed, for more than three days together,
the said supervisor having notice thereof, except in time of
wheat harvest, or shall neglect to fell all dead trees on either
side of said road, whose limbs overhang, and may by falling
injure travellers, or to lopp or cut off any limbs or branches
of trees hanging or projecting over said roads within fifteen
feet above the surface thereof, or shall suffer any of the
budges or causeways of said county to be out of repair,
(except frame bridges exceeding fifteen feet from abutment to

Case of a supervisor
neglecting roads

&c.

abutment) or shall proceed to employ other hands except
those of the taxable inhabitants of his section, without first
giving the notice as hereinbefore specified, to such taxable
inhabitants, or shall charge said county in a larger sum for

Or employing oth-
er hands

any labor by him procured, for the repair of said roads,
then he shall actually and bona fide have paid for the same,
or shall many wise fail to perform the duty of supervisor,

Or charging more

&c

under this act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dol
lars, current money, for pvery such offence, to be recovered
by bill of indictment, befote the Court of Talbot county,
and applied to defray the charges and expenses of said
county

Penalty

Sec 9 And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the several and respective supervisors of the said
roads, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, as
often as shall be necssary, to dig, take, and remove any
stones, gravel or earth, from any land adjoining the public
roads, and for the repair of which the same be necessary,
and for the making or repairing of bridges over the heads of
creeks, branches, swamps or other low and miry places,
through or over which the same may pass, to cut down any
tree or trees (fruit or ornamental trees excepted) standing or
growing on any of the lands adjacent to such place where
bridges may be necessary as aforesaid, and the same to maul,
split and carry away, and to apply the same to the mending