1834.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 304

or repairing, or making of said bridges, or for the purposes
necessary for the repairs of the public roads aforesaid Pro-
vided always, that it shall not be lawful for any supervisor,
to enter any enclosure for the purpose of obtaining any
stones, gravel, earth, or timber, for the purposes aforesaid,
without the consent of the owner or owners thereof, and if
the owner or owners thereof be a minor or minors, without
the consent of his, her, or their guardian or guardians, as
the case may be, and it shall be the duty of each supervisor,

Make Return

to make a return upon oath, of the timber taken by him for
the use of the said roads, and a list of the persons to whom
it belonged, with his estimate of the value thereo , which
shall be levied on the assessable property of said county, for
the use of the person to whom it belonged, and to be col-
lected as other county charges are

Account under oath

Sec 10 And be it enacted, That it shall be and is here
by made the duty of the several supervisors of the said coun
ty, to rendei annually, upon oath, to the said commissioners,
a true account of all work done upon said roads, whether
the same was done by the hands of laxable inhabitants fur
nished at the request of the supervisors, or whether the same
was done by hands procured by himself upon default of the
taxable inhabitants of his section, to furnish the same when
so required, under the provisions of this act, and the said
commissioners are thereupon required to allow and place to
the credit in the county charges of each taxable inhabitant,
who shall appear upon said return to have furnished hands
agreeably to the requisitions of the said supervisor, for the
repair of the public roads, the several sums to which they
shall be entitled, under the provisions of this act, and also

Settlement thereof

to pay over to each of the supervisors, such sum or sums as
may appear from their several returns to be necessary for
the payment of such persons, as they, the said supervisors
may have employed, to supply the deficiency of labor occa
sioned by the failure of the taxable inhabitants to furnish
hands when called upon, by such supervisors as herein-
before provided for

Bridges.

Sec 11 And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the commissioners of said county, and they are hereby di-
rected to cause to be kept in good repair the frame bridges
of the county, exceeding fifteen feet from abutment to
abutment, by employing suitable persons to make said re
pairs when necessary and they are hereby authorrsed to

Levy

levy upon the assessable property of said county, a sum of
money sufficient to defray the expenses of the same, provid-