1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 224.

Contract for ma-

terials

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
are hereby empowered to authorise the supervisor of any
public road in Calvert county, to contract for such wood,
timber, or other materials, as may be necessary to con-
struct, or keep in good repair, any such road, causeway,
or bridge; Provided, however, that nothing in this act shall
extend to, or effect any cases where persons are compelled
by law or contract to keep any bridge in repair.

Compensation to

supervisors

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That no supervisor shall be
privileged to receive pay for a greater number than ten
days in each year, and the said supervisors shall receive,
for each day that he may have worked upon said roads,
provided said number of days does not exceed ten, the
sum of not less than one, or more than two dollars, at the
discretion of said commissioners court.

Penalty for neg-
lect to furnish,

band &c.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That whenever any master,
owner, or overseer, shall neglect or refuse to comply with
the requisition made by any supervisor, agreeably to the
provisions of this act, for hands, horses, or ploughs, the
said master, owner, or overseer, shall be subject to a fine
of double the per diem allowance made by this act, for
hands, horses or ploughs, for each and every hand, horse
or plough so refused or neglected to be sent, to be recov-
ered as other small debts are, one half, for the use of the
supervisor of the Hundred in which the said master, owner
or overseer may reside, and the other half for the use of
the county.

CHAPTER 224.

Passed Mar. 15,1833

An act for the relief of George Fouke and Elizabeth his
wife, and Henry and Louis Fouke.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General As-
sembly, by the petition of George Fouke and Elizabeth his
wife, and Henry and Louis Fouke, that a judgment of affirm-
ance has been entered in the court of appeals, in a cause
from the court of chancery, in which they were appellants
against a certain Henry Kemp, under a misconception of
the arrangement of the business of the court, and of the
counsel of the parties, and praying that the same may be
reinstated for argument in the said court — Therefore,

Authority to reissu-

state cause

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the court of appeals may, at their discretion reinstate