1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 75.

may be in office under the said levy court on the said first
Wednesday of October.

CHAPTER 74.

Passed Mar. 2
1840.

An additional supplement to an act, entitled an act relating
to the Public Roads in the several counties therein men-
tioned, passed December session, eighteen hundred and
one, chapter fifty-four, so far as relates to Charles
County.

Roads to be
worked, &c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the first day of April next,
the public roads in Charles county, shall be worked and
kept in repair in the like manner as is now prescribed by
law, by the labor of slaves and free persons of color only,
to be classed and warned out by the several overseers
thereof, in the same manner as is now provided by law.

Repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the act
and the several supplements thereto, to which this is an
additional supplement, as may be inconsistent with or con-
trary to the provisions of this act, be and the same is
hereby repealed, after the first day of April next.

CHAPTER 75.

Passed Mar. 2
1840.

An act to provide for recording parts of the Proceedings
of the Commissioners for Somerset County, by the Clerk
of the County Court of said County.

Clerk to record

proceedings of

commissioners.

Compensation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, all proceed-
to public roads, causeways and landing places, which
have been, or shall be finally ratified, and should be en-
tered of record, shall be transmitted by said commission-
enrolled among the records of his office, and alphabetted;
and that he may charge and shall be paid by said commis-
sioners therefor, fees of the same rates that were charged
and paid for like services by him, immediately before the
Levy Court was abolished.