ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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and with the money so collected, to hire labourers at
a rate not exceeding fifty cents a day for each labour-
er, to work on the roads over which they are over-
seers respectively.

1812.
how to be ap-
plied.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any overseer
shall neglect to apply as aforesaid, all fines by him
collected from persons neglecting to work on the
public roads, or shall neglect to sue for the same
within one month after the said fines are incurred and
payment demanded and refused; such overseer shall
forfeit and pay for every offence, a sum of money not
exceeding ten dollars, nor less than two dollars, to be
recovered by action of debt before a justice of the
peace of the county, one half of which shall go to the
Informer, and the other half to the use of Caroline
county.

Penalty on the
neglect of over-
seers,

AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said overseers respectively, on or before
the first Tuesday in May eighteen hundred and thir-
teen, and annually thereafter, to render an account,
on oath or affirmation (as the case may be) to the levy
court, of all fines by them received, and how expend-
ed; and in case of neglect to return such annual ac-
count as aforesaid, shall be liable to a presentment in
the county court, and may be fined not exceeding
twenty dollars, in the discretion of said court.

Overseers shall
render an annu-
al account of
fines received
and expended,
to the levy
court. Penalty
on non-compli-
ance.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
act to which this is a further supplement as is con-
trary to, or inconsistent with this act, be, and the
same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 161.

Repealing sec-
tion.

An act for the amendment of the Law.

Passed Jan, 4,
1812.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That if two or more persons are jointly
bound for the payment of a debt, or for the perform-
ance or forbearance of any act, or for any other thing,
and one or more of said obligors die, his or their re-
presentatives may be charged by virtue of such obli-
gation, in the same manner as such representatives
might have been charged if said obligors had been
bound severally as well as jointly.

Two or more
persons being
jointly bound
for the payment
of debt, &c.
and one die, his
representative
may be charg-
ed.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for any sheriff or other officer who shall
have lawfully arrested any person in virtue of any
attachment or capias, and permitted such person to
go at large after such arrest, at any time before or on

Arrests by at-
tachment or ca-
pias.