T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 208.

AN ACT to provide for the repairs of the public roads
in Dorchester county.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1854.

WHEREAS, The present mode of repairing the public
roads in Dorchester county, has been found inade-
quate for the purpose intended, and it is deemed ne-
cessary that proper regulations should forthwith be
made for keeping said roads in repair; Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the supervi-
sors of the roads of Dorchester county, to keep all the
public roads in the said county well and sufficiently
cleared and grubbed fit for travelling, twenty feet wide
at the least, except in such parts thereof where the
county commissioners shall allow or direct the said loud
to be of a less width, and to make and keep good and
substantial bridges over all the heads of rivers, creeks,
branches and swamps, where the same shall be necessa-
ry for the convenient and easy passage of travellers, with
their wagons, carts, carriages, horses and cattle, and to
remove all nuisances which may obstruct or annoy their
passage, and well and sufficiently to causeway all and
singular such places in and upon the said road as shall
require the same.

Duty of su-

pervisors.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any of the said
supervisors shall not well and sufficiently clear, grub,
amend and repair the said several and respective roads
committed to their charge, within a reasonable time
after the same shall be out of repair, or shall not make
and keep in repair and good order, substantial bridges
over the heads of rivers, creeks, branches or swamps,
whole the same shall be necessary as as aforesaid, or shall
not remove all nuisances from the said roads, or shall
not well and sufficiently causeway, all and singular
such places in and upon the said road as shall require
the same, or shall permit or suffer any fallen trees or
other obstructions to remain in or across any of the said
public roads for the space of two days after notice thereof
or shall neglect to fell or cause to be felled and removed
all decayed or dead trees on either side of the said pub-
lic roads, whose limbs or any of them hang over the
same and may by their falling injure travellers, or shall
not top and cut off all limbs or branches of trees hang-

Forfeiture for
neglect.