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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

good and valid in law to all intents and purposes whatsoever, any
law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

Passed Jan. 30,
1822.

CHAPTER 109.

A further supplement to an act entitled, A supplement to an act enti-
tled, An act to provide for the opening and extension of Pratt-
Street in the city of Baltimore.

Repeat.

Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the eleventh section of an act entitled, A supplement to an act en-
titled, An act to provide for the opening and extension of Pratt-
Street in the city of Baltimore, passed at December session eigh-
teen hundred and twenty, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Passed Jan. 30,

1822.

Levy court to
describe and
record public
roads—dis-
tricts.

CHAPTER 110.

An act to amend and reduce into one, the several acts of assembly re-
lating to the public roads in Worcester county.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Worcester county, or a majority
of them, be, and they are hereby authorised and required, at their
first meeting in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two, and at
their first meeting in each and every year thereafter, to describe,
ascertain and distinctly record, in a book to be provided for that
purpose, the several and respective public roads and high-ways in
said county, and to divide the same into as many districts as to the
said court shall seem meet and proper.

Supervisors.

2. And be it Enacted, That the said levy court, or a majori-
ty of them, shall proceed to appoint a capable and suitable person
to each district, as supervisor of the said district of public roads,
and to signify the same to him by warrant, under the hand of the
clerk of said county, and the seal of office, according to the num-
ber and divisions of said roads, as the same shall be ascertained
upon their records; and the said justices may adjourn from time to
time until the said roads shall be duly ascertained, and supervisors
appointed as aforesaid.

Persons ap-
pointed & not
serving to be
fined.

Proviso.

3. And be it enacted, That any person appointed a supervi-
sor in virtue of this act, and refusing to act as such, and comply
with the requisites thereof, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty
dollars, to be recoverable in the name of the state, before any jus-
tice of the peace of said county, and applied by the levy court to-
ward defraying the county charges; Provided, That no one per-
son shall be compelled to act as supervisor, on any of the public
roads more than one year in every three years, without his consent.

Death, refusal,
&c.--successor
—to be notifi-
ed.

4. And be it enacted, That if any supervisor appointed un-
der this act, shall refuse to act, remove out of the county, become
disqualified, or die, it shall and may be lawful for any two justices of
the said levy court, to supply every such vacancy so happening, by the
appointment of another suitable person to act as supervisor, under
the same penalties and regulations as if he had been appointed by a
majority of the said justices; and the said justices shall certify
every such appointment, under their hands, to the clerk of said
county, within ten days thereafter; and the said clerk shall, within
ten days after being so notified thereof, issue a warrant to the per-
son so appointed, and deliver the same to the sheriff of the county-
aforesaid, to be by him delivered to the person so appointed, or