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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec Ses. 1821.

be out of repair, (except framed bridges exceeding twelve feet in
width) or shall neglect to make and keep in repair bridges for foot
travellers where necessary, or shall otherwise fail to perform the
duties of a supervisor, he shall forfeit and pay a sum of money
not exceeding ten dollars for every such offence, to be recovered
and applied as aforesaid.

Fines.

9. And be it enacted, That any justice of the peace of said
county, who, upon his own view, or upon the information, (oath or
affirmation,) of any one or more credible witnesses, shall discover,
or be satisfied, that any bridge, road or cause-way is out of repair
from the neglect of duty of the supervisor within whose limits the
game shall be, (except in time of wheat harvest) shall be authorised
to issue his warrant, in the name of the state, against such supervi-
sor, directed to the constable of the hundred, and returnable before
himself or some other justice of the peace for said county, who
shall proceed to give judgment according to the merits of the case;
and if judgment be rendered against him for any fine not exceeding
ten dollars, and he does not pay the same within twenty days, the
said justice of the peace may thereupon issue process of execution
for the recovery thereof, and the same shall be accounted for and
paid to the order of the levy court of said county, and applied as
aforesaid.

May take ma-
terials for re-
pairs—value

10. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the
several and respective supervisors of the said roads, and they are
hereby authorised and empowered, as often as need shall require, to
dig, take and remove any stones, gravel or earth, which may be
found on any land adjoining the roads for which the same may be
necessary, and to employ the same in repairing the said roads, and
for the making or repairing of bridges over the heads of rivers,
blanches, creeks, swamps, or other low, marshy and miry places,
through or over which the said roads may pass; to cut down, or cause
to be cut down, any tree or trees growing on any of the adjacent
lands to such place where bridges may be necessary as aforesaid,
and the same trees may maul or carry away off such lands; and to
apply the same to the making of the said bridges, or other neces-

Proviso.

sary repairs or conveniences on the said roads; Provided always,
That it shall not be lawful for any supervisor to enter any enclo-
sure for the purpose of obtaining any stone, gravel, earth or tim-
ber, for the purposes aforesaid, without the consent of the owner or
owners thereof, or if a minor or minors, without the consent of his,
her or their guardians; and that it shall be the duty of each super-
visor to make a separate return on oath, of the timber taken by him
for the use of the said roads, and a list of the persons to whom it
belonged, with his view of the value thereof, which shall be levied
on the assessable property of the said county, for the use of the
person or persons to whom it belonged, and collected as other coun-
ty charges are.

Framed
bridges.

11. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the levy
court of said county, and they are hereby directed to keep up the
necessary repairs of all framed bridges in said county as they have
before been kept up.

Water mills.

12. And be it enacted, That all owners of water-mills over
which public roads pass, shall be bound to keep in repair said
roads, as has been done heretofore, under the penalty not exceeding