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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1822

sioners, before they proceed to the execution of the duties required
by this act, they shall take an oath (or affirmation) to be administer-
ed by a justice of the peace of said county, that they will faithfully
and impartially perform the duties required by this act: And provided
also, that the person or persons applying for such alteration shall
alter and change such road at his own proper cost and charges, and
shall moreover pay all damages, costs and charges that shall or may
arise from making such alterations; and provided further, that it shall
not be lawful for such applicant or applicants, to shut up, stop, or ob-
struct any old road, so about to be altered or changed, before the
new road shall be made, perfected, and received by the levy court
of Caroline county.

Bridges.

11. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the levy court
of said county, and they arc hereby directed to cause to be kept in
good order and repair, all frame bridges in said county, exceeding
fifteen feet from abutment to abutment, by employing suitable per-
sons to make said repairs when necessary, and levying money on the
assessable property, of said county, to defray the expense of the
same, not exceeding two hundred and sixty-six dollars in any one
year.

Accounts.

12. And be it enacted, That if any supervisor appointed in virtue
of this act, shall neglect or refuse to render a true annual account of
all work done on the public roads, and of all timber furnished within
his district, under his orders, and by whom done, by whom furnish-
ed, whereby the parties or any of them laboring, or furnishing tim-
ber under his superintendance, shall not be credited in their county
taxes for their services rendered, the said supervisor so neglecting
or refusing, shall become responsible to the party or parties aggriev-
ed for the whole amount omitted, to be recovered by the party
aggrieved, from the said supervisor, in the same manner as small
debts are recovered, but may, if paid by him, be levied in favor of
the said supervisor the following year, excluding costs

Preamble.

AND WHEREAS there are many male free negroes and mulattoes
residing in the county aforesaid, who neither pay taxes nor perform,
militia duty, and it being reasonable that they should contribute
something towards the repairs of the public roads, of which they
have the use, therefore,

Free Negroes

13, Be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any super-
visor in the said county, within whose district any such free ne-
groes or mulattoes may reside, to call on each of them, not being
under eighteen nor over fifty years of age, to labor in repairing said
public roads; provided, that it shall not be lawful for such supervisor
to call on any such free negroes to do more than one day's work in
any one year.

V easily.

14. And be it enacted, That if any free negro or mulatto, called
on by a supervisor, in virtue of this act, shall refuse or neglect to at-
tend at the time and place appointed by such supervisor, or, attend-
ing, shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties, being reasonable,
enjoined on him by such supervisor, without reasonable excuse, such
free negro or mulatto so neglecting or refusing, shall pay a fine, not
exceeding sixty cents, to recovered at the instance of such super-
visor, in the name of the slate, before a justice of the peace, and to
be appropriated by the said supervisor in the same manner as is di-
rected by the fifth section of this act in case of delinquent taxables.

Repeal.

15. And be it enacted, That from and after the first Monday in
April next, all and every act or acts of assembly, and every clause