1794.

LAWS of MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LII.

pence, in Queen-Anne's a fum not exceeding three fhillings, in Frederick a fum
not exceeding three fhillings and nine-pence, in Harford a fum not exceeding
three fhillings and nine-pence, in Caroline a fum not exceeding two fhillings and
fix-pence, in Montgomery a fum not exceeding two fhillings and fix-pence, in
Allegany a fum not exceeding three fhillings and nine-pence, in Kent county a
fum not exceeding two fhillings and fix-pence, on every hundred pounds of af-
feffable property in the faid counties, to be collected as other county taxes, and
paid to the juftices of the levy court, or to their order, and fhall be applied to-
wards ftreightening and amending the public roads in the faid counties; and the
faid juftices, or a majority of them, in their refpective counties, fhall have full
power and authority to appropriate the funds arifing from the faid tax to the roads
in their refpective counties, and fhall apportion the fame in equal proportion
among all the public roads of their refpective counties, regarding the fituation
and quantity of labour neceffary for the improvement of fuch roads, except as
above excepted with refpect to Caecil county, and-to anticipate the collection of
any of the faid taxes, by permitting (if expectient) the fupervifor or fupervifors to
accept of labour in lieu thereof at the cuftomary rate of labour for the time,
which fupervifor or fupervifors fhall iffue orders to thofe by whom fuch labour
may be rendered, expreffing therein, in writing, the duration or time of fuch la-
bour, the rate thereof by the day or month, as the cafe may be, by whom and
for whofe account the fame was rendered, and the whole amount or value thereof,
to be received in fixes by the collector or collectors of his county in difcharge of
monies due or owing for this particular tax.

To fix rates,
&c.

III. And be it enacted, That the juftices of the counties aforefaid fhall, at
their meeting under this law, and on every annual meeting thereafter, for the
regulation of the conduct of the fupervifors, fix and eftablifh proper and rea-
fonable rates of prices for the hire of labourers, horfes, carts, waggons or other-
carriages, to be worked or ufed on the roads of their refpeftive counties, and fhall
publifh the fame in every hundred of their refpective counties.

Make out
lifts, &c.

IV. And be it enacted, That the juftices of the levy court, at every fuch
meeting, fhall make out feparate and diftinct lifts of all the taxable perfons in
each hundred within their county, together with the amount's of their refpective
road taxes, and fhall furnifh the collector of the county with copies thereof with-
in ten days after their faid meeting, and the faid collector fhall leave with every
taxable perfon in the hundreds an account of his faid road tax, within fixtv davs
thereafter, under the penalty of five fhillings for every fuch omiffion.

On applicati-
on, appoint
commiffion-

ers, &c.

V. And be it enacted, That when a majority cf the juftices of the peace in
any one county named in this act meet in feffion at their levy court, that then
they, or a majority cf them, on application in writing, figned by two thirds of
the inhabitants of any hundred or hundreds through which any roads do or may
pafs, to widen and ftreighten any old road heretofore faid out as a public road,
fhall have power and authority to appoint three difcreet perfons, freeholders in
the faid county, commiffioners, who fhall not held any part of the lands through
which the faid road or roads may pafs, nor be related to the perfon or perfons
holding the land that may be affected by the running of the faid roads, to view,
furvey and plot, the faid road fo applied for, and make a return thereof to the
faid court at their next meeting, who, on receiving fach plot or plots, fhall ex-
amine the fame, and all the evidence that fhall or may be offered for or against
the faid road or roads, as returned, and may reject or confirm the fame as a public
road, or may direct the faid commiffioners to alter and amend the faid plot, a
when fo amended, may reject or confirm the fame, and when confirmed, fh-
accordingly direct the commiffioners to mark and bound the faid road or road
not exceeding forty feet in width clear of ditches, and direct a fupervifor or fupe-
vifors to clear and improve the fame, in the fame manner, and on the fame term
as other roads, and upon completing the fame, the faid road fhall be deemed
public road, and fhall be kept in repair as all other public roads in faid cour
are by this law directed to be kept; provided alfo, that notice be fet up in writing
by advertifement, at lead three weeks, in the moil public places in fuch hundred