JOHN HENRY, Efquire, Governor.

1797-

III. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the faid county fhall attend the
juftices of the peace at their faid meetings, and fhall make fair entries and records
of their proceedings in virtue of this act, and fhall, within the fpace of ten days

after the appointment of overfeers as aforefaid, iffue warrants to the faid overfeers,
under his hand, and the feal of his office, notifying the faid perfons of their ap-
pointments refpectively as overfeers of the faid roads, according to the ufual
forms, having refpect to the alterations required by this act; and the faid clerk
fhall, within the time aforefaid, deliver the faid warrants to the fheriff of Talbot
county aforefaid, and fhall take the receipt of the fheriff for the fame; and the
faid fheriff fhall be and he is hereby authorifed and required, within the fpace of
twenty days after receiving the faid warrants, to deliver the fame to the respective
perfons appointed overfeers as aforefaid, and to take their feveral receipts for the
fame; and if any of the faid overfeers fhall refufe to receive their refpective war-
rants, the faid fheriff fhall leave the fame at their place of abode, and certify
the juftices of the levy court thereof; and if the clerk or fheriff of the faid
county fhall neglect or refufe to execute and perform the refpective duties herein
before required, within the refpective periods limitted as aforefaid, the faid clerk
or fheriff, fo neglecting or refilling, fhall forfeit and pay the fum of fifty dollars
for each and every offence.

C H A P.
LXIII.

Clerk to at-
tend the juf-
tices, &c.

IV. And be it enacted, That each and every perfon fo appointed overfeer as
aforefaid, who fhall neglect or refufe to accept of his appointment, after receiving
his warrant as aforefaid, fhall forfeit and pay the fum of ten dollars for every re-
fufal or neglect; provided neverthelefs, that no member of the legiflature, nor
magiftrate, nor preacher, nor teacher, nor practifing attorney, nor phyfician, nor
commiffioner of the tax, fhall be liable to ferve as overfeers of the faid roads,
without his or their confent; and provided alfo, that no perfon fhall be com-
pellable to act as overfeer of any road more than one year in every three years,
without his confent.

Penalty on o-
verfeers for
refufing to
ferve, &c.

V. And be it enacted, That it fhall be the duty of the faid overfeers to keep
all the public roads in the faid county well and fuffciently cleared and grubbed,
fit for travelling, twenty feet wide at the leaft, and to make and keep good and
fubftantial bridges over all the heads of rivers, creeks, branches and fwamps,
where the fame fhall be neceffary, for the convenient and eafy paffage of travellers,
with their waggons, carts, carriages, horfes and cattle, and to remove all nuifances
which may obftrucft or annoy their paffage, and well and fufficiently to caufeway
all and fingular fuch places in and upon the faid roads as fhall require the fame,
at the difcretion and by the direction of the faid juftices; and for this purpofe
the faid juftices, or fome one or more of them, in their refpective neighbour-
hoods, fhall be and they are hereby authorifed and required, from time to
time, to fuperintend the making and repairing of the faid roads, bridges and
caufeways, and to direct and advife the overfeers thereof in the execution of this
act.

Overfeer to
keep the roads
cleared, &c.

VI. And be it enacted, That if any of the faid overfeers fhall not well and
fufficiently clear, grub, amend and repair, the faid feveral and refpective roads
committed to their charge, within a reafonable time after the fame fhall be out
of repair, or fhall not make and keep in repair good and fubftantial bridges over
the heads of rivers, creeks, branches or fwamps, where the fame fhall be necef-
fary as aforefaid, or fhall not remove all nuifances from the faid roads, or fhall
not well and fufficiently caufeway all and fingular fuch places in and upon the
faid roads as fhall require the fame, or fhall permit or fuffer any fallen trees, or
other obftruction, to remain in or acrofs any of the faid public roads for the
fpace of two days after notice thereof, or fhall neglect to fell, or caufe to be
felled and removed, .all decayed or dead trees on either fide of the faid public
roads, whofe limbs or any of them hang over the fame, and may by their fall-
ing injure travellers, or fhall not lop and cut off all limbs or branches of trees
hanging or projecting over the faid roads, within fifteen feet above the furface
thereof, or fhall in any other manner fail or neglect to perform the duties of an
overfeer of the faid roads, according to the directions of this act, every fuch

Penalty for
neglect, &c.