Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-06-04

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Article by labor, in person. or by substitute, or
| by payment of the money due on default
thereof.
| Q lSl. The County Commissioners ofCharles
county. in order to facilitate the prosecution OF
| a system of permanent improvement OF the
roads of said county, shall provide for the Su-
periptendent of Roads suitable Wagon, hx-
lures and team, tent and camp equlpage for
permanent laborers, and all necessary road inn
Elements and tools to be used by him in dis
charge of his duties aforesaid; for the safe
keepinp. proper use and due return of which, as
well as for the proper disposal of, and due ac-
counting for all monies which, may come into
his hands in any way as Superintendent of
roads in Charles county, the said Superlnten-
dent shall give bond with security, to be ap-
proved blythe said County Commissioners, in
the sum of ten thousand do/iars; and said Coun-
ty Commissioners shall also provide for the en-
ployment of a permanent corps of laborers,
not to exceed ten in number, who shall be en-
gagged by said Superintendent for such periods
and upon such terms as may be most economi-
cal and advantageous, and shall be employed
by him in carrying out the system of permanent
Improvement of the roads Of said county de
signed by this law; provided that the expen-
ditures for the above purposes, under this sec
ton, shall not exceed in any one year, until
otherwise provided by law, the sum of five
Superintendent.
2 1O2. In order to carry out the foregoing
provisions, the County Commissioners of said
county shall be authorized and required to ad-
vance funds, out of any monies of the county
levied for the repairs of public roads, to said Su
perintendent from time to time as may be neces-
sary; or to raise, in advance, by negotiation,
such amount or amounts as may be sufficient,
upon the faith and security of the annual levy
upon the assessable property of Charles county,
for the repairs of the roads and bridges of said
county; and in order to avoid too large a levy
and burden upon the tax payers of said county
in any one year, the said County Commission
ers, if the proper prosecution of this system
shall require it, may negotiate loan or loans,
upon the bonds of the county, at not less than
their par value, bearing six per cent. interest
payable annually and said bonds payable in
annual instalments in such order as may rem
der their payment not onerous to said tax pay
ers, and they shall provide in their annual levy
thereafter for county purposes, for the payment
of said interest and of said annual instruments,
until said bonds shall be fully paid off and re-
deemed.
lob The Superintendent of Roads for
Charles county shall have power to procure
earth and gravel from any lands adjacent or
convenient to the public roads, for filling up
and raising same when necessary, where he
cannot obtain such by agreement with owners
of said land and he shall return to the County
Commissioners a statement of same in such
cases with an estimate of its value and shall also
give certificate or certificates thereof to the
owners of such land or lands, provided such
earth or gravel shall not be taken from the
arabic and cultivated land of any person ex-
cept by his consent, nor his crops or fields in
jured in getting at and procuring same. And
said Superintendent shall also have power, in
draining roads, to let off the water therefrom
upon the adjoining lands at such places as may
be proper and necessary; provided he shall take
care to do so with little injury as possible to
such owners of land, and, to that end, shall
have power to continue drains through such
lands so as to prevent the spreading of the
water so let off the roads over cultivated fields
2lO4 Any person who shall obstruct, fill
up, or otherwise wilfully injure the drains made
by the Superintendent of Roads or supervisors
thereof under his directions, shall be subject to
presentment by the Grand Jury of said county,
and upon conviction thereofin the Circuit Court
of said county shall be subject to fine, in the
discretion of said Court, of not less than ten nor
more than one hundred dollars for each offence.
2 los. The Superintendent and Supervisors
of Roads in Charles county shall see that all
gates upon the public roads in said county are
properly constructed, and so hung as not to
cause unnecessary delay or hindrancete travel
lers; and upon failure Of the owners thereof,
upon notice given them, to replace gates not
so constructed and hung, or to have them pro-
perly repaired and rehung, it shall be the duty
of the supervisors to remove such gates; but any
person who shall tear down, destroy, remove,
or leave open any gates so constructed and hung
shall be deemed guilty Of a misdemeanor, and
shall be liable to prosecution, in the name of
the State, before Justice of the Peace of the
county, and may be punished by fine, not ex-
|ceeding ten dollars, for the use of the county,
provided that any such person may appeal from
the Judgment Of every such Justice to the Cir
|cuit Court for said county, upon giving bond
in the usual form to the State for the prosecu-
ton of the appeal and payment of the fine and
costs, if the judgment should be affirmed.
106. The Superintendent of Roads for
Charles county shall annually report to the
County Commissioners of said county care
fully prepared statement of all his operations
during each year, and of all sums of money ex-
pended in maintaining and repairing the roads
and bridges of said county; and also an esti-
mate or estimates of the costs of the same for
the succeeding year, which statement or a sy-
nopsis thereof shall, for the information OF the
people of said county, be published by the Coun-
ty Commissioners with their annual publica-
ton of the county levy and expenses, or sepa-
rately,. in their discretion. ~:
iO7.. The County Commissioners of Charles
county shall have power to adopt any rules
and regulations which may be suggested by the
Superintendent of Roads that may be necessary
and proper for duly carrying out the provisions
of the foregoing sections and supplying any
omissions in the details thereof.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
present supervisors of roads in Charles county
shall continue in the performance of their du-
ties, and be responsible therefor, until suppressed
ed under the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That on the first
Saturday of June next, at an election to be held
at the same places where elections are now held
by law in Charles county, of which notice shall
be give1s, by the Sheriff Of said county, for the
time and in the manner provided by law for
such notices, and which shall be held, conduct
ed and returned by the Judges of Elections of
said county as other elections are required to
be done; the duly registered voters OF said coun-
ty shall vote on the question Of the adoption of
this Act by expressing, in writing or in printed
form, the words ''For the Road Law" or
against the Road Law" as the case may be-,
and no blank ballots shall be counted, but shall
be returned separately, and the returns of said
election shall be certified and sent to the Coun-
ty Commissioners for Charles county, and there
upon it shall be the duty of said Commissioners,
at meeting to be called for that purpose, to
cast up the ballots cast at said election, and if
it shall appear to them that more ballots have
been cast for said Road Law than against said
Road Law, the said County Commissioners
shall issue their Proclamation declaring this
Act to be adopted by the people of Charles
provisions thereof as required therein and the
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