Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-06-01
CHAPTER 2l1

| AN ACT to repeal an Act passed at Jan
uary session of eighteen hundred and
| siXtyfour, chapter three hundred and
three, entitled an act to provide for the
| appointment of three superintendent to
supervise and control the repairs and
Improvements of the Public County
road in Allegany county, leading from
Barrellville to Westernport in said coun-
ty, and to authorize and require the
Commissioners of said county to make
lcvies for the repair and Improvement of
the same, and to enact the following sec
tions in lieu of said act SO repealed
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Gener-
al Assembly of Maryland, That the Act of
the General Assembly, passed at January
session eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
chapter three hundred and three, entitled
AN Act to provide for appointment of
threcSuperintendcnts to supervise and con-
troll the repairs and improvements Of the
Public County road in Allegany county,
leading from Barrellville to Westcrnport
in SAID county, and TO authorize and re
quirc the County Commissioners of said
county to make leyies for the repair and
improvement of the same, be and the same
IS hereby repealed.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in lieu
of said Act the following sections are here
by enacted and added to the Code of Pub
lie Local Laws, article one, entitled ALE
gany county:
203. The repairs, improvements and SUI
peryision of the Public County road lead
ing from Barrellville through the towns of
Mount Savage, FrostbTg and Homecoming
to Westernport, in Alegany county, be
and the same arc hereby placed under the
charge and care of three superlntendcnts
of the same, to be appointed as hereinafter
directed
2Ol. 1t shall be the duty of the County
Commissioners for said county annually
and in the month of April, in each and ev-
cry year, to appoint three suitable persons
to act as supcrntendcnts for the purpose
of supervising and attending to the repairs
and improvements of said road, one of said
superintendent to be resident Of that
portion of said county through which the
road passes from Barrelville to Frostburg;
another of said superintendents to be a
resident of that portion of said coun-
ty through which the road passes from
Frostburg to Homecoming; and the third
and other of said supcrintendents to be q
resident of that portion of said road from
Homecoming to Westernport
205 1t shall be the duty of said Coun-
ty Commissioners of Allegany county in
making their annual levy for the repairs
OF roads in said county to make a separ-
ate and distinct levy in the hands of each
of the three several superintendents pro-
vided ior by this act for the repair of the
respective portions of said road hereinbe-
fore designated, and to be expended sever
ally by said superintendent upon said por-
tions Of said road.
20G. Said superintendent shall, within
thirty days after their appointment as
aforesaid, give their several bonds, with
surety for the faithful expenditure of all
moneys levied for the repairs and improve
ments upon their several portions before
designated OF said roads, and the perform
ance of their several duties required by
this act, in such several penalties as the
County Commissioners may deem neccssa-
ry, and in case they, or either of them, re-
fuse or fail to execute such bond to be ap-
polntments as aforesaid, or in case either
of the said supererntendents shall die or
resign, then the said County Commission
ers shall appoint another superintendent
or supcrintcnoeuts in the place of him or
those respectively who may fail to give
bond, die or resign as aforesaid.
207 Said dsupcrintendents shall severally
on the first Monday Of April, in each and
every year, return under oath to the Coun-
ty Commissioners of said county full and
particular account of the amounts receiv-
ed by them respectively for the repair of
their respective portions of '"id road,
and also of the various items If eNpend-
lures upon the same accompanied by the
vouchers for the said expenditures and
for the performance of their duties under
this act the said superintcndcnts severally
be allowed as an item of said expenditures
the sum of two dollars per day for each
and every dag which they may be actually
engaged In making said repairs, improve
ments and expenditures.
SEC B And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from date of passage.
FETTER S. HOBLITZELL,
Speaker Of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
Approved this 9TH day of April, 1878.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
1.-THE Great Seal. Governor.
MARYLAND set:
], James 5. Franklin, Clerk OF the Court
of Appeals Of Malland, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is. full and true copy
of the Act of the General Assembly of Ma
ryland of which it purports to be a copy
as taken from'the original Law belonging
to and deposited in the office of the clerk
of the Court of Appeals of Maryland,
In testimony whereof hereunto set my
hand as clerk and atfiX the seal w4xxxxx
of the said Courtof Appeals this #sEAL*
1st day of May, 1878 '*t***'
JAMES S. FRANKLIN,
Clerk ofthe Court Of Appeals of Maryland.