Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-05-12
CHAPTER 4O7.
ROADS.

AN ACT to repeal and re. enact with
Amendments Sections 100 TO 1913
both inclusive of Article 10 OF the
Code of Public Local Laws title
st. Mary's County," Subtitle
Roads as amended by Chapter
354 OF the Acts of 1902, and TO re-
peal Sections 103 A to lO3 + both
inclusive of said Article under said
Title aud Subtitle.
Section /. Be il enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
Sections 100 to 103, both inclusive,
of Article IS of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title st. Mary's Coun-
~, subtitle Roads," as amended
by Chapter 354 of the Acts OF 1902
be and the same are hereby respec-
lively repealed and re-enacted with
amemendments, and be it further
enacted that Sections 100 A to 1O3F,
both inclusive of said Article under
said title and subtitle, be and the
same are hereby expressly repealed.
Section 100. The County Com
missioners are hereby authorized
and empowered to purchase in such
manner and on such terms as they
may deem best for the interest of the
County, five mules for each of the
three Commissioner District of the
County, TO be used in operating the
three road machines now belonging
TO said County, and for other pur-
poses in repairing said roads, they
shall make provision for the feeding
and proper care of said mules, and
at the conclusion of general road
work In each and every year, they
may IN their discretion place said
mules in the custody of such persons
as will properly care for them at the
least expense to the County.
Section lOl. The County Com
missioners shall Mt their first meet
ing in May, Nineteen Hundred and
Four and annually thereafter, ap-
point as many Road Supervisors for
each election district and precinct OF
the County as they may deem neces
sary for the proper working of said
Roads, said Supervisors in all cases
being selected with special regard
TO their knowledge and skill in di.
recting Road work. and shall be sub
lect at all times to such rules and
regulations as may be adopted bv
the County Commissioners with re-
gard to the repairing. mending and
perfecting the public roads of said
County; the said Commissioners
shall also fix the compensation of
Road Super Sisors and the per diem
OF all laborers employed to work on
said Road.
Section l02 The County Com
missioners shall provide in their
levy OF 1904, asuficient sum ofmoney
TO ray all Indebtedness on account
of Roads and shall then and annually
thereafter levy sum not less than
five thousand nor more than eigh,
thousand dollars for the building
and repair OF said Roads in any one
year provided that nothing in this
Section shall prevent the Commits
sioners from levying an additional
amount TO build any bridge, the cost
OF which will be one hundred dol.
lars or more.
Section 103. The County Com.
miSsionerS shall so soon after each
annual levy as practicable apportion
the sum SO levied for Public Roads
among the several Election Districts
and precincts of the County in exact
proportion TO the assessed basis of
each district and precinct, they shall |
rs TAR as practicable. have ali Road
work done in q permanent manner.
Section 2. And be il enacted
That this Act shall take effect from
the date OF its passage, and that all
Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent
with this Act, be and the same are
hereby expressly repealed.
Approved April z. 1904.
EDWIN WAKEFIELD, Governor
SPENCER G. JONES,
President of the Senate.
GEORGE Y. EVERHART,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Office OF the Secretary OF the Senate:
! hereby certify, That the afore-
going is q true cony of an Act Of the