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An Act to provide for the repairs of the public roads in Dorchester county. 1854 273 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0229 and id is 1 raw text is: T. WATKINS LIQON, ESQUIRE,, GOVERNOR. 278 CHAPTER 208. AN ACT to provide for thb repairs of the public roads Passed in Dorchester county. Mar. 10, 1854. WHEREAs, The present mode of repairing tile public Preamble. roads in Dorchester county, has been found inade- quate for the purpose intended, and it is deemed ne- cessary that proper regulations should forthwith be made fQr keeping said roads in repair ; Therefore, SEoTIoN 1. Be it enacted by the Genaral Assembly Duty of sau- of Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the supervi- supervisors. sors of the roads of Dorchester county, to keep all the public roads in the said county well and sulficiently cleared and grubbed fit for travelling, twenty feet wide at the least, except in such parts thereof where the county commissioners shall allow or direct the said road to be of a less width, and to make and keep good and substantial bridges over all the heads of rivets, creeks, branches and swainps,.where the same shall be necessa- ry for the convenient and easy passage of travellers, with their wagons, carts, carriages, horses and cattle, and to remove all nuisances which ziay obstruct or annoy their passage, and well and sufficiently to causeway ll and singular such places in and upon the said road as shall require the same. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any of the said Forfeiture for supervisors shall not well and sutfliciently clear, grub, neglect, amend and repair the said several and respective toads committed to their charge, within a reasonable time after the same shall be out of tepair, or shall not make and keep in repair and good order, substantial bridges over the heads of rivers, creeks, branches or swamps, whee the same shall be necessary as aforesaid, or shall not remove all nuisances from the said roads, or shall not well and sufficiently causeway, all and singular such places in and upon the said road as shall require the same, or shall permit or suffer any fallen trees or other obstructions to remnin in or across any of the said public roads for the space of two days after notice thereof Or shall neglect to fell or cause to be felled and removed all decayed or dead trees on either side of the said pub- lie roads, whose limbs or any of them hang over the same and nay by their falling injure travellers, or shall not top and cut off all limbs or branches of trees hang-

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