PUBLIC ROADS.

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tices at their levy courts, and in case of the death, removal.

neglect, refusal to act, or misbehaviour, of any supervisor sd

appointed, the said justices, or any three of them in the recess

of the said court, may nominate and appoint, by warrant under

their hands and seals, another person in his place, to serve for

the residue of the time for which said supervisor so dying, re-*

moving, refusing to act, or misbehaving, was originally ap«

pointed ; and the supervisors nominated and appointed as

aforesaid shall give bond and security as aforesaid, and shall

clear, amend, and keep in good repair, the said public roads

within their respective districts, and shall make, amend and

keep in good repair, all such bridges and causeways as are

needful and requisite to be made and repaired ; Provided, that

nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to framed or

arched bridges exceeding fifteen feet in length, or to affect cases

where persons are or may hereafter be obliged either by law or

contract to keep bridges in repair; and to enable the said super-

visors effectually to perform the said duties, they are hereby

empowered from time to time to hire and employ at reasonable

wages, not exceeding such wages as shall be fixed and estab-

lished under the regulations before recited, a sufficient number

of labourers to work on the said public roads, and to hire and

employ horses, carts, wagons, or other convenient carriages, for

the purpose of carrying earth, gravel, stones, timber, or other

heavy articles, necessary for mending and keeping the said

roads in repair, or making and keeping in repair the said

bridges and causeways, and also to agree at reasonable rates

for, and purchase, such wood, timber, and other materials, as

may be necessary in making such bridges and causeways.

See 1804, ch. 81, post page 1342.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the warrants shall be made

Warrants

out to the supervisors as aforesaid by the clerks of the said

to be made
out, &c.

courts, and by them delivered to the sheriffs of the counties

within ten days after the said warrants shall be ordered by the

said courts, and shall be delivered by the said sheriffs to the

supervisor to whom the same is directed within ten days after

the said sheriff's receipt thereof, under the penalty of five

pounds for each warrant ordered and not delivered by the clerk,

and the like sum for each warrant received and not delivered as

aforesaid by the said sheriff, to be recovered before a single

magistrate as in case of small debts out of court, and applied

towards clearing and amending the public roads, bridges and

causeways, aforesaid.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That if any of the said supervisors

Penalty on

shall not well and sufficiently clear and amend the said public

supervisors
for neglect,

roads within his district, within a reasonable time after the

&c.

same shall be out of repair, or shall not straighten the said

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