ROADS.

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periods limited as aforesaid, the said clerks or sheriffs so ne-
glecting or refusing, shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dol-
lars for each and every offence.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That each and every person so
appointed overseer as aforesaid, who shall neglect or refuse to
accept of his appointment, after receiving his warrant as afore-
said, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for every re-

Penalty oft
overseers
for refusing
to servo.

fusal or neglect ; Provided nevertheless, that no person shall
be liable to be appointed as overseer of any road more than one
year in every three years, without his consent.

Proviso.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
said overseers to keep all the public roads in the said —— well
and sufficiently cleared and grubbed, fit for travelling, twenty
feet wide at the least, except in such parts thereof where the
levy court 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 rivers, creeks, branched and swamps where the
same shall be necessary, for the convenient and easy passage
of travellers, with their wagons, carts, carriages, horses and
cattle, and to remove all nuisances which may obstruct or
annoy their passage, and well and sufficiently to causeway all
and singular such places in and upon the said roads as shall
require the same.

Overseers
to keep
the roads
cleared
and erect
bridges.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That if any of the said overseers
shall not well and sufficiently clear, grub, amend and repair,
the said several and respective roads committed to their charge,
within a reasonable time after the same shall be out of repair,
or shall not make and keep in repair good and substantial
bridges over the heads of rivers, creeks, branches or swamps,
where the same shall be necessary as aforesaid, or shall not re-
move all nuisances from the said roads, or shall not well and
sufficiently causeway all and singular such places in and upon
the said roads as shall require the same, or shall permit or suf-
fer any fallen trees, or other obstruction, to remain 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

Penally for
neglect.

public roads, whose limits,* or any of them, hang over the
same, and may by their falling injure travellers, or shall not
lop and cut off all limbs or branches of trees hanging or pro-
jecting over the said roads, within fifteen feet above the surface
thereof, or shall in any other manner fail or neglect (o perform
the duties of an overseer of the said toads, according to the
directions of this act, every such overseer, so failing or ne-
glecting, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for every
offence, except in the time of wheat harvest.
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