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premises, at a certain day in the said warrant to be expressed,
which jury, on their oath or affirmation, shall inquire who ia
or are the owner or owners of the land over which any road or
roads so widened or laid out shall pass, and what damages such
owner or owners will actually suffer from the passage of such
road or roads over the said land, the said jury taking into con-
sideration all conveniences and inconveniencies, advantages
and disadvantages, if any, arising thereby or therefrom, by the
improvement of said road, and the sheriff shall return the in-
quisition of the jury aforesaid, under his hand and seal, to the
next levy court, and the amount of damages therein expressed,
if any, shall be paid by order of the said court out of the
moneys to be levied as aforesaid, but no road shall be made
to run through any building, enclosed yard, garden, meadow
or orchard, without the consent of the owner, nor shall any
field in which grain, hemp, flax, tobacco, or other cultivated
articles are growing, be laid open until after the season for
collecting and securing the crop growing in such field.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the warrants shall be made
out for the supervisors by the clerk of the said county, and by
him delivered to the sheriff of the county within ten days after
they shall be ordered by the said court, under the penalty o!
fifteen dollars for each warrant so ordered and not delivered
by the clerk, and the like penalty of fifteen dollars for each
warrant received by the sheriff, and not delivered by him
within ten days to the supervisor, to be recovered before
single magistrate, as in the case of small debts out of court,
and applied towards clearing and amending the public roads,

Warrants
to be made
out, &c.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That if any of the said super-
visors shall not sufficiently clear and amend the said public
roads within his district, within a reasonable time after it shall
be out of repair, or shall not straighten the said public roads,
as marked and bounded by the commissioners, or shall suffer
any fallen trees, or other obstruction, to remain in or across
any of the said public roads, whereby any wagon, cart or
other carriage, may be obstructed for two days together, he
having notice thereof, or shall neglect to fall all dead trees on
cither side of the said public roads, whose limbs hang over, and
may by their falling injure travellers, or lop or cut off all limbs
or branches of trees hanging or projecting over the road,
within fifteen feet above the surface thereof, or shall suffer any
of the bridges or causeways to be out of good repair, or other-
wise fail to perform the duties of a supervisor, be shall forfeit
and pay a sum not exceeding fifteen dollars for every such
offence, to be recovered and applied as aforesaid.

Penalty on
supervisors
for neglect,
&c.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That any of the justices of the
peace of the paid county, who, upon his own view, or on the

Justice may
issue his