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Justices to
receive
fines, &c.
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SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the justices of the peace
respectively shall be authorized and empowered to receive any
fine or fines for which they may respectively render judgment
against any overseer of the road in said county, and shall ac-
count with and pay over to the levy court annually all moneys
which they may have respectively received in virtue of this
act, under the penalty of paying treble the amount thereof in
case of failure or neglect.
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On applica-
tion, road
may be
turned, &c.
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SEC. 18. And, whereas it may be proper and necessary to
vest a competent power in the justices of the levy court to turn,
alter, straighten, extend or lay out, roads in the county afore-
said, where the proprietors of the lands through which the
roads intended to bo so turned, altered, straightened, extended
or laid out, may pass, are willing and capable of consenting to
applications of this nature ; therefore, Be it enacted, That
upon the application in writing from all the proprietors of the
lands through which any public road or roads may pass, or be
prayed to pass, petitioning for the turning, altering, straighten-
ing, extending or laying out, a public road or roads, it shall and
may be lawful for the justices of the said levy court, upon being
satisfied that the granting of such petition will be of public
convenience, and they are hereby authorized and empowered,
to direct the surveyor of the said county to lay out such road,
agreeably to the prayer of such petition, or in such other
manner as they shall think most expedient, not exceeding
thirty feet in breadth, without the consent of the said proprie-
tors, and to make return of such location with all convenient
speed; and after such road shall be surveyed and laid out
agreeably to the intentions of this act, the said court shall
direct the application for such road, and the order and pro-
ceedings thereupon, and the return of the surveyor, to be en-
rolled among their records, and thereupon and thereafter such
road shall be deemed and considered to be a public road, and
shall be kept up and repaired as other public roads in the said
county ; Provided nevertheless, that no old road, so to be af-
fected by this act, shall be stopped up until the new road shall
be viewed, examined and received, by two justices of the
peace, to be appointed by the said court ; And provided also,
that such new road shall be laid out, made and completed, at
the proper expense of the parties applying for the same ; And
provided further, that no such application shall affect the lands
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