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SOMERSET COUNTY.

peace, and applied towards amending the causeways and
wharves aforesaid.

Justices to
call on the
collector,
&c.

SEC. 25. And be it enacted, That the justices of the levy
court aforesaid may and shall call upon the collector or collec-
tors for all moneys levied and assessed for the use of repairing
the said causeways and wharves.

Top of
dams to be
made
twelve feet
wide, &c.

SEC. 26. And be it enacted, That where any person or per-
sons have built, or shall build, in Somerset county, a mill or
mills on any branch or run where any public or main road
crossed, or shall cross, and have erected, or shall erect, any
dam for such mill or mills, such person or persons, or the
owner, possessor or occupier, of such mills or mills, shall and
they are hereby obliged to make the top of the said dam twelve
feet wide at the least, and make good and substantial bridges
over the waste and race of the said mills and dams, and the
same keep in good repair ; and where any mill hereafter to be
erected shall obstruct any public road, and it shall be thought
convenient by the justices of the levy court of said county
where such mill is so erected, that the said public road shall
pass below the dam of the said mill, or where such public
road now passes below the dam of any such mill or mills, that
then and in every such case the owner or owners, possessor
or occupier, of such mill or mills, shall und they are hereby
required to raise and make a good and sufficient causeway
across the branch or run on which the said mill is built,
twelve feet wide at the least, and make a good and substantial
bridge over the tail of the said mill, and the same keep in
good repair ; and if the owner or owners, possessor or occu-
pier, of any such mill or mills, shall refuse or neglect to do
what is by this act required, and shall be thereof legally con-
victed, he, she or they, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceed-
ing thirty dollars for each neglect or offence ; Provided, that
such person or persons, owner or owners, possessor or occupier,
of such mill or mills, shall not be obliged to work upon, or send
any of their labourers or hands who shall reside in the precinct
of such public road to work on any part of such road, except
such milldam, causeway, race and waste, as aforesaid.

Persons
building
mills to
make good
bridges, &c.

SEC. 27. And be it enacted. That where any person or per-
sons have built, or shall hereafter build or erect, any mill in
Somerset county, on any branch or run below the places
where public or main roads did or shall cross such branch or
run, and by the building and erecting of such mill, or dam for
the same, the public or main road which crossed, or shall
cross, the branch or run as aforesaid, is or shall be any way
affected or injured, or the passage therein any way obstructed
or rendered difficult or incommodious, such person or persons,
or the owner, possessor or occupier, of such mill or mills,