ROADS.

or earth, from any land adjoining the public roads, and for the
repair of which the same be necessary ; and for the making or
repairing of bridges over the heads of creeks, branches, swamps
or other low and miry places, through or over which the same
may pass ; to cut down any tree or trees (fruit or ornamental
trees excepted) standing or growing on any of the lands ad-
jacent to such place where bridges may be necessary as afore-
said, and the same to maul, split and carry away, and to apply
the same to the mending or repairing, or making of said
bridges, or for the purposes necessary for the repairs of the

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public roads aforesaid ; Provided always, that it shall not be
lawful for any supervisor to enter any enclosure for the pur-
pose of obtaining any stones, gravel, earth, or timber, for the
purposes aforesaid, without the consent of the owner or owners
thereof; and if the owner or owners thereof be a minor or
minors, without the consent of his, her, or their guardian or
guardians, as the case may be ; and it shall be the duty of each

Proviso.

supervisor, to make a return upon oath, of the timber taken by
him for the use of the said roads, and a list of the persons to
whom it belonged, with his estimate of the value thereof,
\vhich shall be levied on the assessable property of said county,
for the use of the person to whom it belonged, and to be col-
lected as other county charges are.

Make
return.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be and is hereby
made the duty of the several supervisors of the said county, to
render annually, upon oath, to the said commissioners, a true
account of all work done upon said roads, whether the same
was done by the hands of taxable inhabitants furnished at the
request of the supervisors, or whether the same was done by
bands procured by himself upon default of the taxable inhabi-
tants of his section, to furnish the same when so required,
under the provisions of this act ; and the said commissioners
are thereupon required to allow and place to the credit in the
county charges of each taxable inhabitant, who shall appear
upon said return to have furnished hands agreeably to the re-
quisitions of the said supervisor, for the repair of the public
roads, the several sums to which they shall be entitled, under

Account
under oath.

the provisions of this act ; and also to pay over to each of the
supervisors, such sum or suras as may appear from their se-
veral returns to be necessary for the payment of such persons,
as they, the said supervisors, may have employed, to supply
the deficiency of labour occasioned by the failure of the taxa-
ble inhabitants to furnish hands when called upon by such
supervisors as herein before provided for.

Settlement
thereof.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
commissioners of said county, and they are hereby directed to
cause to be kept in good repair the frame bridges of the county,

Bridges.