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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
day in every year thereafter, at the respective court-houses in the
said counties, and when so met together, the said justices, or a a majority
of them, shall be and they are hereby authorised and required
to describe, ascertain, and distinctly record in a well bound book,
to be provided by them for that purpose, the several and respective
roads and public highways in the counties aforesaid, and to nominate
and appoint capable and judicious persons as overseers of the
several and respective roads aforesaid, (a) according to the number
and divisions of the said roads, as the same shall be ascertained
upon their records; Provided nevertheless, that the said roads shall
be so apportioned, divided and described, as not to require a greater
number of overseers than five in any one hundred of the said
counties, and that the said justices, or any one or more of them,
may adjourn from day to day until the said roads shall be duly ascertained,
and overseers appointed as aforesaid; and in case neither
of the said justices should attend as aforesaid; it shall be the duty
of the clerk of the county court to make said adjournments.
By 1807, ch. 15, the levy court of
Dorchester county may appoint as many
overseers in the several hundreds as they shall deem necessary. |
1801.
CHAP. 54.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of the
said county
shall attend the justices of the levy court at their said meetings,
and shall make fair entries and records of their proceedings in
virtue of this act, and shall, within the space of ten days after the
appointment of overseers as aforesaid, issue warrants to the said
overseers, under his hand and the seal of his office, notifying the
said persons of their appointments respectively as overseers of the
said roads, according to the usual forms, having respect to the alterations
required by this act, and the said clerk shall, within the
time aforesaid, deliver the said warrants to the sheriff of the several
counties aforesaid, and shall take the receipt of the sheriff for
the same; and if any of the said overseers shall refuse to receive
their respective warrants, the said sheriff shall leave the
same at their place of abode, and certify the justices of the levy
court thereof; and if the clerk of sheriff of any of the said counties
shall neglect or refuse to execute and perform the respective
duties herein before required, within the respective periods limited
as aforesaid, the said clerks or sheriffs so neglecting or refusing
shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars for each and every
offence. |
Clerk to issue warrants
to overseers. |
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 aforesaid, shall
forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for every refusal 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. |
Penalty on overseers
for refusing
to serve. |
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 |
Overseers to keep
the roads cleared
and erect bridges. |
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