| 1801.
CHAP. 54. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
allow or direct the said road to be of a less width, and to make
and keep good and substantial bridges over all the heads of
rivers, creeks, branches and swamps, where the same shall be
necessary, for the convenient and easy passage of travellers, with
their wagons, carts, carriages, horses and cattle, and to remove all
nuisances which may obstruct or annoy their passage, and well and
sufficiently to causeway all and singular such places in and upon
the said roads as shall require the same. |
| Penalty for neglect. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the said
overseers shall
not well and sufficiently clear, grub, amend and repair, the said
several and respective roads committed to their charge, within a
reasonable time after the same shall be out of repair, or shall not
make and keep in repair good and substantial bridges over the
heads of rivers, creeks, branches or swamps, where the same shall
be necessary as aforesaid, or shall not remove all nuisances from
the said roads, or shall not well and sufficiently causeway all and
singular such places in and upon the said roads as shall require
the same, or shall permit or suffer any fallen trees, or other obstruction,
to remain in or across any of the said public roads for
the space of two days after notice thereof, or shall neglect to fell,
or cause to be felled and removed, all decayed or dead trees on either
side of the public roads, whose limits, or any of them, hang
over the same, and may by their falling injure travellers, or shall
not lop and cut off all limbs of branches or trees hanging or projecting
over the said roads, within fifteen feet above the surface
thereof, or shall in any other manner fail or neglect to perform the
duties of an overseer of the said roads, according to the directions
of this act, every such overseers, so failing or neglecting, shall forfeit
and pay the sum of five dollars for every offence, except in the
time of wheat harvest. |
May remove
stones, gravel or
earth, in repair of
roads.
Proviso. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for the
several and respective overseers of the said roads, and they are
hereby authorised and empowered, as often as need shall require,
to dig, take and remove, any stones, gravel, or earth of firm quality,
which may be found on any land adjoining the roads for which
the same may be necessary, and to employ the same in the repairing
of the said roads; and for the making or repairing of bridges
over the heads of rivers, creeks, branches, swamps, or other low
and miry places, through and over which the said roads may pass,
to cut down, or cause to be cut down, any tree or trees growing on
any of the next adjacent lands to such places where bridges may
be necessary as aforesaid, and the same trees to maul and carry
away from off such lands, and to apply the same to the making or
repairing of the said bridges; Provided, that it shall be the duty
of
each and every overseer aforesaid to render a true account (certified
under their hands and seals respectively,) of all and singular
such tree or trees by them cut down and taken for the purpose
aforesaid, with a description of the size and quality of such tree
or trees, together with their estimation of the value thereof, to the
owner, tenant or overseer, of the lands from whence the same shall
have been taken, and to return a duplicate of such account, on oath,
to the next levy court of the county, in order that the justices of
said court may be enabled to estimate the real value thereof, to be
allowed or paid to such owner or owners in such manner as said
justices shall appoint and direct. |
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