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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said overseers
shall have
power, and they are hereby authorised and required, to call upon
all and singular the free able bodies male inhabitants of their respective
limits, above the age of eighteen years and under the age
of fifty years, and upon all and singular the able bodied male slaves
residing therein, above the age of eighteen years and under the
age of fifty years, to labour and assist in clearing, amending, improving
and repairing, the several and respective roads aforesaid,
and to require such and so many of the said persons as they shall
from time to time deem necessary, to assemble at such place within
their respective limits as the said overseers shall severally appoint,
with sufficient implements of labour, and thereupon to proceed in
the execution of such work and labour upon the said roads, for the
improvement and repair thereof, as the respective overseers shall
order and direct; and the said overseers shall also have power to
hire and employ carts and tams for the carrying and removing all
such stones, dirt, gravel and timber, as may be deemed requisite
for repairing and completing the said roads and bridges, and the
expense of such carts and teams shall be levied upon the county. |
1801.
CHAP. 54.
May call on free
male inhabitants
and slaves to labour
in clearing
and repairing roads. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That within one month
after the receipt
of their respective warrants, the several overseers aforesaid,
under the directions of the said justices, shall repair to the house
of every tenant or proprietor residing within the limits attached to
their respective roads, and shall take down a proper list of the
names of all and singular the free able bodied male inhabitants residing
therein, above the age of eighteen and under the age of fifty
years, and all the able bodied male slaves above the age of
eighteen years and under the age of fifty years; and the said overseers
shall justly and impartially call for and require the labour of
all and singular the persons aforesaid, alternately, and in such
convenient numbers and classes as to place the burthen of their
services equally upon all; Provided nevertheless, that the labour
of
the said persons shall not be called forth for the purpose of this
act during the season of wheat harvest, nor in such manner as to
take more than half the number of labourers belonging to one family,
in which there are more than one labourer, at the same time. |
Take down a list
of able bodied free
male inhabitants
and slaves--and
class them.
Proviso. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as often as the
said overseers
shall judge it necessary to call upon the said inhabitants for their
labour in and upon their said roads, they shall summon, or cause to
be summoned, the number and class which they shall have previously
arranged, having had regard to the quantity and quality of
work necessary to be done upon the said roads, giving each person,
and the master, mistress or overseer of each servant or slave, so
to be summoned, two days notice at the least of the time and place
appointed for their labour, except in such extraordinary cases
which may require a shorter notice, and every person so summoned
shall be obliged to attend in person, or to provide a sufficient
substitute; and if any person, being so summoned, shall neglect or
refuse to attend, or to provide a sufficient substitute, he shall forfeit
and pay the sum of seventy-five cents for every offence; and if any
person shall attend, and not perform the reasonable labour required
of him by the overseer of the road, according to his ability, he
shall be adjudged a defaulter, and shall incur the same penalty as
if he had neglected to attend; and in case the master, mistress or |
May summon class
arranged after
two days notice--
substitutes. |
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