| 1801.
CHAP. 54. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
overseer, of any servant or slave, upon being notified as aforesaid,
shall refuse or neglect to send such servant or slave, such master,
mistress or overseer, shall forfeit and pay the sum of seventy-five
cents for every servant or slave so refused to be sent. |
And keep a list of
all defaulters. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said
overseers to keep a true and proper list of all and every person or
defaulter, who, being summoned as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse
to attend at the times and places appointed as aforesaid, or if
attending, shall not perform his reasonable labour, and of every
master, mistress or overseer of servants and slaves, who shall incur
the penalty aforesaid; and the said overseers of roads shall,
once in every three months, call upon each and every of the said
persons, and demand the payment of all and singular the sums of
money by them, or any of them, so forfeited, and on refusal or
neglect to pay the same, the said overseers shall proceed to recover
the same before a single magistrate, by due course of law; and the
said overseers shall, every six months, render their accounts of all
fines and forfeitures received by them in virtue of this act to the
justices of the levy court, upon oath, or affirmation, and pay the
amount thereof in such manner as the said justices shall order and
appoint.
By 1811, ch. 131, so much of this section
as makes it the duty of the overseers
of the roads to pay the amount of fines and forfeitures received by them
to the levy
court, repealed so far as relates to Dorchester county, and other regulations
prescribed.
By 1817, ch. 81, the levy courts of Charles and Calvert
counties, to keep a
journal of the names of such overseers of roads in their respective counties,
as
shall neglect to comply with the directions of this section; and overseers
so neglecting,
shall for each offence forfeit eight dollars, to be deducted from their
allowance. |
How vacancies are
to be filled. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the
overseers to be appointed
shall refuse to act, remove, become disqualified or die, it
shall may be lawful for any two of the neighbouring justices of
the peace to supply every vacancy so happening, by the appointment
of another person, and they shall certify every such appointment,
under their hands, to the clerk of the county, who shall record
the same, and within five days thereafter shall issue a warrant to
the person so appointed, and deliver the same to the sheriff, to be
served upon the party has herein before directed. |
| Overseer's allowance. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every overseer
so to be appointed
by virtue of this act, shall respectively be allowed a sum, not
exceeding eight dollars by the year, (a) for summoning, directing
and superintending, the labourers employed upon the said roads,
which allowance shall be paid to them by the justices of the levy
court out of the fines and forfeitures imposed and levied by this
act, and if found to be insufficient for this purpose at the expiration
of every year, the deficiency shall be assessed and levied upon
the county in the same manner as other public charges.
This section repealed as to Dorchester county by 1808, ch. 12.
(a) By 1817, ch. 81, the allowance
is increased in Charles and Calvert counties
eight dollars per annum in addition to the sum allowed by this section. |
In case road
shall be out of
repair from neglect
of overseer,
warrant may be
issued. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any of the justices
of the peace
of the said counties, who, upon his own view, or on the information,
oath or affirmation, of one or more credible witnesses, shall
discover or be satisfied that any bridge, road or causeway, is out
of repair, from the neglect of duty of the overseer within whose |
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