| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
of the public roads, the sum of one dollar per day; and for
every day which each supervisor shall necessarily attend on said
roads as supervisors, he shall be entitled to a sum not exceeding
one dollar and fifty cents per day. |
1816.
CHAP. 65. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the supervisors
appointed
by this act, shall not sufficiently clear, amend, and keep in good
order and repair, the public roads within his district, or shall suffer
any fallen trees, or other obstructions, to remain in or across
any of the said public roads, whereby any cart, wagon, or other
carriage, may be obstructed for more than three days together, he
having notice thereof, or shall neglect to fall all dead trees on either
side of the said public roads, whose limbs hang over, and may be
their falling injure travellers, or to lop or cut off all limbs or
branches of trees hanging or projecting over the road, within fifteen
feet above the surface thereof, or shall suffer any of the bridges or
causeways to be out of repair, (except framed bridges exceeding
fifteen feet in width) or shall otherwise fail to perform the duties
of a supervisor, he shall forfeit and pay a sum of money not exceeding
ten dollars for every such offence, to be recovered and applied
as aforesaid. |
Penalty on supervisors
neglecting
their duty. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any justice of
the peace of said
county, who upon his own view, or upon the information, oath or
affirmation, of any 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 supervisor within whose limits
the same shall be, except in time of wheat harvest, shall be
authorised to issue his warrant, in the name of the state, against
such supervisor, directed to the constable of the hundred, and returnable
before himself, or some other justice of the peace for said
county, who shall proceed to give judgment according to the merits
of the case; and if judgment be rendered against him for any
fine not exceeding ten dollars, and he does not pay the same within
twenty days, the said justice of the peace may thereupon issue process
of execution for the recovery thereof, and the same shall be
accounted for, and paid to the order of the levy court of said county,
and applied as aforesaid. |
Supervisors may
be warranted for
neglect. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the peace respectively
shall be authorised and empowered to receive any fine or
fines for which they may respectively render judgment against any
supervisor of the roads in said county, and shall account with and
pay over to the levy court annually, all monies which they may
have respectively received in virtue of this act, under the penalty
of paying treble the amount thereof in case of failure or neglect,
to be recovered in the county court, for money had and received,
in the name of the state, to be applied as other fines are directed
by this act. |
Fines to be paid to
levy court. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
the several and respective supervisors 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 parts, which
may be found on any land adjoining the roads, for which the same
may be necessary, and to employ the same in repairing of the said
roads, and for the making or repairing of bridges over the heads
of rivers, branches, creeks, swamps, or other law, marshy and |
Duty of supervisors. |
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