| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
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
by 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
twelve feet in width,) or shall neglect to make and keep in repair
bridges for foot travellers, where necessary, 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. |
1817.
CHAP. 110. |
8. 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. |
How to be recovered. |
9. 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 earth, which may be
found on any land adjoining the roads for which the same may be
necessary, and to employ the same in repairing the said roads, and
for the making or repairing of bridges over the heads of rivers,
branches, creeks, swamps, or other low, marshy, and miry places,
through or 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 adjacent
lands to such place where bridges may be necessary as aforesaid,
and the same trees may maul or carry away off such lands,
and to apply the same to the making of the said bridges, or other
necessary repairs or conveniencies on the said roads; Provided always,
that it shall not be lawful for any supervisor to enter any
enclosure for the purpose of obtaining any stone, gravel, earth or
timber, for the purposes aforesaid, without the consent of the owner
or owners thereof, or if a minor or minors, without the consent
of his, her, or their guardians; and that it shall be the duty of each
supervisor to make a separate return, on oath, of the timber taken
by him for the use of the said roads, and a list of the persons to
whom it belonged, with his view of the value thereof, which shall
be levied on the assessable property of the said county, for the use |
Stone, gravel, &c.
may be removed.
Proviso. |
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