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BENJAMIN OGLE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
hands, to the clerk of the county, who shall record the same, and
within ten days thereafter shall issue a warrant to the person so
appointed, and deliver the same to the sheriff, to be served upon
the party in the same manner, and under the same penalty, as directed
in such case by this act. |
1800.
CHAP. 58. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court
shall, at their annual meeting under this act, for the regulation of
the conduct of the supervisors, fix and establish reasonable rates
for the hire of labourers, horses, carts or other carriages, to be
worked or used on the public roads of the said county, and shall
publish the same in every hundred of the said county; and each of
the supervisors are hereby authorised and empowered to hire and
employ, if necessary, at reasonable wages, not exceeding such
wages as shall be established under the regulation before recited, a
sufficient number of labourers to work on the public roads, and to
hire and employ horses, carts or other convenient carriages, for
the purpose of carrying earth, gravel, stones, timber, or other
heavy articles necessary for making, amending and keeping in repair,
the said roads, bridges and causeways. |
Court to establish
rates for hire of labourers,
&c. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court
shall, at every such meeting, make out distinct lists of all the taxable
inhabitants within the said county, together with the amount
of their road taxes, and furnish the collector of the county with
copies thereof within ten days after their meeting; and the said
collector shall leave with every such taxable an account of his said
road tax, within sixty days thereafter, under the penalty of one
dollar for every such omission. |
Lists of taxable inhabitants
to be
made. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said justices
shall
meet in session at their levy court, they, or a majority of them,
shall, on application in writing, signed by two thirds of the inhabitants
of any hundred through which any roads pass, to widen and
straighten any old road laid out as a public road, appoint three discreet
persons, freeholders in the said county, as commissioners,
not holding any part of the lands through which the said road or
roads may pass, nor related to the person or persons holding the
land that may be affected by the running of the said roads, to
view, survey and plot, the said road so applied for, and make return
thereof to the said court at their next meeting, who, on receiving
such plot or plots, shall examine the same, and all the evidence
that shall or may be offered for or against the said road or
roads, as returned, and may reject or confirm the same,
and when confirmed, shall accordingly direct the commissioners to
mark and bound the said road or roads, not exceeding thirty feet in
width, clear of ditches, and direct a supervisor or supervisors to clear
and improve the same, in the same manner, and on the same terms, as
other roads, and upon completing the same, it shall be deemed a public
road, and be kept in repair as all other public roads in said county
are by this law directed; provided, that notice be set up in writing,
by advertisement, at least three weeks, in the most public places
in such hundred or hundreds, by some one inhabitant or inhabitants
thereof, (previous to their offering a petition or petitioners,)
declaring their intention to apply to the justices of of the levy court
for
the purposes aforesaid. |
On application to
widen road, commissioners
to be appointed. |
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