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CHAP.
XXI. |
3 HENRY HARFORD, Esq;
said county, to be and appear before the said supervisors on the premises,
at a certain
day in the said warrant expressed, which jury, upon their oath, to be administered
by any one of the said supervisors, who is hereby authorised to administer
the same, shall inquire who is or are the owner or owners of the land,
and
what damages such owner or owners will sustain by occasion of carrying
the said
road through such improved ground; and the said supervisors shall return
the inquest
of the jury, or a certificate of the sum to be paid by agreement, to the
justices of their county, who shall assess and levy the money agreed to
be paid, or
by the jurors assessed, at the time of laying their next county levy, on
the taxable
inhabitants of their county, to and for the use of the owner of the said
land, together
with the sheriff's salary of five per cent. for collection;
which said assessment
the sheriff shall collect and levy in the same manner, and at the same
rate,
as the county levy may by law be collected, and may be paid and discharged
at the
same rate, in money, as the county levy; and the said sheriff shall be
answerable
for, and pay the same to the owner and owners of such land. |
Or fields in
cultivation.
Supervisors to
employ labourers
to accomplish
the
work, &c. |
VI. Provided
always, and be it enacted, That where by agreement and consent,
or otherwise, any of the said roads shall be carried in other places than
they
now pass, through fields or grounds in actual cultivation, that such field
or
ground shall not be laid open or used as a public road, till after the
usual time
of taking off and securing the crop, then growing thereon. And to
enable the
the said supervisors to accomplish the said work, they, or any two of them,
are
hereby empowered, in and for their respective district aforesaid, after
they shall
have carefully surveyed the said roads, and agreed on the necessary alterations
therein, either to employ labourers to do the said work, or to contract
with others
to do the work aforesaid, on convenient parts of the said roads; and the
supervisors
of the respective districts aforesaid, or any two of them, are also empowered
at
any time or times before the first day of January next, to draw their order
or orders
on the commissioners for emitting bills of credit for the money herein
before
directed to be expended in their respective district, or such part thereof
as may be
necessary, and the same dispose of and expend in and towards the necessary
expences
of the work aforesaid, and the commissioners aforesaid shall pay the same,
and
therewith charge the county to which the same shall be so lent. |
And may use
timber, &c. |
VII. And be
it enacted, That the supervisors aforesaid, or any of them, or any
person contracting with them, or any two of them, or by them, or any two
of
them, in any manner employed in or for doing the said work, may respectively
use such timber and materials in and for doing the said work, as overseers
of public
roads or highways may or might by law use the same; and if any supervisor,
or any person contracting with them, or any two of them, or by them, or
any
two of them, in any manner employed in and for doing the said work, shall
be
sued or impleaded for any thing done in pursuance of this act, he may plead
the
general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence in
justification. |
In case of
death, &c.
others to be
appointed. |
VIII. And be
it further enacted, That if any one of the said supervisors shall
happen to die before the work aforesaid shall be accomplished, or shall
refuse to
act, the two other supervisors of the same district shall and may appoint
another
person in his stead; and if the supervisors for any district, or any two
of them,
shall refuse to act, then any three of the justices of the peace for the
county in
which such district shall be, shall and may, by warrant under their hands
and
seals, appoint three or two other persons, as the case may require,
in their stead. |
Supervisors to
render an account. |
IX. And be it
also enacted, That the supervisors aforesaid shall render to
the general assembly at the session next after the expenditure of any of
the said
monies, and also to the county court which shall be held for their respective
county,
a true, full, and fair account of all monies by them respectively laid
out and
expended by virtue of this act, and to whom and for what the same shall
have been
paid and expended. |
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X. And,
for the repayment of the said bills of credit so to be lent and issued
to
the said counties, together with interest thereon, at the rate of four
per cent. by |
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