| 1774.
CHAP.
XXI. |
3 HENRY HARFORD, Esq;
shall be brought in debt on this act, twenty pounds current money, besides
such
damages as shall be assessed by the jury, who shall try the same, with
full costs, to
and for the use of the party beaten or assaulted. |
Overseers,
&c. to use
their endeavours
for the
repair of said
roads, &c. |
XIV. And,
whereas the other public roads in the said counties of Anne-Arundel
and Frederick, are very much out of order, and in the present method of
amending
and repairing them the burthen of the little labour performed thereon falls
very unequally on the people; for remedy whereof, and also to provide for
keeping
the public roads in the said counties in repair, Be
it enacted, That the overseer
of the public roads, together with the taxable inhabitants of the respective
hundreds
in the same counties, shall at proper seasons in every year, for seven
years
next ensuing, and until the end of the next session of assembly which shall
happen
after the end of the said seven years, use their endeavours for the repair
of the said
roads, and shall be chargeable to labour and work thereon so many days
as shall be
necessary, not exceeding six days in any one year; and every such taxable
inhabitant
shall have and bring with him a spade, shovel, pick, mattock, grubbing
hoe, hilling
hoe, crow bar, or sledge hammer, or instead thereof, if particularly required,
an axe, and shall diligently perform the work and labour to which he shall
be appointed
by the overseer aforesaid, for eight hours in every of the said days, with
the said tools. |
| Proviso. |
XV. Provided
always, That any such taxable inhabitant as aforesaid, or any
person chargeable for any male taxable, may employ and send an able and
sufficient
labouring man in his stead, or the stead of any male taxable for whom he
is
chargeable; and shall be obliged to send one able and sufficient labouring
man in
the stead of each female negro taxable for whom he shall be chargeable. |
Taxables to
be employed
in turn, &c. |
XVI. And be
it further enacted, That the overseers aforesaid, shall fairly and
impartially warn and employ the taxables within their respective hundreds
in turn,
and on the most convenient parts of the public roads; and where one and
the
same person shall have or be chargeable with more than one tax, he or she
shall
not be obliged to send more than one half of the whole number of his or
her taxables
in the same hundred, on the same day; and in consideration of the extraordinary
personal trouble of the overseers, all the taxables of each overseer within
the district of which he shall be overseer, shall be exempt from labour
or attendance
on the public roads. |
Penalty on
overseers for
neglect |
XVII. And be
it further enacted, That if any of the said overseers shall, after
the first day of July next, voluntarily suffer any public road in his district
to be
out of repair by the space of ten days together, or shall neglect to clear
and well
grub any such road, he shall incur the penalty inflicted by law on overseers
for neglecting
to clear the roads, and the same penalty may be recovered before any one
justice of the peace of the county in which he resides, one half thereof
to the use
of the county towards defraying the charge thereof, and the other half
to the use
of such person who will inform or warrant for the same. |
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CHAP. XXII.
An ACT for the relief of certain languishing prisoners in the several
gaols therein
mentioned.
Viz. Aquila Carr, John Curtis, John
Dunn, Joseph Ashmead, Benjamin Roberson, Robert Bowens,
James Elkins, William Miller, Wlater Fowler, William Lee, John Pearce,
Matthew McCormuch, John
Pearson, Peter Sigafer, Jacob Hart, Joseph Barron, Dorothy Rollings, John
Ehrman, Joseph Roddy,
George Shake, Adam Rohrbough, Philip Miller, John Smithson, Francis Shields,
John Filbey, James
Bowers, John Clerk, William Hopson, Christian Nappel, James McBath, Jacob
Rabolt, John Fitzmaurice,
John Chaffey, Matthew Mason, William Moore, John Dea, John George Williams,
Thomas
Smith, Elizabeth Carr, Mark McLoughlin, John McCann, John Linney, Edward
King, John Spellman,
Thomas Bready, Patrick Higgins, Sarah Lobley, Patrick Henesy, Daniel Shawan,
Charles Babington,
Alexander Montgomery, Benjamin Wallace, Simon Jordan, John McNabb, of Baltimore
county; John
Smith, Samuel Dobie, John Ringer, John Brown, Jesse Alvey, Nicholas Aunsbaugh,
Benjamin Nichols,
George Walker, of Frederick county; Thomas Caney, James Hardy, William
Amer, William Sears,
Mark Fowler, Samuel Hawkins Bayne, William Barker, Matthew Pape, Nicholas
Nicholson, John
Brashears, the third, William Beck, of Prince-George's county; Joseph Higgins,
Edward Knowles,
Richard Grace, Richard Dean, Francis Hepburn, of Anne-Arundel county; Leonard
Field, Thomas
Caywood, John Williams, Basil Paterson, Sylvester Strange, Moses White,
Henry Fletcher, Matthew
Boroughs, Basil Thompson, Thomas Fryer, of Saint-Mary's county; Thomas
Glover, Marshall Griffith, |
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