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GEORGE PLATER, Esquire, Governor.
current money, on every hundred pounds worth of assessable property
within the
said county, to be collected in the same manner, at the same time, and
by the
same person, as other county taxes are collected. |
1791.
CHAP.
LXX. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the said justices shall and they are hereby required,
at their aforesaid meeting in March next, and at their levy court every
year
thereafter, to nominate, and by warrant under the hand of the clerk and
seal of the
county, appoint fit and proper persons to be overseers of the public roads
in their
county, within such divisions and districts as shall be specified and assigned
in the
said warrants; and such overseers, so appointed, shall continue to serve
as such
until a new appointment as aforesaid by the said justices at their levy
courts; and
in case of the death, neglect, refusal to act, or misbehaviour, of any
overseer so
appointed, the said justices, or any two of them, most convenient, in the
recess
of the said court, may nominate and appoint, by warrant under their hands
and
seals, another person in his place, to serve for the residue of the time
for which
such overseer so dying, refusing to act, or misbehaving, was originally
appointed;
and the overseers nominated and appointed as aforesaid, shall clear, amend,
and keep in good repair, the said public roads within their respective
districts,
and shall make, amend, and keep in good repair, all such bridges and
causeways
as are needful and requisite to be made and repaired; and to enable the
said overseers effectually to perform the said duties, they are hereby
empowered
from time to time, to hire and employ, at reasonable wages, a sufficient
number
of labourers to work on the said public roads and to hire and employ carts,
waggons, or other convenient carriages, for the purpose of carrying sand,
stones,
timber, or other heavy articles necessary for the streightening and amending
the
said roads, or making and keeping in repair the said bridges and causeways,
and
also to agree at reasonable rates for, and purchase, such wood and timber
as may
be necessary in making such bridges and causeways, from the owner or owners
of
the land where such wood and timber may be obtained, nearest and most
convenient
to the bridge or causeways so to be made or repaired, provided such wood
or timber is not to be found within the width or limits of such road as
is hereafter
mentioned and directed to be laid out, streightened and amended; and
in case
the owner or owners of the said land will not agree with such overseer
to make
sale of the said wood or timber for a reasonable price, or shall refuse
to make
sale thereof, or by reason of infancy, coverture, insanity, or other disability,
shall
be incapable of making sale thereof, then such overseer is hereby empowered
and
required to cut down and carry away, or cause to be cut down and carried
away,
any trees or timber growing upon the said adjacent land, provided the same
be
not fruit-trees or for ornament, nor fit for clapboards or shingles, and
apply the
same to the making and repairing the said bridges and causeways as aforesaid;
and where the owner or owners of such land, and the overseer as aforesaid,
cannot
agree upon the price of such wood and timber, or the owner or owners shall
refuse to make sale of the same, or may be under disability to make
such sale as
aforesaid, and the overseers shall cut down or carry away any trees or
timber as
aforesaid, the said justices shall, upon application of the owner or owners,
or of
any person on his or their behalf, property authorised, adjudge to him
or them
such compensation for the trees or timber so cut down or carried away,
as to the
justices shall appear reasonable and proper, and shall draw an order for
the sum
so adjudged in favour of the owner or owners upon the said collector, who
shall
pay the same out of the money by him collected in virtue of this act. |
And appoint
overseers, &c. |
V. And be it
enacted, That the said warrants shall be made out by the clerk
of the said court, and by him delivered to the sheriff of the county within
ten
days after the said warrant shall be ordered by the said court, and
shall be delivered
by the said sheriff to whom the same is directed within ten days after
the
said sheriff's receipt thereof, under the penalty of thirty shillings for
each warrant
not delivered as aforesaid by the said sheriff, to be recovered before
a single magistrate,
as in case of small debts out of court, and applied towards clearing and
amending the public roads, bridges and causeways, aforesaid. |
Warrants to
be made out,
&c. |
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