ART. 22. ] COUNTIES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

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35. Every male inhabitant above twenty-one years of age, and
possessing taxable property, assessed at five hundred dollars or up-
wards, and every other male inhabitant between the ages of twenty-
one and fifty years, not residing within the limits of an incorpor-
ated town, who shall have resided in any one of the counties to
which this article applies, for one month next preceding the date
when his services may be demanded, shall be required to labor two
days, in every year, on the public loads, in the road district in which

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Labor on roads.

he may reside, and the road supervisor, whenever the public roads
shall need repairs, shall summon all such persons in his road dis-
trict, or such Dumber of them as he may deem necessary to make
such repairs, provided that he shall not summon the same party
twice, until he shall have exhausted the whole number liable to such
duty in his road district, giving at least two days' notice of the

Duty of road
supervisors

time and place of meeting; provided, however, that no person shall
be compelled to labor more than four miles from his place of resi-
dence, and the authorities of the incorporated towns within the limits
of any county to which this article applies, shall keep the public

Proviso

roads in good condition and repair, to the distance of one mile from
their respective incorporated limits, and to enable them to accom-
plish the same, they are hereby authorized to accept and apply the
provisions of this article to persons residing within the limits of their
respective corporations.

Roads to be
kept in repair.

36. If any person not possessing taxable property assessed at
five hundred dollars or upwards, from whom such labor on the pub-
lic roads may be required, under the provisions of the preceding
section, shall make it satisfactorily appear to the road supervisors
of the road district in which he resides, that he is physically unable
to perform the said labor, cither by reason of permanent disability
or that said disability existed at the time at which his services were
required, and is not able to pay the commutation hereinafter pro-
vided, it shall be the duty of the said supervisor to exempt such
person from the performance of the said labor and commutation for
labor, and in case such supervisor shall refuse to exempt any person
who shall apply for exemption, as herein provided, such person, if

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Exemption

he shall feel aggrieved by such refusal, may appeal to the county
commissioners of the county, whose decision shall be final.

Appeal to
county commis-
sioners

37. The county commissioners of the several counties may make
such commutation of labor for teams and carts or wagons, as they
may deem proper.

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Commutation

38. Every person liable, as aforesaid, to labor on said public
roads, who shall fail to obey the summons of the road supervisor, or
furnish a substitute, shall, upon demand made by said supervisor,
pay to said supervisor the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each
and every day, not exceeding two days, that he shall fail to perform

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Fines.

such labor, and the said supervisor shall collect and account, under
oath, to the county commissioners, for all sums of money so col-
lected, and exemptions granted, and shall apply the said money

Supervisors to
account to
county commis-
sioners.