ART. 18.] ROADS. 1711

1863, ch 236.

226. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable
to presentment by the grand jury of the county, and on con-
viction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than
fifty dollars, in the discretion of said circuit court, the same to be
collected and paid over to the county commissioners, to be by
them applied to the repair of the public roads in said county.

1888, ch. 361.

227. The county commissioners are authorized and required
to have copied and recorded in a well-bound book, provided by
them for the purpose, all papers and proceedings in their office
relating to the opening, altering, condemning and locating of
public roads and public landings in said county, and the building
or purchasing of joint public bridges.

Ibid.

228. They are authorized, required and directed to employ
some suitable person to make said record up to December, 1887,
under the supervision and direction of said commissioners or
their attorney, for which they shall allow him one cent for every
ten words or figures so copied or recorded, and fifty cents for
each plat; and they are authorized to levy upon the assessable
property of said county a sum sufficient to pay for said work in
instalments as the work progresses, on the approval of said work
and presentation of true, correct and itemized statements of said
work, certified to under oath by said employee.

Ibid.

229. Said record of such proceedings relating to the opening,
altering, condemning and locating of said public roads and
landings, and building or purchasing of joint public bridges, shall
hereafter be continuously kept up by said county commissioners
as part of the general work of said office, to be done by the clerk

authorized by law to be employed by them.
Ibid.

230. A certified copy of the proceedings relating to the
opening, altering, condemning and locating of any public road or