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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
be kept in good order and repair, all frame bridges in said county,
exceeding fifteen feet from abutment to abutment, by employing
suitable persons to make said repairs when necessary,
and levying money on the assessable property of said county, to
defray the expenses of the same, not exceeding two hundred
dollars in any one year. |
Supervisor
neglecting to
account. |
12. And be it enacted, That if any
supervisor appointed in
virtue of this act, shall neglect or refuse to render a true annual
account of all work done on the public roads, and with all
timber furnished within his district, under his orders, and by whom
done, by whom furnished, whereby the parties or any of them laboring,
or furnishing timber under his superintendance, shall not
be credited in their county taxes for their services rendered, the
said supervisor so neglecting or refusing, shall become responsible
to the party or parties aggrieved for the whole amount
omitted to be recovered by the party aggrieved, from the said
supervisor, in the same manner as small debts are recovered;
but may, if paid by him, be levied in favor of the said supervisor
the following year, excluding costs. |
| Preamble. |
And whereas, there are many male free negroes
and mulattoes
residing in the county aforesaid, who neither pay taxes
nor perform militia duty, and it being reasonable that they
should contribute something towards the repairs of the public
roads of which they have the use, Therefore, |
Free negroes
to work one
day. |
13. And be it enacted, That it shall
and may be lawful for
any supervisor in the said county, within whose district any
such free negro or mulatto may reside, to call on each of them,
not being under eighteen nor over forty-five years of age, to labor
in repairing said public roads: Provided, That it shall not
be lawful for such supervisor to call on any such free negroes or
mulattoes to do more than one days work in any one year. |
Penalty for
refusal or neglect. |
14. And be it enacted, That if ny free
negro or mulatto, called
on by a supervisor, in virtue of this act, shall refuse or neglect
to attend at the time and place appointed by such supervisor,
or attending, shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties,
being reasonable, enjoined on him by such supervisor, without
reasonable excuse, such free negro or mulatto so neglecting or
refusing, shall pay a fine, not exceeding sixty cents, to be recovered
at the instance of such supervisor, in the name of the
state, before a justice of the peace, and to be appropriated by
the said supervisor in the same manner as is directed by the fifth
section of this act in case of delinquent taxables. |
Acts inconsistent
with
this repealed. |
15. And be it enacted, That from and
after the first Monday
in April next, all and every act or acts of Assembly, and every
clause and section thereof, which are repugnant to, or inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby
repealed. |
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