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CHAP. 196.
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reside in the county where the said materials may be
and shall not be under any legal disability to receive
the money adjudged, and give sufficient discharges
therefor, and the president and malingers shall pay, or
secure to be paid the damages so adjudged, before they
shall proceed to remove the said materials, and if the
owner or owners of such materials shall reside out of the
county, or be under any legal disability, then the presi-
dent, and managers shall enter into bond, conditioned
for the payment of the damages assessed to the person
or persons who may be duly authorised to receive the
same, and shall lodge said bond, and a copy of said
valuation, in the office of the clerk of the county court,
to be by him recorded, and upon such bond, or any of-
fice copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted against
the obligors therein named, by any person or persons
entitled to receive such damages, and the justice and
sheriff shall be entitled to receive the same fees for ser-
vices, under this act, as they are allowed in similar
cases, and the persons summoned as jurymen to value
the damages sustained as aforesaid, shall each receive
one dollar for every day he shall attend for that pur-
pose, which fees and allowance shall be paid by the
president and managers of. the company, at whose in-
stance the persons may have been summoned, and the
said president, managers and company, and all the per-
sons employed by them, shall have power to remove
the said materials for making the road aforesaid from
and over any ground, not in grain or meadow, on their
paying to the owner or owners of such ground a reason-
able compensation for any injury or damages occasioned
by such removal, to be ascertained by a jury, in case
the same cannot be obtained by consent or agreement of
the parties, when either party shall have the right to
appeal.
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Dimensions,
etc.
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SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said president,
managers and company shall cause the said road to
be laid out and opened sixty feet wide, and bridges to
be erected over all the waters crossing the same road,
and shall cause sixteen feet thereof in breadth at least
to be made an artificial road, which shall be bedded
with wood, stone, or gravel, or any other hard
substance well compacted together, a sufficient depth
to secure a solid foundation to the same, and the said
road shall be faced with plank, or gravel, or stone
pounded, in such manner as to secure a firm, and as
near as the materials will reasonably admit, an even
surface, and so nearly level in its progress, as that it
shall in no place rise or fall more than will form an
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