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majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised and required,
at their first meeting in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen,
and at their first meeting in each and every year thereafter, to de-
scribe, ascertain and distinctly record, in a book to be provided
for that purpose, the several and respective public roads and
highways in said county, and to divide the same into as many dis-
tricts as to the said court shall seem meet and proper.
2. And he it enacted, That the said levy court, or a majority
of them, shall proceed to appoint a capable and suitable person to
each district, as supervisor of the said district of public roads,
and to signify the same to him by warrant, under the hand of the
clerk of said county, and the seal of office, according to the num-
ber and divisions of said roads, as the same shall be ascertained
upon their records; and that the said justices may adjourn from
time to time until the said roads shall be duly ascertained, and
supervisors appointed as aforesaid.
3. And be it enacted, That any person appointed a supervisor
in virtue of this act, and refusing to act as such, and comply with
the requisites thereof, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dol-
lars, to be recoverable in the name of the state, before any justice
of the peace of said county, and applied by the levy court toward
defraying the county charges; Provided, that no one person shall
be compelled to act as supervisor on any of the public roads
more than one year in every three years without his consent.
4. And be it enacted, That if any supervisor appointed under
this act, shall refuse to act, remove out of the county, become
disqualified or die, it shall and may be, lawful for any two justices
of the said levy court to supply every such vacancy so happen-
ing, by the appointment of another suitable person to act as su-
pervisor, under the same penalties and regulations as if he had
been appointed by a majority of the said justices, and the said
justices shall certify every such appointment, under their hands,
to the clerk of said county, within ten days thereafter, and the
said clerk shall within ten days after being so notified thereof,
issue a warrant to the person so appointed, and deliver the same
to the sheriff of the county aforesaid, to be by him delivered to
the person so appointed, or left at his place of residence, within
ten days after receiving the same, under the, penalty of ten dol-
lars current money, for every neglect, by the sheriff or clerk res-
pectively.
5. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Worcester coun-
ty shall, at their first levy in the year eighteen hundred and
eighteen, and at their annual levy in every year thereafter, levy
and assess on the assessable property in said county, such sum
of money as they may ascertain from the different supervisors,
for the repair of the public roads in said county, and to be col-
lected as other county charges are.
6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each super-
visor to call on the taxable persons within his district, at least
two days before he intends working on said roads, and to notify
them of his intentions, and the place of meeting, whose duty it
shall be to furnish one half of their able bodied male hands, (if
required) except in time of wheat harvest, under the penalty of
sixty-seven cents for every hand so required, to be recovered be-
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Dec. Ses. 1816.
Appointment
of supervisors.
Penalty on per-
sons refusing
to serve.
Proviso.
Vacancies.
Levy to be
made.
Penalty on per-
sons refusing
to furnish
hands.
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