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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0502 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 341.] AN ACT
To amend the road laws in Mobile.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep.
resentatives of the State of Alabama in General Asscmbly con-
ecnd, That there shall be elected on the first Monday of
February, 185S, and every three years thereafter, by the
qualified electors of each ward in the city, and each beatin Road commis-
the county of Mobile, a road commissioner, to serve for sioner.
three years, and until his successor shall be elected and
qualified.
SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That the persons so elected,
shall be known by the name of the Board of Commission-
ers of Roads, of Mobile county, who shall meet at the Boardof commis-
court house of said county, at least once in two months for sioners of roads.
the transaction of business; they shall choose a chairman
from their own body; may fill the vacancies that may oc-
cur therein, and shall have full power, authority and con-
trol, over roads, bridges and ferries in said county, and shall
appoint the insepector of elections therein; may grant
licence for ferries and toll houses and bridges, establish the
rates of ferriages and tolls; may lay off and establish new
roads, and discontinue old ones, and generally do all such
things in regard to roads, bridges and ferries, as the boards
of commissioners of roads and revenue do in other counties.
SEC, 3. Be it farther enacted, That said board of road
commissioners may each year levy a tax upon the tax pay- Levy tax.
ers of said county, which shall not exceed in the aggregate
the sum of four thousand dollars annually, which tax shall
be collected as other taxes are, the one half part of which shall
be applied each years towards the making of bridges and
repairing the roads within six miles from the outer line of
the city of Mobile, and the other half to the making and
repairing of bridges and causways in said county generally.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That said board of road
commissioners, shall annually appoint such apportioners of
hands for the several roads, as also such overseers of roads Apportioners o
as miay be necessary and proper, who shall be ameanable to haunds.
the laws of the State generally, for the non-performance of
duty, after they shall have been notified of their appoint-
ments. All persons legally liable to work on roads, who
shall neglect, or refuse to do so, at the times and places
appointed, after being duly warned, shall be subject to be
complained against by their respective overseers, before any
justice of the peace of said county, and may be, by him
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