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An Act to amend the road laws. 1844-1855 83 (1844)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0061 and id is 1 raw text is: 83 An Act to amend the road laws. SECTION. 1. What to be considered public roads or highways. 2. Overseers of public roads when and how to give notice to hands to work on them. 3. Fine for failing or refusing to work on such road when liable. 4. Overseers to file list of delinquents with clerk of the county court- clerk to issue process againstdelin- quents-court to determine the mat- ter as heretofore. 5. Notice to slaves to work on whom to be served-who to be liable for their failure. 6. Constables required to report to coun- ty court condition of roads-and de- faulting overseers. SECTION. 7. County court to fine constables fail- ing to perform said duty, or delin- quent overseers-how they are to be summoned before said court. 9. When delinquent hand is a minor, overseer to state it in his list, and his parent or guardian liable. 10. Overseers not to return sick, disa- -bled or absent persons in his list of delinquent persons-delinquent, on trial, not to avail himself of infor- aality in overseer's return-over- seer liable for costs in certain cases 11. Repeals 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th, 25th and 70th sections of chap. 130th re- vised statutes, and the act of 1843, relating to public roads, &c. SEC.- 1. Be it enacted the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That all roads in this State, upon which an overseer may be appointed by the county court shall be considered fox.all the pur- poses of this act, a public road or highway. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That, all overseers of public roads or highways, within this State, whenever it shall become neces- sary to work on any road or highway within their respective districts, shall give notice to all hands, their owners, overseers or employers, who may be assigned to such districts or overseers, of the time and place-and number of days they are required to work, and with what kind of tools they are to provide themselves; which notice shall be given to such hand, owner, overseer or employer, in person or in writing, left at his place of residence with some person over fifteen years of age, three days before the day appointed for commencing the work; the overseer shall in all cases be a competent witness to prove such notice, and shall receive for each day he may be employed in giving such notices, one dollar, to be paid out of the county treasury. SEC. 3. Be itfurther enacted, That if any person who is liable to work on any road or highway in this State, shall fail to do so, or furnish a. good hand in his place, agreeably to the existing laws, after being notified as required by this act, he shall on conviction thereof before any county court, in the county in which he lives, be fined in any sum not less than one nor more than two dollars, for each day he may fail to work for the.use of the road district in which he lives. SEC. 4. Be itfurthcr enacted, That it shall be the duty of every overseer of the public roads or highways of this State, tb file with the clerk of the county court of the county in which he resides, a list of all the delinquents tinder the provisions of this act, within ten days after the failure of such delinquents to perform the work assigned them; upon the receipt of such list, the said clerk shall issue a summons in the name of the county, for the use of the proper road or district, to each one of said delinquents, requiring him to appear before the county

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