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An Act concerning Roads, Highways and Ferries. 1822 95 (1822)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0010 and id is 1 raw text is: AN ACT Concerning R,)Ids, llighways and Ferries. 1. BRe it enacted byhe Governor aud Legislative Coun- Establishing cer- cil of the I'erritory of Florida, That, all the roads in the tain roads & au- several counties in this Territory tbat have been laid out thovlcillgcoullty by order of any court according to raw, shall be and they col to alter, &c. are hereby respectively declaied to be public roads ud the said county courts in the several counties of this Te'- ritory, now established or hereafter to be established shall have full power and authority on application, to order the laying out of ally public road or roads throughout their county, when the s.ume shall by them he deemed necessary, and to discontinue such public roads as now are or shall hereafte, be found useless, burthensome, aund inconvenient, and to alter the roads now. oV hereafter to be established, as often as occasion shall require. 2. Be it .further enacted, That, whenever a petition Petition as to shall le presented to tht county court'signed by twelve roas or more householders inhabitunts Wf the cott ty praying for the establishment of a public road from a celtaill place therein specified it shall be the duty of' .such court theile- upon, if' the petition shall appear reasonable, to appoint not less than three nor more than five conlnissioen'rs, any three of' whom shall have powel' to m-tt, which said Proceedings commissioners shall be householders r'esi(lelt in said .coni- thurcol. ty, not interested or livilltm in the direction the ro ad is to be run out. And thv said coin missioiel shall respect- ively take an oath before any judge Ol' the court ut' justice of the peace of the said county to View and mark out ihe said proposed road, the nearest and most practiral.:le route, and to the greatest ease and convenienct of the in- habitants and as. little as may he to the prejtidice of ny person or persons. And'it shall be the duty qf said com- missioners to proceed assooln as bay be to lay out the said road, and m~ike a reiru rhereof undeF'their hands to the next court (noting thereon tile distances and cour- ses as near as practicable of' such pt'opysed road) which return so made shall be filed, and the' said court shall thereupon cause the lllerk to publishlTby putting up at the court house (1001' of 'ihe proper county, a transcript of the petition and return for the intW67mation of the in- habitants of said county. 'A 3. Be it further enac~ed, Thl?Twhen the road so laid R/oad passing out shall pass throughthe lands of anyperson or per- throtugh hoIl sons who shall object or consider themselves aggrieved agw'tlstl tht- will of by the same it shall be the duty of said court on applica- the proprictor. tion in writing fi'omotli 'person or persons so objecting at the next term of the said court, after the retu rn is made by the commissioners aforesaid-t, tissue their precept) directed to the sheriff br'coroner ('astie case may be) or-

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