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An Act concerning Roads, Highways and Ferries. 1824 25 (1824)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0025 and id is 1 raw text is: AN ACT Concerning fRoads, Ilighways and Ferries. .De it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Coun- cil qf the Territory of'oridarThat all the roads in the t er-several counties in this 'erritory, that have been laid tnh ro,'td111'd all- out by order of' any court according to ldw, shall he thorising comty and they are hereby respectively declared to be public Courtto altcr, etc. roads and the said county courts in the several coun- etc. ties of this Territory, now established or hereafter to be established, shall have Cull power and authority on application, to order the laying out o1' any pal)lic road or roads throughout their county, when the same shall by them be deemed necessary, and to d iscontitnue such public roads as now are or shall hereafter be found usoless, burthcnsome, and inconvenient, and to alter the roads now, or hereafter to be established, as often, as occasion shall require. 2. Be it urther enacted, That whenever a petition shall be presented to the county court signed by twelve Petition as t ' more householders inhabitants of the county pray. roads. ing for the establishment of' a public road f'rom a cer- tain place theicin specified, it shall be the duty of such court thereupon, if Ihe petition shall appear reasona- ble, to appoint not less than three nor more than fi'c commissioners, any three of'whom s',all have power to act, which said commissioners shall be househol- ders resident iii said courty, not intertsfed or living in the direction the road is to be run out. And the baid commissioners shall respectively take an oath before Peocecdlingthere, any judge of the cou rt or justice of the peace of' the oil said county to vieiv and mark out the said proposed road, the nearest and most practicahle route, and to the greatest ease and convenience of the inhabitants and as little as may be to the prejudice of any person or persons. And it shall be the duty of said commis- sioners to proceed as soon as may be to lay out the said road, and make a return thereof undet their hands to the next court (noting thereon the distances and coutses as near as practicable of such proposed road) which return so made shall be filed, and the said court shall thereupon cause the clerk to publish, by ptttting up at the court house door of the proper coun- ty, a transcript of the petition and return for the infor- nat lion of the inlltbitmts Q oBtid coullty.

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