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An Act to alter and amend the several road laws heretofore passed, for the government of the counties of Bryan, Liberty, M'Intosh, Camden, Glynn and Wayne, so far as respects the county of Wayne. 1820 97 (1820)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0131 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF QEOGRq1A, kited act as is repugiant, to the provision of this act he, 4tud the same is hereby repealed. . . . DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of. Repredentatives MATTHEW TA LBOT, President of the Sente.% Assenited to, 18th December, 1820. JOHN CLARK, Governor;. AN A.CT. To alter and amend the several, road liiws heretofire passed, for the government of the counties of Bryan, Liberty, M'Intosh; Camden, Glynn and Wayne, 'so far as respects the county of Wayne. I I Be it enacted by the Senate and Hlouse qf Representatives of the State qf Geor-gia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby e- vacted by the authority of the same, That from and inintedittely after the passage of this act, the Justices of the Inferior court for the county of Wayne shall be, by this act, authoizd and enpow- - cred to allot and proportion the labor and hands to the several roads running through. said county, and fill all vacancies.thit inay hap- pen of comnissioners on the several roads already laid out, and to' grant petitions for n6ew i'oads, and appoint commissioners for thli same. § 2. And be itfurtheir enacted, That there-shall he three com- itissioners for each road in said county, whose dety it is to consult on the most leisuge time of the year, ii their jidgtnient, to meet and w6rk on their respective ro'ads not more than five days, at any one time, nor more than ten days in one year--said comnmissioners shall attend each (lay of working, .afd lay off their respective roads, to be opened twenty feet wide, and causewayed ten feet wide; said commissioners shall appoint one overseer to.superintend the labat to be lone on said road so laid out; said oversee' shall make a. true return of the laltir done, and of the defaulters to the comnis-. sioners within three days after each tour of labor is performed. § 3. An ,d be it farther enacted, That previous to said meefin, the coIiinissioners appointed on their several roads shall appoint a person to warn iii the halinds attached to their several roads, whose duty it is to varn each free white mill , mulatto, free negro, and owner of slave or slaves to meet, giving; each of them three days notice of the day au place of meetinn. a-triiing them to meet at 10 o'loc in the forenooni of that day, carrying with each of them one. wood and suflicial ae or hom, and five days pro6isions, requirip -

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