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An Act to alter and amend the Road Laws of this State, so far as relates to the county of Wayne. 1857 293 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0467 and id is 1 raw text is: LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS-ROAD LAWS. 293 Wayne County. (No. 303.) An Act to alter and amend the Road Laws of thi State, so far as relates to the county of Wayne. 9. Sec. I. Be it enacted, That the Justices of the Inferior Court justsofnafr for the county of Wayne, at their first term or session, after being 'ate.o informed of the passage of this Act, and annually thereafter, shall term after I being inf'tm- proceed to appoint three fit and proper persons, in each Captain's edofpass'ge I . fthiAct. district, as commissioners of the roads in said district, said commis- To app't 3 sioners shall be respectively notified of their appointment, by the corn's for cap's dist. Clerk of the Inferior Court, within ten days thereafter, tinder a pen- Cot's to be alty of $10 for each and every default; said commissioners shall be notified by commissioned for one year, and the appointment of overseers -and et. within io warners by them, shall be for one year, and if any commissioner or corn's for I commissioners of the public roads appointed tinder this Act, shall year. not, within ten days after being notified of such appointment by the Mi -sign Clerk, make his or their resignation in writing, to some one of the'considered Justices of the Inferior Court or the Clerk of the same, such com- as accepting. missioner or commissioners shall be considered as having accepted of such appointment, and in case of the refusal, departure or decease of any or either of such commissioners, the Inferior Court shall have power to fill every such vacancy, and the commissioners so vacancy. appointed, or a majority of them, shall meet annually at such tirime Ann'l1ineet. and place in their respective districts as theymay designate, and To appor'n then and there proceed to apportion the hands, liable by this Act, to hands. work on public roads, causeways and bridges, who reside in their respective districts, to each of the said public roads leading through or bounding on such districts, in the best and most equitable man- 1av'g reg'd ner they, the said commissioners, can devise, having respect as convenience much as possible, to the convenience of each individual liable to e. work on said roads, bridges and causeways, or owning or having possession or charge of hands liable to work thereon. And the Overseers said commissioners shall,at such time also appoint one or more fit and proper person or persons as overseer or overseers to each of the pub- lic roads within or bounding on such districts as aforesaid, whose Daey of duty it shall be to attend and overlook the hands liable to work on the said roads, causeways andbridges, when called out for that pur- pose; and the said commissioners shall likewise, at such time, ap- point one or more fit and proper persons whose duty it shall be, from time to time, when required by the commissioners of their re- spective districts, to warn and give notice to all such persons liable Warners, to work said roads, causeways and bridges within such district, ortheirdutis. owning or having possession or charge of hands liable to work thereon, to assemble at such time and place as shall be appointed by said commissioners for the purpose of working such part or sec- Wan'a and tion of the public roads as the said hands may be apportioned or wvrsrs allotted to. And. if the said warners and overseers do not refuse moot resign in 5days or within five days after notice of their appointment, they shall be ta- theyare ken to have accepted, and liable to the penalties hereinafter annex- as accepting.

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