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An Act to regulate the Public Roads in Bullitt county. 1848 186 (1848)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0608 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1849. section of this act, shall forfeit two dollars for each failure, to be deducted out of his ex officio services, unless for good cause shown, at the next settlement with the County Court. Repealing Any act, either general or special, coming within the pur- clause, view of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. Approved February 19, 1849. CHAPTER 277. AN ACT to regulate the Public Roads in Bullitt county. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Corn- Tax may be monwealth qf Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the Bullitt levied by Court- ty Court. County Court, (a majority of the Justices thereof being present,) at the May or June term, to levy a tax, in each year, upon all property in said county subject to State rev- enue tax, not exceeding five cents on every one hundred dollars worth of property, and a poll tax not exceeding seventy five cents upon all free male inhabitants, free ne- grdes, and mulattoes, over twenty one and under fifty-five years of age. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Clerk of said Clerk County County Court, within twenty days after the return of the Court to make out amount tax books of the Commissioners of the revenue in each year, to and deliver to make out, for the overseers of the public roads, and fur- Surveyors. nish each a transcript that will embrace the tax that may have been levied by the County Court, on all persons and property within the bounds of their respective road pre- Hands may be cincts; and it shall be the duty of the overseers of each called to work dst s pbi a 'i on district, from time to time, as the public good may make it necessary, to call upon the individuals within their respec- Notice to be tive precincts, (giving in all cases three days notice,) to given, work upon the particular road over which he is overseer, until each person, liable to a revenue and poll tax as afore- said, shall have worked upon such road a length of time equal to one day for every seventy five cents to which the Tar may be tax shall amount; or that he may, in part or in whole, at workedout. the discretion of the overseer, work out said tax with a team of horses or oxen, a reasonable amount being al- Persons may lowed for the labor of such teams. The County Court be exempt. may exempt any person from the whole or any part of the labor which would be due by said estimate; but such ex- emption shall only operate during such time as the Court Substitutesal- may prescribe. The labor to be performed may be per- lowed. formed by ,one or more able bodied, industrious substi- Penalty for tutes; and the overseer shall dock any individual, at the failing to work rate of ten cents per hour, who shall, when attending to or obey itruc- work on the road, wilfully idle away his time, or to dock him for laziness, neglect of duty, or disobeying legal and reasonable commands or instructions in relation to the work; but any person docked, shall be informed of it with- 186

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