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An Act to amend an act prescribing the means and mode of opening and working roads in the county of Boone. 1853 vol. I 354 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0716 and id is 1 raw text is: 354 LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1854. CHAPTER 170. AN ACT to amend an act prescribing the means and mode of opening and working roads in the county of Boone. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- Districts may wealth of Kentucky, That an act, entitled, an act prescrib- be icreased. ing the means and mode of opening and working roads in the county of Boone, approved March 24, 1851, be so amended that the county court of said county shall, at its March term, 1854, or so soon thereafter as is practicable, increase the number of road districts in said county from Overseers to twenty to fifty; and said court shall at the same or some be appointed. subsequent term appoint an overseer for each district, who shall be notified of his appointment, and whose term Their duties. of office shall be as is now designated by said law. Each of said overseers, before he enters upon the discharge of his duties as such, shall enter into bond, with surety to be approved by the county court, for the lawful and judicious expenditure of all moneys paid into his hands by the coun- ty treasurer for road purpobes, and at the expiration of his term shall account for and pay over to said court any un- expended money which shall be in his hands. § 2. That the third section of said act be so amended Road tax in. that the revenue for road purposes in said county shall be creased, increased trom two to three cents on each one hundred dollars of the ad valorem valuation of property, as specifi- ed in said section, and that the poll tax of one dollar for said purposes shall be assessed only on white males be- tween the ages of sixteen and fifty years, and on male slaves and free males of color over sixteen years of age, and all other persons in said county shall be exempt from a poll tax for road purposes. § 3. That it shall be the duty of the several overseers to Dutiesotover. call out all persons in their respective districts, three days sees.,, notice thereof being given, to work on said roads as many days in each year as he will be enabled to pay for out of the road funds received for his district, at the rate of seventy-five cents for each days' labor of eight hours be- stoved upon said road, and to pay for such teams, plows, and wagons as to him may seem necessary, allowing for team, plow, and plowman one dollar and seventy-five cents, and for team, wagon, and driver two dollars and twenty-five cents for every day they may be employed up- on said road. § 4. That the overseers shall have the power to dock Loss of time such persons as may be working on said roads, who shall to be accounted from any cause lose time, or not work faithfully there- for. on, at the rate of ten cents for each hour so lost; and the several overseers shall be allowed for their services on the road, and for notifying hands, the sum of one dollar per day, to be paid out of the road fund of said county: Pro- vided, that such allowance to any overseer shall in no year exceed the sum of eight dollars.

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