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An Act to regulate the laying out and working of Roads, the establishment of Ferries and the erection of Bridges. 1856 294 (1856.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0315 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF xISSISSTPPI. ting the same into the treasury of said State; Pro. vided such heirs; or next of kin shall apply for the same within six years from the time such money shall be placed in the treasury of this State. Approved March 12, 1856. CHAPTER 109. A ACT to regulate thalaying out and working of Roads. the catablishment of Ferries and the erection of Bridge, SECTION I. Of the laying out of Roads. retiton Ar AnT. 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the layig out State of ..Vississip ', That when any person nc or persons shall ( esire to have any public road teren~. laid out. altered or chinaged. a petition shall he pre- sented to the board of police of the comity, signed by ten or more freeholders or householders of the county interested in such road; setting forth the commencement. and termination, and generfM cours-, thereof. and that the public interest or conve- nience requires such road to be laid out and open- ed, or altered or changed, as shown in the petition; and the petitioners, if not the owners of the land through which the road runs, or is proposed to rin, shall give live (ays notice to the owners of such land, in personi or by leaving the same at their res- idence, if they reside in he county, or if the own- ers of the land be ion-residents of the county, then by putting up such notice in some conspicuous place on the land through which the road runs, or is pro- posed to run: and thereupon the board of police shall hear the parties, and if they determine thiat the prayer of the petitioners ought to be granted. in whole or in part, they-shall appoint seven disin- terested freeholders. residents of the county, to be commissioners,-who shall proceed to examine and view the contemplated route of said road; and if they find the same practicable, to lay out and mark the same, or the alteration or change required to be made, and shall make report of their proceed- ings to the next meeting of the board. A majority 294

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