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ST'V IT V T YiX.X YAS
1804. ACTS PASSED AT TIE FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY*OF THE STATE or
TENNESSEE, BEGUN AND HELD AT KNOXVILLE, ON MONDAY TnR
TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF JULY, 'ONE .TIIOUSAND EIGHT aUN-
DRED AND FOUR, BEING THE SECOND SESSION OF THIS ASSEMILY.
JOHN SEVIER, ESQ. iOVERNon.
See act Oct.
1784, ch. 14, . CHAPTER I.
and acts there
referred to.
1807, ch. So, AN.ACT to empower the county.courts of pleas and quarter sessions, of the
09. April 1809 several counties of this statc, to order the laying out public roads, and to es-
ch. 15. 191 S tablish and settle ferries, and to appoint where bridges shall be buit.
el. 40. 1815, [Passed August 4,1804.]
ch. 128. 1817
ch. 35. 1819, 1. Be it enacted by the General Ossemnbly of theState of Tennese,
ch. 26. That all roads and -ferries -in the several counties in this state,
Power of the that have been laid out or appointed.agreeable to law, are
county courts
ns to appoint- hereby declared to be public roads and ferries, and that from
ing ferries, time to time and at all times hereafter, the courts of the se-
lays nd e. veral counties in this state, shall have. full power and author-
recting bridg- ity to appoint and settle ferries, rate tile toll, and to order the
es. laying out public roads where necessary, and . to appoint
76,e hApr where bridges shall be made, .and to discontinue such roads,
Oct. 1799, ch. as are now, or shall hereafter be m.ade, as shall be found
41. 1803, el. useless, and to alter roads so as to make them more useful,
53. 1811, ch.S. as often as occasion shall require .; Provided, That a Inajori-
18-17, ch. s5.
'1819 ch. 26. ty of the acting justices be present.
1817, cl. 48, 2. Be it enacted, That every County Court within this state
.call such is hereby authorised and empowered, to call on any persoi
as have mon- or persons in their respective counties,. to account for any
ies in their monies such person or persons may have in his or their hands
an defalti byvirtue of any distress heretofore made for default of work-
working on ing on any road in such county, and all such monies, to receive
roads to ac- and apply towards keeping in repair tile roads and bridges
count. on which such default was made.
1Roads how to S. Be it enacted, That all roads to be hereafterlaid out, shall
be hereafter
lai l out. See be laid out by a jury of freeholders to consist of not less than
actApril1796, five, nor 1ore than tWielve, to the greatest advantage of the
ek. 22, e. . inhabitants, and as little as may be to the prejudice of inclo-
sures, which laying out shall be on oath, which -oath shall
be in the' following words, to wit:
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