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An Act concerning Roads, Highways, and Ferries. 1842 43 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0152 and id is 1 raw text is: Pensaitoni r6t'useor neglect wi.lout a rpasondbl and lawful'
cause to orosi,,anyflpyrioflo his.ho5se, cattle, carriAge, briIta, or'
p operty, ii il oonveire.nt'titme afler such ap'licaiibni, Such): f6r. Forrymen ref,
. ...   ',  , •  ,     ,   •    ,sing      to  crass.
rymantshtal.foi Iveryuch delay, of- thirty minutes, forfeit andishan be fned.
pay a sumrrnoti 'dW titan two,, nor more than tenty, dollars, -to...........d
the- pevsn injured, toibe:; roeoverqd-withl:costs'of .uit,, before
any justice of the prace in the county in.'whicll said'forty,,is
kept.      .',- ;  :i  '.,F   ,1;J    ', 5  *)-,  - ,-  I '  , -   1 ,  - 1
SECTION 27tb 1 'Be itfuith enacted,'Th'atitho militia of said
Territory when actultlyd goilig'to 6r retujding from musters,
or other militia services, be, and they are hereby exempt from
paving toll at any of the ferries and bridges in this Territory  ...
SECTION -28th. Be it further enacted, That clergymen and Mitaand cler
.gymein, to pas
preachers of the Gospel shall likewise be exempt from paying free.
toll at the said ferries and bridges. And that any keeper of a
ferry or bridge who shall refuse to pass over, without hindrance
the description of persons, or any of them, shall be fined in a
sum not exceeding five dollars, to be recovered before the Inag.
i .gte.npct a .joipipptlxeFpry or, bridgq at jwyiiql),§ub. rqfus4q
or hindrance may take.plice ;,.iand one.half of such fine shall
b6 approoriated to,,thetuke oft, the 'county in. Which tueh makis-
trate, sliaUI hav jprrisdic'tion,i and,'thdother half to' the parson
pfeciiting  theisamoe  ' .1   -,1 !  ,0w i t  -  - .!
. Sad''iot 29th'.,. Ber it fjrthhri'enacted, That it ihallibb the
dutyof]l ibverseers of madi, irVthis Territory, to require of
oach indilidual at  the time'ho, r16fifies said individfial't work Lists of hands
on the road in their respecive' 'oad districts, to-mako outa writ, to be made.
tdnlistof all the thands' under, his or her cohtrol,' both, of 'bond
and.free, who are subject t6;.work on said, road, specifvin 'the
namoand agaofceach'hand so, rturn3 d,,which list sliall be
sworn to, and subsribbdibefofo the o'vbrseer or sdne justice of
the  peaCi.'  '  !;Li  , ' ,,1% ' ' , ,'  '',  '.    -,
,i SECTION B0th.,;:, Be it further dnacted;. Th.itineoa46 anyper:
son or persons shall refuse to make out, and hand over.to thA
oveor'ddr;it.list;bf'his ordher hands 'as provided fO:in the, fdre- In case ororu.
goingsection ;At shall thInibe the duty of th'f bve'rseer io nake sal.
out, as correct, allist of, the 'hands belonging 'to sucir 'loliiiquent;
or delinquents, as the. nature of th6 case& will admit of whioh
liv.sllall he debnied to lic'orrna . ..unld.s thoddlin' ent' part* or
partiWsl shal!i piove by oompatent, witnesses that the' list, madb
but by the overseer is ihdorrdel.,i. '  . 1'  - ;  I   .,
SECTION 318t. Be! it further enacted, Thtt itr'shiall':be the Lists to be re-
duty of overse&.r1 of .ro ildsl tb return;0llsuIchr lists to the com turned.
missioners'6f- I'oads iii tlieir.'re.fi'civ d.striijt,  at the. time they
make their returdlsa a Ie~retIfor, l1rovi(hfor by law.
SECTION 32d. Be it further encwt'd, That it shall be the du-To be enitered
ty of the commissioners in each road distriht in this Territory. inabook.
to keep a book in which they shall correctly enter all the lists

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