Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-08-14
LAW OF ILLINOIS.


and regulating Roads and Highways, and
creating a fund for that purpose.
Sec. l. Be il enacted 6ytie beoble ofthe state
Of Illinois, represented in the general assembly,
That all the roads in the several counties in
this state, which have been laid out as public
reads and highways in conformity to The pro-
visions OF an act of the legislature of the terri
tory OF Illinois, entitled an act for opening and
regulating public roads and highways, passed
IN September 1907, shall be and the same are
hereby declared to be public roads and high
ways.
Sec. 9. Be 1t further enacted, That the coun-
" commissioners courts shall have, and are
hereby vested with general superintendency
over the public roads and highways, within
then respective counties.
Sec. 3. Be 1t further enacted, That the coun-
y commissioners shall, at the first court after
their election, appoint suitable number of
tlecholders in each township, as supervisors
% the public roads and highways within the
same. And the said supervisors when SO ap-
pointed shall serve for one year, and until
others shall be appointed. And if any super
visor, after having accepted his appointment,
shall refuse or neglect TO perform any duty re-
quired of them by this act, he shall forfeit for
every offence twenty-five dollars, which may
be recovered by Indictment or presentment,
before any court having competent iurisdic-
ton, one half of the forfeiture for neglect of
duty, to the use of the person or persons
prosecuting the same, and the other half to
the county commissioners.
Sec. a. Be IL further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the clerk to the county CON-
nlissioners, when they have made an appoint
ment ola supervisor of the road, to make out
q written notice to the person appointed, with
4 description of the bounds of his precinct or
districts which shall be delivered to the sheriff
Or coroner of the county, who shall give the
same to the person appointed within ten days
after receiving it, under the penalty offivc dol
lars, to be recovered at the instance of the
county commissioners, before Justice Of the
peace, three days notice being given to the
sheriff or coroner of the time and place of
moving for judgment, and the clerk shall set
up at the courthouse once in four months, a
list of the supervisors of the roads, with de-
scription of their precincts; and for failure
herein, the county commissioners shall fine
their said clerk five dollars, at their next
court.
Sec. S. Be it further enacted, That each SILL
peryisor Of the road shall have power to call
upon to perform the necessary labor upon the
roads, causeways, and BRIDGES to keep the
same in good order, all males between the
ages of eighteen and fifty, living within the
precinct, and every such person when required
BY the supervisors shall, without lawful excuse,
fail to attend at the time and place appointed
by the supervisor, with such tools proper for
his work, as he may have been directed to
bring, or who shall refuse to work when there,
or shall disobey an order of the supervisor, or
shall not find some person as substitute
~ equally able as himself to perform his work,
shall forfeit and pay for each offence, and for
each days absence ofhimsclf or his substitute,
one dollar, to be paid by himself, if of full age,
if a minor, by his parent or guardian, or if an
apprentice other persons bound to labor.
BY his master, to be recovered by the super
visor before any justice of the peace of the
county; and when recovered to be paid over
to the county commissioners Provided ho1c-
erer, That no person shall be compelled to
work on the public roads and highways more
than five days in the year.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of every supervisor ola road, to
cause the same to be kept well cleared and
smooth the whole width that the same may be
required by law to be opened, and at the fork
or crossing place of every public road, shall
cause to be erected and kept in repair q post
with plain inscriptions thereon, in large let
ters and figures giving the direction and dis
tance to the most noted place to which each
NAY lead; and the county commissioners shall
payto the person employed by the supervisor
to erect the same his reasonable bill: Prorided,
The said supervisor shall certify that the work
is faithfully done. And where bridges or
cMseways are necessary, the supervisor shall
cause them to be made, fifteen feet wide at the
least, substantial, convenient, and safe, and
keep the same in repair; and for this purpose,
IS well as for repairing the roads and highways,
nay cut and take from the lands adjoining,
such and so much timber as may be necessary,
and may dig and haul away so much earth,
stone, and gravel, as may be required, the
same, being first viewed and valued by two
house-hoIders sworn for that purpose, by a
Justice of the peace, unless the owner or
owners, or their agent, shall freely give the
same for those uses. But when road leads
through a city, town, or village, the supervi-
sor shall not take any timber, earth, stone, or
gravel from any lot within the same, without
the permission of the owner first obtained, but
shall take the same from the lands adjacent
with the least injury to the proprietors; and
where the assistance of wheel carriages and
teams may be requisite for making or repair
ing any bridge, causeway, or road, the super
visor shall contract for hiring the same, at
reasonable rate; and the account of the owner
shall be certified by the supervisor, and paid
by the county commissioners But if the SUI
pervisor shall find it impossible or very diff
tcult to obtain carriages and teams by hiring, il
shall be lawful for him to impress the requi
site number; and the owner or owners shall
be paid by the county commissioners, upon
the certificate of the supervisor, a fair hire fol-
the Use of the same.
Sec. z. BE il further enacted, That where q
bridge or causeway may be necessary, and the
supervisor with his assistance cannot make OF