The Arkansas advocate., 1837-01-06

duty of each overseer to cause all public roads within his district to be kept well cleared and Tn good repair causing all stumps be cut low, so as to afford at all 1 times, free and safe passage to wagons, carriages and horsemen, along such roads; 10 cause all catse- ways and bridges 10 be made, whenever the same shall be necessary, and to keep the in repair; and 10 cause to be erected and kept in repair the lords and crossing-paces of any public road ingerpost with plain inscriptions thereon n large letters and figures, giving the distance to the most noted places 10 which said road may lead.
 SEC. 4. Be q further enacied, That, whenever any public road shall De obsructed by fallen timber or in any other manner, and when any causewaY or bridge shall be destroyed, or become impossible or dangerous to travellers shall be the duly of the overseer to cause such obstruction 10 be removed, and 10 have such causeway bridge rebuilt repaired and for that purpose, he may call out the persons in his district bound to labor roads, many of them may be necessary; and If any person shall obsruct any public roadi by falling tree or trees the same, by encroaching upon fencing up inc sane, by pac
 ing any other obstruction therein, he shall forfeit for every such offence, not exceeding fifteen dollars, and not exceeding two dollars for every day lie shall suffer such instructions to remain after he shall have been ordered to remove the same, by any oVer- seer or being notified to remove the sama by any householder and if any person shall wiltuiy destroy inure any bridge CT causeWay, any ot the timber plaHl therefrom, destroy or deface any gudepost public road, every person so offending shall be indicted, and conviction thereof, shall be fined in any not less than two dollars more than one hundred dollars: Prooided That this section shall
 not be construed to extend to any person who shall lawfully cut down any timber for rails or fire-wood, who shall immediately the out of the road nor any person through whose land road shall run who shall shall dig ditch drain such road and keep the same in good repair.
 SEC 5. Be at ftUther eaGctcd, That all free male inhabitants between the ages of sixteen and forty five years, except such persons as are exempt from militia duty, and all male slaves of tho same age, shall be subject 10 work any public road within their fes- pecve townships, when assigned by the justice of the peace appointed for that purpose by the county court, if they shall have lived or resided in the township en days previous to being warned to work the same and 1t shall be the duty of the oyerseer to direct the kind oftoos ha each hand shall use and all persons subject to work roads and highways under the pro- visions of this act, who shall fail after having been
 first duly warned by the overseer; in his person. or by written notice left at the place ofresidence of such de-
 nquent al least three days previous to the time ap- pointed to work any road under the provisions of this act, shall toel; and pay the of two dollars, recoverable before any justice othe peace the towu- ship where such delinquent resides, by action of debt, in the of tho oVerseer and in all such cases the overseer shall be sufficient witness to establish such delinquency; and any judgment obtained under the provisions of this act before any justice of the peace in any township any county of this state, shall be made by the execution of the goods and chael of such de- fendant; and when such delinquent shall be under the age of wentyone years, slave, It shall be the du- y of the justice 10 issue lis against the pa
 rent, guardian, master, mistress of such delinquent and upon judgment being entered against any parent, guardians master, mistress, of any minor, or owner of any slave, liable, by this act, To work on public roads, execution shall issue in other cases; and thai; all fines incurred by tho delinquency of any hand bound to work on public roads, after being collected by the overseer shall be by the said oyerseer laid and ap- ] q Innnr0 rn the roads in the district in which said delinquency hap pened, by hiring hands to work the roads of said district any part thereof and the said oyerseer shall hire hands for the lowest price for which able bodied aborers be procured and that the oserseer shall in no pay than dollar and fifty cents per day for laborers and the justice of the peace before whom the fines ofany delinquent hands may be recoy- cred by any overseer, shall make transcript of all judgments rendered before him, with the amount of money collected on each judgment by any overseer for any fine aforesaid and lay, the same to be ald before the county court at the first term after the first day in January in each year, and the clerk of the said court shall file the Ill his office, and charge the amount to the account of the overseer who may have collected the and when any overseer shall collect fine or fines from the delinquent, without suit being brought shall be his duty give such de-
 nquent receipt for the amount received from him; and said delinquent shall cause said receipt to be filed in the office of the clerk of the county court and said clerk shall charge said oyerseer with the amount of said ceip; and all overseers who may have collected any money as aforesaid shall, paying out the to hands employed to work roads, as provided for by ths-act, shall take receipt from each person aborng for the amount of money paid him. specifying the Der of days labor the road which said labor was performed; which receipt taken by he overseer shall be laid before the county court at the first term of said court after the first day of January in each year and the said court shall during the term to which said re- ceipt presented make settlement with each overseer who may be charged with money received for fines as aforesaid by giving said credit for the amount of receipts filed by him; and if, said settemcnt it nL. that Ina hn.r