The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1841-04-02

repair at the forks or crossing place of
every public road, post and guide
boards, with plain inscriptions thereon,
in letters and figures. giving the direction
and distance to the most noted places to
which said roads may lead.
SEC. 7. Whenever any public road
shall be obstructed by fallen timber, or in
any other manner, and when any bridge
or causeway shall be destroyed or become
impossible or dangerous to travellers, it
shall be the duty of the supervisor to
cause such obstruction to be removed,
and to have such bridges or causeways
rebuilt or repaired; and for that purpose
he shall call out the persons bound to
labor on the road in his district, or as
many of them as may be necessary Z; but
if the persons bound TO perform such la
Dor in his district, shall have previously
performed the number of days required
by this act, or if the labor due from such
persons shall not be sufficient, he shall
then proceed to hire as many laborers or
teams as may be necessary to remove such
obstruction or repair such damages !:
Prorided, The cost shall not exceed ten
dollars; and if the cost of such work
shall be estimated by said supervisor to
exceed ten dollars, then he shall report
such obstruction or damage to any two or
more of the county commissioners, whose
duty it shall be Immediately to cause such
obstruction to be removed, or such bridge
or causeway TO be rebuilt or repaired, as
the case may be, either by ordering the
supervisor to hire lahorers and teams for
that purpose, or by making contract
with some fit person or persons, as they
may deem best; and all moneys required
to carry any of the provisions of this sec
ton into effect, shall be paid out of the
county treasury. on the order of the coun-
ty commissioners court.
SEC. 8. If any person shall obsiruc,
any public road, by falling tree or trees
across the same, by encroacling upon or
fencing up the same, or by placing any
other obstruction therein he shall forfeit,
for any such offence, sum not exceeding
ten dollars, and Il sum no..excceding three
dollars for every day he shall suffer such
! obstruction TO remain after he shall have
been ordered to remove the same by any
supervisor, county commissioners, or JUS
tice of the peace and if any person shall
purposely destroy or injure any bridge or
causeway, or remove amy of the timber or
plank thereof, or destroy or deiace any
guidc-board, post, or milestone, on a
public road, or dig any drain or ditch
across public road, such person so Of
Tending shall he indicted or sued before
justice of The peace, and, on conviction,
shall be fined in any sun not less Il an
five dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars, except bridges, which shall be
double the value thereof; and for burning
bridge, to be punished agreeably to the
criminal code: Proriied, hOceru, That
this section shall not be construed TO eX-
tend to any person who shall lawfully cut
down any timber for rails, fire wood, OF
other purposes, and who shall immediate
ly remove the same out of the road; nor
to any person through whose land a road
shall run, who shall dig ditch or drain
across such road and shall keep the same
in good repair.
Sec. 0. No new road shall be opened
by order of the county commissioners
court, unless the same shall be applied
for by at least thirty-iive voters, residing
within five miles of the road proposed to
be laid out or altered, except i'll counties
which shall not have more than three
hundred voters, when only fifteen shall
be required. Such applicants shall depo-
sit in the hands of the clerk of the county
commissioners court sufficient sum of
money to pay the viewing. If their
report be in favor of establishing the road,
the money SO deposited shall be returned
to the person who deposited the same ;
but if Tie report be unfavorable, the ex-
penses of the view shall be paid out of the
money so deposited; and every person
applying for such new road shall contri-
butte one days labor, in addition to the
number of days required by this act. tow
ards making such road. The CLERK of the
county commissioners court shall furnish
each supervisor through whose road dis
trict such new road shall pass, with a list
of the persons who petitioned for the
same and any such petitioners who shall
not reside within some district through
which such new road shall pass, shall be
required to perform the days labor herein