Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-06-15
Laws Of Wisconsin.
DUTIES OF OYERSEERS OF HIGH
WAYS.

The people Of the S5ate Of Wisconsin, represented la
Senate and assembly. do enact as foltoscs
Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty of the Oversee
ers of highways:
lst, To repair and keep in order the high
ways within the several districts for which
they shall have been elected or appointed re-
spectiveiy,
I'd. To notify all persons assessed to pay
highway taxes, of the time when and place
where labor will be received in payment for
such taxes:
Sd. To collect all highway taxes as requir-
ed by law, and to execute all lawful orders Of
the supervisors.
Sec. 6. Whenever the amount of highway
tax, assessed by the supervisors in any dis
trict, shall be deemed insufficient to keep the
roads therein IL repair, the overseer of such
highway may, upon an application in writing
signed by a majority of the inhabitants liable
to pay highway taxes in such district, make an
other assessment onthe taxable property in said
distrist, in the same proportion and not ex-
ceeding one third of the amount assessed in
the same year by the supervisors on the in
habitants of the district; and the taxes so as
sessed by an overseer, shall be collected and
expended in like mannar as higway taxes as
sessed by supervisors are required to be col
Iected and expended.
Sec s. 1t shall be the duty of the over
seers of highways in each town, to maintain
and keepi repair at the expense of the town.
such guide posts as may have been erected by
order Of the supervisors, within the limits of
the district for which they shall have been re-
spectiveIy elected or appointed.
Sec. 9. Any overseer of highways may, if
he shall deem it necessary, procure a good
and sufficient scraper and plow, or either of
them, for the use of his road district, and pay
for the same out of the highway taxes by him
collected
Sec. 10. If any overseer shall be employed
more tire in executing the several duties en-
Joined upon him in this chapter, than shall
be necessary for the payment of his highway
tax, be shall be paid for the excess at the rate
of one dollar per day. and be allowed to retain
the same out of the moneys that may come
into his hands on account of highway taxes,
but he shall not be allowed to pay his own
highway tax In money.
Sec. II. II shall be lawful for any overseer
of highways, or any person acting under his
direction, to enter npon any lands adjoining
to or near the higway in his district, to con-
struct such drains, or bitches, as may be nee
essary for the improvement or preservation
of such highway; and any such overseer, or
other persons as aforesaid. may enter upon
auy uuimproved lands adjoining to or near the
highway in his district, and gather or dig any
stones gravel or sand, and cut any wood or
trees, and take away the same for the pur-
pose of making or improving such highway :;
but any overseer or other person so entering
upon such lands shall carefully avoid doing
any unnecessary injury upon the same.
SEC. ID. If any owner or occupant of lands,
so entered upon for any of the purposes men
toned in the preceding section, shall feel him.
self aggrieved, he may apply TO the supervi-
sors of the town, who shall appoint three dis
interested electors of such town to appraise
the damages: and such electors, being first
duly sworn Justly and impartially to appraise
the damages done upon such lands, shall pro-
coed to estimate the same; and the damages,
if any, allowed by them, shall be certified I'M
der their hands, and the same shall be audit
ed bv the town board. and paid out of the town
treasury said appraisers shall take into con-
sideration the advantage as well as the dam
ages done to said land by reason of any i'm
proYement made on said road by such mate
rial so taken.
Sec. Is. Whenever any highway shall be-
come impossible, by reason of any casual in
terruption from the falling of timber. the des-
truction of any bridge, or the washing away
or injury of any part of such highway, it shall
be the duty of the overseer of said highway,
to cause such highway to be put in passable
repair AS soon as practicable.
Sec. IA. If any person, for the purpose of
putting such highway in repair. shall expend
in labor. material or money, an amount great
er than he is assessed TO pay on the highway
in such year, such person shall be entitled TO
receive from the overseer of such district a
certificate for the amount OF such expenditure