Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-04-28
Duties Of Overseers OF Highways.
From Chapter Is, Revised Statutes.

/ SECTION S. 1t shall be the duty of
the overseers of highways:
| l. To repair and keep in order the
highways within the several districts for
which they shall have been elected or
appointed respectively:
2. 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:
3. To collect all highway taxes as re-
quired by law, and to execute all lawful
orders of the supervisors.
SEC. l3. Whenever any highway
shall become impossible, 10y reason of
any casual interruption from the falling
of timber, the destruction of any bridge,
or the washing away of any part of
such highway, 1t shall be the duty of
the overseer of said highway to cause
such highway to be put in passable re-
pair as soon as practicable.
Sec. II. Every overseer of high
ways who shall refuse or neglect to per-
form any of the duties required of him
by law, or which may be lawfully en-
joined npon him by the supervisors of
his town, and for the omission of which
a penalty is not hereinafter provided,
shall, for any such neglect or refusal,
forfeit the sum of ten dollars.
SEC. Is. 1t shall be the duty of the
supervisors of each town, whenever any
overseer of highways in such town has
refused or neglected to perform any of
the duties required of him by law, forth
with to prosecute such overseer for the
recovery of such penalty.
Sec. 20. Each overseer of highways
shall, within sixteen days after his elec.
ton or appointment deliver to the town
clerk list subscribed by him, of the
names of sll the inhabitants of his road
district who are liable to pay taxes on
the highways; and the town clerk shall
deliver all such lists received by him to
the supervisors. If the overseer shall
neglect or refuse to deliver such list to
the town clerk as aforesaid, the supervi-
sors shall have power to issue a warrant
under their hands, directed to any con-
stable in the town, requiring him forth
with to bring such overseer before them
to show cause why said list has not been
filed with the town clerk according TO
law; the constable's fees for such service
shall be paid by said delinquent overseer.
SEC. 20. Every oyerscer Of highways
shall cause at least two-:hirds Of the
amount Of highway tax assessed in his
district, to be collected and expended, as
the law requires, before the first day of
July, and the residue by the first day OF
November in each year.
SEC. 80. 1t shall be the duty of eve
ry overseer ofhighways, 10 give at least 3
days notice to all persons residing in his
district, assessed to pay highway taxes
therein, either personal, or in writing,
left at their usual place of abode, of the
time when, and the place where, they
may appear and pay their highway tax
es in labor, and with what implements.
Sec. Al. Every overseer of high
ways shall, on or before the first Mon
day in November in each year mske
out and deliver to the town clerk of his
town statement in writing, containing
a description Of all the real estate taxed
in his tax list, upon which the taxes re-
main unpaid, together with the amount
of tax assessed to each, such desert ption
of land, and the names of the owners
thereof, if known; and he shall make
and subscribe an afiida' it thereon before
some justice of the peace, or other per-
son authorised to administer oaths that
the taxes mentioned in such statement
remain unpaid. If the said overseer
shall neglect or refuse to make out and
deliver to the town clerk such statement,
as aforesaid, the supervisors, or ma
jority shall, upon the application Of the
town clerk, issue a warrant under their
hands to any constable of the town, com
manding him forthwith to bring such
overseer before them to show cause why
such statement has not been made, as
the law requires. The constable's fees
for such service shall be paid by such
delinquent overseer.
! Sec. A.. Every oyerseer of high
ways shall, on or before the third Mon
/ day in March, in each year, render to
the supervisors of the town an account
in writing, verified by his affidavit, sub
fscribed thereon before some person au-
/ thorised to administer oaths, containing:
/. The names of all persons assessed
to pay highway tax in his district:
?. The amount of tax collected from
each such person, and from other sour
ces, distinguishing the taxes which have
been paid in labor. from those which
have been paid in money;
3. The amount of moneys received
from the town treasurer, on account OF
returned taxes on real estate, or paid
into the town treasury by a former over
seer in such district:
4. The manner in which all taxes
collected and received by him have
been disbursed, and the particular items
of such disbursement:
5. A statement of the highway taxes
assessed upon real estate in his district
remaining unpaid.
SEC. 40. If any overseer shall neg
lect or refuse to pay over any money
remaining unexpeuded in his hands, as
required in the preceding section, it
shall be the duty of the town treasurer
forthwith to sue for the same in his
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