The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-18
PubIic-No. SO.
AN ACT relating to Highways in the County @

AN ACT relating to Highways in the County of
Washington and District of Columbia.
Be enacted 6y The Senate aud House Of Representa-
tires Of The URted States Of AIaerica, m Congress
senlbed, That, from and after the passage of this
act, il shall be lawful for the levy court of Wash
ington county, in the District of Columbia, TO al
ter, repair, widen and regulate the public roads and
highways in said county, and to lay out additional
roads as hereinafter specified.
SEC 2. And be H further enacted, That all roads
within said county of Washington which have
been used by the public for period Of twenty five
years or more as highway, and have been receg-
nized by the said levy court public county roads,
and for the repairs of which the said levy has
appropriated and ext ended money. declared
public highways, whether the same have been re-
corded or not and any person who shall obstruct
the Tree use Of said highways, or any one of them,
without authority from said levy court, shall be
subject to fine for each and every offence of not
less than one hundred more than two hundred
and fifty dollars, to be imprisoned till the said fine
and the costs of suit and collection of the
paid said fines to be collected in the of the
United States, for the use Of the levy court.
SEC. 3. And be further enacted, That within one
year from the passage of this act the levy court
shall cause the surveyor Of the said county of
Washington to survey and plat all such roads as
named in the last preceding section, and have
the same recorded among the records of said coun-
ty used for recording surveys and plats of 9TH
or public county roads; and in making said sur
vey, the county surveyor shall follow nearly
possible, the lines and boundaries heretofore used
and known as highway, and he shall cause the
lines and boundaries of the same to be permanently
| at the different angles thereof
| SEC. 4. lind be IL further enacted That all such
roads named in the second section of this act
as have been obstructed by any person or persons
| in any manner within the last six years shall be
reopened by the levy court, it, in the Judgment of
said court, the public convenience requires it and
the expenses thereby incurred shall be paid by the
person or persons who shall have DISTRACTED the
same, which expenses shall be collected as fines are
required to be collected under the second section
1 CO this act.
SEC. 5. And be IL further enacted, That hereafter
| In laying out new roads in said county of Wash
ington, the levy court shall such roads to be
Of width Of not less than fifty nor more than ono
hundred feet, and it may also cause the width of
any OF the existing roads in said county TO be in
tereased to not more than one hundred feet, and
change the location of any Them as the said levy
court may deem best for the public interest and
for the purpose of opening or widening such roads,
the said levy court is hereby empowered to cause
be condemned any land or lands necessary for the
same, as other lands are now condemned by law.
SEC. 8. And be further enacted, That in any case
where materials shall be necessary for making or
repairing public road, if the levy court cannot
agree with the owner to their purchase the said
court may proceed in the same manner for con-
demning said materials in eases of condenna-
ton OF land for the purpose of public road
SEC Z. And be IL further enacted, That no field or
garden or yard in actual cultivation, shall be laid
opsn or used as public highway until after the
usual time of taking of the crops growing thereon
SEC. s. And be IL further enacted, That the re.
| quirenent in the existing laws, that members Of
the levy court shall be appointed from amongst tho
justices of the peace in tie county OF Washington
is hereby repealed.
| Approved, May 3, 1862.