Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-04-05
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y SECTION /. Be it enacted by t
y General Assembly Of the State
1F Tennessee, That IL shall be the du
J. of the County Court of each C ,unl
: in the State to lay of their respe
n tive counties into road districts;
p appoint three commissioners in eat
,! district, whose duty it shall be to r
q pair and bridges in the
= respective districts, and to cause Il
/ building of bridges therein when th
: public interest or necessity require.
= SEC. 2 Be it further enacted, To Ia
out and establish highways, TO fegi
! late the highways therein, and 70 a
D terror vacate such highways as they
= q majority of them shall deem prof.
u er, as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 3. Be il further enacted, Il
: cause such roads used as highways a
; have been laid out or dedicated, bu
not sufficiently described, to be sur
4 veyed and entered on record in th
D office of the County Court Clerk.
: SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, L
purchase such tools or Implements a
they may deem necessary, and whiel
cannot be furnished by the hands II
their respective districts. a7
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, II
: assess the tax in their respective dis
tricts: ataa1 ee Two -
First-Every person owning or oe
cnpying land in the district in which
he resides and every male inhabi
tant above the age of eighteen anC
under forty-fiyeyears residing in ths
district where the assessment il
made, shall be assessed to work or
the highways in such district; and
the lands of non-residents situated in
such districts assessed for highway
labor, as hereinafter directed.
Second-The Commissioners ol
Highways shall meet at the Office oI
the County Court Clerk on the 1st
day of June of each year, for the pur-
pose OF assessing highway tax,
and they shall have free access
to the assessments roll until they shall
have completed their assessment.
Third-Each of the Overseers of
Highways shall, within twenty DAYS
after his election or appointment, de-
liver to the commissioners a list, sub
scribed by him, of the names of all
the inhabitants in his district who
are liable to work on the highways.
FOGrth-The Commissioners of
Highways in each district shall make
out from the assessment roll a seperate
list and statement of the valuation
of all the taxable personal property,
and description of all lots or par
GELS of land within each road district,
in such district, inserting in separ-
ate part of such list, description of
such lands owned by non-residents of
the district, with the value of each
lot or parcel set down opposite to
such description as the same shall
appear on the assessment roll and if
such lot or tract was not separately
described in such roll, then in proper
ton to the valuation which shall
have been affixed to the whole tract
of which such lot or parcel forms
part. -a o
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, In
making the estimate and assessment
pf highway labor, the commissioners
Shall proceed as follows:
1st. Every male inhabitant in
each road district, being above the
age of eighteen and under fifty years,
except ministers of the Gospel, mill
ers and ferrymen, shall be assess
ed five days work 10 each year.
End. The residue of the highway
labor to be assessed, not exceeding
one days work upon two thousand
dollars worth q the valuation, shall
be apportioned upon the estate, real
and personal, of every inhabitant in
each of the road tract or parcel of
land in the respective road districts
of which shall appear by the nom
residents, as the same shall appear !
by the assessment roil. eH
3rd. The commissioners shall affix |
to the name of each person named in |
the liss furnished by the overseers, !
and not assessed upon the assessment /
property with the several road dis |
tricts, the number of days which such /
persons or property shall be assessed
for highway labor.
4th. The clerk of the Board of Com
missioner shall, under their direction,
make duplicates of the several lists,
which shall be subscribed by the
commissioners, one of which list for
each road district shall be filed by
said clerk in his office, and the other
shall be forthw with delivered to the
oyerseers of highways of the district
in which the highway labor therein
specified is assessed. -
5th. The names of persons left out
of any such list, who ought to have
been included therein, and of new in
|, a hifaptc N, hO havo NOT IL, the Oo,,a
year been assessed in some other
place for highway labor, shall be
from time to time added to the sever
al lists, and rated by the overseer i'm
to their taxable real and
personal property as others are rated
on such lists by the commissioners to
work on the highways, subject to an
appeal to the commissioners.
7th. Whenever the occupant of
any land not owned by him shall be
assessed therefor by the commission
ers, they shall distinguish in their as
list the amount charged
upon such land from the personal tax,
if any, of such occupant; but when
any such land shall be assessed in the
name of the occupant, the owner
thereof shall not be assessed dur
ing the same year to work on the
on account of such land.
Sth. Whenever any tenant of
any land, for less time than twen-
,y-five years, shall be assessed to
work ON the highways on account of
such land, pursuant TO the last Sec
ion, and shall actually perform such
work, or commute therefor, he shall
De entitled to deduction for the rent
lue or to become due from him for
'uch land, equal to the full amountof
Iuch assessment; or he may recover
he same of his landlord in an action
or money paid for his benefit, esti-
mating the same at so much as is, or
hall be, prescribed by law for COM
per day for highway labor,
lnless otherwise provided by agree
nent between such tenant and his
andlord. bue u W
9Th. 1t shall be the duty of the
in each district To elect
)r appoint an overseer for not less
han three nor more than five miles
IF road in their respective districts,
20 serve one year.
10th. IL shall be the duty of the
,verseer of highways to give at least
TWO days notice to all persons assess
ID to work on the highways in their
respective districts, and residing in
heir districts, of the time and place
when and where they are to appear
for that purpose, and with what inn
Dlements. g4l
1lth. 1t shall be the duty of the
several overseers of highways to no. I;
tify the agents of every nonresident
owner of land within their respective
districts, if they shall know that any
agents resides within the district, of
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