Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-01
The Road Law X Y :
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Full Text of the New Bill.

the Oeneral Assembly. OF Int
/ State of Tennessee I That i
Shall be the duty of the Coun-
ty Court of each county in the
State to lay off their RESPECTIVE
counties into road districts; ,to
appoint three commissioners in
each district, whose duty it shall
be to repair highways and
bridges in their respective dis
tricts, and to cause the building
of bridges therein when the
public interest or necessity re-
quire. ,-s .-.. rros ~ brs 4
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
To lay ont and establish high
ways, to regulate the highways
therein, and to alter or, vacate
such highways as they or a
majority of them shall deem
proper as hereinafter provided
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted,
To cause such roads used as
highways as have been laid out
or dedicated, but not sufficient
! ly described, to be surveyed and
entered Oh recordiR the Office
of the County Court Clerk.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted,
To purchase such tools or I'M
plements as they may deem
necessary, and which cannot be
furnished by the hands in theii
respective districts. ~ So =
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted,
To assess the tax il their res
pective DISTRICTS a~wm~aF,
First-Every person ownins
or occupying land in the dis
trict in which he resides, and
every male inhabitant above
the age of eighteen and under
forty-five years, residing in the
district where the assessment
is made, shall be assessed tC
work on the highways in sucl
district; and the lands Aof non
residents situated in such dis
tricts assessed for highway la
Ibor, as hereinafter directed. 49,.
Second-The Commissioner
of highways shall meet at the
office of the County 3 Gohl:
Clerk on the first day Of JUNE
of each year, for the apurpos'
of assessing a highway tax, ant
they shall have free access t.
the assessment roll until they
shall have completed their as
! sessment. -s D sa
Third-Each Of. the overseer'
of highways shall, within TWEEN
i ty days after his'election or ap
pointment, deliver to the com
missioners a list, subscribed b.
him, of the names of all the in
habitants in his district who ar
liable to work on the highways
Fourth-The commissioner
/; of highways in each distric
, shall make out from the assess
ment roll a separate list ant
statement of the valuation OF
all the taxable, personal proper
tv, and a description of all lot
oTr,parcels y of land within 'eacl
road district, in such district
inserting in a separate part ol
such list, description of sucl
lands owned by nonresident
of the district, with the valu
of each lot or parcel set dow
Iopposite to such descriptions a
the same shall appear on tn
assessment roll; and if such 10
or tract was not separately des
cribed in such roll, then In pro
portion to the aluation whic
shall have been affixed to tn
whole tract of which such lot o
parcel form part. a-.'.r .
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted
: In making the estimate and as
sessment of highway labor, tn
commissioners shall proceed a
, follows:
! 1st. Every male inhabitan
in each road district, being a
bove the age of eighteen am
under fifty years, except minis
: tiers of the Gospel, mifers an
ferymen, shall be assessedYfE
days work in each year. = ! ! I
{ I'd. The residue of the high
y way labor to-be-assessed, not e1
9 ceeding one days work upo
two thousand dollars worth o.
the valuation, shall be jappol
g toned upon the estate, real an
. personal, of every inhabltant ]
each of the road districts IN sue
= county; and upon each tract {
:, narcei of land in thesrespectiV
road districts of which the owl
! ers are non-residehts, Sas Il
! same shall appear by the assess
: ment roll.