The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-02-07
Hon Ese.i. Kings ESoad. EsiEI.

AN ACT to secure the payment of costs in
criminal cases and provide for working the /
public roads, and for other purposes.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That the Board of
Supervisors of each county In this State shall
annually, on the first Monday of January, or
as soon thereafter practicable, appoint a
Road Master for each Supervisors District,
who shall be sworn TO faithfully discharge
the duties required of him by law and the Or
ders of said Board and whose duty it shall be
between The first day of March and the first
day of April, to make list OF all the
road hands in his district. giving the age,
color and occupation Of each, which are here
by declared to be- all male persons resident or
commorant in his district over the age OF
eigh Teen years, and under the age of fifty
years, except inhabitants of incorporated
cities and towns, aud blind deaf and dumb
persons and persons disabled by disease or
otherwise, from doing manual labor, which
list, sworn to as correct, by said Road Master,
shall be returned by him to the Clerk Of said
Board or before the first Monday OF April,
md said list shall be examined and corrected
by said Board and recorded in a book to be
kept by said Clerk. The said Board may at
any time in their discretion, dismiss SAID Road
Master and appoint his successor, who shall
Immediately make SAID llst, II not ALREADY
made. The Road Master shall return sworn
supplemental list of road hands, to each
regular meeting of said Board, which shall
contain the names, age, color and Occupation
of all road hands found in his district, ard
not before enlisted, which supplemental lists
shall be examined, corrected and recorded as
the orr yinal list is required to be. The Road
Master shall be paid out of the County Treas
ury-cents, for each hand on the original list,
and-cents for each hand on the supplemental
lists, if in the judgment of said Board, said
Road Master has faithfully enlisted the road
hands. In the examination OF said lists the
said Board shall erase from the same the
names of those-who have paid their commute
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year, which shall be from the first Monday of
a pril to the first Monday of April, or shall be
permanently unable to perform manual labor.
The said Clerk shall within ten days after
said lists have, respectively, been examined
and corrected by the Board, deliver certified
copy thereof to the Tax Collector. Any road
hand on said originallls or any supplemental
list returned prior to tn, first day of July,
may, at any time before the first Monday IN
July pay to said Tax Collector his cOmmuta-
ton ia X, and any road hand on the supplement
tai list, returned after the first Monday In
July, may pay to said Tax Collector his com
mutation tax within thirty days after the
meeting of the Board to which his enlistment
was returned. The annual communication tax
shall be fixed by the said Board at not less
| than -- dollars, nor more than ---
| dollars, and the payment thereof to
the Tax Collector shall discharge the road
| hand from service on the road for that road
| year, and the Tax Collector SHALL on the first
| of every month, pay over to the County Treas
urer the amount of the cOmmutatiOn taxes col
lected by him during the preceding month,
| and shall file with said Clerk a list of the road
| hands who have paid the same.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the
| Board of Supervisors of each county shall an
nually prepare in writing and file with the
| Clerk Of said Board specifications of the sew
erll public roads in the several Supervisors
Districts in the county, as to the width to
| be worked aud the character of work to be
done on said roads, but in ali cases requiring
the same to be kept IN good repair during the
| road wear and shall divide the roads of the
Supervisors Districts into as many contracts
as they shall deem most convenient, and shall
mark said specifications Contract No. l, Dis
| trict No. l. and so cOnsecutively through all
the contracts and Supervisors Districts, and
shall on the first Monday of April, and from
day to day, thereaft let out to the lowest bid
der, at public cutlery, all of saidcOntracts, first
| giving notice of the letting of said contracts,
| by publishing a notice thereof for three con-
! secutive weeks In some newspaper printed IN
the county or if there is no such paper, then
by posting notices in three public places in
each Supervisors District for thirty days.
| Each of said contractors shall be required to
| give bond payable 10 the State of Mississippi,
| in the penalty of double the amount of his
bid, with not less than two good sureties to be
approved by the Board, conditioned that he
Will well and truly keep and perform his con-
tract and comply with the duties required of
him as said contractor by law, and the law
full orders of said Board. The Board may at
any time before the approval of said bond re-
iect any lowest bid ii they deem the same I'M
| reasonable the proposed contractor iucom-
petent or otherwise un suitable, and shall in
case of the rejection of any lowest bid or a
! vacancy in any contract, let the vacant con-
| tract in the same manner, at another time,
| after like notice. 1t shall be the duty of every
contractor to accept the LABOR of all road
hands and cOnvicts who may be assigned to
him at the prices to be agreed upon between
him and the said Board, and if they cannot
agree upon the prices, the same shall be de-
termined by the Sheriff, Circuit Clerk and
Treasurer; to feed and lodge said cOnvcts
and keep them clean in dress and person, and
guarded at all times; to notify the Road Mas
ter in case any such convict shall in his judy
ment require medical attention, and procure
medical attendance, to be paid for by the
county, in case The Road Master certifes that
the same is necessary; to make requisition on
the Sheriff for clothing for said cOnvicts If
actually needed by them, to be paid for by the
county; to deliver said cOnvlcts at the order
Of the Board of Supervisors to his successor
or other person; to report to the said Board
| monthly the number and condition of the con-
| victs in his charge
SEC. 3 Be it further enacted, That the Clerk
| shall on the tenth dav of July and monthly
thereafter, Issue to the Road Masters certl-
fed list of all the road hands, whose option
| of paying said Communication tax has expired,
| and upon receipt of the same the Road Mas
ters shall Immediately summon in person, or
by leaving a written notice at the place of
his last residence, if he cannot be found each
delinquent road hand to report himself to
some designated contractor at a stated time
within ten days, there to labor under said con-
tractor for ten days the roads, and said
road hand shall while at labor under the con-
tractor board himself, and shall diligently
labor under the orders of the eontrac-
tor during the usual hours of labor
and if said road hand shall fail so to
labor, the contractor may discharge him, and
shall then Immediately inform the Road Mas
ter thereof The Road Master shall make a
report under oath, the first of every month
of the names of the road hands who have re-
ported to each contractor in his district and
the number of days of labor performed By
each hand. If any road hand, being duly
summoned as required in this Act, shall fail
so to labor, the contractor may discharge him.
and shall then Immediately inform the Road
Master thereof, The Road Master shall make
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