Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-06
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURF.

ACTS OF THE LEGIsLATBRF.
| Published by Authority
AN ACT to regulate the working and lay
| ing out of public roads.
Section l. Laying off districts and APP
pointment of missioners.
See 2. Filling ofYacaneies and regula-
ten Of districts
Sec 3. Assessment of labor and tax.
Sec. 4. Labor and Communication.
| Sec 5. Taxation and how paid.
| Sec 6. Taxes past due, how collected.
| Sec Z. No iticaton to commissioners of
| elections; penalty for failure
! Sec. 8. Tax assessment; how prepared.
| Sec. 0. Oath and official bond. -,.-.- q.
| Sec. 10. Official records and settlements.
Sec II. Classification of roads and
assessment Of labor.
Soc II. Appointment of oVerseers.
| Sec b. Care of tools.
Sec. l4s Opening and closing of high>
ways. .,.F
! Sc Is. Contract for labor and material
| Sec. IS. Purchase of tools and material.
Sec. II. Removal of overseers and adj
justInent Of disputes
Sec. IS. Settlement with overseers.E =.
Sec. 10. Tax assessmen furnished.
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Sec. q. Collection of taxes.
Sec. 70. Payment of money. -
Sec. q. Work on roads. v 9.
Sec. a. Instant summons, when.
Sec. 25. Entry of Enclosures.
Sec &c. Mile-posts. s.z
| Sec. Y. Notice to Taxpayers and res
| caipt for work. - .--s-.. ss-.s- --.
| Sec. 2S. Taxes, comm utations, delin-
quents.
Sec. 80 Dismissal of hands
Sec. 80. Roads, how worked. ~ -..e
Sec. 81. New roads, width of.
Sec. 81. Roads between districts.
Sec. 80. Obstruction of roads. --- rE-
Sec. "a on-perfOrmance of duties. 1
Sec. 30. Removal of commissioners.
Sec. 81. Compensation of officers.
Sec. 81. Incorporated towns. -...
Sec So Copy of act furnished.
Sec 80. Cost of litigation. Et
Sec 40. Mag istrateS not eligible.
Sec. A.. Days word defined.
Sec, AZ. Penalties. 4 ass
Sec. d. Repeal. s. - ! Z l. =
Section l. Be it enacted by the general
assembly of the State of Tennessee, That
it shall be the duty Of the county courts Of
| each county in the State to divide their re-
| spective counties into road districts at the
| first quarterly term after the passage ofthis
| 4ct, and to ele-t three commissioners for
| eacn road district, to be residents of the
! districts for which they are elected, the
| one first elected for each district an | his
successors to be the clerk and treasurer of
| his district and to serve three years, das
ting from January, 1881; the one next
elected for each district, to serve two years,
dating from January, 1881, and the one
last elected for each district to servo one
year, dating from January, 1881, and until
their successors in office are elected and
| qualified, and they shall have control of
| all highways and bridges III their respec-
| live districts.
| Sec. 2 Be it further enacted, That the
| county courts OF the respective counties at
ca h January term thereafter may increase
| o. diminish the number and alter or change
| the road dstrict Of their counties as they
| may deem best, and shall elect one COM
| missioner for each road district, to serve
| three years, and shall fill all vacancies for
commissioners at any quarterly term, such
! com N isslOners to serve only the uneXplred
| terms oftheir predecessors. ....#
| Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the
| county courts of each county shall, at the
| first quarterly term after the passage of
| this act and at each January term there
after, assess the number OF days to be
! worked by the road hands upon the highs
| ways, and assess the tax fer highway pur-
poses. - FL
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all
male inhabitants over fifteen and under
fifty years Of age, except such as are pre-
Inuturely disabled from performing COM
mon labor and ere released by the com,
mjssioners, shall work not less than three
nor more than six days upon the highway
each year, the work to be cone at any
time. The overseer shall give three day
notice ofthe time and place to commence
Any road hand so notified may be exemp
from work by sending an able bodied sub
stitute or by paying one dollar for eaci
day or by furnishing sny team and pillow O.
wagon. The overseer may require to b.
all wed credit for the same, as provided
in the next section.
Sec 5 Be it further enacted, That the
| tax for highways shall be not less than two
nor more than fifteen cents on each hun
dred dollars of taxable property, as shown
by the county assessment, and on privilege
not more than One.fOurth the county assess
ment. All taxes assessed under this act
and collected as hereafter provided, shall
be used for maintaining the highways anc
bridges in the rOsd district in which thu
| assessment is made. The county court ma
order an amount not more than one-hal
the highway tax collected in money +; the
balance may be paid in work upon tn
highways, at the following rates: for eant
days work, by an efficient hand, SLIGO, TO
each days work by one horse, with pillow o
scraper, 81 so; for each days work will
or pillow. 3 % and fo- other service such
credit as tn 3 commissioners may allow; bu
tae overseer shall have the right to specify
the kinds OF teams or implements the hand
or Taxpayers shall furnish but no person
shall be required to furnish any team O
implement not owned by him.
Sec 6. Be it further enacted, That al
highway tax shall be due the first day o
January each year, but no suit for collec
ton shall be brought before the first of tn
following October, and ali parties failing t
commute for the part of their tax tina
may be paid in WORK, and when notified b.
the overseer, at any time between said ii RS
of January and first Of October, shall pa
the same in money, unless, for good rea
sons, the commissioners shall otherwis
order.
Sec. T. Be it further enacted, That III
county court clerks shall within ten day
after the election of any commits sioner de
liver to the sheriff5 of their counties dupli
cate certificates Of the election of eac
commissioner, specifying the clerks an
7 treasul ers, and giving the bounds of the
districts, and the sheriff shall deliver on
| copy 20 each commissioner and make h
return upon the ether within ten days, sal
copy to be filed in the county court cierk