Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-04-26
ROAD LAW.

eno ~ years OF age, resiolng In
any road precinct, is required upon three
days notice to do TIVE days. work, between
1ut April and LIST of November. IF the two
days work is insufficient to put the roads in
good condition, the County Court, at some
term before. 1st April each year, may levy a
tax on property or order two more days. work
per year., or both ; no more than four days
work in a year can be required of o man.
Any one subject to work on a road may COM
mute each days work required of him by
paying to the overseer seventy>fve cents.-
IF any person fail, or refuse to attend and
WeTk when notified by the everseer, or if he
attends. and refuses to obey any proper order
ot the oyersser, or spends the time in idle
ness or inattention to the work assigned him,
he shall be assessed with a road tax Of one
dollar for each day by the overseer, which
tax shall be collected by u constable, by dis
traint or otherwise, in the same manner as a
sheriff has power TO collect county and State
taxes.
The County Court may transfer hands
from one road precinct to another when me-
eessary to equalize the amount of labor re-
quired on such precincts.
The residence of any person shall be
deemed to be where his family resides, or if
he has no family, the place where he boards.
Retice to work may be given by the over
seer in person or by some person under his
direction /; a notice in writing left at the res
idenee of any person is equivalent to personal
natiaa Nntica in parsoo NOV H. o,aI -.
written.
An everseer may, with the approval of the
County Court, exempt a person whom he may
think unable to perform road work or to pay
Communication ; but such exemption must be
in writing and is good for only one year.
Any person that has done his years work
OF paid Communication therefor, in one road
precinct, shall not, if he remove to another
precinct, be required to de work that year.
IF any person do more work in any year
than was due from him for that year, the
everseer shall give such person a certificate
Of the number of extra days thus worked,
which shall go as a credit upon the next
years work. The extra days work from
hands may be required when by an accident,
such as a land slide, fallen timber or rocks,
q road becomes impossible, or a bridge be-
comes unsafe, in which case the overseer is
required to call out as many hands as may DO
necessary to repair the accident promptly !;
and the hands shall do the work, although
they may have already done their years
work, but they get credit for the next year
for each extra day.
The overseer shall keep a correct account
OF the amount of work done by each hand,
by name, during the year, and shall make
report thereof, whenever called upon to do
SO by the County Court.
Overseers are to receive not less than one
dollar and a half nor mere than two dollars
for each day necessarily engaged in his Of
fetal duties, subject however, if he be him>
self liable to work roads, to deduction for the
amount of work due from him during the
year, at Is cents per day and he shall not
be allowed more than three dollars any year
for warning hands to work the roads.
A VALUABLE FAMILY RELIo.-Mr. inc.
u. Beokham, Of this city, has been pr csen.>
ed BY Col. George L. Stewart, of the Vir,
ginia Midland Railway, with a cane carved
BY his, Mr.. B%eckham's, distinguished rcla-
tivs, Major Fountain Bsokham, who WAS
killed by John Brown at Harper's Ferry.
The cane, which is q stick of ordinary sizs,
h q most complete piece of workmanship,
and must have required years of study and
patient labor, on the part Of Maj. Beekham,
who was at the time of. the famous raid
agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
and one OF the most prominent citizens of
Jefferson county. The bark on the stick
has been ingeniously turned into birds of
the air, beasts of the field and fish of the
sea, fowls of the farm yard, reptiles, insects,
mechanical tools, &C., all clear and distinct,
recognizable at a glance, while at the same
time furnishing hours of pleasant study.
The cane is a valuable family relic, and is
highly appreciated by the gentleman now
possessing it.-Ahrandria Gazette.
The Martinsburg Independent having pub
llshed an article stating that the recent leg
islature failed to mako an appropriation to
carry into effect an act passed in 1879, re-
curing the chemist at the State University
to analyze fertilizers, John W. Grantham,
Esq, of this county, writes to that paper
that e'tkis is an error" and says that "while
NO appropriation was specially named for
that purpose, under the head of contingent
expenses thirty>ive hundred dollars was ap-
Propriated for that Institution, and it was
understood by the Finance Committee of
beth bodies, and the delegates from Monon.
gala, that such sum as was necessary to carry
into effect the above mentioned act, should be
taken from the appropriation named"
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