The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-05-09

or COLLECTOR Shall give cdSu uOiih
ouent personal or written notice of
the amount due, and if not paid
within ten days the said constable
or collector is hereby required to
levy and collect the same by distress
and sale of goods and chattels OF
such delinquent. giving at least ten
days notice by written or printed
advertisements, and may retain out
of the proceeds of sale after deduct
ing the taxes, the same fees as may
there be allowed constables by law
for levy and sale upon a writ of exc
cution. and the defendant shall have
no right to the benefit of stay of ex-
emption. The bond of constable as
now required by law shall stand as
security for the faithful performance
of their duty under this act, Pro-
vided That if said delinquent pay to
said constable or collector the
amount they stand charged within
ten days or on demand, the consta-
BILE or collector shall only have FIVE
Der centum for his services.
SEC. IL. That it shall be the
duty of the said road commissioners
to take the general charge and SUI
pervision of all the public roads in
each of their respective townships
of this Commonwealth and cause to
be removed from the roads all loose
stones or other distractions at least
once in each month between May
first and November first and
on the second Monday of [April]
R1 March-@ 50 in each year they
shall settle their account with the
township auditors, they shall be
charged with the whole of the taxes
real and personal that they assessed
in their several townships, and shall
have credit for the work done by
the pathmasters themselvs or con-
tractors for the generations allow
ed them by the township auditors
for the amount returned to consta-
bles or collectors for collection Tor
amount returned to county treasurer
for collection for making duplicates
a fair price, and for their own servi-
ces, their accounts to be sworn to
before the auditors, the president of
the board of auditors to adj
minister the oath or affirmation
aforesaid.
SEC. Is. The said auditors shall
within thirty days after the second
Monday of [April] SD~March~ ga
of each year cause an itemized state
ment of the road account as settled
to be published in one ofthe county
newspapers, and said publication
shall be continued in said paper for
three successive weeks or by six
written or printed statements put up
in as many public places in the
proper township, and a failure to
publish the same as aforesaid by
the township auditors shall Lbe
deemed a misdemeanor and upon
conviction Of the same they shall
pay a fine of not less than twelve
dollars to be collected as debts oflike
amount, and pay to the road com.
m~issioners for the use of the road
fund.
SEC. IA. That the compensation
of the road commissioners shall be
fixed by the township auditors, not
to exceed two dollars per day for
each day necessarily employed in
the transaction of the road business
of the several townships, and the
pathmaster shall be allowed the
same daily pay as is allowed those
working out their tax, not to exceed
one dollar and fifty cents per day OF
ten hours actual labor.
SEC. 10. That it shall be lawful
at any time after the passage OF this
act for the road commissioners o.
any township in this Commonwealth
upon a petition of a majority of the
taxpayers residents Of the said town
ship represented on Or before the
first Monday of March of any
year-ass asking that the making nd
repairing of all roads and bridges bt
let [to] by contract for a period o
three years, to let the same on the
[second Monday thereafter nsS~frs
Monday of April-ka to the loves
bidder hat will give to the reac
commissioners good and ~suficien'
security for the faithful performance
of the contract, such letting to b
advertised by not less than twelv'
handbills posted in co%nspicuou'
places in said township.
SEC. 16. That when the. maxim!
and repairing of the roads and
bridges are let as provided in section
fifteen all persons shall pay thei
road tax in money on or before tn
fifteenth of July Bar December 81
of the same year and for the promp
payment thereof as aforesaid tn
road commissioners shall allow al
abatement of five per cent, and an,
person in said township refusing o
neglecting to pay the road tax a
aforesaid shall pay the same as di
rected in sections ten and eleven O
this act Prorided also That each NAL
taxable over twenty-one years O
age shall pay in addition to the roa'
tax levied upon his assessed valua
ton one dollar in money in plac
of the one days work provided il
section three of this act.
nsssSEc. IL. When under tn
provisions of the fifteenth section Q
this act the making and repairing
of the roads in any township in thi
Commonwealth are to be let out b,
contract it shall be the duty of th
, road commissioners of said TOWNSHIP
within twenty days after the presen
r tation of the petition by a majorit,
of the taxpayers resident therein t,
Hay out and divide all the publ
highways in said township into sec
tions not exceeding one-half mile il
/ length, which they shall humble
and describe in a book kept by then
for that purpose; they shall ais
distinctly specify therein what the,
may deem necessary for the in
/ provement and keeping in repai
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