The Green Forest tribune., 1897-07-01
The New Road Law.


district one double team of horses or
mules. with harness, one road scraper
one large steel turning pow, one pick,
two spades, three long handled shovels
and one axe and new ones as often as
often as these wear out. All of which
to be paid out of the county treasury;
that the county court may rent or hire
! at the expense of the county the teams
to furnish the overseer,
Sec. 10. All male persons between
the ages of eigh teen and forty-fve
years, who have resided in the district
in which they are warned to work ten
days previous to the time they are
warned, shall be subject to work on any
public highway, road Or bridge within
the respective district in which they
reside.
Sec. IL. For the purposes provided
in the preceding section, the residence
if any person who has family shall
be held to be where his family resides
and the residence Of any other person
sh all be held where he boards.
Sec. IL. All persons who are unable
to perform labor by reasons of pliysc-
al disability shall be exempt from work
ing on roads and bridges,
Sec. Is. No person shall be compell-
ed to work on public roads, highways
and bridgee more than five days in
any one year, nor more than three
days at any one time or in any one
month, Provided, the county court at
its October term may in It's discretion
increase the days of work for the en-.
suing year to a number not greater
than ten.
Sec, Il. Each person liable to work
| on public roads, highways and bridges,
who shall, on or before the day on
which he is lawfully warned to work,
pay to the overseer by whom he is
lawfully warned the sum of one dollar
in lawful money of the United States
for each day warned % work, or shall
after the same rate pay to the over
seer for any part Of the time he is
portion Of the time he is so warned to
work, shall be exempt and discharged
from labor on all roads. highways and
bridges for so much of the time as he
he is warned and liable to work as he
has paid for.
Sec. Is. All money paid to any
overseer under the preceding section
shall be faithfully applied by him to
the improvement and working public
roads and highways in his district and
to the building and repairing bridges
in his district In manner most ad-
van tageous to the public, under the
direction of the county Judge and coun-
ty court
Sec Is. Within sixty days after the
county court has con tracted with and
appointed the cverseer and he has en-
tered into bond the overseer shall make
list of all persons in his district sub.
ject to road duty and file the same
with the county clerk, and shall file
supplemental lists as often as he may
find other hands in the district that
he overlooked in fling the list or who
have come in the district since fling
previous list, and the list so made and
filed shall be the list of road hands for
that district, unless it be shown to the
satisfaction of the county judge in
vacation or to the satisfaction of the
county court that it was mistake in
listing the person in that district.
Sec. II. All persons subject to work
on the public roads, highways and
bridges shall labor in accordance with
! and under the direction of the overseer
of the district in which they are liable
to work.
Sec. lS. All persons shall be given
three days notice by written or printed
notice of the time and place for such
person to work, and the notice to be
served by the overseer or some one for
him by delivering the notice to the
person, or by delivering the notice to
some person over fourteen years old at
the place where such person lives, ard
the notice may be read to the person
to whom il is delivered. provided the
person to whom the notice is delivered
cannot read. When any one except
the overserf serves the notice the over