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ROADS   AND   HIGHWAYS. 117
R 1. The county court of Pike county shall have power and authority to
cause a review to be made of all such state and county roads as they deem of
sufficient public utility and importance, in either or any of the following cases:
1st. Where the original record of establishment or location of any road, or
the record of any alteration of any road is from any cause imperfect or defective. 2d. Where any road has been so altered or changed from the ground
on which it was originally laid out, whether said alteration has been made by
authority of law or otherwise. 3d. Where there is any uncertainty as to the
point of commencement, or termination of any road.
§ 2. In all cases of a review of any road heretofore established, or of any
view of any road hereafter to be established, the county court may, if they
deem the road of sufficient importance, direct the county surveyor to accompany the viewers, and to survey and measure the road, and return a plat
thereof, together with a note of all the important points along the same, into
the office of the clerk of the county. The county court shall have power to
fix the pay of the surveyor, chain-carriers, and markers, and pay the same out
of the county treasury.
§ 3. The county court shall have power to lay off the county into convenient
road districts, and to alter and change the same as often as the public convenience may require; and to appoint one overseer for each district, and prescribe the manner and amount of the pay thereof. A copy of the road districts shall be furnished the county assessor before making the assessment.
§ 4. The county assessor shall make out, his list of assessment in such manner as will show separately the whole amount of taxable property in each
road disinct, and the names and number of persons in each district subject to
pay road tax. .
§ 5. Every able-bodied male person over the age of eighteen and under
the age of forty-five years, shall pay a poll tax equal to two days work in the
year, according to a tariff of prices to be annually established by the court.
In addition to the above poll tax, the county court may impose a tax on all
property in each road district subject to taxation, as may, in addition to the
aforesaid poll tax, be necessury to keep the roads in repair, not to exceed one-
hundred per cent, on the amount of the State tax.
§ 6. The clerk of the county court shall furnish each overseer with a list
of the names of the persons subject to pay road tax, and the amount thereof,
including the poll and property tax, and the persons subject to pay such taxes
may pay the same in. needful labor on the roads, at such price per day as may
be established by a tariff of prices to be fixed by the county court.
§ 7. The overseers shall collect the taxes of their respective districts, hav-,
ing first given to each person bound to pay, a sufficient opportunity to pay
the same in labor on the roads. And whenever any person shall have failed
or neglected to pay the tax in labor, the overseer shall have power to colelct
the tax, and for that purpose shall be under the same restrictions and have the
same powers that the collector of the State and county revenue by law has.
Whenever any tax upon non-residents' lands shall not be paid during the
year, a list thereof shall be placed in the hands of the county collector, and
the same shall be collected as other State and county revenue is collected.
§ 8. The county court shall have power and authority to establish such
rules and regulations as they may find necessary or proper to carry out the
provisions of this act. All such rules, regulations, the tariff of prices, and
such other provisions as they may establish, shall annually be published in
. such manner as to give the greatest notoriety thereof, to the people of the county.
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Transcript ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. 117 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: R 1. The county court of Pike county shall have power and authority to cause a review to be made of all such state and county roads as they deem of sufficient public utility and importance, in either or any of the following cases: 1st. Where the original record of establishment or location of any road, or the record of any alteration of any road is from any cause imperfect or defective. 2d. Where any road has been so altered or changed from the ground on which it was originally laid out, whether said alteration has been made by authority of law or otherwise. 3d. Where there is any uncertainty as to the point of commencement, or termination of any road. § 2. In all cases of a review of any road heretofore established, or of any view of any road hereafter to be established, the county court may, if they deem the road of sufficient importance, direct the county surveyor to accompany the viewers, and to survey and measure the road, and return a plat thereof, together with a note of all the important points along the same, into the office of the clerk of the county. The county court shall have power to fix the pay of the surveyor, chain-carriers, and markers, and pay the same out of the county treasury. § 3. The county court shall have power to lay off the county into convenient road districts, and to alter and change the same as often as the public convenience may require; and to appoint one overseer for each district, and prescribe the manner and amount of the pay thereof. A copy of the road districts shall be furnished the county assessor before making the assessment. § 4. The county assessor shall make out, his list of assessment in such manner as will show separately the whole amount of taxable property in each road disinct, and the names and number of persons in each district subject to pay road tax. . § 5. Every able-bodied male person over the age of eighteen and under the age of forty-five years, shall pay a poll tax equal to two days work in the year, according to a tariff of prices to be annually established by the court. In addition to the above poll tax, the county court may impose a tax on all property in each road district subject to taxation, as may, in addition to the aforesaid poll tax, be necessury to keep the roads in repair, not to exceed one- hundred per cent, on the amount of the State tax. § 6. The clerk of the county court shall furnish each overseer with a list of the names of the persons subject to pay road tax, and the amount thereof, including the poll and property tax, and the persons subject to pay such taxes may pay the same in. needful labor on the roads, at such price per day as may be established by a tariff of prices to be fixed by the county court. § 7. The overseers shall collect the taxes of their respective districts, hav-, ing first given to each person bound to pay, a sufficient opportunity to pay the same in labor on the roads. And whenever any person shall have failed or neglected to pay the tax in labor, the overseer shall have power to colelct the tax, and for that purpose shall be under the same restrictions and have the same powers that the collector of the State and county revenue by law has. Whenever any tax upon non-residents' lands shall not be paid during the year, a list thereof shall be placed in the hands of the county collector, and the same shall be collected as other State and county revenue is collected. § 8. The county court shall have power and authority to establish such rules and regulations as they may find necessary or proper to carry out the provisions of this act. All such rules, regulations, the tariff of prices, and such other provisions as they may establish, shall annually be published in . such manner as to give the greatest notoriety thereof, to the people of the county.