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Timestamp: 2020-07-05 02:12:59
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 38', '§ 39', '§ 40', '§ 41', '§ 42', '§ 38', '§ 39', '§ 40', '§ 41', '§ 42']

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ROADS   AND   HIGHWAYS. 115
der the penalty of five dollars, to be recovered and applied as other  road
fines for the use of the county; and every such overseer shall be entitled to
the sum of one dollar for every such post or sign so erected, to be paid out
of any money in his hands belonging to his road district,   or in the   county   .
treasury, out of any moneys arising under this act.
5 36. If any person shall demolish or deface any such sign-board, or remove the same, he shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered as other fines provided for in this act, and applied by
the proper overseer to the use of his particular road district.
S 37. Every viewer of a county road, in any county in this State, shall
be exempt from working roads as many days as he shall have been employed
as a viewer; and every justice of the peace who shall be appointed to lay
off road districts and allot hands in their respective townships, shall be exempt from working roads and serving on juries, in lieu of other compensation, during the time that he shall continue to act in that capacity; and every
road overseer shall be exempt from serving on juries and militia duty, during his continuance as road overseer.
§ 38. If any road overseer shall wilfully fail or neglect to keep his road
in good repair, or faithfully appropriate any moneys in his hands for the use
of his road division, or in any manner to comply with the duties required of
him by this act, or refuse to serve when appointed as road overseer, he shall
forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars, for the use of his particular road division, to be recovered by indictment by the grand jury of the proper county, or by suit before any justice of the peace of the proper township, as other
fines provided for in this act; Provided, That no road overseer shall be required to serve more than twelve months at any one time; and such forfeiture for failing to accept his appointment, shall exempt him from reappointment for the term of twelve months, from and after the date of its payment.
§ 39. Whenever any new road shall be laid out and established under
the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the overseer or person appointed to cut out and open the same, to apply to such justice of the peace
as may have been appointed in the township through which the same may-
run, for an allotment of hands to cut out and open the same, and it shall be
the duty of such justice of the peace, immediately, to make out and deliver
to such overseer, a list of hands for that particular purpose, to be notified and
summoned as other hands are required to be, to work roads; said justices,
in making such allotment, shall have power to allot such number of hands residing in his township, subject to work roads, as he may deem necessary,
having due regard to the amount and kind of labor necessary to be performed in opening said road.
§ 40. If any clerk of a county court, sheriff, or justice of the peace in
any county in this State, shall fail to perform the duties required of him by
this act, he shall, for each offence, forfeit and pay not less than ten, nor more
than fifty dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, before any justice of the
peace of the proper county, for the use of such county, in the name of any
person who may sue for the same, which said sum, when collected by any
constable, shall be paid over to the justice of the peace before whom judgment was obtained, and take his receipt therefor, and said justice shall,
within thirty days thereafter, pay the same into the county treasury.
§ 41. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the county courts within this
State, to present and lay before each and every grand jury that may sit and
be empannelled for their county, at each and every session thereof, a complete schedule of overseers of roads in their respective counties.
, § 42. Hereafter, when a bill of indictment shall be preferred by a grand
Jury in any court in this State, against the overseer of a road, for a failure to
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Transcript ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. 115 der the penalty of five dollars, to be recovered and applied as other road fines for the use of the county; and every such overseer shall be entitled to the sum of one dollar for every such post or sign so erected, to be paid out of any money in his hands belonging to his road district, or in the county . treasury, out of any moneys arising under this act. 5 36. If any person shall demolish or deface any such sign-board, or remove the same, he shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered as other fines provided for in this act, and applied by the proper overseer to the use of his particular road district. S 37. Every viewer of a county road, in any county in this State, shall be exempt from working roads as many days as he shall have been employed as a viewer; and every justice of the peace who shall be appointed to lay off road districts and allot hands in their respective townships, shall be exempt from working roads and serving on juries, in lieu of other compensation, during the time that he shall continue to act in that capacity; and every road overseer shall be exempt from serving on juries and militia duty, during his continuance as road overseer. § 38. If any road overseer shall wilfully fail or neglect to keep his road in good repair, or faithfully appropriate any moneys in his hands for the use of his road division, or in any manner to comply with the duties required of him by this act, or refuse to serve when appointed as road overseer, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars, for the use of his particular road division, to be recovered by indictment by the grand jury of the proper county, or by suit before any justice of the peace of the proper township, as other fines provided for in this act; Provided, That no road overseer shall be required to serve more than twelve months at any one time; and such forfeiture for failing to accept his appointment, shall exempt him from reappointment for the term of twelve months, from and after the date of its payment. § 39. Whenever any new road shall be laid out and established under the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the overseer or person appointed to cut out and open the same, to apply to such justice of the peace as may have been appointed in the township through which the same may- run, for an allotment of hands to cut out and open the same, and it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace, immediately, to make out and deliver to such overseer, a list of hands for that particular purpose, to be notified and summoned as other hands are required to be, to work roads; said justices, in making such allotment, shall have power to allot such number of hands residing in his township, subject to work roads, as he may deem necessary, having due regard to the amount and kind of labor necessary to be performed in opening said road. § 40. If any clerk of a county court, sheriff, or justice of the peace in any county in this State, shall fail to perform the duties required of him by this act, he shall, for each offence, forfeit and pay not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, before any justice of the peace of the proper county, for the use of such county, in the name of any person who may sue for the same, which said sum, when collected by any constable, shall be paid over to the justice of the peace before whom judgment was obtained, and take his receipt therefor, and said justice shall, within thirty days thereafter, pay the same into the county treasury. § 41. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the county courts within this State, to present and lay before each and every grand jury that may sit and be empannelled for their county, at each and every session thereof, a complete schedule of overseers of roads in their respective counties. , § 42. Hereafter, when a bill of indictment shall be preferred by a grand Jury in any court in this State, against the overseer of a road, for a failure to