Laws of the state of New York relating to highways, bridges and ferries, comprising chapter sixteen of the first part of the third or revisers' edition ... been subsequently passed on the same subject
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781425516178
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: SECTION 1. The commissioners of highways in the several towns in this state, shall have the care and superintendence of the highways and bridges therein; and it shall be their duty: 1. To give directions for the repairing of the roads and bridges, within their respective towns; 2. To regulate the roads already laid out, and to alter such of them as they, or a majority of them, shall deem inconvenient; 3. To cause such of the roads used as highways, as shall have been laid out but not sufficiently described, and such as shall have been used for twenty years but not recorded, to be ascertained, described and entered of record in the town clerk's office; 4. To cause the highways, and the bridges which are or may be erected over streams intersecting highways, to be kept in repair; 5. To divide their respective towns into so many road districts as they shall judge convenient, by writing under their hands, to be lodged with the town clerk, and by him to be entered in the town book; such division to be made annually, if they shall think it necessary, and in all cases to be made at least ten days before the annual town meeting; 6. To assign to each of the said road districts such of the inhabitants liable to work on highways as they shall think proper, having regard to proximity of residence as much as may be; provided, however, that whenever the commissioners of any town shall have neglected, for the period of