1822 - Edocs

Fawns
Fines and forfeitures
appropriated.
Ferries to be licensed.
term tee regulated.
Proviso.
Tax oil Ferry li
cjnee.
100
aforesaid to view any road shall fail or neglect to perforathe
uuties required of them by law, each and every overseer
or commissioner so failing or neglecting shall for-
feit and pay a sum not exceeding1 fifty dollars, to be recovered
by presentment by the grand jury in the count}
court of tiie proper county.
17. Be it further enacted, That, all fines and forfeitures
which may hereafter be incurred, under the provisions
of this act, shall be paid into the county treasury, and
after the payment of tiie overseer, as is provided for by
this act, shall be and the same is hereby directed to be appropriated
to the improvement of the several public roads
and highways, in the counties in which the same may
have been incurred, either by hiring horses, waggons, labourers
or otherwise as the overseers of the several roaci
divisions or districts shall deem most advisable and proper
and an order for such overseer shall be a sufficier.voucher
to the county treasursr for the payment thereof
18 Be it further enacted, That, no person or person -
shall keep a ferry in this Territory, so as to demand o.
receive pay, without a special licence first had and obtained
from the county court of the county where such
ferry may be; and the said court are hereby empowered
on the payment of such sum as the said court shall deem
reasonable, not less than two dollars nor exceeding- one
hundred dollars, for the use of the county to grant a licence
to each and every person applying, who shall be
judged suitable for such service by the same court, for
the term of one year from the time of giving such licence,
to keep a ferry at such place as the said court shall judge
necessary. And the court shall state the fare and ferriage
at each ferry, for passengers, horses, and other creatures,
carriages, waggons, carts, teams, and other things transported,
always having regard to the breadth and situation
of the stream, and the publicity of the ferry: and provided
always that every person having applied for a licence
as aforesaid, shall before the same shall be granted, give
bond with sufficient securities to the clerk of the county
court of the county wherein such ferry may be and to his
successors in office, in such sum as the said court shall
order, conditioned for the faithful performance of the du-
ties of his place.
19. Be it further enacted. That, it shall be the duty oi
the court, granting licences for keeping ferries, to compel
the person obtaining tne same to pay therefor, for each
year, any sum not less than two dollars and not exceeding
the sum of one hundred dollars, and under every restriction
and condition by law provided concerning the grant
ing of licences.