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CAP. XIII.

An ACT to enable the Commissioners of Highways in the Parishes of Magerville, Sheffield, and Waterborough, to lay out Highways, and to appropriate part of the Statute Labour for securing the Bank of the River in front of those Parishes.

Passed the 5th of March, 1805.

Preamble.

 
WHEREAS great damage frequently happens to the Bank of the River Saint John in front of the Parishes of Magerville, Sheffield, and Waterborough, and to the Highways laid out thereon;

Commissioners may alter Highways damaged by the Freshes.

 

 
I.   Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That the Commissioners of the Highways for the time being, in such Parishes shall and they are empowered to alter the said Highways in the Parishes aforesaid that have been or hereafter may be washed away, or otherwise damaged by the freshes, as may appear to them conveninet and necessary.

Surveyors, when required, to summon Inhabitants to work with teams, &c. in planting the bank with bushes to be allowed as part of the labor they are by Law to perform.

 

Penalties.

 
Recovery and

 
Application.

 
II.   And be it further enacted, That the Surveyors of Highways in the Parishes aforesaid, shall, after the first day of April in every year, when required by the said Commissioners so to do, summon every male Inhabitant in their districts, with their Teams and such Implements as may be necessary, who are liable to work on the Highways, giving them at least six days notice, to labour thereon by planting the said Bank with Willows or Alders, or otherwise bushing the same, as the said Commissioners may deem most effectual for the preservation thereof, and such labor so done shall be allowed by the said Commissioners in part of the labor which the said Inhabitants by Law are liable to perform, under the penaly of Five Shillings, and for every neglect of Teams turning out with a competent driver, Ten Shillings for each and every offence or neglect, to be recovered on complaint of any one of the said Commissioners to any one of His Majesty's Justices, to be levied by warrant of distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, rendering the overplus, if any, to the owner or owners, to be laid out under the direction of the said Commissioners in the districts where the same shall be recovered.

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C. 13. Anno XLV. Geo. III.   A. D. 1805.


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