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An Act concerning Highways, Ferries and Bridges. 1822 151 (1822.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0062 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE Or MISSISSIPPI. 1I5 AN ACT, concerning Highways,-Ferries and Bridges, SEC. J. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represes, tatives of the State ofMississippi, in General Assembly convened, That there shall be appointed, (if not already appointed) by the County Courts of each county in this state, at the first or some subsequent term after the passage of this act, a commissioner for each captain's district in the different counties in this state, who when assembled, in the manner herein directed, shall have, exercise and possess, the entire superintendence and control of roads, highways, ferries and bridges. SEC. 2. Each board of commissioners so appointed, shall meet at the respective court houses of the different counties of this state, in each and every year, on the Mondays imme- diately preceding the Mondays on which the Superior Courts of the respective counties meet; and when so assembled, the said commissioners shall have power and authority, at any time, apjat all times hereafter, to establish ferries, and to deterdife ithe tolls of the same; to order the laying out of roads when necessary; to appoint where bridges shall be made; to discontinue such roads as now are, or hereatter shall be made, as shaill be found useless; and to alter roadr, so as to make them more useful, as often as occasion shall require. Sec. 3. The presiding ju tice of the County Court of each county in this state, shall by virtue of his oflt e be president of the board of commissioners; he shall preserve order at the meetings of the board, direct the proceedings to be recorded, have power to line any person (not a member) for improper, disorderly, or contempinus behavior, in any surn not exceed- ing ten dollars, and with 1he concurrence of a majority of the board, mayfine a member, in a like sum, or expel him. SEC. 4. When the seat of any commissioner shall become vacated, the residue of the said board of commissioners, shall as early thereafter as coivenient, elect another commissioner to supply such vacancy. SEC. 5. A majority of the whole number of the commis- sioners, appointed as aforesaid, shall constitute a board to transact business; but no road established according to law, shall be altered or changed, nor shall any new road be open- ed, without the concurrence of a majority of the whole num- ber of the aforesaid commissioners. SEC. 6. If the presiding justice of the County Court shall fail to attend a meeting of the board ofcommissioners, the said board shall be, and are hereby authorised to elect a presider.!- 'gro tempore.