Page:Historic highways of America (Volume 12).djvu/108

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
104
PIONEER ROADS

for that purpose, and the whole value of the said lands so laid out into an highway, and damages together with the costs of ascertaining the value of the said damages of the county in which the said lands shall be situated are levied collected and paid.

"And be it further enacted That each of the said commissioners shall be entitled to receive for their services the sum of sixteen shillings for every day they shall be respectively employed in the said business to be paid by the respective counties in which they shall so be employed which sums shall be raised levied and paid together with and in the same manner as the necessary and contingent charges of such county are raised levied and paid and that the said commissioners shall account with the auditor of this State for the monies they shall respectively receive from the treasurer of this State by virtue of this act on or before the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety six."[1]

A law entitled "An act appropriating monies for roads in the county of Onondaga

  1. Laws of New York, 1794, ch. XXIX.