The Laws of Texas, 1925 [Volume 23] Page: 482 of 822
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470 SPECIAL LAWS.
its discretion lay off and establish road precincts within the
limits of each commissioners' precinct and number the same
and establish its boundaries for greater convenience in operating
the road system of Upshur County.
SEC. 4. An overseer shall be appointed and the hands apportioned
for each road precinct at the time of its establishment;
and the regular February term, of the court in each year
the court shall appoint an overseer for each road precinct in the
county and at the same time shall designate all the hands lawfully
required to work on public roads and apportion them to
the several overseers; provided that hands shall as near as practicable,
be apportioned to work on the road precinct nearest
to their place of residence, and provided further that each and
every male person within the age prescribed for road service by
the General Laws of Texas and, not otherwise exempt from road
service shall be apportioned for service to some road precinct
of Upshur County. The commissioners' court of Upshur County
is hereby empowered to allow to road overseers such compensation
as in their judgment may seem just and necessary
to secure efficient road management. They may pay for extra
care and labor above the ordinary duty of road service such
wage as road funds will warrant and the labor justify.
SEC. 5. If from any cause the said Upshur County commissioners'
court shall fail to perform the duties required of it in
Section 4 of this Act at the regular February term of said court
in each year, it shall be lawful for said court to perform such
duties and take such action at any subsequent term of the court
during the year whether it be a called session or a rgeular term
of said court.
SEC. 6. Whenever it occurs, that by death, removalsor other
disability to act as road overseer, any road precinct is left without
an overseer, it shall be the duty of the commissioners' court
to immediately, upon information of that fact, to appoint
another overseer to fill such vacancy and notify him of his appointment
and duties that the public may not be deprived of
proper road service or maintenance. The clerk of the county
court shall keep a record of all road procedure. He shall make
out in duplicate all orders appointing road overseers, and deliver
same to the sheriff of the county within ten days after the order
has been made, indorsing on each copy, the date of the order
making the appointment.
SEC. 7. All orders appointing road overseers shall embrace
the names of all hands that the General Law makes liable to per
form road service coming under the jurisdiction of each road
overseer as defined by the commissioners' court.
SEC. 8. The sheriff shall within ten days after he receives
copies of any order appointing road overseers and apportioning
hands to a road precinct, deliver to or leave at the usual place
of abode of such overseer one copy of the order and shall return
to the clerk of the court the other endorsed with the work served
and the date of service, or the phrase not served, and the reason
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1925 [Volume 23], book, 1925; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth15499/m1/482/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .