Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That every supervisor in each county of this State shall hereafter within twenty days after having accepted his appointment, make out a list of the names of every person liable to labor tax, within his district, and shall add thereto all such persons as may remove into Said district from time to time, and who are liable to said tax, and on the first monday in March annually, he shall return said list to the County Commissioners’ Court, after having credited each individual with the labor, which he may have performed.

Sec. 2. Any person who shall refuse or neglect to perform his labor tax as required by the act concerning public roads approved Feb’y[February] 3^d 1835, after having been notified agreeably to the provisions of said act, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $1.25, for each day so neglected to be performed, to be recovered with costs of suit before any justice of the peace within said County

Sec. 3. Any supervisor, who shall neglect or refuse to prosecute such delinquent person before he makes his returns to the County Commissioners’ Court as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay double the amount of such delinquent’s labor tax, to be recovered before any justice of the peace

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in the County, in the name of the County Commissioners, for the use of the county, and it is hereby made the Special duty of the Clerk of said Court immediately thereafter to prosecute such delinquent supervisor, and to pay Over said forfeiture when collected to the County Treasurer: and also to prosecute all delinquent supervisors, who may neglect, or fail to make due Return of the delinquent list, as provided by the first section of an act to amend an act concerning public roads, approved January 18^th 1836. All moneys collected under the provisions of this act shall be appropriated by the County Commissioners’ Court to the improvement of such roads, as may be situated, in the district from which the same may have been collected

Sec 4. Hereafter every person, who may wish to discharge his road land tax in labor, shall be permitted to do the same at the rate of one dollar per day, including what is now allowed by law.

Sec 5. Each Supervisor on Settlement of his accounts, shall be allowed one dollar and twenty five cents per day (including what he is now allowed by law) for each day’s service on the road; and notifying his hands, after discharging his own tax

Sec. 6. Every Commissioner hereafter appointed by order of the County Commissioners’ Court, to view and locate, or review and relocate any public road or Cart way, shall before entering upon the duties of their appointment, be severally sworn, faithfully to perform the duties assigned them by virtue of their appointments: which Oath may be taken before the Clerk of the County Commissioners’ Court, or any justice of the peace in the County

Sec 7. Hereafter every petition for a view and location, or review and relocation of a road, shall have at least thirty signers, whose residence shall be within five miles of the route proposed to be viewed, or reviewed; provided however that if there shall not be that number residing within the bounds of such route, the said Court may appoint viewers on a petition with a less number of signers when they deem the public good requires it, any law to the contrary notwithstanding