BE  IT  ALSO  ENACTED  by  the  Authority  aforesaid  that  It
■hall  and  may  be  Lawful  for  the  Freeholders  and  Inhabitants
•f  the  respective  Divisions  of  the  Manor  of  Cortlandt  aforesaid
at  their  annual  Ueetings  aforesaid  to  elect  and  choose  aa  many
Overseera  of  the  Boada  within  the  respective  Divisions  above-
mentioned  as  the  Justices  of  the  Peace  and  the  Commissioners
for  laying  out  the  Highways  within  the  aatd  Manor  or  the
iUajor  part  of  them  ahall  direct,  which  said  Overseers  respec-
tively are  hereby  required  and  orderea  to  warn  and  set  to  work
the  Ijthabitanta  living  within  the  respective  Divisions  for  which
they  sball  be  respectively  chosen,  and  so  often  as  the  said
Inhabitants  or  any  of  them  eball  have  Notice  from  any  of  the
Overseers  for  the  time  being  they  shall  in  their  Turn,  either  by
themselves  or  by  able  Slaves  or  Servants  clesir  an-j  amend  the
High^vays  not  exceeding  eight  Days  in  the  Year,  under  the
Penalty  of  three  Shillings  for  each  Day  «ach  person  shall  neg-
lect or  refuse  such  Service,  to  be  levied  by  the  Constable  in  each
Division  by  diatresa  and  sale  of  the  Offenders  Goods  and  Chat-
tels by  Warrant  from  the  Overseera  of  the  Highways  for  t&e
time  being  in  each  respective  Divifdon  where  sach  Offence  shall
be  Committed,  returning  the  Overplus  of  such  Bale  (if  any  there
be)  to  the  Owner  or  Owners,  the  Constable  being  first  piUd  for
bis  Trouble  and  Charge,  out  of  the  Distress  and  Bale,  as  la  usual
in  the  like  Cases.
