Overseer

A superintendent or supervisor; a publlc officer whose duties involve general superintendence of routine affairs.

— Overseers of highways. The name given, in some of the states, to a board of officers of a city, township, or county, whose special function is the construction and repair of the public roads or highways:

— Overseers of the poor. Persons appointed or elected to take care of the poor with moneys furnished to them by the public authority. lands, by the owner of the less valuable estate to the owner of the more valuable, to equalize the exchange.