If any person shall suffer any public road of which he is the overseer to remain out of repair for more than ten days at any one time, unless hindered by extreme bad weather, or other unavoidable cause, on conviction thereof he shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-15-49
Road overseers; suffering road to remain out of repair
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 10, art. 7(15); 1857, ch. 64, art. 162; 1871, § 2625; 1880, § 2869; 1892, § 1143; 1906, § 1221; Hemingway’s 1917, § 951; 1930, § 978; 1942, § 2208.
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