Town clerk must certify to proper officer the tax levied at town meeting.


III. LAYING OUT AND MAINTAINING ROADS.

1. Laying out a Road.--Make out a petition for a town road, have it duly
signed and posted. In due season present it to the supervisors who were
elected at your town meeting.

The supervisors, after examining the petition carefully and being sure
that it is in proper form and that it has been duly posted, will appoint a
time and place of hearing and give due notice thereof.

When the day of hearing arrives they will examine the proofs of the
posting and service of the notices of hearing before proceeding to act
upon the petition.

Having heard arguments for and against the laying of the road, the
supervisors will render their decision in due form.

In awarding damages, the supervisors will probably find four classes of
persons: first, those to whom the road is of as much benefit as damage,
and who admit the fact; second, those who should have damages, and are
reasonable in their demands; third, those who claim more damages than they
are in the judgment of the supervisors entitled to; and fourth, those who
from some cause, (absence, perhaps,) do not present any claim. From the
first class, the supervisors can readily get a release of damages. With
the second, they can easily come to an agreement as to damages. To the
third and fourth, they must make an award of damages. Let all of these