All overseers of roads who shall refuse or neglect to do their duty, in any respect, as required by law, after notice of their appointment as such, shall, on conviction, for each neglect be fined not more than fifty dollars.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 10, art. 7(15); 1857, ch. 64, art. 158; 1871, § 2621; 1880, § 2868; 1892, § 1142; 1906, § 1220; Hemingway's 1917, § 950; 1930, § 977; 1942, § 2207.
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