the  faithful  performance  by  such  persons  of  the  labor  as  directed

by  the  sessions  shall  be  held  tp  be  the  performance  of  their  ordi-
nary highway  labor  under  this  chapter,  but  they  shall,  within  one
week  after  the  performance  of  the  labor,  obtain  from  the  surveyor
or  commissioners  for  the  district^  who,  if  the  labor  has  been  faith-
fully performed,  are  hereby  required  to  grant  the  same,  a  certifi-
cate of  the  due  performance  thereof ;  which  permission  and  certifi-
cate shall  be  a  bar  to  any  action  brought  against  any  such  person
for  non-performance  of  his  ordinary  highway  labor  under  this
chapter.
20.  No  surveyor  shall  alter  any  highway  without  the  consent  Higiiway  not  to
of  two  justices  of  "the  peace  for  the  county,  although  the  owner  of  the''comentJttwo
the  land  required  for  the  alteration  may  assent  thereto.  justices.
21.  The  surveyors  and  commissioners  shall,  as  often  as  they  winter  labor.
shall  deem  necessary  during  the  winter,  order  the  iahabitanta  to


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[PAET  I.
Returns  of  sur-
veyor, how  made.
Pines,  how  reco-
vered and  appro-
priated


^vork  with  their  shovels,  horses,  oxen  and  sleds  upon  the  highways,
in  order  that  the  same  may  be  rendered  passable,  and  every  inha-
bitant not  complying  with  the  order  shall,  for  every  omission,  for-
feit five  shillings,  but  no  person  shall  be  obliged  to  ftirnish  more
than  one  day's  labor  of  himself  and  team  for  any  one  fall  of  snow,
or  work  in  any  case  when  the  fall  or  drift  of  snow  shall  not  exceed
twelve  inches  in  depth.
