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ACTS PASSED AT THHE HsE-
CENT SESSION OFTKHE GEN
EAsAE ASSEMBLY.

TITLE II, PART 1, OF TIE GENERAL
STATUTES, RELATING TO TIE REPAIRS;
OF HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
BE It enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives. Of the
State of South Carolina, now me
md sitting in General Assembly
and by the authority of the same:
SEC. l. That Chapter XIV, Of
Iitlc II, Part I, Of the General
Statutes, be, and the same is here.
by, repealed, and the following sub
stitutcd as such chapter:
SEC. 2. The County Commission.
crs Of tho several counties Of this
State shall divide their respective
counties into highway districts,
each district to contain not less
than two miles of public highways,
nor more than thirty miles, to be
convenient for repairing highways,
and from time to time to alter the
same.
Sec. 3. That for the purpose of
keeping in repair highways, the
County Commissioners of each
county shall divide the persons lia-
bic to road duty in each highway
district into convenient companies,
and appoint MI oversecr of roads in
each highway district, whose duty
it shall be to have the persons be
fore named warned out to work the
said roads whenever he may deem
it necessary to repair the same. He
shall determine the number of days
ior working ut each warming: Pro-
cricd, That not more than six days
arc required in year. When the
Commissioner having oversight of
such sections gives orders to the
o7erseer to work the road, and he
ncglccts to do the same, he shall be
guilty Of a misdemcanor, and upon
conviction thereof in Il Trial JUS
tees Court, shall be fined in q sum
not less than five nor more than ten
dollars.
SEC. 1. Any person liable to road
duty, who shall have been duly
warmed two days before tho day fix
ou III his notice for such working.
stating the hour and place of work.
ing, shall be subject to the direc
tion of the oversoer in charge. If
any person of the legal age refuse
to work upon the highways and
roads (having no justifable cxcusc),
according to the direction Of the
oversecr, he shall be deemed guilty
of IL misdomeanor, and, upon con-
viction thereof in Trial Justices
Court shall be fined in q sum not
less than five dollars, nor more
than ten dollars, OF be imprisoned
in the county jail for period of
not less than five nor more than
twenty days.
SEC. S. That OH any extraordi-
nary occasion, when any highway
shall be suddenly obstructed by
storm or otherwise, 50 as to require
Immediate labor to remove such OBJ
struction, it shall be the duty of
the overscer in whose district such
obstruction occurs to proceed forth
with to have such obstruction re-
moved, and for this purpose shall
summon to his aid sufficient num-
ber Of workmen to open and repair
such highway. If any person shall
in such case perform more days H.
Dor than is required by law for the
year, he shall be paid for any such
overplus at the rate of one dollar
per day by the County Commission
ers, upon the certificate of the
overscer showing that such over
plus labor was performed Ii on
any such extraordinary occasion the
overseer shall. for tho space of q
day, after application made to him
for such purpose by any citizen re-
siding in his district, neglect to call
out sufficient number of persons
to speedily open and repair such
highway, he shall forfeit and pay to
the County Commissioners of his
county, to be expended in the re,
pair of highways when and where
necessary in his district, the sum Of
fifteen (S15) dollars, unless the over,
seer shall show sufficient reason fol
such neglect; the said fifteen dol.
lars to bo collected by an action for
debt in the name of such County
Commissioners as plaintiffs before
any Trial Justice in said county,
If on any such extraordinary occa,
sion any person liable to work on
highways, after being summoned
for the purpose of removing such
obstructions by the order of the
ovorseer, shall neglect to turn out
and assist in opening and repairing
such highway, he, shall be guilty OF
q misdemeanor, sEsnd, npon convic.