Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-03-09
County Commissioners.
AN ACT DEFINING THEIR DUTIES AND
Powers

AN ACT to define the duties of County
Commissioners County School Commis.
sioncrs, and County Trcasurcrs, in ref
ercncc to The auditing, a'l,wing and pay
ment 0! claims, and to REQUIRE annual
reports of all claims audited, allowed and
paid by them to be made to tho Court of
General Sessions.
SECTION | BE Il enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of tho State
of South Carolina, now met aud sitting in
General Assembly, md by the authority Of
she same: That the County Commission.
crs OF the scvcra! counties Of said Stat,
shall keep in their several Offices "iile
book. in which all claims presented fny
their consideration shall be fled by their
clerk, designating the date filed, by whom
presented, and to whom said claim belongs.
aud the character and amount of said
claims. The said clerk shall also number
said claims in the order in which thew arc
filed, audited aud allowed, from number one
upwards.
Sec. 2. That tlo County Commission
ers shall draw their checks upon the county
Ircnsurers of their respective counties, in
payment of snid claims, out of any funds
IN the Treasury applicable to the payment
thereof. Provided, thnt no such checks
shall be drawn by the said County Com
missioncrs until they shall have been for.
mally notified by the County Treasurer
that there are sufficient fuLds in the county
Treasury applicable to the payment Of such
checks.
SEC. g. That County Commissioners and
County School Commits oners shall make
IN annual report of all clains fled, audited
aud allowed and ordered ra d by them
during each fiscal year, to the presiding
judge at the first term of the Court of
General Sessions for each county which
shall be held after the first day of Japuary
il ouch year; which report shall be sub
m'tted by sad Judge to the grand Jury
Tor their examination, with the assistance,
II necessary, OF some competent persons to
be appointed by the presiding judge, at
coup nsation of five dollars per day for
each day SO cngaged; provided, that no pay
shall be received under this Section for
more than four days. After the examina-
tion the grand jury shall report thereon to
the presiding judge any matter growing ont
of, or pertaining to, said annual report,
which to them may seem worthy Of the
attention of the court. The said rcport
shall thcrcupon be filed by the clerk of said
court, aud kept as papers of said court for
inspection by any citizen dcsirous of exam
ming the same.
SEC K. That the County Treasurers of
the several COUNTIES of said State shall
not pay any claims against their respective
counties upon orders of County Commits
sioners, except as hereinbcforc provided for.
and they shall make an annual report to the
presiding judge, at the first term of the
Court OF General Sessions in their respcc.
tive counties which shall DO held after tho
iirst day in January in each year, of the
number, character and amount of said
claims paid by them on orders of County
Commissioners and County School Com
missioncrs, and to whom paid; which report
shall be submitted by said Judge to the
grand jury for their examination, and shall
be filed by tho Clerk of said Court and
kept in his Office for public inspection.
SEC. .. That if after examination of said
reports Of County Commissioners, County
School Commissioners and Treasurers, The
grand jury shall find any discrepancies be-
tween tho reports, or any Irregularities
therein, or any embczzlements of or OK
travagances in the expenditures of public
funds, they shall present the same to the
said Court, and orders shall be taken there
on as shall meet the ends of justice.
SEC. d. That said reports of County
commissioners, County School Commits.