Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-08
SOuTH CAROLINA ROAD LAW.

and list of exemptions from ROAD duty.
Each township constitutes highway
district.
The county commissioners shall annually
appoint superintendent of highways 1or
each highway district, for which he Is ap,,
pointed and liable to road duty, but exempt
therefrom by reason of his office. He shall
have superintendent Of highways in his
district, under the direction of the county
commissioners, to whom he shall make
a report once in three months OF the cOndl-
ton of the roads in his district.
Each superintendent shall divide the
highways in his district into suitable sec
tions of not less than two, nor more than
five miles and appoint overseers tor each
all persons liable to road duty in his district
into two companies or squads and assign a
squad to each OverSeer, as far as practlca
bfe, assigning the road hands to the near->
est road, and shall require the Overseer to
call out the hands to work the roads, repair
and build bridges of same whenever he
may deem it necessary, after twelve hours
notice and shall require each hand to bring
with him a hoe, axe, mattock or other tool.
He shall determine the number of days for
each working and the tool to be brought,
provided not more than twelve days work
Shall be required of any hand in year.
For refusing or neglecting to carry out any
work required by the county commissioners,
or any of them, the superintendent of high
ways shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanor, and upon conviction, before a
nor more than so. OverseerS for neglect
ing to call out hands and work roads, when
req uirel by the superintendent, upon con-
victiOn in trial justice court, shall be fined
not less than s., nor more than $50.
Superintendents shall jointly divide a
highway running along the line of two
highway districts and shall assign hands
from their respective districts to work the
same. Overseers shall require their hands
serve them and keep them in order, when
it can be conveniently done. If bridges
need such repairs as should be given out
under contract, superintendent shall report
the same to the county commissioners With
out delay.
When any highway shall become OBJ
structed by storms, or otherwise, the over
seer shall summon sufficient number OF
hands to open and repair such highway.
Any overseer failing to call out hands, for
the space of day, after application made
! by any citizen, shall unless he has sufficient
excuse therefor, forfeit $15, to be collected
in an action in the name of the county COM
missiOners. Any person liable to work on
highways and neglecting to turn out, on
such extraordinary occasions and assist IN
opening and repairing such highways, after
being summoned, shall be deemed guilty OF
misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be
fined 50 per day. If any person shall per,
form more days labor than is required
by law, he shall be paid 81 per day for the
Overplus.
All able bodied male persons, between
the ages of sixteen and fifty years, are liable
to road duty, except members OF the State
and county boards of examiners, school
trustees, members of boards of assessors,
teachers and students at colleges, ministers
of the gospel, millers engaged in grist or
merchant mills, where they are kept open
six days in the week, and the warner f0r
five days.
The Overseer shall make list for the war
ner, requiring him to give notice to each
person of the kind Of tool to be used, which
notice shall be given twelve hours hours be-
fore the time fixed in the notice and also
state the hour and place of working. Ifany
person, after receiving such notice shall
neglect to appear or refuse to work accOr-
ding to the direction of the overseer, he
shall be deemed guilty of mlsdemeanor
and upon conviction before trial justice,
shall be fined not less than s., nor more
than $40, or be imprisoned in the county
jail for not less than five days nor not more.
than twenty days. Any person notified to-
work can pay the county treasurer 81 per
day for the time he is required to work,
which shall be received in lieu thereof.
Overseers shall allow two days labor for
a man working one day and furnishing
horse and plow, or three days labor for any
person working one day and furnishing
wagon and two horses or mules or oxen.
| Overseers have power to cut down and use
| timber, or use any wood, stone or earth, in
or near the highway, bridge or causeway to
be repaired, necessary for that purpose, but
the owner shall be entitled to compensation
therefor if demanded. But no overseer
shall authorize the cutting down of timber
trees reserved by the owner, or planted for
shade or ornament, either in the fields,
around the spring, or about the dwelling
house or rappurtenances, the cutting OF rail
timber when other timber can be procured,
or the taking of stone or earth from enclosed
grounds without the owners consent
Any person prohibiting or hindering an
Overseer from cutting down and using tim
Der, or from using wood, earth or stone, in
or near roads or causeways, for the purpose
of making or repairing such road or cause
ways, or for making such repairs of bridges,
or shall obstruct the passage Of said roads,
causeways or bridges, by gates, fences or
bitches or any other obstruction, or shall
hinder or threaten or forbid any traveller
from travelling any public road, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanOr and upon
conviction shall be fined not less than s.,
nor more than $40.
ANY person removing from one county to
another who has, prior to such removal,
performed road duty, shall, upon the pro-
duction of the certificate, or receipt Of the
overseer of the district where he last resided,
showing the labor performed, be entitled to
complete discharge for the amount therein
specified.
Persons over whose lands any road, other
than public highway, shall pass, may erect
gates thereon, but shall be liable to be indict-
ed for a nuisance, should he fail to keep them
in good repair.
Superintendents of highways shall cause
roads to be posted and numbered, and a
pointer placed at each fork and for neglect of
this duty, he is liable to fine of $40.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Mrs. J. NJ. Worth, wife of State Treasurer
Worth, died at her home, in Randolph coun-
ty, last Friday.
Col Samuel L. Wright, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Edgecombe county, COM
nlitted suicide in New York last Friday
night by shooting himself.
The emigration of negroes from North
Carolina to Arkansas has grown to such pro-
portions that the Legislature of the former
State has been urged to apply remedial
measures.
Col. r. Y McAden, President of the
Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad, says
that the road will be completed to Asheville
and connect with the Clyde Syndicate line
to Maryville and Knoxville within two