The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-08-06


SIX MONTHS. .-.,............ aoc'
s Two Dollars II not paid In advance.
THE PUBLIC ROADS.
The annual time for working the
public roads has arrived. The road law
requires the superintendents Of the
Highways to appoint the Overseers in
his Highway District, and to assign them
hands; The pyerseers are required to
have the hands.warned to work the roads,
giv;ng them twelve hours notice OF the
tine and place Of working, and the kitld
of tool each shall bring.
All our citizens should be interested in
the public roads of the County. If the
law is compiled with as it should be-
great Improvement will be made in the
roads but We are sorry to notice that too
frequently the law is eyaded. While q
great q saS many Oyesseers tsy to do their duty
faith fully, others are satisfied TO call out
their Eands and to throw up alittle fresh
dirt into the middle of the road in places,
and seems to try to see how soon they can
/ march their hands with their tools on
Their shoulders from one end of their
section sss to the other, unless the Superin.
tsndsnt of the Highways designates the
number of days TO be worked, and then
TO see how little can be done in that
time. We have noticed instances Of this
kind IN ihe past; bnt hope that we have
no Oyerseefs now but faithful ones.
Superintendenta of the Highways should
see to ii that the roads in their Districts
B are i pnrso5iperly ns5i worked. Where all Super
iMalMenaents, MM MM Oyerseers and hands do not
faithfully discharge their road duty, the
burden falls nnequally upon the citizens.
One Oyerseer may do five days wo1k on On
his section ofthe road, and another Over
seer not so conscientious may only 90
one OF two days work on his section,
although needing work just as badly.
Soft Is Important that supezintendents
Of the Highways should look closely
after this matter.
The road law imposes penalties for its
violations yet iteiisyerY seldom that one
-is punished for lis violation. A strict
enforcement of the law by the County
Commissioners and Superintendents OF
Highways will do more to improve our
public roads than anthing that can be
done at this time. It is too often the
cass that County Commissioners fail to
enforce; the. law because they are afraid
( HAT they wonld lose: some votes at the
5 next election. AS general rule the Law
would be enforced more strictly if the,
Office Of County Commissioners was an
appointiye one and not an electige. .one..
$ But Anderson County will not suffer in.
this respect from our present Board OF
County Commission for they are. all
fearless men in discharging what they
deem sto bea duty. They have had an
abstract Of the road Law published and
sent to each snperin ntsndent Of Highways
in the Comfy, and several copies for.
general distribution, in order that the
& people might be more generally informed
as m to what is required. So those neglect
ing; their duties in this respect may
Anticipate, as far as the County Com
missioners can do 50, to see the law en-
hrced.
We think the road Law Of this State
IS deficient in some respects and should
.sbe amssded, but we think only BY the
enforcement Of the Law as it stands now,
can the roads besimproyed until 20 better
system is devised.
The road Law requires that all roads
shall be twenty feet wide, except those
leading to Charleston, Georgetown,
Columbia, Hamburg or Cheraw, which
are is be thirty feet wide. In a great
{ many placesin the County the roads are
not ten feet wide, caused by the farmers
ploughing into the roads. This matter
has been presented by the Grand Jury of
the County. and should have the atten-
tion it deserves. In working the roads,
The oYerseers should work them the
width they we're laid Of, no matter if it
destroys the corn aud cotton OF some
private individual, for he had no right
to cultivate the public roads; and if
necessary TO prevent such trespasses on
the public roads, let the Commissioners
prosecute some Of the trespassers for
obstructing the public Highways.
Free tuition in the South Carolina
College has become one Of the great
political questions of the day. The
criticisms on the Board of Trustees of
the College for making tuition free, has
become SO great that Judge McIyer, of
the Supreme Bench, who is also CO e6icio
member. Of the Board of Trustees of
+ the College, has thought it proper to
write two articles for the Neacs and COZ
rier in defense Of The. action ofthe Board.
The first Of these articles he confines to
the Constitutional question. Sec. 10 Of
Art. 10 Of the Constitution reads as fol-
lows: aAllthe Public Schools, Colleges