The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-12-23

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provide more efficient system of work.
ing the public roads in Anderson Coun-
ty:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
SECTION l. That the County Com.
missioners of Anderson County be, and
they are hereby, authorized and required
to divide the public roads of the said
County into highway districts of such
size as they may deem advantageous,
and appoint an overseer for each dis.
trict, and assign such hands to each dis
trict as they may see proper, having re-
gard to the residence of the hands so
assigned.
SEC. 2. Every person SO appointed
overseer, unless exempt from road duty,
shall be required to serve as hereinafter
provided, and any person refusing or
neglecting to serve when appointed shall
forfeit to The county the sum of twenty
FIVE dollars, to be applied to the perma:
nent improvement of the road in said
county, as hereinafter directed. The
term of Office of such overseer shall be
for two years from the date of their ap-
pointment but such overseer shall not
be compelled to serve more than one
term.
SEC. 8. The County Commissioners of
said county shall furnish each overseer
with list of all persons liable to road
duty who are assigned to work upon the
highway district over which such over
seer is appointed, and it shall be his duty
to warn out such hands at the times and
places designated by the County Com
missioners.
Sec. 4. The County Commissioners
shall require all persons liable to road
duty in said county to work upon the
public roads not less than ten nor more
than twelve days in each year, and it
shall require nine hours of actual work
to constitute days work under this
section.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty of each
overseer to keep list of the hands under
his control, and note the hours of actual
work which each hand does, and to return
to the County Commissioners, after each
working ordered by them, list of each
hand under his control who works, and
the number of hours he. has actually
worked; and he shall also keep list
of such hands as refuse or fail to work,
and such return shall be sworn to in
whole or in part, and return tie same to
the County Commissioners, and shall by
oath attest the correctness of each list 30
kept and returned by him.
Sec. 6. The County Commissioners
shall direct the times of working said
roads, and the place in each district at
which work shall begin, and the overseer
in each district shall proceed 10 work the
roads under his charge thoroughly as he
goes, arching the same to the centre,
with drains on each side to convey the
water, and, when necessary, shall protect
such drains from washing by throwing in
stone at suitable distances. Whenever it
is necessary to convey water, or to pro.
vide for it to cross any road, he shall have
the drain across such road laid in stone,
and of such width as to afford an easy
crossing, where a bridge may not be
necessary. He shall make the roads at
least twenty feet wide, and shall protect
them by suitable drains from interference
by cultivation.
SEC. Z. The County Commissioners
shall provide such overseers with such
number OF picks and scrapers as they
may see proper, and such orerseers shall
be responsible for the custody of the
same. All hands warned to work the
roads shall bring with them hoe, shovel,
or other farm tool, as directed by the
said overseer.
Sec. 8. ANY hand in said county may
compound for his work by paying to the
overseer, and taking his receipt in writ.
ing therefor, the sum of FIVE dollars per
annum, which sum shall be returned by
such overseer to the County Commis.
sioners for the permanent road fund of
the county, hereinafter provided for.
Sec. 9. That the County Commission.
ers of Anderson be, and they are hereby,
authorized and required to levy annually
the sum of one fourth of one mill on all
of the taxable property of the county, TO
be designated as a sapermantntimprovement
fund, and the proceeds therefrom shall be
annually expended by said commission
ers in macadamiziug or permanently
filing the worst places in the public
roads, or constructing rock culverts,
when necessary, across the said roads.
Sec. 10. The provisions of existing
laws relating TO the working Of highways
shall remain of force in said county, ex.
cept so far as they may be modified by
the provisions of this Act.