Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-03-09
THE ROAD LAW.
Sections of the General Statutes Still in
Force and Bearing on this Subject.
Published by Request of County Com
missioners.

misSlonerS.
Section 1885. Any person liable tc
road duty who fails to appear anc
work without justifiable excuse, after
being duly warned for twelve hours
shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and, on conviction before a
Trial Justice, shall be. fined not less
than 50 nor more than so, or be
imprisoned not less than 5 nor more
than 10 days.
Sec. 1886. On any extraordinary
occasion when anv highway shall be
suddenly ohstructed by storm OF
otherwise, 50 rs TO require immedl-
ate labor to remove such obstruc-
tionS, it shall be the duty of the over
seer to call out sufficient number OF
hands to remove the obstruction. If
anv person shall, in such cases, per-
form more DAYS labor than is re-
quired by law for the year, he shall
be paid for any such overplus, at the
rate of 81 per day, by the County
Commissioners, upon the certificate
Of the overSeer to that effect.
Sec. 1858. The overseer shall allow
a man working one day and also fur
nishing horse, plough or cart, two
days labor; and one working HIM
self for one day and furnishing a
wagon and two horses, mules or
oxen, three days labor.
Sec. 1889. Al able-bodied male
citizens Except such as are exempt
by law between the ages of 16 and
80, are required to perform each year
not less than 6 nor more than II
DAYS labor on the public roads under
the direction OF the overseer.
Sec. 1890. Teachers and students
OF schools and colleges and ministers
of the gospel who are serving q con-
creeation as pastor shall be exempt
IRON road duty.
Sec. 1892. Ovcrseers shall have
full power to cut down and make use
OF any timber, wood, earth or stone,
in or near the road, bridges or cause
WAYS, for the purpose of repairing
the same, as tc them shall seem nee
essarv, making Just compensation
therefor, should the same be demand
ed; and any person who hinders,
forbids or opposes an oyerseer in
using such timber, &c, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor.
Provided, that no overseer shall cut
anv timber trees reserved by the
owner in cleaning his land or planted
Cor the purpose OF shade or ornament,
either in the fields, around the springs
or about the dwelling house, nor cut
any rail timber when other timber
may be procured ct or near the place.
Sec. 1893. For the purposes OF
road duty, the residence of any per
son, who has family, shall be ;held
to be wher bis family resides, and
the residence of any other person
shall be held to be where he boards.
Sec. 1904. Al public roads lead
inc directly from any part of the
State to Charleston, Columbia Cam
den, Hamburg or Cheraw, shall be
50 feet wide, and all other roads
shall be cleared - feet wide.
THE NEW ROAD LAW.
Sec. /. The County Commission
ers are hereby authorized and re-
quired to divide the public roads of
the county into highway districts OF
such size as they may deem advanta-
geous and appoint an overseer for
each district, and assign such hands
to each district as they may see pro-
per, having regard to the Importance
of the road and the residence OF the
hands so assigned.
Sec. >. Every person so appointed
overseer, unless exempt from road
duty, shall be required to serve as
hereinafter provided, and any person
refusing or neelecting to serve when
appointed shall forfeit to the county
the sum OF twenty-five dollars. The
term OF office of such overseers shall
be TWO wears from the date OF ap-
pointment, but no overseer shall be
REQUIRED to serve two terms in sue
ccSs;on, and shall be exempt from
road duty for two years Immediately
succeeding such term.
Sec. 3. The County Commissioners
shall furnish such overseer with list
of all persons liable to road duty who
are assigned to work upon the high
way 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 Commissioners, and at such
times as the exigencics of the wea-
ther may necessltate.
Sec. 4. The County Commission
ers shall require all persons liable to
road duty to work upon the public
roads not less than six nor more
than twelve days in each year, and
eight hours OF actual work to con-
slitutc a days work under this Sec
ton.
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 performs, and to return to the
County Commissioners after each
working ordered by them a list Of
each hand under his control who
works, and the number of hours he
has actually worked. He shall also
keep list of such hands as refuse OF
fail to work, and make his return tc
the County Commissioners with his
certificate attached thereto as TO the
correctness of su return.
Sec. 6. Thc lily Commission
ers shall airecl The times of working
said road, and the place in each dis,
trict at which the work shall begin
and the overseer in, each district
shall proceed to work the road under
his charge thoroughly as he goes
arching the same to the centre, with
drains on each side to convey the
wafer. taking care to protect suck