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signed by said commissioner shall be
authenticated by the official seal.
Section 80. Each county shall pay :
1. The fees of the grand and petit ju-
rors while in attendance upon the Cir
cult Court. 2. Witnesses fees in the
State cases for actual attendance upon
the Circuit Courts as provided by law.
3. Fees of physicians and surgeons
testifying as experts before the Cir
cult Court. 4. Fees of sheriffs and
clerk of Court as provided by law.
5. Fees of county coroners as allowed
by law. 6. Fees or salaries Of trial
justices and constables. 7. The sala-
ries of auditor, treasurer and county
supervisor as provided by law.
Section 80. That the fees allowed
jurors, constables and witnesses shall
be paid by the treasurers Of the coun-
ties. on the presentation to them of
certificates signed by the presiding
Judge and countersigned by the clerk
of the court, or be received by him in
the payment of all county taxes, when
duly approved by the county supervi-
SOr.
Section 10. That the accounts of
the coroner and sheriff and supervisor
and physicians or surgeons fees for
post mortem, shall be approved by
county board of commissioners, and
the supervisor, on their approval,
shall draw an order upon the county
treasurer for the payment of the same,
countersigned by the secretary Of the
board.
Section Il. Sheriffs, deputy sher-
ifs, coroners and constables shall ex-
ecute all legal orders to them directed
by the boards herein provided for, or
the chairman thereof, andOshall re-
ceive therefor the same fees and costs
allowed in other cases.
Section az. That the reports Of the
county treasurer and other officers now
required by law to be made to the
board of county commissioners shall,
after the passage Of this Act, be made
to the county supervisor, and all set
Elements by any of the. county officers
now required to be made with the
board of county commissioners or its
chairman shall be made with the ,oun-
ty supervisor. =
Section 43. The county board OF
commissioners shall prepare an esti-
mate of the amount of money neces-
sary to pay the expenses incurred by
said boards and for ordinary county
expenses and report the same to the
Comptroller General of the State, on
or before the 10Th day of November Of
each year, to be by him submitted to
the General Assembly in order to
provide the necessary taxation for
county purposes.
Section A. In case of the failure of
the county supervisor to faithfully
perform the duties of his office or the
conditions of his bond, it shall be the
duty Of the solicitor of the circuit in
which such supervisor shall reside to
bring an action upon the bond of said
supervisor in the name of the county,
and any amount realized from said
suit shall be deposited in the treasury
to the credit of the road fund, and
shall receive therefor such fees as the
Court shall designate.
Section 45: That the salaries of the
Supervisors in the several counties
shall be paid quarterly by the county
treasurers out of the county funds, IN
the same manner as other claims
against said county are paid.
Section 46. That it shall be the du-
ty of the county supervisor to cause a
record to be kept of all the proceed
incs of the board Of which he is herein
made. chairman, as well as record OF
all contracts entered into with said
boards, as provided in this Act, which
said records shall be open to public
inspection, and all necessary books
and material for keeping same shall be
paid for out Of the funds herein pro-
vided for the respective boards in the
same manner as other charges are paid.
Section At. That so much Of this
Act as applies to the working Of the
public highways by the contract sys-
tenn and by convicts in chain-gangs
shall not be obligatory on such county
boards of commissioners as conclude
that the present system of working
the highways in their respective coun-
ties is more conducive to the welfare
thereof ; and in such cases overseers,
as now provided by law, shall be ap-
pointed in each township by the
township board of commissioners for
such townships, who shall execute the
laws now of force in reference to the
working of public highways.
Section 49. That said county board
of commissioners at their first meeting
shall elect one of it's members as Sec
rotary thereof.
| Section 40. That The salary of the
supervisor in the respective counties
shall be as follows: In the county of
Abbcville, $500; in the county of Al
ken, $500; in the county of Ander-
son, $500 in the county of B4rnwell, ,
$500; in The county of Beaufort,
! $500; in the county of Berkeley, $500 ;
! in the county of Charleston, 81 900
in the county of Chester, $500; in
the county of Chesterfield, <4OO; in
the county of Clarendon, $500 in the
county of Colleton, $500; in the
county of Darlington, $500; in the
county of Edgefeld, $500 in the
county of Fairfield, $3.50; in the
countv of Florence. $500; in the
county of Georgetown, $3.50; in the
county of Greenville, $500 in the
county of Hamilton, $500; in the