Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-10-31

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tie time prescribed by this Act,
the County Treasurer is hereby au-
thorized 20 receive the same with a
penalty of so per cent. of said
amount added: Provided, The
same be rendered within fifteen
days after the expiration of said
time.
Sec. 19. All accounts, claims,
and demands of whatever nature
existing against the county for
opening, constructing, maintain
ing, and operating any public
highway, road, bridge, or ferry
shall be presented to the County
Board Of Commissioners, duly at
tested, and if approved by said
board the County Supervisor shall
draw his warrant upon the County
Treasurer, under the seal of the
County Board of Commissioners,
for the amount of any such claim
or claims, which warrant shall be
countersigned by the secretary of
the Board, and the same shall be
paid by said Treasurer out of the
county road fund.
Sec. 20. Any willful neglect of
duty on the part of any member
Of the County Board of Commits
siouers shall be deemed a misde-
meanor, punishable by fine not
exceeding one hundred dollars or
imprisonment not exceeding one
year.
Sec. q. The County Board of
Commissioners shall, at the last
term of the Court of General Ses-
sions in each year, make report
to the presiding judge, to be by
him submitted to the grand jury.
of all their actings and doings,
containing an itemized statement
of all amounts ordered TO be paid
by them, the condition of the pub
lie highways, bridges and ferries
in their respective counties for the
fiscal year, and all matters apper-
tanning to the same.
Sec. %. The members of the
County Board of Commissioners
shall have power to administer
oaths to all persons appearing be-
fore them, and to punish by fine
not exceeding ten dollars, or i'm
lprisonment in the county jail not
exceeding twenty hours, any and
all persons guilty of disorderly,
conduct amounting to an open or
direct contempt or willful inter-
ruption of their proceedings.
Sec. %. That from and after the
passage of this Act all the courts
of this State and municipal au-
thorities which under existing laws
have power to sentence convicts to
confinement in prison with hard
labor shall sentence all able bodied
male convicts to hard labor upon
the public works of the county in
which said person shall have been
convicted, and in the alternative to
Imprisonment in the county jail
or State penitentiary at hard labor:
Provided, That municipal author
tiles ma sentence municipal con-
victs to work upon the streets and
other public works of the munich
pality in which they have been
convicted, and such convicts when
SO sentenced shall work under the
exclusive direction and control of
the municipal authority imposing
sentence: Provided, That no con-
vict whose sentence shall be for a
period longer than two years shall
be so sentenced.
Sec. "a. That all convicts so SEN
fenced shall be under the super
vision and control of the County
Supervisor and by him formed into
a COUNTY, chain gang and required
to perform hard labor upon the
public highways, roads, bridges,
and ferries, or public buildings in
the county; be shall direct the
time, place, and manner of labor
to be performed by said chain
gang: Provided, That said chain
gang shall not be worked in con-
nection with or near any road con-
tractor or overseer.
Sec. 25. That the G, unity Board
of Commissioners shall diet and
provide suitable and efficient
guards and appliances for the safe
keeping of said convicts. They
shall likewise provide all necessary
tools, implements, and road ma
chimes for performing the work re-
quired of said convicts, all costs