The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-01-10

missioners shall, at tne last term Of the
Court Of General Sessions 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 public highways,
bridges and ferries in their respec-
tive counties for the fiscal year, and all
matters appertsinipg to the same.
Section %. The members of the coun-
ty board of commissioners shall have
power to administer oaths to all per-
sous appearing before them, and to
punish by fine not exceeding ten dol
lars, or imprisonment in the county
Jail not exceeding twenty-four hours,
any and all persons guilty of 6isorderly
conduct amounting to an open or direct
contempt or wilful interruption of their
proceedings.
Section %. That from and after the
passage of this Act all the Courts of
this State and municipal authorities,
which under existing laws have power
to sentence conricts to confinement
in prison with hard labor, shall SEN
tence 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 alter
native to inl:sonment in the county
Jail or State Penirentiary at hard labor:
Provided, That municipal authorities
may sentence convicts to work Dpon
the streets and public work of the
municipality in which they have been
convicted, and such convicts when so
sentenced shall work under the direc-
Son and control of the municipal au-
thority imposing sentence. Provided,
That no convict whose sentence shall
be for period longer than two years
shall be so sentenced.
Section "a. That all convicts so SEN
fenced shall be under the supervision
and control of the county supervisor
and by him formed into county chain
gang and required to perform hard
labor upon the public highways, roads,
bridges and ferries or public buildings
in the county; he shall direct the time,
place and manner of labor to be per-
formed by said chain-gang: Provided,
that said chain-gang shall not be
worked in connection with or near ana
road contractor or overseer.
Section 25. That the county board of
commissioners shall diet and provide
suitable and efficient guards and appli-
ances for the safe keeping of said con-
victs. They likewise provide all nee
essary tools, implements and road
machines for performing the work re-
quired of said convicts, all costs
and expenses Of which shall be paid
out Of the county road fund in the
same manner as other charges against
said fund are paid.
Section 26. That in case ary convict
or convicts so employed by the county
supervisor shall become ungovernable
or unfit for the labor required of such
convict or convicts, the said supervi-
sor may commit such convict or con-
victs to the State Penitentiary or coun-
ty jail. md it shall be the duty of the
superintendent of the Penitentiary, or
the sheriff of the county, as the case
may be, to receive any such con-
Wet or convicts so committed.
When said chain gang is not employed,
or when convenient and practicable,
they shall be confined in the county
Jail for safe keeping under direction of
said supervisor.
Section q. That the county board Of
commissioners shall be authorized and
required to employ physician or ply
sieians whenever necessary to render
medical aid to sick convicts and to pre-
serve the health of the chain-gang.
The fees and expenses of the same, as
well as for medicines prescribed, to be
paid out of the road fund as other
claims are paid against said funds.
Section %. The county board Of COM
missioners shall have general super
vision over the paupers and the poor
house and farm of the county, and the
said board shall provide all necessary
buildings for the accommodation of
the poor of the county. with sufficient
tillable land to give employment to all
paupers able to work, and said build
ings and lands shall be designated as
the poor house and farm of the county.
Section %. That said board shall be
empowered to make all necessary rules
and regulations for the government of
the county poor house and farm, to ap-
point q superintendent, with such as
sistants as may be needed, to provide
means for the employment as may be
bests suited 10 the inmates of the poor
house, to see that every pauper able to
work 10 employed, and to appoint one
or more physicians to the poor house,
who shall furnish medical aid to the
INDECENT sick.
Section 81. The county board of COM
missioners shall have power to demand,
sue for and receive all snch gifts, lega-
cies, fines, forfeitures and all other
moneys or things which may be given
as coming to the use of the poor.
Section 80. In case any poor child or
children shall be, or become, chargeable
to the county the county board of
commissioners may bind out any such
child or children as an apprentice to
some person of good moral character
until such child, if he be a male, shall
arrive at the age Of l6 years, aud if it
he . fpnala until che arrive at tho ape