The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-01-10

be deemed misdemeanor, punishable
by a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars or imprisonment not exceeding
one year.
Section 21. The county board Of
commissioners shall, at the last term
of the Court of General Sessions in
each year, make a report to the pre-
siding Judge, to be by him submitted
to the grand jury, Of all their actings
and doings, containing an itemizcd
statement of all amounts ordered to
be paid by them, the condition of the
public highways, bridges and ferries
in their respective counties for the
fiscal year, and all matters appertain-
ing to the same.
Section %. The members of the
county board of commissioners shall
have power to administer oaths to all
persons 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 disor-
derly conduct amounting to an open
or direct contempt or wilfull Interrupt
tion 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 convicts to confinement in
prison with hard labor, shall sentence
able-bodied male convicts to hard la
Dor 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 authorities
may sentence convicts to work upon
the streets and public work of the
municipality in which they have been
convicted, and such convicts when 80
sentenced shall work under the direc-
tion 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
sentenced shall be under the super
vision and control of the county SUI
pervisor and by him formed into a
county chain-gang and required to per-
form hard labor upon the public high
ways, roads, bridges and ferries or
public buildings in the county; he
shall direct the time, place and man
ner of labor to be performed by said
chain-gang: Provided, that said
chain-gang shall not be worked in
connection with or near any road con-
tractor or overseer.
Section 25. That the county board
of commissioners shall diet and pro-
vide suitable and efficient guards and
appliances for the safe keeping of said
convicts. They shall likewise pro-
vide. all necessary tools, implements
and road machines for performing the
work required 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.
Sec tion 26. That in case any con-
vict or convicts so employed by the
county supervisor shall become un-
governable or unfit for the labor re-
ouired of such convict or convicts,
the said supervisor may commit such
convict or convicts to the State Peni-
tentiary or county Jail. And 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 convict or convicts so COM
mitted. When such 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 27. That the county board
of commissioners shall be authorized
and required to employ physician or
whenever necessary to
render medical aid to sick convicts
and to preserve 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 20. The county board OF
commissioners 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 20. That said board shall
be empowered to make all necessary
rules and regulations for the govern
ment of the county poor house and
farm, to appoint a superintendent,
with sacn assistants as may be need
ed, to provide means for the employ
mcnt as may be best suited to the in
mates of the poor house, to see that
every pauper able to work is employed,
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