The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-05-05
The Road Law.

SECTION !. Be i. enacted by the
General Assembly Of the State Of
South Carolina, That al &cs entitled
An Act to provide a s. stem Of coun-
II government for the counties O. this
State, so far as it rolaes to the work
ing and maintaining the roads aud
HIGHWAYS 10 this State" approved
March 23d, 1895, be. and the same is
hereby, amecded by striking out Ssc
1ion / thereof and inserting in lieu OF
said Section the following:
SECTION 4. That all able bodied
male persons and al male persons
able TO perform or cause to be per
formed the labor herein required, be-
tween the ages CT eig teen and fifty
years, except in Horny snd Spartan
burg counties, where the ages shall be
from twenty. one to fifty, and also ex-
cept ministers of the Gospel in sctual
charge OF congregation, aud persons
permanently disabled in the military
service Of this State, and persons who
served in the late war, shall 5s liable
annually to do and perform four days
labor on the highways, under the di
rection of the Overseer Of the road dis
trict in which he shall reside, except
in the in the counties of Spartan burg,
Anderson, Greenville and Darlington,
wherein the number Of working days
shall oe three, and the counties Of
Orangeburg, Pickens, Saluda, E3ge
feld, CoIIeton, Chester, Bsrnwell, {,
New berry and Williamsburg, where
n tbs number Of working days shall
be six, and the counties of Charleston,
Ge9rs. .uiown, Beaufort and Florence.
whel Elm the number of working days
shall be eight: Provided that the
County Board Of Commissioners OF
any county may cause to be levied an
additional tax, not 10 exceed one mill.
on all the taxable property Of any
township in their county, when so re
quired by a written petition signed by
two thirds Of the freeholders Of such
township, such tax to be collected as
the other taxes, and to be expended On
the roads and highways Of each town
ship.
SECTION 2 That the said act be, and
the same is hereby, further amended
by striking out Section 81 thereof and
inserting in lieu of said Section the
following:
SECTION 81. Thatthe County Treas
urers Of the counties of this State are
hereby authorized aud empowered to
receive from any and all persons liza
bic to road duties as commutation tax; :;
in the counties of Aobeville, dol
lars, to be fixed by the County Board
OF Commissioners; Aikea, one dollar
Anderson, one dollar; Barnwell, one
dollar; Beaufort, two dollars; Berke.
ley, one dollar; Chester, two dollars
Chesterfield, one dollar; Charleston,
two dollars; CclIeton, two dollars;
Clarendon, one dollar; Darlington,
QUE dollar: Edgefeld, two dollars;
Fairfield, TWO dollars; Florence, two
dollars; Georgetown, two dollars
Greenville, one dollar; HAMPTON, one
dollar; Horny, two dollars; hershaw,
one dollar; Lancaster, one dollars;
Laurens, two dollars; Lexington,
one dollar; Newberry, one dollar;
Marlboro, one dollar; Marion,
two dollars; Pickens two dollars;
Richland, two dollars; Spartanburg,
one dollar; Sa1uda. two dollars; Sum-
ter, one dollar; Union, one dollar /;
Oconee; one dollar; Orangeburg, two
dollars; Williamsburg, two dollars
York, two dollars; aud all moneys 80
paid shall be set apart and known as
the county road fund: Provided,
That such Communication lax BE- paid for
the fcal year 1896 between the first
day Of March aud las first day of
April, and hereafter SAID commutation
tax shall be p8id Tor the succeeding
year when State ard county taxes are
pad, and that the County Treasurers
Shall furnish g receipt t. the person SO
paying the same Provided, TIE amend
meots as to Pickens county shall not
apply to the present fiscal year. That
the amendments TO this Section shall
not so into etfec! until the first day OF
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