The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-04-05
An Act.

An act to amend Section of an act en-
titled IAN act to provide system Of
county government for the several
counties of this State, so far as it re-
lates to the maintaining and working
Of the roads and highways in this
State," approved March %, 1896,
amended and approved February %,
1897, and amended and approved Feb
ruary q, 1898, by inserting Cherokee
County
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of South
Carolina, that an act entitled 'An act
to amend an act entitled an act to pro-
vide system of county government for
the several counties of this State, so far
as it relates to the working and main
tanning of the roads and highways in
this State, approved March %, 1896,
amended and approved February 25,
1897, and also amended and approved
February 81, 1898, be, and the same is
hereby, further amended by inserting
the name Cherokee, on line 4 of Section
4, after the name Spartanburg, so that
said section when amended shall read
as follows:
Section 4. That all male persons able
to perform, or cause to be performed,
the labor herein required, between the
ages of IS and 80 years; except in Hor-
ry, Spartsnburg, Greenville, Cherokee
and Union counties, where the ages
shall be from 81 to so, and also excep,
ministers of the Gospel in actual charge
If a congregation, and persons perman-
emily disabled in the military service of
this State, and persons who served III
the late war between the States, shall
be required annually to perform, or
cause to be performed, four days labor
IN the highways, under the direction Of
the over>eer Of the road district iu
which he Shall reside; except in the
counties of Spartanburg, Anderson,
Greenville, Pickens and Darlington,
wherein the number of working days
shall be three; and in Pickens county.
the commutation tax shall be one dol
lar; and in Greenville county ten hours
shall constitute a days work for all
hired hands; and in Pickens county ten
hours shall constitute a days work
for all hands; and the counties of Or
augeburg, Saluda, Edge6eld, Colleton,
Chester, Barnwell, Newberry, Green
wood, Williamsburg, Dorchester, Sum-
ter and York, wherein the number Of
working days shall be four as to York;
aud the counties Of Berkeley, Charles
ton, Georgetown, Hampton, Beaufort,
Marion and Florence, where the number
Of working days shall be eight; and in
Bamberg county, the number of work
ing days shall be six: and in Clarendon
county, where the number of work days
shall be changed to four, and the COM
mutation tax shall be one dollar: Pro-
vided, that the county board Of com
missioners Of any county may cause to
be levied an additional tax, not to ex-
ceed one mill, on all the taxable prop
erty Of any township in their county,
when so required by written petition
signed by two-thirds of the freeholders
Of such township, except in Pickens
county, where it shall not be necessary
to have said written petition. Such
tax to be collected as the other taxes
and to be expended on the roads and
highways of such township: Provided,
that the provisions of this act shall not
apply to the county of Fairfield. The
provisions Of this act shall not apply to
Pickens, Cherokee and Union counties
until the year 1900: Provided. further.
that in Oconee county the number Of
days work to be performed be four.
without ahv cnmmutttio
Approved the 2nd day Of March. A.
j. 1899.