Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-08-17
ia. Hale sFs Us. siSMiMeR MN. ii II;
The Judge Gives Hprlnce Albert !" /
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| &fessrs. Editors; IN eeply TO Mr. Zim-j
merman'ss Very learned exposition on the
boundary line, between this State and
the State cf Georgia, i have the follow
| ing propositions to submit: , S5i sth2
First. That Ooonee county is Q munioi-
pal corporation, and, as suoh, has only
such powers as are expressly granted It
by tho Legislature. HEfT. 4 3, z sf5
Second. That, while tho Legislature
has granted tho County Supervisor and
Board of Commissioners tho authority
to contract with adjoining counties in
this State, 1t has not granted it authority
to contract with adjoining States, or
counties in adjoining States In support
of this proposition l submit Revised
Statutes of South Carolina, Section 1903:
| "lf any bridges Ovor waters of this State.
which constitute q boundary limo betwoen
counties, shall DO necessary to .jo orooto(i
or repaired, it shall be tho duty of tho
Supervisor of such counties to cause tho
samo to DO orccted, or repaired, In tho
each county bearing an equal share Of
| tho expense so inourred." No AUTHORITY
is given whatever to the County Supor.
visor or Board of Commissioners to CON
tract with all adjoining State, or county
in on adjoining State, in the building of
| bridges, or anything else. -s.., =
IN Eighth South Carolina, papo
w, thi' ou"1ico ooHeS SttyS, Cnle1 Justice
| Mc1vor cOncurring: > ., $780,. -
| "If q bridge o2cr watcis OF ti,is State.
which constitute boundary limo botwoon
| counties in this State is necessary. pro-
vision is expressly made how iS is to be
| done, how tho eXpense Is to be paid, and
| how tho bridge is to be theroaftor main
taineG." (Section 1909.
| We find nothing in tho Statutes giving
County commissioners power to buy, or
hri
! this State from another State, and 1t is
impossible to suppose that tho Logisla-
turo means to confer such power with
! out S0nio express provision to that effect,
when it is as explicit as to building
bridges over streams separating counties
| in this State; nor can power DO inferred
from s.raut of general jurisdiction over
highways and bridges within their re-
spcctivo counties.
| BY this you SEQ that tho "solemnly
signed WilbUrn contract with Habor-
sham county and suldry citizens of Oco-
ncc' is null and void and tho Commits
sioncrs of Oconce county, who thus lilo.
gally signed it, and thereby wasted somo
thrcc thousand dollars of tho peoples
money, aro liable, OH their Respective
bonds, to the people for tho amounts
spent in tho building and rebuilding of
these three bridges.
| SO, "princc Abort" you will 500 by
the above quotations that this "solomnly
signed Wilborn contract has bccn .set
asido'' and all, too, boforo it reached
Judge llalcy's court" aud oven before
prince Albert got whaclS ut it.
With his usual recklcssness no
charges that | was IL "star of tho
first magntudc' in tho PREVIOUS admin
istrati0ns that placed our county somo
live thousand dollars III debt, when tho
| books to which he had access show that
the Lay administration, tho only one
preceding tho present ono that 1 had
any connection with, that it paid, or
very nearly. so, all of it's contracts.
These same books will further show that
tho Indebtedness now due by tho county
ccding Lays and i'll which if he was
not "prnce" he certainly was n
beneficiary to tho extent Of several
| months work by tho convicts to and in
the direction of his ToXaway farm and
to his chum and farmer partners mill,
his protcstations as to having nothing to
do with bankrupting the county to tho
contrary notwithstanding.
lie seems to base his claim TO n FREQ
bridge TO his "ScOtt place., in Georgia,
on longer residence in tho county than
that OF myself l havo been q resident
Of Oconce for nearly forty-soven years,
and it's the fault of my parents, and not
Of myself, that | wasn't here sooner.
| Can he say as much?
| llc further says 81 am in need of a
bridge to the Scott place as badly as
MIR. Haley a graded and macadamizcd
road to llalcy's store" Now, tho only
macadamizcd road on this side of Oconce
that know Of is in sight of Mr.. Zm-
| mcrman'S house, not over q mile from
him, and to my certain knowledge thoro
is not foot of McAdam in four or five
rifles of lIalcy's store.
| Further on ho says: "I have helped
build two free bridges that Mr.. Haley
and tho people havo been using long
people have already built thrce free
bridges at Prathor's, and us soon as the
county and the people got able to build
and pay for a free bridge at Ravcnclrs,
| Nimmons's, Shclor's Ferry, Jcnkins's s
| Ferry ana Burnt lanyard, we may be-
gin to think honors about ovcn, and con-
cludc to help rebuild Prathors. In tho
| meantime, "Prince Albert" in going to
your Scott place go by your now convict
made road and Percivaps Crossing and
Jarrctts free bridge, which is just below
the i'rathcr farm; its better road, am
| told anyway, and if it is n mile or two
| further, you can stand it awhile.
1t may be true that the road from
| 'rasStown to Fort Madison, n distance
OF some ten miles, has had only one
change to tho cost Of $7l in twenty
years, bnt as recently passed over it
for once in twenty years, | am obliged to
say tht saw three mighty big piles of
blasted rock along it to not have no
more money than that spent on it.
SO, "lrince Albert" | don't think
your township has any just right to
complain. Just think of it, the con
victs making you now now road to
'crcivafs Crossing, and on previous
occasion having made a now road to
Dickson's springs, and also on previon,
occasion having worked out your roads
to Johns's mills, and also by tho Hudson
bridge, to your Toxaway farm; also, for
several weeks work under tho direction
OF Mr.. Commissioner Cook, having done
good and valuable service at and around
Fort Madison, all, too, c'now romcm-
ber' y in your (rugaloo) township, and
built you three bridges at Prathcr's be-
sides, and Il half mile of macadamizcd
road in mile of your home.
Tho effort he attempts to make to pre-
iudico tho other members OF tho board
to his way of thinking and against mo,
by the use of tho pronoun, or "Bip I,''
will provo him naught, as tho othor
members of tho board, as oycry ono
knows, who know them at all, know
them to be just as big ops" as mysolf,
or even he.
lilo winds up by saying, 81 hope ho will
get his eyes opon and soc tho law, tho
Justice and tho right and join with us
and rebuild tho bridge. confidently
believe tho Board, or a majority of tho
same, will do so and end tho trouble"
Ito ScuIuS to be abOut thc only ona