The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-07-22
The Road Law.
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agreed upon by contractors and the
Courty Board of Commissioners, and
said sum shall be credited upon the
amount due or to become due said
contractor by the said board as here
iDbefore provided.
Sec. 80. The County Board Of
| Commissioners are hereby authorized
to work the highways in their
counties, or any part thereof, by q
chain gang, without regard to the
system or systems used in other
| portions of their counties. Immedi
ately after the payment of the COM
mutation road tax to County Treas
urere, as provided in this chapter,
thev shall furnish the County Board
of Com missioners cf their respective
counties with the names of all per-
sons who have paid said tex; aud tt e
County Board of Commissioners shall
| furnish sll overseers or contractors
With toe names of all such persons
who shall not be liable to road duty
for the year in which said payment
may be made.
Sec. 80 All moneys paid into the
county treasury in commutation of
w5rk on the public roads shall be
kept separate and apart from the
general county furd, and except as
otherwise hereinbcfcre directed, shall
b exclusively applied by the County
Board CT Commissioners to repairing
the highways and bridges of the
county, by contract or otherwise, as
may be deemed most expedient; but
said moneys must be expended upon
those sections OF the public roads
uhereon the pereons paying such
commut tation tax may be liable for
road duty. The County Board of
Commissioners Of the counties are
authorized to use for other county
purposes than repairs Of highways
any balauce of the road conmutation
tax remaining in County Treasurer's
hands on the first day cf January in
each year.
Ssc. "a The County Board of
Commissioners are hereby authorized
and empowered to have specia
supervision of the blildipg of new
bridges over the rivers and creeks of
this State; also of extra and extensive
repairs of old bridges. When such
work is to be accomplished the Super
visor and County Board of Commits
sioners shall give fifteen days notice
10 the county paper, and in writing
duly posted in the neighborhood in
phch such work is to be performed,
that he will be st such place on such
a day and hour, with suitable speci-
cations, to let out such work to the
lowest bidder, and to take from tie
successful bidder sufficient bond for
the faithful performance of his duty.
When the work is done it shall he
inspected by the Supervisor and
County Board of Commissioners,
who shall report the result of his in
vestigations to the full board, and
they shall accept or reject the same
acco' ding as they may determine
whether the constructor has or has
not complied with the terms of his
contract
Sec 35 II any bridge over waters
Of this State which shall constitute
boundry line between counties shall
he necessary to be erected, it shall
be the duty of the commissioners of
such counties to cause the same to
be erected or repaired in the manner
provided in the last section, each
county bearing an equal share of the
expense so incurred. And when any
such bridge already exists, or shall
hereafter be built, il shall be the
duty of said commissioners to divide
the same, by measurement from the
centre to the end of each approach,
and each board shall be responsible
for the good condition Of the half
next adjoining the county in which