The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-07-08
Wednesday, July 8, 1903.
The Road Law.

General Assembly of the State OF
South Caroline: The County Board Of
Commissioners shall take charge oi
and superintend the repair of the
highways in the County, the bridges
shall be repaired under their supervi
sion, and the expenses of the same
shall be paid out of the treasury
raised and appropriated for this pur
pose. All the work on bridges giver
out by the County Supervisor and
County Board of Commissioners
where the amount shall exceed the
sum of ten dollars, shall be done By
contract. When the amount shall
exceed the sum of one hundred dol.
lars, the County Supervisor and Coun'
ty Board of Commissioners are here,
by required to advertise the same in
at least one of the papers in the such
County; said proposals shall in all
cases be accompanied by one or more
surities; when the amount is less
than one hundred dollars and more
than ten dollars, the County Super
visor and County Board of Commits
sioners are required to advertise the
same by posting a notice in three
public places, one of which must be
at the place where the work is>to be
dore; said potices> to be posted ten
days prior to the day on which the
work is to be let, snd the County
Supervisor and County Board of Com.
missioners shall have the right to re-
jeet any or all bids, if in their iudg-
ment the interest of the County so
requires. =
Sec. 2. Each township in the seve-
raj Counties of the State and in any
County where no township exists each
tax district shall constitute highway
district.
Sec. 8 The County Board of Com
missioners of the several Counties of
this State are authorized and empow-
cred, jointly or separately, to estsb-
lish and maintain such free ferries
over the streams of this State and to
discontinue the same, as in their
Judgment may seem best; and that all
ferries are requied to be kept open for
use from $50 a. m. to $50 p. m.
Sec. 4. All roads, highways and
ferries that have been laid out or ap-
pointed by virtue of an Act OF the
General Assembly, or any order of
court, or by any order of the County
Board of Commissioners, are declared
TO be public roads and ferries, and the
County Supervisor and County Board
of Commissioners shall have the con-
troll and supervision thereof. Ia
those counties where the Township
Board of Commissioners have not
been abolished, they shall be in each
township or tax district in any County
where no township exists under the
supervision Of the Township Board Of
Commissioners and the County Board
of Commissioners. The Township
Board of Commissioners, in those
counties where they exist, are incor-
porate, and the Township Board of
such township shall be their corpo-
rate name. The said County Super
visor and County Board of Commits
sioners shall have full power and
authority to order the laying out and
repairing Of public roads where neces-
sary, to appoint where bridges or
ferries or fords shall be made, to dis
continue such roads bridges and fer
ries as shall be found useless, and TO
alter roads so as to make them more
useful.
Sec. 5. The road bed shall not be
less than Is feet wide. exclusive Of
side bitches, roots and other obstruc-
tions, unless otherwise ordered by
the County Board of Commissioners,
and be posted with substantial mile
posts, and where roads runs through
lands where water stands or flows, the
roads must be ditched on either side
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