The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-07-15


in Section 460.
Sec. 13. Every overseer is hereby
REQUIRED to account to the County
Supervisor or County Board OF Com
missioners or the Board of Township
Commissioners at their annual settle
ment for all tools received, material
used or funds expended: under oath,
under this chapter, and they shall
also return full iapd true list and
statement of the names of all per-
sons within their respective districts
who have been ordered out to per-
form the labor as required By this
chapter, and after each working to
note the hours actually worked, work
each hand does, and he shall make
and furnish list to the County Su-
pevisor or County Board of Comnis-
sioners or the Board of Township
Commissioners of those who have
refused or neglected to perform the
same, and shall by oath attest the
correctness of each list so kept; and
all fines and forfeisures used for and
recovered under the provisions OF
this chapter shall be paid by the
Magistrate or Constable collecting
the same to the County Treasurer
wherein such fines and forfeitures
accrued; and several overseers shall
also render an account to the County
Supervisor or County Board Commis-
sioners or the Township Board of
Commissioners at their annual settle
ment of all moneys expended and all
property remaining in their hands at
the time of the settlement, also all
judgments that remain unpaid, and
the name of the judgment debtor,
and Magistrate before whom such
judgments were obtained, and the
amounts thereof; and the County
Supervisor or County Board of Com
missioners or the Township Board
of Commissioners shall make out
such order as to the prosecution of
the suits by the owner of the proper
districts against such delirquents as
in the judgment of the County Su-
pervisor or the County Board of Com
missioners or the Township Board of
Commissioners the interest of the
public may require.
Sec IA. All property that may re-
main in the hands of the overseer
at the time of the annual settlement
with the County Supervisor or Coun-
ty Board of Commissioners or the
Township Board of Commissioners,
shall be turned over to his success.
ors in Office as soon as such success
sor shall be elected and qualified,
taking q receipt therefor, and de-
posis said receipt with the County
Supervisor or County Board Of Com
missioners or the Township Board
of Commissioners. It shall be law
full for any overseer to sell [sueJ out
executions on any judgment that re-
mains unpaid within his proper dis
trict at any time when, in his opinion,
the same can be collected, and the
money so recovered and collected
shall be paid over to the County
Treasurer, ss provided in the FORE
going section, by the Magistrate 80
collecting.
Sec. Is. The County Supervisor
or County Board of Commissioners,
within the county, is authorized to
have the overseer construct foot paths
or bridges over streams, swamps,
marshes and along the highways of
his county.
Sec. 16. Each overseer, within his
district, may erect and keep up, at
the expense of the county, at the
forks and cross roads, a post and
guide board, or fngerboard, contain
ing an inscription, in legible letters,
directing the way and distance to the
town or towns, or public place or
places, situated on each road respect
i7ely.