The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-07-22
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, July 22, 1903.
The Road Law.
IContinued from Last Week.

be obligatory on such County Boards
of Commissioners as conclude that
the system of working the highways
by those liable to road duty in their
respective counties is more conduc-
i've to the welfare thereof; and IN
such cases overseers shall be ap-
pointed in each township by the
County Board Of Commissioners, or
in those counties where Township
Boards of Commissioners exist, by
said Township Board Of Commission
ers for such township, who shall ez-
ecuse the laws in reference to work
ing public highways.
Sec. 27. In those counties where
the public roads are worked by those
liable to road duty, or in which any
highway district is so worked, the
County Supervisor and Board OF
Commissioners she'll divide the high
ways in each district which is SO
worked into suitable sections of not
less than two, nor more than five
miles each, and where not worked by
the contract system shall appoint an
overseer of roads for each of said
sections. They shall also divide the
persons liable to read duty in each
highway district into convenient and
suitable squads or companies, and
assign a squad or company to each
oyerseer of section, assigning the
road hands, as far as practicable, to
the nearest roads; they shall require
the overseer of roads to call out the
hands assigned to their respective
sections, and work the roads, and re-
pair and build bridges of same,
whenever they may deem it neces-
sary, after twelve hours notice; and
shall require every rosd hand to
bring with him for use hoe: axe,
mattox, spade or other tools for work
on the road or bridges. They shall
deter nine the number of days each
working, and the tools to be brought
by each hand, but not more than tie
number of days as fixed for each
county herein are required OF any one
man in the year. Whenever a high
way runs along the line of two high
way districts. the Supervisor shall
divide the highway into suitable Sec
tions, and appoint one or more over
seers for each of such sections, and
they shall assign to such overseers
from said districts, or from either
district, such laborers and road hands
as may be necessary to work the
same. The Supervisor shall cause
overseers, when working sections in
which there are bridges, to preserve
and keep them in order, as are in
their opinion of such character as
not to require to be given out under
contract, and can conveniently be
done by the road hands.
Sec. 2S. In those counties where
Township Boards of Commissioners
exist they shall, subject to the ap-'
proval of the County Board of Com
missioners or the Supervisor of their
respective counties, divide their re-
spective townships into suitable road
districts, and make record thereof
in a book kept for that purpose, and
annually thereafter may make such
alterations therein as they may deem
proper, and cause brief description
thereof to be made on the township
records, and also to furnish each
overseer with description of his
road district. The Township Board
of Commissioners of each township,
at their annual meeting, and annually
thereafter shall elect from the qualified
electors of their townships liable to
road duty one overseer for each road
district, whose term ofoffce shall be-
years from the date of appointment,
and who shall receive such compen-
sation as the County Board of Com
misaioners may fix. Such overseer
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