The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-14

4 necessary tools procured from III
d. District Commissioner. and al tn
+ place appointed for the assembling o
= the hands that no time may be lost
= The Overseers, Commissioners and ma
j gistrates shall be furnished By tbs
) County Judge or Chairman with q
/ copy of the road law and all neces
J sary blanks required for carrying oui
the provisions Of this Act The over
seer shall file an itemized statement
with both the District Commissioner
and the County Road Commission
/ showing the time. place. and kind OF
work performed, number and char
acter Of tools received from and re
turned to the Commissioner, before
he shall receive any pay as such over
seer.
The County Judge or Chairman shall
furnish TO the District Commissioners
and County Road Commission book
of warrants numbered consecutively
and studded to correspond, which war
rants shall be used for payment for
necessary expenses on the roads; but
the warrants must be cOuntersigned
by the Secretary of the County Road
/ Commission, and approved by the
County Judge, before they shall De
paid by the Trustee No District or
County Road Commissioner shall make
any contract for the public roads with
any person related by affinity or con-
sanguinity within the fourth degree
counting by the civil law.
IL shall be a misdemeanor for any
! napcnu Of road ar for
over road age having agreed TO serve,
to refuse to act as overseer when
appointed by the District Commits
sioner.
But no person shall be compelled to
act as overseer for more than two
consecutive years.
SECTION 3. BE 1T FURTHER
ENACTED, That the Quarterly County
Court in session at the first meeting
after the passage of this Act, if it mas
not previously done so, and annually
thereafter at the January term of said
Court, shall fix the number of days of
labor to be required of the road hands, /,
which shall be five days in one year; !:
and shall at the same time fix the !
price to be allowed for a days work ,
on the public roads with wagon, team /
and horses and plows in Communication
for the labor of hand; but where an
Overseer, Commissioner, Contractor or
other person, hires wagons, teams,
plows, hands, ETC., paying for the same
with County funds, it shall be their
duty to pay only such prices as pri-
vate persons in the same community
are accustomed to pay for the same
character Of service; but in no case
to pay more than the sum fixed by the
Quarterly County Court.
The Quarterly County Court shall
At the January term of each year levy ,
'or road purposes an ad volorem tax,
IN all property (outside of incorpora
ed towns) of not less than 16 cts.
Tor more than 25 cts. on each $4,000
If taxable property, to be collected ;
~ the County Trustee. All money
by the Trustee, under this
PROVISION, shall be held by him as a
separate road fund. Provided, that
tx cts. of this assessment of Is cts. !
hall be used by the County Road
Commission as hereinafter provided in
section 13 of this Act Two-thirds or
he remainder of this tax, collected on
his tax levy from a given District,
hall be spent on the public roads of
hat District under the supervision of
he District Road Commissioner, and W
he remainder of said tax levy shall =
e divided equally between the road l.
districts of the County and shall be 7
expended under the same supervision. D
On all privileges. not less than one D
)drth of the amount levied and col le
,cted for County purposes, shall be u
DpOrtioned equally to the several !"
Dad districts. The Trustee shall re- p'
Give the same compensation for col p'
citing the road fund, as on the Coun- az
and State Taxes. al
SECTION 4. BE 1T FURTHER -
NACTED, That all male residents of =. -.
lie County between the ages of eigh :!
en- and fifty years, shall be subject q
road duty, except those living in ~
corporated towns and those who are ~
tempted by the Quarterly County -, 49,
)urt in session for physical or men ~
disability, the order of the Court r.
SO showing exemption from paying -
IL tax, if within poll tax age, for ol'
me cause. Road overseers shall -
We six days notice, not counting ~
nday, either in person or by written an a.
DI lAICu hOIlCC lCIt at Tic lColuCIINO Ia.
usual stopping place of each per- cn'
;, s,,hiao+ ~ Doad NV notif,iino fro
an, of tha tive a,d 1,Iaoo - CO., ROT
moo ,,,or,l. aIso tba on,ount FOR COZ
,ich +bov NOV oon,no,,to and RI an,
,oro ora u,bor - sboI1 no roid In bot
70 anT, hand 60 notified shall wilfrllv ant
! IN ,1orforn, bonost1v FAITHFULLY and to
adiont1v 70 tho direotions of the cha
9rseer, as many days labor on the !. -,
bic road as are assessed against Tue
n, he shall be guilty of misde- loi
amor, and, on conviction, fined not l ~,
S than $500 and costs. 1t shall be GU
duty of the overseer to report to Col