Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-27
THE ROAD LAW,

The York delegation mas under con-
sideration certain changes in the road
law, and a bill that was read in the
house for the first time on January 90,
proposes to amend sections 4 and II
Of this law so as to make these sec
tions read as follows:
Section 4. 1t shall be the duty Of the
township supervisor annually, before
the 18th day of March, to ascertain the
names of all persons living in his
township liable for road duty, and file
with the county supervisor an alpha
betical list of the same. The county
supervisor shall forthwith file said list
with the county auditor, who shall file
same after making any corrections or
additions from information in his Of
fee, with the county treasurer. the
township supervisor may let contracts
for the working of all sections of-roads
and the construction and repair of all
bridges in his township not over fifteen
feet in length, and shall pay from MS
township fund all damages recovered
from defects in said bridges, and snail
cooperate with the county supervisor
in letting all contracts for the working
of all sections of roads in his township
costing over twenty dollars. He shall
see that the law in reference to Keeping
the streams free from RATS Is complled
with in his township, given written
notice to all landowners along the
streams in his township, to clean sald
streams as required by law, and they
shall make report to the county board
of commissioners at the regular meet
ing in September Of each year OF all
the parties in their towr ship who have
failed or refused to comply with SAID
law, and said board Of county commls-
sioners shall forthwith order salo
township supervisor to hire the neces-
sary hands to clean out said streams
as required by law, and to render an
itemiZed statement thereof to the coun-
ty board, which shall be paid by the
county. and the county board of COM
missioners shall forthwith thereafter
nroceed to collect same from the land
owners, in accordance with the law:
He NAV appoint not over four ROAD
overseers in his township, at not eX-
ceeding 50 per day for each day actual
ly worked, to superintend and nave
worked those sections Of road when ne
has not worked himself, or which nave
not been let to a contractor to be work
ed. He may, after the first day or July
of each year, assign any person llabie
to road duty, who has not paid ms
communication tax in lieu thereof, to the
control of any of said road oVerseers
to work upon any sections of roads IN
the township which he may direct. He
NAV also hire hands, at not exceeding
81 per day. to work on said sections
of roads, either under his direction or
under the direction of his oVerseer:
"Provided, The township supervisor
shall eXpend the Communication tax, as
far as practicable, upon the road IN the
neighborhoods where same has been
collected" The township supervisor
shall, when so requested, give MS re-
ceipt to all those persons VINO may
have worked out their full road duty,
and it shall be valid in the county 1or
that year.
Section 12. The county chaingang
shall be used in opening. building
grading and repairing three of the man
highways of the county; one or the
said roads to run from the most prac-
ticable point on the county line pc
tween Lancaster and York couhtles'
through the city of Rock Hill, through
the town of Yorkville, and on TO the
most practicable point on the county
line between Cherokee county ana
York county; another of said roaus 10
run from the most practicable point on
the county line between Chester ana
vile. through the town of ?orkville'
through Glover and on to the most
practical point on the line between
York county and North Carolina; an
other of said roads to run from the
most practicable point on the YORK
county line through the town OF Fort
Mill, then as near as practlcanle d
straight line to the city of Rock Hill
then through the blackjack section 10
McConnellsville: Provided. That any
of the townships Of York county Whlcn
neither of said roads run into or
through shall receive a proportionate
mart of the work of the chaingang IN
such township on such road or ROADS as
the township supervisor of said town
shin and the county board Of c0mmls-
siOners may determine upon: Provld-
ed. No macadam work shall be done
bv the chaingang where sand and clay
or gravel road Is practicable and sand,
gravel and clay may be put down ny
the chainGang If the same he turnlsh-
ed by the township supervisor or oth-
oru,ioo. proyided further. The Work