Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-04-03
AN ACT
Ts Establish, Maintain and Improve
the Public Roads of Henderson
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lima do enact:
section 1. All roads and bridges
that have been laid out or appointed
by virtue of any act of the General As
sembly, or any order of the court in
Henderson county, are hereby declar-
or to be public roads and bridges.
Sec. 2. The justices of peace in
each township in said county shall
have the supervision and control of ali
OF the public roads and bridges in their
respective townships, except as herein
after provided. They are hereby incor-
porated, and the Board of Township
trustees shall be their corporate name.
They shall have the right to sue and
be sued, plead and be implicated in any
OF the courts of the State.
Sec. 8. The board of township trus-
tees shall meet at some place in their
respective townships, to be agreed
upon by themselves, on the first Mon
day of April of each year, and at such
other times as they may be called to-
gether by their chairman, or by the
general road supervisor, or as the ma
iority of them may deem advisable.
They shall keep a record of all of, their
proceedings, and shall annually at
their April meeting elect one of their
members chairman. 1t shall be the
duty of the township trustees of the
several townships of Henderson coun-
ty, at their meeting on the first Mon
day in April, to divide their respective
townships into suitable road districts,
and to appoint a district supervisor for
each district so laid out. The board
Of township trustees shall furnish each
district supervisor with the names OF
all parties who are liable for road
duty in his district. 1t shall be the
duty of the township trustees to exa-
mine into the condition of the public
roads and bridges of their respective
townships, and to e that each dis
trict supervisor performs his duty, and
to make a report of the condition of
the roads and bridges in their respec-
tive townships to the Judge of the SUI
perior court, said report to be made
on the first Monday in May and the
first Monday in November of each year,
these reports to be transmitted to the
solicitor with such instructions as the
judge of the Superior court may deem
proper. And it is hereby made the
duty of the solicitor to prosecute any
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lect or refuse to perform the several
duties enjoined upon them by this act.
Sec. 4. The township trustees shall
have the right to fill all vacancies
which may occur in the Office of dis
trict supervisor by death, resignation,
or otherwise. Any township trustee
who shall wi1lfully neglect or refuse to
fully perform the several duties en-
Joined upon him by this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined or i'm
prisoned. or both, in the discretion of
the court.
Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the
township trustees to see that all of the
district supervisors shall have per-
formed annually five days work on the
public roads or bridges in their re-
spective townships. by each and every
person subject to road duty, as herein
after provided, and that all money
coming into the hands of the said dis
trict supervisors shall be expended on
the roads or bridges in his, district,
and properly accounted for, and that
each district supervisor makes a COM
plete and full report of the work per-
formed and the money expended in his
district for the preceding year, said re-
port to be filed with the township trus-
tees at their meeting on the first Mon
day in April, and when passed upon by
the said board, to be approved by the
chairman and transmitted by him to the
board of county trustees as hereinafter
provided.
Sec. 6. All able-bodied male per-
between the ages of twenty-one
and forty-fve years, excepting those
persons who may be designated as
supervisors, shall be liable to
do and to perform annually five days
on the public highways or
bridges under the direction of the dis
trict supervisor in the district in
which he resides: Privided, that
if any person. being notified as
trict supervisor Of the district in which
he lives the sum of two dollars and a
half, the same shall be received in lieu
OF the five days labor, if said sum of
two dollars and a half is paid to the
said supervisor on or before the first
day of May of each year.
Sec. Z. Any person subject to road
duty who shall willfully refuse or neg
lect, after having been personally
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by a written notice left at his usual
place of abode, said person having had
least two days notice. to attend and
the duties specified in the fore
section, or send a proper sub
in his place who shall be salts
factory to the supervisor, or snail
spend his time when SO employed on
the roads or bridges in idleness or in
attention to his duties, shall be guilty
D a misdemeanor, and on conviction
shall be punished by a hne OF not
than five dollars or imprisoned
not more than thirty days for each and
every offense. All such fines. so col
Iected shall be paid ove to the super
visor in whose district the omense shall
have been committed, and shall be ap-
piled by him on the roads OF bridges in
lis district, and shall be accounted for
BY him at the annual meeting of the
township trustees. 1
Sec. 8. That in case any person
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