Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-06-24
BOYS AND GOOD ROADS
The Act Creating and Working Rules
of Boys Brigade of Road Pa
troll of North Carolina.

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AS a matter of general interest We
print the Act authorizing The Board
of Agriculture to organize the Boys
Road Patrol and to appropriate funds
for maintaining h same and for i'm
proving the public roads of North
Carolina
The Act.
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
Sec. 1. That the board of Agricul-
ture hereby charged with the duty of
organizing a brigade of school boys in
this State to be called the Boys Road
Patrol and to be composed of boys
who attend the Rural Public Schools
of the State.
Sec. 2. The duties of such patrol to
be to look after the maintenance OF
the stretch of oad indigenous to each
member of the patrol, dragging and
ditching same by the use of machinery
placed in the care of the patrol by the
State and county in such as
the Board of Agriculture shall direct
Sec. 3. That the said Board of
Agriculture is especially authorized
and empowered and directed to de-
wise, organize and adopt all such rules
and regulations as nay be necessary
for effectually carrying out the pur-
poses of this act:may award suitable
prizes and pay all such expenses of
successful competitor and others en-
gagged in such work in attendance upon
meetings and other purposes.
Sec. 4. That all money for the car
rying out Of this act shall be provided
by the counties themselves in coop
Grafton with the Department of Agri-
culture.
Sec. 5. That said brigade shall not
be organized in any county until the
commissioners of said county set apart
and appropriate not less than one
hundred dollars for the purposes of
this act to be spent in said county by
the Board of Agriculture.
Sec. 6. That the commissioners OF
the counties of North Carolina are
empowered to make donation annu-
purpose of this act.
WORKING RULES OF THE BOYS
BRIGADE OF ROAD PATROL
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Preamble.
The following rules embody the
working principles of the road patrol
provided by act of Legislature of 1915:
The local district pf the public
school system of the State shall be re-
cognized as the unit of the Patrol
System.
Rules.
1. Every applicant for a Patrol Sec
ton of road shall make application
on blanks furnished by Office of Bri-
gade of Patrol Department of Agri-
culture, Raleigh, N. C.
2. No boy under sixteen years of
age shall apply, unless otherwise or
ordered by the local board of judges.
3. No Patrol section shall be over
n mile long.
4. Report of work on Patrol Sec
ton must be made out the day the
work is done.
s.. Report of all work done on Pa
troll section shall be put in hands OF
of each month during school months
During intervening three months the
report shall be sent to the County
Superintendent of Education.
6. All prizes for best Patrol sec.
ton in each district shall b. decided
by a local committee of judges who
shall be appointed by a county board
of Road Patrol composed Of the Coun.
ty superintendent of Education, Count.
Demonstrating Agent, Chairman O.
County Board of Road Supervisors, i
any, and County Engineer, if any.
TX Prizes may be awarded at Coun
ty Commandments. Farmers Insti
tutes or at convenient times durin,
term of district school at stated timei
each six months, times for the award
ing of prizes being announced si1
months before hand in each case.
8. The three members of the Patro
in each county who have made tn
most improvement in their stretch o
road as decided by the County Boar,
of Patrol shall be given a free trip il
the annual roundup Of the Brigade o
Patrol held at Raleigh each year at tn
same time and place as the Farmer
~ Cnnunnfinn and Gnrn NI11h1
8. Each member of the Patrol shal
make his own road drag or ditche1
the iron edge of same, nails and bolt
and plan for making drag to be pre-
vided by the Office of the Brigade c
Patrol Department of Agricultur,
Raleigh, N. C. Each member of Patrc
shall also provide himself with
square white flag mounted on pole t
be placed at one end of his Patrol SCI
ton while dragging.