Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-01-06
GOOD ROADS.
MIR. C. D. Minis Presents Plans
For Improving Highways of
Edgefild County. Sug-
gests Mass Meeting.
Editor The Advertiser:

By request, write without refer
ence to the Statute or Code,
skeleton of what I conceive to be
some of the necessary changes In the
general road law, allowing US to
break away from the old antiauated
system, and make beginning on the
improvements. of our public high
ways. How far I have missed the
mark in this important matter will be
seen by better trained eyes than
mine.
Be It enacted By the General AS
sembly of the State of South Caro-
lima, assembled in session, that the
office of Supervisor, sub-Supervlsor,
and all Offices subordinate thereto, In
and for the County of Edgefeld, and
State aforesaid, be and the same is
hereby abolished. And all Acts and
parts of acts creating said Offices are
hereby repealed.
Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of South Caro-
lima, in session assembled, that the
office of Public Highway Commission,
in and for the County of Edgeheld,
State aforesaid, is hereby created,
with the following authority, duties
House, before, during or after the
SECTION I.
Article L. The office of Public
Highway Commission for and in the
County of Edgefeld, State aforesaid,
shall be constituted of three (3)
resident and lawfully qualified citi-
zens, who shall be recommended and
appointed by and in mass meeting OF
the lawfully qualified citizens OF
said county, by yea and nay vote.
The Grand Jury of said county shall
confirm the appointment OF the can
didate or candidates for said office,
and transmit the credentials thereof
to the Governor of the State for his
official signature and seal.
Article 2. The officials constitu-
ting the Office of Public Highway
Commission in and for said county,
shall each give valid bond in the
sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500)
in the manner as provided in the Re-
vised Statute of the State.
Article 8. The term of Office for
each of the three (3) officials of said
office shall be six (6) years, except
as hereinafter provided.
Article 4. In the creation and
first installation of the officials of
the Office of Public Highway Com
mission for and in the County Of
Edgefeld, one ~ shall be appoint
ed and commissioned for a term of
two (2) years, one shall be appoint
ed and commissioned for term of
four (4) years and one shall be ap-
pointed and commissioned for a
term of six (6) years (the full term).
One successor shall be appointed ev-
cry two years thereafter as herein
provided.
Article S. The compensation of
each of the three officials constitu-
ting the office of Public Highway
Commission for and in the county
of Edgefeld, shall be Three ($3.0O)
Dollars per day for days while in ac-
tual service of the county, and Ten
(1Oc) cents per mile of distance
one way from the home of said Of
fetal to the Office, measured in the
most direct route.
Article 6. The official service
under the provisions of this Act shall
begin January LIST 1917.
Article 7. 1t shall be the duty of
the chairman of the Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee Of Edgefeld
County, to call in mass meeting iall
qualified voters in said county, to
meet and assemble at the Court
and emoluments, to-wit:
regular county Democratic conven-
ton, for the purpose of appointing
one or more officials or their sue
cessors to the Office of Public High
way Commission for said county,
every two years.
Article s. All official records in
the Office of Public Highway Com
mission shall be subject to, and under
the jurisdiction of the Grand Jury
of the county as provided in the Re-
vised Statute and Code of the State.
Article 8. 1t shall be the duty of
the officials Of the Office of Public
Highway Commission for the Coun-
ty of Edgefeld to employ and COM
mission a competent Highway Civil