The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-30

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tax.
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the
County Supervisor and Board of
County Commissioners to divide the
townships of Clarendon county into
suitable sections in each of the sew
eral townships in said county, and
shall appoint an overseer of roads for
each of said sections. They shall also
| assign the persons liable to road duty
into convenient and suitable squads or
companies, and assign squad or COM
pany to each overseer of section, as
| signing the road hands, as far as
practicable, to the nearest roads.
They shall require the overseer of
roads to call out the hands assigned to
| their respective sections, and work the
roads, and repair and build bridges
of same, whenever they may deem it
necessary, after twelve hours notice.
The Supervisor shall cause overseers,
when working sections in which there
are bridges, to preserve and keep
them in order, as are in their opinion
of such character as not to require
to be given out under contract, and
can conveniently be done by the road
hands: Provided, Any person liable
to perform: labor hereunder shall have
the right TO furnish instead q compe-
tent substitute, or with the consent of
the overseer, instead of labor, to fur
nish stock, wagons or machinery, the
use of which is of equal value: Pro-
vided, further, Ten hours day shall
be a days work.
Sec. 3. 1t will be unlawful for any
overseer to perform or cause labor
to be performed on any roads not
public highways.
Sec. d. Any person warned to per-
form any labor upon the public roads
and highways under any provisions
of this chapter, shall by himself or
suitable substitute, who shall not be
under the age of sixteen years, ap-
pear at the time and place appointed
by the overseer at the hour of seven
o'clock in the forenoon, and shall
bring with him such necessary tools
and implements used on farm as
the overseer may direct.
|. Sec. 5. For the purpose provided
for in the preceding section the resi-
dence of any person who has fam
| lily shall be held to be where his fam
lily resides, and the residence of any
person without a family shall be held
to be where he boards or may be
found.
Sec. 6. In case any person shall
remove from one county to another,
or from one township in the same
| county, or one district to another in
the same township, who has prior to
such removal performed the whole or
any part Of the labor aforesaid, or in
| any other way has paid the whole or
any part Of the amount aforcsaid in
lieu Of such labor, and shall produce
a certificate of the same from the
overseer Of the proper district, such
certificate shall be complete dis
charge for the amount therein speci-
| fed.
Sec. 7. 1t shall be the duty Of the
to road duty, and to superintcnd the
| work of said hands; and for superin-
tending said work the said overseers
shall be paid at the rate of not ex-
ceeding one dollar and fifty cents per
day: Provided, That said overscer
shall not work the public roads with
| less than ten hands at any one time;
| that said overseer may warn the road
hands in person, or appoint some suit
able person liable to road duty on
his road as warner, and such per-
son so acting as warner shall be ex-
empt from road duty for the time he
acts as warner.
Sec. 8. Any person liable to road
duty under this Act and refusing to
perform such work under the require
ments of this chapter shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic-
tion thereof by any Court Of compet-
cnt jurisdiction, shall be punished by
a fine of not less than five dollars
nor. more than twenty-five dollars, or
be confined at hard labor upon the
public works of said county for not
less than ten days nor more than
thirty days.
Sec. o. 1t shall Ne the duty Of the
County Treasurer to keep in his office