The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, July 15, 1903, Page 6, Image 6
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, July 15, 1903.
The Bead Law.
[Continued from LaBt Week."]
service in the State, and persons who
served in the late "VTar Between the
States, and all persons actually employed
in the qaaritine service of the
State, shall be required annually to
perform or cause to be performed labor
on highways, under direction of
the .overseer of the road district in
which he shall reside, eight days, if
so manv be necessan: Provided, All
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etudeiits while actually attending any
of the colleges or Echools' in this
State shall be exempt from road or
street duty or the payment of any
commutation tax.
Sec. 7. Ia lieu of performing or
causing to be performed the labor of
ten hours per day^as required for the
several counties, a commutation tax
of one dollar may be paid by the person
so liable on or by the thirty-first
day of March. 1902, and on or by
the| first day of March of each
year thereafter: Provided, Persons
liable to labor under tins section snail
have the right to furnish a competent
substitute to labor in his stead.
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of any
overseer to make out a list of ail
pesBons liable to road duty. Said
overseer is hereby authorized to demand
of .any person or corporation
the name of any or all hands in his,
her or its employ; and any person or
corporation receiving of such overseer
or warner, by him appointed,
such demand, failing or refusing to
furnish a list containing the names
of all male employees, shall be guilty
of a misdtmeanor, and for every
such offense shall be subject to a'
fine of not less than ten dollars nor
more than thirty dollars, or imprisonment
in the county jail for not less
than ten nor more than thirty days;
and place said list in the hands of
the warner, who shall serve notice,
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eitner dy seeing cne parnes personally
and giving verbal notice or leaving
written notice at the residence of
the party, to order out every such
person resident as aforesaid, between
the first day of January and the first
day of December, annually, to do and
perform the work aforesaid on the
public road to which each person
may be assigned, said assignment
to be on roads near the residence of
said party, or any road to be changed
or opened within four miles.
Sec. 9. 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 aforesaid
in lieu of each labor, and shall produce
a certificate of the same from
the overseer of the proper district,
such certificate shall be. a complete
discharge ^for the amount therein
specified.
Sec. 10. Any person warned to
perform any labor upon the public,
roads and highways under any provisions
of this chapter, shall, by
himself or a suitable substitute, who
shall not be under the age of sixteen
years, appear 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 a farm as the overseer may direct.
Sec. 11. For the purpose provided
for in the preceding Section the resi
i
dence 01 any person wcu utt& a ia,uiily
shall be held to be where his family
resides, and the residence of aDv
person shall be held to be where he
boards or may be found. All tramps,
or persons not having any visible
means of obtaining a livelihood, not
otherwise exempt, shall be subject to i
road duty. I
Sec. 12. Every person liable to
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road duty, WOO snail littve ueeu uuij
warned before the day fixed in his notice
for such working,9tating the hour
and place of working, shall be subject
to the direction of the overseer in
charge. Any person being warned
by the overseer to perform read duty
and failing or refusing to perform or
cause to be performed such duty or
conducting himself in such manner
as is prohibited in Section 460 of the
Criminal Code of 1902, upon conV
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viction shall be punished as provided | (
in Section 460. t
Sec. 13. Every overseer is hereby f
required to account to the County <
Supervisor or County Board of Com- t
missioners or the Board of Township i
Commissioners at their annual settlement
for all tools received, material
used or funds expended, under oath,
under this chapter, and they shall
also return a full [aDd true list and
statement of the names of all per
sons within their respective districts
who have been ordered out to perform
the labor as required by this
chapter, and after each working to
note the hours actually worked, work
each hand does, and he shall make
and furnish a list to the County Supevisor
or County Board of Commissioners
or the Board of Township
Commissioners of those who have
refused or neglected to perform the
same, and shall by oath attest the
correctness of each list so kept; and
all fines and forfeitures used for and
recovered under the provisions of
this chapter shall be paid by the
Magistrate or Constable collecting
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me same 10 cue Jjouniy j.reauurtrr
wherein such fines and forfeitures
accrued; and several overseers shall
also render an account to the County
Supervisor or County Board Commissioners
or the Township Board of
Commissioners at their annual settlement
of all moneys expended and all
property remaining in their hands at
the time of the settlement, also all
judgments that remain unpaid, and
the name of the judgment debtor,
and Magistrate before whom such
judgments were obtained, and the
amounts thereof; and the County
Supervisor or County Board of Commissioners
or the Township Board
of Commissioners shall make out
such order as to the prosecution of
the suits by the owner of the proper
districts against such delinquents as
in the judgment of the County Supervisor
or the County Board of Commissioners
or the Township Board of
Commissioners the interest of the
public may require.
Sec 14. Ail property that may re
main in tbe bands of tbe overseer
at tbe time of the annual settlement
with the County Supervisor or County
Board of Commissioners or the
Township Board of Commissioners,
shall be turned over to his successors
in office as soon as such successor
shall be elected and qualified,
taking a receipt therefor, and deposit
said receipt with the County
Supervisor or County Board of Commissioners
or the Township Board
of Commissioners. It shall be lawful
for any overseer to sell [suej out
executions on any judgment that remains
unpaid within his proper district
at any time when, in his opinion,
the same can be collected, and tbe
money so recovered and collected
shall be paid over to the County
Treasurer, as provided' in tbe foregoing
section, by the Magistrate so
collecting.
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Sec. 15. The County Supervisor
or County Board of Commissioners,
within the county, is authorized to
have the overseer construct foot paths
or bridges over streams, swamps,
marshes and along the highways of
his county.
Sec. 16. Each overseer, within his
district, may erect and keep up, at
the expense of the county, at the
fork3 and cross roads, a post and
guide board, or fingerboard, containing
an inscription, in legible letters,
directing the way and distance to the
town or towns, or public place or
places, situated on each road respectively.
Sec. 17. The County Board of
Commissioners are authorized to
furnish signboards, ploughs, Bcrapers
! or other tools for the use of the sev
ral districts, at their discretion to
be paid for out of any moneys in the
county treasury not otherwise appropriated;
and in those counties where
Township Boards of Commissioners
exists, to turn the same over to the
Chairman of the Township Boards
of Commissioners, and take bis receipt
therefor. The Township Board
of Commissioners shall take a receipt
from each overseer for such implements
as they may deliver to him,
showing the number, kind and condition
thereof; and such overseer
shall be liable for any injury or damage
that may result to such implements,
or to any of them, by improper
use thereof, or by unnecessary
exposure to the weather, during the
ime the same may be in his possession;
and he shall, on the first Tue33av
of February, annually, return
the same to the said Township Board
of Commissioners. The amount for
which overseer may be liable for
such improper use or neglect may be
recovered by action in the name of
the Township Board of Commissioners,
and any person using the ploughs,
scrapers or other tools furnished by
the County Board of oCommissioners,
for other purposes than the pur
pose for which the same were furnished,
shall be fined Dot more than
fifty dollars nor less than five dollar?,
or imprisonment not less than ten
nor more than thirty days.
Sec. 18. The County Board of
Commissioners in the several counties
may, in their discretion, employ
or hire, and employ overseers and
laborers upon the public highways,
under the control of overseers, at
such compensation as tl.j Board may
determine. Commutation taxes and
such other funds as mcy be applicable
to highways, may be used in payment
for such work.
Sec. 19 Each aDd every overseer
who shall neglect or refuse to perform
the several duties enjoined on him
by this chapter, or who shall, under
any pretense whatever, give or sign
any receipt or certificate purporting
to be a receipt or certificate for labor
in work performed, or money paid,
unless the labor shali have been performed
or money paid prior to the
giving or signing of such receipt or
certificate, shall forfeit for every such
offence not less than ten dollars, nor
more than fifty dollars, to be recovered
by an action before any Magistrate
of the county having jurisdiction:
end it is hereby made the duty
of the Township Board of Commissioners
to prosecute all offenses against
the provisions of this section: Provided,
That if any overseer conceives
himself aggrieved by the judgment
of such Magistrate, he may, on giving
sufficient security, in double the
flnm nf thfi indormfint fnnnd norainftfc
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him by the party cffended, to said
Magistrate for the payment of the
cost, appeal to the Court of Common
Pleas, which shall make such
order therein as to it may appear
just and reasonable.
Sec. 20.. It shall be unlawful for
any overseer to perform or cause labor
to be performed on aDy road not
regularly laid cut and established by
law.
Sec. 21. Any time during the year,
when any public highway shall be
obstructed, it shall be the duty of
the overseer of the district in which
the same may be, forthwith to cause
such obstruction to be removed for
which purpose he shall immediately
order out such persons liable to do
work upon the public highways of
his road district as he may deem
necessary to remove said obstructions.
If the person or persons thus
called out shall have performed the
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