1879 public laws – Ch.82 Sec.10
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CHAPTER 82 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR KEEPING IN REPAIR THE PUBLIC | ROADS OF THE STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The board of supervisors shall annually make report to the first term of the superior court of their county after the first Monday in August of the condition of the roads of their township, and if the meetings provided for in this act have been held for said board, and the judge holding such term of the superior court shall after his charge to the grand jury and before they shall retire to their room call upon the clerk of the court for such reports, and they shali then and there be delivered to the foreman of the grand jury; and if any board of supervisors shall fail to make said report or to discharge any other duty imposed by this act, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the court, and the indictment may be either against the board of supervisors, or against the indiv ideals composing it as justices of the peace. od