1883 public laws – Ch.242 Sec.9
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CHAPTER 242 An act to establish a public road in Wilkes and Ashe counties, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Whenever the road commissioners herein named shall be notified by the board of county commissioners of the counties of Ashe and Wilkes, that they have provided the necessary materials, &c., as stated in section sixth, it shall be the duty of the said road commissioners to apply for and make demand upon the board of directors of the state penitentiary for the convicts herein stated, and it shall be the duty of the said board of directors, under a sufficient guard to be selected by said board of directors of the peritentiary at the expense of the state, to place said conyicts upon said road, to construct said road at such points and in the manner directed by the road commissioners.