1899 public laws – Ch.162 Sec.1

(a). It is hereby further enacted that in case a majority of the qualified voters of any township in Anson county other than Wadesboro township. such qualified voters and electors being determined by the registration books for said township as used and made up at the last election held preceding the action herein provided for, shall by petition to the board of commission ers for Anson county request said board of commissioners to levy a road tax for any such township, then upon that event said board of commissioners shall annually, levy a special-road tax for any such township at the same time of the levy made by them for general-county purposes, which tax shall not exceed fifteen cents on the hundred dollars worth of property subject to general taxation in said townhip and forty-five cents on such polls as are subject to taxation in such township. Inany of such levies of taxes the constitutional equation between poll and property shali be observed. Said taxes shall be collected.as other taxes are collected and accounted for in the saine manner and shall be kept sepa rate and apart from all.other taxes and shall be paid to the county treasurer of Anson county, who shall keep separate account of the same, and he shall give such bond in such sum as may be required by said county commissicners for bis faithful keeping and disbursing the same, and such fund shall be used for the purpose of making and repairing public roads in the township for which such levy may be made.