1907 public laws – Ch.193 Sec.9

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CHAPTER 193 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER WORKING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS AND HIGHWAYS OF YANCEY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The Superintendent of Roads herein provided for shall, within twenty days after the appointment, make a full and complete list of all male persons subject to road duty in the district for which they are appointed, and enter same upon a book to be kept by them for that purpose, and shall, at the end of every three months, check off names of such persons as have been summoned to work upon the roads of their district and fail to do so after such summons, and have failed to pay the sum of one dollar for each day summoned to work, as provided in section seven of this act, or furnish a substitute as therein provided, or fail to perform the work as therein required, and submit such list to the justice of the peace of the township in which said district is located, who shall, upon such list being sworn to by the said Superintendent, immediately issue a warrant for the arrest of such delinquent, who, after trial, if adjudged guilty, shall be punished as prescribed in section seven of this act. Any Superintendent failing to make such report to such justice of the peace within said time shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars, and, wpon such conviction being certified to the Board of County Commissioners, they shall remove such Superintendent from office: Provided, however, that any road hand defaulting as stated herein may, at any time after default, be prosecuted by any citizen of the county.

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