1913 public local laws – Ch.148 Sec.10
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CHAPTER 148 AN ACT TO CREATE THE WAKE COUNTY HIGHWAY COM- MISSION, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF WAKE COUNTY TO SUBMIT TO THE VOTERS OF THE COUNTY THE QUESTION OF ISSUING BONDS TO CON- STRUCT PUBLIC ROADS IN SAID COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The said finance and executive committee may purchase tools, machinery, implements, and stock and all other things whatsoever deemed by them necessary for the purpose of working the convicts, or hire free labor on said public highways: Provided, that no bill or claim shall be paid by said committee till the same shall have been audited, approved, and countersigned by the auditor of said county. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners, after the issuing and sale of said bonds herein provided for, whenever called upon by the said Wake County Highway Commission, to turn over to it all convicts, tools, machinery. appliances, and road material, property and stock which may be in their hands with which they have been preparing material for working the public roads of the county.