1909_public laws_306_23
CHAPTER 305 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SYSTEM OF CONSTRUCTING AND KEEPING IN REPAIR THE PUBLIC ROADS OF MONT- GOMERY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the board of road trustees of the several townships in said county be and they are hereby authorized to furnish plows, scrapers and other tools as they may deem proper for use upon the public roads of their townships, to be paid for out of any money of the township for road purposes not otherwise appropriated. The board of road trustees shall take a receipt from each supervisor for such implements as they may deliver to him, showing the number, kind and condition thereof, and such supervisor shall be liable for any injury or damage that may result to such implements or to any of them by improper use thereof, or by unnecessary exposure to the weather during the time the same may be in his possession, and he shall, on the first Monday in May, annually, return the same to the board of road trustees. The amount of which such supervisor may be liable for such improper use or neglect may be recovered by an action in the name of the board of road trustees.