1913_public local laws_198_9
CHAPTER 197 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PUBLIC ROADS IN FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, IN MACON COUNTY, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS TO PAY THE EXPENSES THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Said commission shall also have the power to employ such other persons and to purchase such supplies as in their judgment are necessary to carry this act into effect. They may purchase such machinery, tools, blasting materials, drain pipes, and lumber as may be necessary to build or repair any road; they may construct necessary drains, culverts, and footpaths and maintain the same. It shall be unlawful for any person on horseback to use any footpath constructed under the direction of the commission, and any one so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before a justice of the peace shall be fined ten dollars for each offense. The board of county commissioners shall put into the custody and control of the highway commission the road-working machinery and tools heretofore bought and now owned by Franklin Township; and in case a county convict force shall be provided for, they shall turn over to said highway commission such part of the county convict force as may not be needed for the work of constructing and repairing the public roads elsewhere in the county, and if deemed expedient may turn over the entire force to the said commission, and the convicts, while in the custody of the highway commission, shall be employed in the construction and repairing of the public roads under the jurisdiction of the commission.