1891_public laws_345_2
CHAPTER 344 Au act relating to roads and highways of Granvilie county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
[That] all roads and highways that have been laid out or appointed by virtue of any act of assembly or any order of court are hereby declared to be public roads and highways, and the justices of th peace in each township shall have the supervision and control of the public roads in their respective townships. They shall with respect to this work constitute and be styled the board of supervisors of public roads of such township, and under that name for the purposes aforesaid they are hereby incorporated the board of supervisors of public roads, and the board of county commissioners, as hereafter in this act set forth, shall have full power and authority to order the laying out of public roads where necessary and to appoint where bridges shall be made, to discontinue such roads as shall be found useless and to alter roads so as to make them more ~ Zo useful : Provided, that it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to have all roads laid out and constructed that have been heretofore or may hereafter be ordered as public roads before the duties of the supervisors as to such roads shall obtain ; and that the county commissioners are hereby vested with all the powers that the supervisors now have for having such road constructed and received.