1919_public local laws_151_16
CHAPTER 150 AN ACT TO CODIFY AND AMEND THE ROAD LAWS OF MACON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That any lumber company, corporation, person or persons engaged in the lumber business and desiring to use any of the public roads of the townships of Macon County, for the purpose of carrying on its or their business, of hauling either by its or themselves, or by hiring or contracting with other persons, mill logs, lumber or other heavy material with log wagons, log carts or other heavy vehicles, shall pay a license or privilege tax of two cents (2c) per mile on each one thousand feet of mill logs, lumber or other heavy material so hauled, said tax being payable to the secretary-treasurer of the road trustees or to the treasurer of the highway commission in the township in which said hauling is done, and it shall be the duty of any lumber company, corporation, person or persons engaged in the lumber business as hereinbefore set out to make a monthly report to the road trustees or highway commission of each township in which it or they are engaged in said business, said report to be made on the first Monday of each month of the number of feet of all lumber, logs, and other heavy material so hauled during the preceding month. Said report shall accurately state the number of feet of lumber, logs, etc., and be itemized and sworn to. That any lumber company, corporation, person or persons so engaged in the lumber business failing to make such report, or failing to make the same accurately and truthfully, or failing to pay the said license or privilege tax hereinbefore set out shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined fifty dollars ($50) for each and every offense. The failure to make such report and pay said privilege or license tax each month shall constitute a separate offense. In addition to the fine herein provided for, such lumber company, corporation, person or persons shall likewise forfeit the sum of ten dollars ($10) for each day that said report is neg: lected to be made after the time specified in which the same shall be done. That said forfeiture shall be collected by proper proceedings instituted in a court of some justice of the peace for said county against such delinquent by the chairman of the board of township trustees, or highway commission and all moneys collected under this section shall be applied for the improvement of the roads in the township in which the same is collected.