1913_public local laws_302_11
CHAPTER 301 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A CHAIN-GANG AND FACILITATE THE WORKING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY, AND TO REPEAL CHAPTER 417 OF THE PUBLIC-  LOCAL LAWS OF 1911 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That all able-bodied male persons of Rutherford County between the ages of eighteen and forty-five shall pay to the road superintendent or the township supervisor or to the county treasurer of Rutherford County the sum of two dollars per annum, to be paid as other taxes, and to be kept in the general road fund of the county, to be expended in the improvement of the road in the township from which it was paid.