1913_public local laws_234_20
CHAPTER 233 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CARVERS CREEK TOWNSHIP IN BLADEN COUNTY TO MAINTAIN THE PUBLIC ROADS, HIGHWAYS, AND STREETS THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
From time to time the highway commission shall select such roads or section of road which they intend next to improve, change, or establish, and shall thereupon publish their purpose with reference thereto by posters or such other method as they shall deem sufficient, setting forth what road or roads or what section of road they propose next to work on, and stating whether the same is to be done by contract or otherwise, and also the plans and specifications therefor and the manner and improvement thereof, to the end that the residents and taxpayers of said township may at all times know the plans and proposals of said commission with reference to said roads, and may know the manner :   in which it is proposed to expend the funds herein provided before the same are actually expended. If any serious difference of opinion shall arise among those interested as to the location, establishment, or improvement of any particular section of road, and as many as fifteen resident taxpayers shall so request in writing, the commission shall set a time and appoint a place for hearing any discussion by any of the interested parties on the question so in dispute, at which time and place all those interested in the work herein provided for may appear and be heard with reference to such disputed question; and if the commission shall see fit, it may employ road experts to furnish special plans and specifications, estimation of cost, and recommendations with reference to such disputed questions, to the end that the funds herein provided may be wisely and judiciously spent, so as to produce the greatest possible public benefit to all the people of said township; and the expenditure of any portion of said funds whatsoever for the peculiar benefit of any particular person or persons is hereby strictly forbidden.