1915_public local laws_194_35
CHAPTER 193 AN ACT TO CREATE A SPECIAL ROAD DISTRICT, INCLUD- ING OCONA LUFTY, CHARLESTON, AND NANTAHALA TOWNSHIPS, IN SWAIN COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
It shall be the duty of said board of road commissioners, before they apply any of the funds derived from the sale of bonds provided for in this act to the building or improvement of any branch roads within said district, to provide for the laying out and construction of a main trunk-line highway passing through said road district and extending from Bryson City to the Macon County line at or near the Shallow Ford of the Tennessee River, and from Bryson City to the Jackson County line at the most practicable. point; said route to be determined and settled upon by the board of highway commissioners under the direction of the State highway engineer, if there shall be such official; which said trunk-line highway to be a link in a through intercounty or interstate highway, if the adjoining counties to said special road district shall agree to connect with same in the building of such highway, the location of any through highway to be approved by the State Road Department; and the said board of commissioners in the building of said highway are authorized to construct the same in such manner as may seem to them best, using such material in the construction and surfacing of said road as they may deem best fitted to the conditions and traffic of the country through which said road passes. Said board shall also have authority to contract for material and to construct all bridges and culverts to carry said road over any stream or streams along its route. Said bridges and culverts to be constructed out of such material as said board may deem best; and the said board of commissioners shall have the right and authority to use any of the streets in any incorporated town in said county, through which said trunk-line road may pass, as an integral part of said highway, and shall be authorized to grade and surface the same in the same manner as any other portion of said highway.