1913_public local laws_504_10
CHAPTER 503 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, AND MAINTENANCE OF THE PUBLIC ROADS OF HOKE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the judges holding the Superior Court of Hoke County and the judges of any criminal court held therein are hereby authorized, on the request of the board of county commissioners, to sentence to be worked on the public roads of said county, under the control and keeping of the said board and their agents and employees, all persons convicted in said courts who by the judgment thereof shall be punished by imprisonment or committed in default of paying costs and fines or either, except such as shall be convicted of murder, rape, or arson, and such other convicts as the said judges may in their discretion deem advisable to send to the State penitentiary as now provided by law: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall prohibit or in any way restrict the said judges from suspending or imposing fines only in such cases as to them shall appear right and proper.