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68 19U3—Chaptkr 48.
Convicts may be
assigned from
other counties.
Cost of transport-ing,
guarding and
maintaining.
Return of foreign
convicts.
Roads or ways
classified.
Class "a.
Class "b.'
Class
Information to be
furnished State
Highway Com-mission.
Powers of H'gh-way
Commission.
Sec. 9. That section 9 of said act sliall be amended to read as
follows: That when the County Commissioners of Cleveland
County shall have made provisions for the expense of supporting
and guarding, while at work on the public roads* of the county, or
any township thereof, a larger number of prisoners than can be
supplied from that county, upon application of the Commissioners
of said county to the Judge of the Superior and Criminal Courts,
the Justices of the Peace and the principal officers of any munici-pal
or other inferior Court presiding in any other county, or
counties, which do not otherwise provide for the working of their
own convicts upon their own public roads, shall sentence such
able-bodied male prisoners as are described in section 8 of this
act from such other counties to work on the puDlic roads of said
county or townships applying for the same, in the order of their
application; and the cost of transporting, guarding and maintain-ing
such prisoners as may be sent to any such county or township
applying for the same shall be paid by the county or township
applying for and receiving them out of the road fund of each
such county or township: Provided, that any and all such pris-oners
from sucli other counties may at any time be returned to
the keeper of the common jail of such counties, at the expense of
the county or township having received and used them.
Sec. 10. That section 10 of said act be amended by striking out
same and substituting therefor the following: "For the purposes
of this act the roads or ways of the county are hereby classified
as follows:
"(a) The thoroughfares include the most important public
roads which usiially lead through two or more townships or coun-ties
and arc extensively used by the traveling public. These be-come
the highways of the county, as they are properly graded
and drained and have their surfaces improved by being covered
with broken stones, gravel, shells or suitable admixture of sand
and clay.
"(b) The neighborhood or branch roads are public roads which
are usmally to the limit of one or two townships and generally
lead from neighborhoods or settlements to main thoroughfares.
"(c) Cartways, which have no general public junction, are pri-vate
ways opened up to allow one or more persons on foot, on
horseback, or with any vehicle, to pass to and from his or her
property through lands belonging to other parties in order to
reach the public road.
"Information and advice concerning the location, re-location
and general improvement of these public roads shall be furnished
to the county authorities by the State Highway Commission. And
the said Highway Commission is hereby made the interpreter of
and may revise the specification for road building provided in this
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| Full Text | 68 19U3—Chaptkr 48. Convicts may be assigned from other counties. Cost of transport-ing, guarding and maintaining. Return of foreign convicts. Roads or ways classified. Class "a. Class "b.' Class Information to be furnished State Highway Com-mission. Powers of H'gh-way Commission. Sec. 9. That section 9 of said act sliall be amended to read as follows: That when the County Commissioners of Cleveland County shall have made provisions for the expense of supporting and guarding, while at work on the public roads* of the county, or any township thereof, a larger number of prisoners than can be supplied from that county, upon application of the Commissioners of said county to the Judge of the Superior and Criminal Courts, the Justices of the Peace and the principal officers of any munici-pal or other inferior Court presiding in any other county, or counties, which do not otherwise provide for the working of their own convicts upon their own public roads, shall sentence such able-bodied male prisoners as are described in section 8 of this act from such other counties to work on the puDlic roads of said county or townships applying for the same, in the order of their application; and the cost of transporting, guarding and maintain-ing such prisoners as may be sent to any such county or township applying for the same shall be paid by the county or township applying for and receiving them out of the road fund of each such county or township: Provided, that any and all such pris-oners from sucli other counties may at any time be returned to the keeper of the common jail of such counties, at the expense of the county or township having received and used them. Sec. 10. That section 10 of said act be amended by striking out same and substituting therefor the following: "For the purposes of this act the roads or ways of the county are hereby classified as follows: "(a) The thoroughfares include the most important public roads which usiially lead through two or more townships or coun-ties and arc extensively used by the traveling public. These be-come the highways of the county, as they are properly graded and drained and have their surfaces improved by being covered with broken stones, gravel, shells or suitable admixture of sand and clay. "(b) The neighborhood or branch roads are public roads which are usmally to the limit of one or two townships and generally lead from neighborhoods or settlements to main thoroughfares. "(c) Cartways, which have no general public junction, are pri-vate ways opened up to allow one or more persons on foot, on horseback, or with any vehicle, to pass to and from his or her property through lands belonging to other parties in order to reach the public road. "Information and advice concerning the location, re-location and general improvement of these public roads shall be furnished to the county authorities by the State Highway Commission. And the said Highway Commission is hereby made the interpreter of and may revise the specification for road building provided in this |
