Camp County Road System

 

Emigrant and freight wagon of pioneer days. Texas revolution fighters as well as thousands of settlers from northeastern United States first saw Texas from the Cherokee Trace, many establishing homes nearby. 

 

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CAMP COUNTY— ROAD SYSTEM. H. B. No. 497.] CHAPTER 91..

An Act to require all persons in the county of Camp, who are subject to road duty, work ten days on the public roads in said county in each year, or to pay one dollar for each day in lieu of working the public roads, that such roads are worked..

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:.

SECTION 1. That all persons in the county of Camp who are subject to road duty under the general laws of the State of Texas shall be subject and be compelled to work on the public roads of Camp county for , ten days in each year; provided nevertheless that any person so subject to work on the public roads may by paying one dollar for each day that the hands in his precinct work the public roads in any year be exempt from further road duty..

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted that all sums paid by persons liable to work on public roads in said county in lieu of working shall go into and become a part of the road fund of the county and be applied, as far as can be by the county commissioners to the particular road upon which tlu' person who pays the said sum in lieu of working may have been assigned, as a person or hand to work the road..

SEC. 3. This act shall not be construed to affect any special law passed for working public roads in Camp county which may bo by vote of the voters of said county adopted as the road law of said county..

SEC. 4. All general road laws of the State not in conflict with this act shall be and remain the law applicable to said county. The purpose of this act being cumulative of the general law and all other road laws in and for said county..

SEC. 5. The near approach of the end of the present session of the Legislature, and the large number of bills now pending before the Senate, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and that this bill may be put upon its third reading and final passage..

Approved April 17, 1907. Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.

Laws Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of Texas- 1907