The County Commissioners shall direct the General Roads Superintendent to erect and keep up, at the expense of the county, at all public crossroads and where public roads fork, indexes or fingerboards pointing to the nearest town, mill or other public place to which the roads lead, with the names of the places and distances thereto legibly inscribed thereon, and the expense thereof shall be levied as other county charges.
(1986 Code, § 20-19) (P.L.L., 1888, Art. 12, § 38; 1930, § 90; 1957 Code, § 71; 1878, Ch. 108)