Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1920 — LID ON NEW ROADS IN PULAKI [ARTICLE]

LID ON NEW ROADS IN PULAKI

County Commissioners Will Require Special Elections Before BulldinflT An order designed to put a check on the building of gravel roada eraa passed by the commissioners this week In theta regular monthly session. The order seta forth that there are now 547 miles of gravel roads In the county and that the revenue for repairs la not sufficient to maintain them. For these reasons It is ordered that all petitions under the three-mile law are to be.referred to the people of the respective townships In which the proposed roads are located, special elections to he held for the purpose of voting on the proposition. There are already a large number of petitions in the auditor’s office, ready to be filed when the townships In which they swould be located are sufficiently out of debt to sell bonds for more roads. It Is announced that none of these will be acted upon without an election. —Pulaski County Democ^it.