Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1883 — Some Provisions of the Road Law. [ARTICLE]

Some Provisions of the Road Law.

Section one provides for the election of road supervisors in April 1884. The supervisor to receive one dollar and a half per day for his services. Upon the taking effect of this act, the township trustee shall divide his township into suitable road districts of not less than six square miles in each district; and shall appoint supervisors therefor, to hold their office until the election of their succesors. The township trustee to file with the Auditor a plat of his divisions; the districts to be numbered commencing at the north-east corner of the township. Section six provides that the supervisor shall call out all ablebodied men not exempt from such work, not less than two, nor more than four days in the month of April, May or June, of each year do workmen hours per day. It also provides for working with teams, scrapers, etc., and the pay thereof. Persons who prefer not to work may pay §1.25 per day in lieu thereof. Persons who desire to work out their tax must apply to the trustee and do the work as low as the same could be done by others. Section thirty-five says: “The office of road superintendent and road master are hereby abolished, upon the taking effect of this act. Such officers shall turn over to the township trustees, of their respective townships, all money, property, books and papers in their as such officers, and all legal claims and demands, created by such township road superintendent, or former‘.trustee, shall be paid by the respective township trustees, out of the first monies received by them for road purposes.” Section thirty-six gives the trustees of incorporated towns the same power as township trustees, and to the town marshals, the same power as supervisors. In all its main features the law is like the supervisor law. It has an emergency clause, and the township trustee will have to take charge of the roads at once.—“ Huntington Democrat.”