Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — FREE TURNPIKE ROADS. [ARTICLE]

FREE TURNPIKE ROADS.

Specifications And Directions For Gravel Roads Built For The Purpose of Having 1 Them Incorporated Into The County System of Free Turnpike Roads. In building gravel or mneadem roads to be incorporated into the County system of Free Turnpike Roads, Township Trustees, toupeivisors, Superintendents or Citizens must be guided by the follow ing specifications aud directions: The Grade and Drainage of the road bed is of the first importance and iu order that the same may be made suitable for the permanent improvement of a gravel road, we direct that the county surveyor shall establish the grade, set the proper grade stakes for the grade and side drains, and also establish and locate tile drains, culver is or bridges where needed to thoroughly drain the road bed. The outside bank of the side drain should be riot further than 3 feet from the outside line of the rond wny on either side, made deep enough to thoroughly drain the road bed, and sloping from the deepest outside point towards the center of the road; the grade of the road bed between the inside lines of the side drains to be made slightly crowning or oval to carry off the water. The width of gthe grade to be all of the ground, between the inside lines of said side drains; aud shall in mi case to be less than 25 feet, and as much wider as the width of the road, the depth of the side drain and the conformation of the ground will permit The road bed should be fully completed and well settled and accepted by the Surveyor and Township Directors, before gravel or macadam^; is pnt on. The material the road must be a good quality of gravel or of macadam, (crushed stone,) free from soil, sand, sod, mack or other deleterious material, and shall be not less in quantity than 6$ cubic yards to every lineal rod, pot on 12 feet wide, and of a uniform thickness. The Trustee, Supervisor, or Superintendent having charge of the road or different sections of the road, shall file with the Board as Turnpike Directors his verified

report, showing the quality and quantity of gravdling material put on the different sections of said road. On completion of one mile or more of contigioug road, attested by sworn statement of the Township Trustee and on his petition so to do, the Board of Turnpike Directors, will proceed to examine said road with a view i f incorporating the same into the county system of Free Turnpiku Roads. The building of these roads are at tliH expense of the Township, or Citizens building the same. After they are incorporated into the county system, they are kept up at the expense of the county, and must be complete, well built gravel roads, complying with the above specifications. 1 Benjamin R. Faris, John Mabtindale. of Turnpike Directors.

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