Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1901 — Senator Wolcott’s Turnpike Bill. [ARTICLE]

Senator Wolcott’s Turnpike Bill.

Senator E. H. Wolcott, as chairman of the committeie on roads, has introduced a bill for the care and maintenance of gravel roads. It creates a board of oounty turnpike directors, provides that the county commissioners shall be such board. They shall divide the free gravel roads of the county into three systems, each system to have as far as possible the same number of miles, and one commissioner shall have charge of eaoh system and employ the necessary labor, and purchasing of material to keep such system in repair. The commissioner will also be the system overseer. Eaoh laborer most work ten hours a day, his compensation not to be more than $1.50 a day, and teams $2.50 a day, and the commissioner i 3 prohibited from furnishing any team or employe of his own. Each commissioner shall be paid $2 a day out of the gravel road fund, and must make a quarterly report of work done, etc., and the report shall be made in the months of March, June, September and December, and placed on record in the auditors office,