, 1855-03-17

tue county CuumNs'OnCTS OF any county,
asking TO open any new road, or to make
any alterations in any established road, re-
IQuiring labor thereon shall be required to
perform or furnish two days labor on such
new road or alteration, if the petition be
gran'ed
J. SEC. 10: Every territorial and county
road, hereafter to be located, shall be view
ed and plainly marked throughout, but
shall not be surveyed, except the act oca-
ting such road shall expressly require it
See IL. The first fourteen sections, aud
the sixteenth and seventeenth sections Of
the act TO which this is amendatory, are
hereby repealed: PrOrided that all rights
heretofore acquired, and all liabilities in-
CARED, under the sections hereby repealed
snail not be affected by anything cont, T.
cd therein; and all proceedings, heretofore
commenced, shall not be affected, except
that us far as practicable, they may be
made 10 conform 10 the provisions Of this
act.
Sec. ~. That so much Of section twen-
ty-one, Of the act TO which this is amend
utory, as relates 10 the return Of the plat
and field notes Of territorial roads, TO the
secretary of this territory, is hereby re-
pealcd; and a failure to return snch plat
and field notes, in roads heretofore located,
shall not Ge deemed 10 have inyalidated
the same
Src. l3. That section twenty-five be-
amended TO read rs followS:-"The several
boards Of county commissioners shall, as
often as they may deem necessary, but no
Oitener than once yenr, lat their March
term, divide their respective counties or
any part thereof, into suitable and conve-
nient road districts, and cause brief dcs-
cription Of the sime 10 he entered on the
county records"
SEC. IL. That section twcnty-Six be
amended by striking ont the first sentence,
and inserting instead: THE supervisor
Of each road district shall, at least ten
days before the first Monday in April, of
each year, cause three written notices toi
be posted up. in three conspicuous places
in his road district, giving notice that
there will be an election held in such road
district, OH the first Monday in April, at
some place in said district, to be specified
in said notices, for the purpose of cecting
road supervisor for said district, for the
next succeeding year; at which election
the old supervisor shall act as chairman OIL
the meeting if present; if not, chairman
shall be elected by the voters present. The
meeting shall also elect secretary, who
shall record the proceedings OF the meet
ing; aud all persons in the district, who
are required to work roads, may vote; and
the person receiving the highest number
Of votes, shall be the supervisor of roads
in that district, for that year: PTOridcd,
that if there be no supervisor in any dis
trict, or if he shall neglect or refuse TO put
up the said notices, us above provided
then any citizen Of such road district may,
at any time within one month after the said
first Monday in April, put up notices, Civ
ing ten days notice, Of an election; and
such election may be held, and shall be as
legal, as if held on the first Monday of
April. And it shall be the duty Of the
secretary OF any meeting in II road district,
called to elect a supervisor to notify the
board Of county commissioners Of the coun-
ty, at their next regular session. that his
district has elected supervisor, and shall
give the name Of the SAID supervisor; and
the board Of county commissioners shall,
at said term, appoint supervisors for ull
road districts, from which no notice is re-
eeived OF supervisor having been elected.
SEC. Is. That section twenty-oiyht oil
said ac', to which this is an amendment,
he SO amended, that it shall read:-" He
shall assess three days work, to be pcrfor-
med by every male between Iwen'y-one and
fifty years Of age, residing in his road dis
trict, except persons who are q public
charge, or too infrm to perform labor, and
further tax Of three mills OIL the dollar,
on all taxable property therein, TO be cx-
pended on the road within his district; and
the person so taxed shall have the liberty
10 pay said tax in labor Oh the road, or
at the rate of three dollars per day."
SEC. l6. That the second division of sec.
ton twenty-eight, shall be so amended, as
to read us follows:-''The supervisor of each
road dis rict shall have power, if in his
opinion the state Of the roads require il,
ut any time during his term Of Office, TO
assess an additional tax of-three mills Oh
the dollar, OIL all taxable property in his
troad district: PrOrided, the first assessed
TAX has been expended; and the said su
pervsor, shall have the same power to en-
force the said additional tax, US has been
heretofore given him in this act, TO enforce
the original road tax" All laws hereto
fore passed, eonhlcting with the provisions
Of this act, are hereby repealed.
John Taylor, one of the Twelve Apostles