The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-05-15
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RITE per day established for that year.
-. If any able bodied man when
duly summoned for any such purpose, fails
to appear and labor diligently by himself
or his substitute, or send satisfactory ex.
cuse therefor, he Is liable to fine of SO
to be recovered by suit before any Justice
OF the peace in the name of the district
and for the use of the road fund of said
Of said district; Propided, IN al cases.
the person so notified shall have the priv
ilege OF paying the value of such work
immediately in money.
s26. 1t is the duty Of the supervi.
sor to remove Instructions in the public
highways, caused by fenc, S or otherwise.
but he must not throw down or remove
fences which do not directly ob.truct
the travel upon the highway, until not to
exceed six months notice has been given
to the owner Of the land enclosed in part
by such fence.
n. When any owner or occrpant
of land adjoining and abutting upon any
read or highway, may desire to plant
hedge upon the line of any road. he shall
be allowed o build or remove h's fence
upon such raj or HIGHWAY, provided he
shall not build o. remove his fence more
than ten feet within the outer line Of said
road, and that lie the said road be six
ty feet wide the fence shall not be built
or removed upo n both sides at the same
time. Such owner or occupant shall not
be allowed to occupy such highway as
aforesaid for more tlaa five ye.rs, and
n't more than one year before such hedge
shall b. planted, and at II G expiration of
such time he shall remove such fence.
upon the order of the supervisor of the
district where such road is situated
5 * It shall be the duty eff the su
peryisor TO keep the roads in as good con
dition as the funds at his disposal will
permit, and to place guide boards at the.
forks of she roads in his district. and shall
be furnished with money to do tho same.
%. Pcr"ons meeting each other en-
any of the public highways of this State
shall give one half of the same by turn
ing to the right. All persons failing to
observe the proyis ons of this section
shall be liable to pay all damages resulting
therctrom, together with fine not ex-
ceedlng FIVE dollars, to be appropriated to
the repairing of roads in the distries
whore the violation occurred.
80. The supervisors are hereby re-
guired to meet the township trustees at
their regular meeting on the first Mon
day IN October of each year, and have a
final settlement of all their accounts con-
nectod with the raod fund and with the
affairs Of their Office as supervisor and
after the payment Of the supervisor, the
trustees shall order the distribution Of
the road fund in the hands of the town
ship clerk as they may deem expedient
for road purposes, and the townshipclerk
shall pay the same ont ;s ordered by the
trustees, The township clerk shall be
entitled to five per cent. on all moneys
coming into his hands hy virtue of his
office, and shall be required at least once
in each year to make settlement with the
county judge, producing vouchers for all
moneys paid out by him, specifying for
what, and to whom paid
81. The township clerk of each
township shall be required by the county
judge Of his county to give bond, to be
approved by the judge in the sum of twice
the amount Of the road tax in his town
ship, when the county judge shall give
an order to said clerk on the county treas
urer for all moneys collected by him as
road taxes upon all property within and
Tor his township, upon the payment of
which by the treasurer, he shall take from
said township clerk duplicate receipts for
the same thus paid him, one of which
said treasurer shah deliver over to the
county judge to be fled by him among the
papers of his Office, and said Judge shall
! charge the same to the account of the
said clerk upon the road book.
! s 32. The tywaship clerk shall be al
lowed the sum of one dollar per day for
all days necessarily employed in the dis.
charge Of the duties of his Office, which
account after being si.ned ard sworn to,
shall be audited and paid out Of the coun-
! ty treasury as other accounts Al re aud ted
and paid.
s 80. Supervisors elected at the April
! election OF 1873 shall hold their Office
until the second Tuesday Of October.
! 1858. and until their successors are elee-
ted and qualified.
| S3l. Al acts and parts Of acts in
consistent with The provisions of this act
are hereby repealed
! Approved March 23d 1858.