The Placer herald., 1860-12-29
An Act concerning Roads and Highways
in the county of Placer.
Approved April 3Oth, 1861

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Sec. From and after the first day of Decem
Der, A. ID. one thousand eight hundred and six
ty, the Tax Collectors, of the county of Placer
shall collect the road tax in said county. Th,
Road Tax Collector or Collectors in said county
Shall have and exercise the same powers in en-
forcing the collection Of said taxes, as are by
law conferred in the collection of the forei gr
miners license tax, and shall receive the same
per centage therefor.
Sec. 2 Said Collector shall pay over sucl
money as they may receive under the provisions
Of this act. les: the percentage allowed them for
collection. to the County Treasurer of said coun
tty, at the same time and in the same manner as
is provided by law for the payment of moneys
collected by them for poll, license, and other
taxes, in said county.
SEC. 3. All moneys collected under the pro-
visions of this act, shall be sepcrate Road
Fund. for each collection district in which such
moneys have been collected, and Shall be ap-
piled for the purpoe of constructing and keep
ing in repair all public roads and bridges and
such mountain trails as are in general use in
said district; provided, that such moneys rs may
not be expended for necessary repairs of public
roads and bridges in said districts shall be re-
served as fund for the purchase of toll-roads
and toll-bridges in said districts, or two or more
districts may join together for the purchase of
such roads and bridges
OEC. +. AL WoHeys paQ lntO the county treas
| ury under the provisions of this act, shall be sub
ject to the order and under the control of
Board of Road Commissioners TO be elected and
qualified rs hereinafter provided for; said Board
or Boards of Commissioners shall consist of
| three members in each road or collection district
as provided for in the provisions of this act and
they shall be elected at the same time and in the
same manner as the Collectors referred to in
section one of this act, and shall hold their of:e
for the term of one year. and shall be elected an
| nually thereafter; said Commissioners shall, with
| in ten days after being duly notified of their
election by the County Clerk of said county.
whose duty it shall be to notify them. qualify in
the same manner AS Justices of the Peace and
other township officers, and shall file bond in
the Clerks office of said county in such sum-
not to exceed two thousand dollars, with two
good and sufficient suretes, as may be required of
them by the County Judge of said county, such
bond to be approved by him; provided, always,
that each road district shall consist of one town
ship and no more.
SEC 5 Said Commissioners shall meet nnnu-
ally on the first Monday in March in each year,
for the purpose of receiving bids for construct
ing anl keeping in repair all public roads and
bridges in the districts for which they are elected,
| and they shall advertise in some newspaper pub
lished in the county and in nearest to their res
pectve districts, for bids or proposals for keeping
such roads and bridges in repair, for three weeks
like notices of the same in three of the most
public places in said districts for at least three
weeks prior to their annual meeting. Contracts
for constructing and keeping in repair all public
roads and bridges shall, in all cases, be
awarded by them to the lowest responsible bidder.
who will contract to keep such roads and bridges
in repair for the term of one year from the first
Mondayin March Bids may be received and
considered for the constructing and keeping in
repair oil or any portion Of the public roads and
bridges in said districts, or said Commissioners
may put up such portions of said roads as ma
jority of said Board may deem proper; but in no
case shall the amount Of money expended on said
roads exceed the amount collected in said dis
trcts in which such roads and bridges are loca
ted; and said Commissioners shall require such
sureties os they may deem just for the faithful
performance of contracts made under the pro-
visions of this act; but in no case shall the
| amount required exceed the sum to be paid for
the fulfllment of contracts made under the pro-
visions of this act; and, when the Board Of
Commissioners or majority of them, shall be
satisfied that the terms of the contracts have
been complied with, they shall issue certificate
to the parties, signed by at least two of said
Commissioners, stating in plain terms that the
provisions of the contract have been complied
with and the amount of money to which the
party is entitled, whereupon the County Auditor
shall draw his warrant on the County Treasurer
in favor of such party and said warrant shall be
paid, in cash, from the Road Fund belonging to
the district in which such roads or highways are
coated.
Sec. 6. All roads and highways in the county
of Placer, which have been declared such by the
Court of Sessions or the Board of Supervisors
aud such as may hereafter be laid out under the
provisions of this act, are hereby declared pub
lie highways
SEC. 7. The Board of Commissioners elected
under the provisions of this act, shall have the
general care of all public roads and bridges in
their respective districts in said county; and it
shall be their duty to cause to be kept open and
in good repair all public roads and bridges in
their respective districts in said county, and to
contract conjointly with the Board or Boards of
Commissioners of other road districts that may
be joined with them for the purchase of toll-roads
and t0ll-bridges in said county, and to regulate
the roads already laid out, to alter such of them
as shall be deemed inconvenent, and to lay out
new roads, rs hereinafter provided in this act.
Sec. 8. No public or private road shall be
laid out through any buildings or fixture Of any
kind, or through any Enclosures or cultivated
land, without the consent of the owner or own
ers thereof except due compensation shall be
made such owner or owners, as hereinafter pro-
vided
SEC. 8. Every person liable to be assessed for
a road tax in said county may petition the Board
Of Commissioners of the district of which he is
O resident, to alter. discontinue. or lay out, any
new road in said district. Every such appica-
tion shall be in writing, addressed to the Board
of Commissioners, and signed by at least five
persons who are taxpayers and residents of said
district, and shall state the point of beginning,
the course, and terminus, of the proposed road,
with particularity also, the character and condi-
tions of the land, with the names Of owners,
when known to them, over which the road will
pass. and whether the land be improved or not
Sec 10. On receiving such application the
Board may appoint three Viewers, who shall be
taxpayers of the county and disinterested in the
named by the Board and at least ten days after
their appointment, assemble to view out and
mark the line of the proposed road and to hear
all reasons that may be offered for or against the
laying out of the same, they shall, within reas-
enable time, report to the Board of Commission