Weekly New Oregon plain dealer. (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1866-1867, 1866-10-12
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CHAPTER l2..
Conccr' ,ng Private Roads.
IN ACT TO provide for establishing pri
vase roads III the State Of Iowa.
Sec. l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly Of the State OF
Iowa, That private roads may be
established in tie same way and
manner tEat county roads are now
established by law. and all the laws
Of iowa relating to and governing
the cSta hlishmcnt Of county reads
SHALL apply to and govern the es-
establishment OF private reads, so far
as the same arc appliable and net
herein changed: PNovIpEd, That
a petition signed by the applicant,
for private road, alone, shall be
sufficient as basis, upon which to
proceed.
Sec. >. Previous to the appoint
mcnt ot q missioner to view TIE
proposed private read, and report
':"'3 "a" Application therefor, 'he
rst!.. .aor inn>: Ii: bond with tie
) AID Il Supervisors, in q penal
su" u BE- liked hE tncm, payable t.
tie ,runty, with such s":etics as
may De approved hy said Board.
Fl tie use eli the parties injurcd by
tie esta J,ishment Of such private
read. with conditions that tie ap-
plica..t will pay all the costs result
Ing from such application and will
pay all the assessed damages to the
owners Of the land over which sue h
road may be blished, and COM
ply with all other conditions upon
which such road is established;
PROVIDED, He shall not be
liable to perform any Of the con-
ditions in the said bond, nor any of
conditions upon which such road is
established, except the payment of
the cost. unless he accepts Of such
road.
SEC. 3. No private road estab-
lishcl as provided by this act shall
1t ordered to be opened until the APP
piical,t shall have paid ali the dam
ages and costs, and complied with
a!l other conditions upon which it is
established. which must be done
within such time as may be fixed
by the Board of Supervisors, and
in case he does not pay said costs
and damages, and comply with said
other conditions, within the time
fixed by said Board, he shall be
deemed to have waived and forfeit
ed all his rights to such road upon
that application; and if thereafter
he should desire such a road, he
much proceed anew.
SEC. /. When the time for the
final hearing and action in relation
to such road arrives, whether ap-
plication for damages has been made
or not and whether the commission
cr has reported adversely to the es-
tablishment Of the road or not, the
Board of Supervisors may hear tcs-
timoney and receive petitions for
and against the establishment of
such road, and may establish the
road upon such condition as to the
payment of dana ges and costs, and
building and maintaing fences, and
such other conditions as to the board
may seem just to all parties concern
ed; or they may reject the road alb
solutely, but such rejection shall be
no bar to another application for the
same purpose.
SEC. ). This Act being deemed
Of immediate Importance, shall take
effect and be in force from and after
its publication in the Iowa State
Register aud Homestead. newspa-
pers published at Dcs Noincs, Iowa.
Approved April 81, ls66.
l hereby certify that the foregoing
Act was published in the Iowa state
Register, April 10Th, 1866, and in
the Iowa Homestead on the 18th
day Of April, 1866.
JAMES WRIGHT,
Secretary Of State.
CHAPTER 12s,
Subscription to County Agricultural Soci-
cites
AN ACT authorizing county subscriptions
to comfy agricultural societies.
SIC. l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Iowa, That whenever any county
society, organized &C.
cording to law, shall procure in
fec simple, free from incumbrance,
land for fair grounds, not less than
ten acres in extent, the Board of
Supervisors of said county may
appropriate and pay to such society
sum not exceeding one hundred
dollars for every thousand inhabit-
ants in said county, to be expended
by such society in fitting up such