Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-04-04
ROADS. HIGHWAYS AND FEN
CES.
A Summary of the Important
Changes Made in tho Laws of the
State by tho Fourteenth General
Assembly.

A Summary of the Important
Changes Made in tho Laws of the
State by tho Fourteenth General
Assembly.
The Jefferson Bee, one of whose
editors was an officer of the Feur-
teeuth General Assembly, gives the
following as the prominent changes
and provisions of the Road law of
this State. 1t does not go into eff.
feet until the first of September
next, and those who may possibly
need the information contained will
be careful to cut it out and keep it
within reach:
Chapter l, establishing high
ways. The following is new sec
ton:
Sec. 3. Any person desiring the
establishment, Vacation, or altera
ton OF highway, shall file in the
Auditors office of the proper coun-
ty petition in substance as fol-
lows: To the Board Of Supervisors
of --county. The undersigned
asks that a highway commencing at
-a and running thence -
and terminating at--be estab-
lished, vacated, or altered (as the
case may beg.
The petitioner is required, as
now, to file bond for the payment
Of all expenses if the highway asked
for is not established. The Auditor
is then required to appoint some
disinteresled elector to examine in.
to the expediency of the proposed
highway. The term Highway" is
now used in place of road. The
commissioner is not confined to the
matter of the petition but may make
general inquiry. The highway
must not be established throug h any
burying ground, nor garden, or
chard, or ornamental ground con,
tiguous to any dwelling; "ot more
than two years esta blishment,"
in the present law is stricken
out.
Within thirty days of his appointt
ment the Commissioner must file
his report in the Auditors office,
and if favorable the Auditor must
appoint a day not less than sixty
nor more than ninety days distant,
when the matter vii! be acted upon,
and claims for damages must be
previously filed.
The following sections arc sub
stantially new:
SEC. 10. The time for the Com
missioner to commence the exam
ination shall be fixed by the Audit
or, and if he fails to 50 commence
or report as prescribed in the pre-
ceding section, the Auditor may fix
another day, or extend the time for
making such report or may appoint
another Commissioner.
SEC. II. Within twenty days af-
ter the time is fixed by the Auditor
as above provided, Il notice shall be
served on each owner or occupier
of land lying in the proposed high
way or abutting thereon as shown
by the transfer books in the Audit
or's Office, who resides in the coun-
ty, in the manner provided for the
service of original notice i'll actions
of law, and such notice shall be pub
lished for four weeks in some news
paper published in The county, If |
any such there be; which notice may
be in the following form:
10 all whom it may concern:-
The Commissioner appointed to 10,
cate, vacate, or alter Jas the case
may beg a highway commencing at
county; running |
thence describing in general terms
all the points as in the Commission
er's reporD and terminating at
HAS reported i'll favor of the
establishment, vacation, or altera-
ton thereof, and all objection there
to, or claims for damages must be