Iron County register., 1890-02-13
Road Oyerseers to be Elected.

The new road law enacted by the
last General Assembly of the State
provides for the election of road over.
seers at the annual school meetings
instead their appointment by the
County Court as heretofore. AS it is
important that everybody should be
acquainted with the manner of elect
ing overseers, we give below the sec
tions of the law bearing on that subject
Section Is. The several County
Courts shall divide their counties into
convenient road districts, said districts
to include within their respective linn
it's not less than one nor more than six
school districts, and the boundaries Of
such road districts shall be the same as
the school districts or districts from
which they are formed, except when
any school district lies in two or more
counties, in which case the county line
shall be the boundary of such road dis
trict; provided, that no part of any in
corpOrated city, town or village shall
be road district or any part thereof.
And at the annual school meeting in
the year 1890, and every year thereaf-
ter, the qualified voters within such
road districs shall choose by ballot a
a person to act as road Overseer in each
of such districts. who shall serve for a
term of one year, and until his sue
cessor is duly qualified. 1t shall be
the duty of the Clerks of the school
districts to east up the votes for each
candidate within five days after such
meeting, and transmit the same to the
County Clerk. who shall Immediately
issue a certificate of election to the per-
son having received the largest num-
ber of votes in each o! said road dis
tricts.
Sec IS. The person elected to the
office of road overseer shall he a resi-
dent taxpayer of the road district for
which he was SO elected, and shall
have resided in said road district one
whole year next before the annual
election thereof. And it shall be his
duty to keep the roads in his district
in good repair, according to the provis-
io;s Of this act; and it shall be the du
ty of said court. at the February term
thereof, to designate by order the
number of days each person liable to
work on the public roads shall work
which shall not be less than one nor
more than four days of each year, eX-
cept in opening new roads. In cases
of opening new roads the overseer
shall have power 10 call out the hands
in the district subject to pay road tax,
and work the same in proportion to
the amount of road tax they are re-
quired to pay in the district;
Sec. II. In all cases where vacan-
cy shall have occurred in the office of
road overseer, by failure of the district
to elect or otherwise, it shall be the du-
ty OF the County Court to appoint
some suitable person to fill such vncan-
cy, who shall hold his office until the
next annual school meeting, when
such office shall be filled as provided
for in section fifteen of this act: Pro-
vided, this act shall not apply to town.
ships organized for road purposes only,
under an act approved March 81, 1883,
entitled IAN act to organize munich
pal townships in all counties that have
not adopted township organization In
10 bodies corporate for road purposes
only, and to create board of township
road commissioners therein, with de-
fined powers and duties."