The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-04-12
TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED

The Road improvement Hove
ment Will Likely Succeed
When the Law Is Con-
formed With.
Late yesterday evening the county
court, on investigating the matter Of
the petition for issuing Of road bonds,
discovered that the petitioners who
were desirous of having Pettis county
roads maca1amized, had been ut work
under the wrong section Of the general
statutes, and of course could not en-
terrain the petition.
However, the advocates Of the
measure have now gone to work on
the right track, and il il thought will
meet with success. The requirements
of the section under which aid may
come, is a. follows:
Revised Statutes Missouri, 1889,
Section 1900. The county court Of
any county in this state, on the receipt
Of . proper petition, SHALL order an
election to be held in such county, at
the usual places Of voting for state
and county officers, to determine
whether or not certificates, BONDS or
other forms of indebtedness of such
county for the construction of graded,
MAcADAM, gravel or plank roads and
highways of such county.
The said petition to the county court
for such purpose shall be signed by not
less than ten per cent. of the tax-pay.
ing voters Of each township in such
county.
Sec. 1910. Such election shall be
L.ll and determined in accordance
and in all respects with the laws Of
the state governing general elections,
and the result thereof shall be entered
upon the records of such county court,
and the expenses of such election
shall be paid out Of the county treas
ury: Provided, that no such election
shall take place on any election day.
nor within ninety days of any general
election held under the constitution
and laws of this state.
Sec. 1911. The county court, when
ordering an election under the pre-.
ceding section, may desiguate the
lines Of roads said Indebtedness 10 in
tended to construct, and shall give
the kind of Indebtedness upon which
said vote is to De t.ken, and shall
publish the same for not le@ than
sixty days next preceding such cleo
ton, in one or more newspapers pub.
lished in such county.
Section 1912. When IN election
has been held under the provisions Of
this article, and it is found that two
thirds of the voters at such election
have voted in favor of said indebted
ness, then the county court Of such
county, shall issue bonds, or other
forms Of indebtedness of such county,
in accordance with the provisions of
their order of election, and take al
proper steps that may be necessary to
secure the rapid, thorough, and econ
omical construction of such roads
Provided, that such indebtedness shall
not exceed, including the existing in
debtedness, Eve per cent on the tax.
able property of such county, and
provided further, that ct the time Of
contracting such indebtedness, shall
provide for the collection Of IN annual
tax sufficient to pay the interest on
said bonds % it falls due. and also to
constitute . sinking fund for the pay.
ment Of the principal Of said bonds
within twenty lean.
Sec. 1914. The county court Of
such county shall have power to en-
ploy competent engineers to survey
and lay out such roads, who shall make
report of the same to the county court,
with profile specifications, cost Of con.
and such other information
- the county court may require; and
If the county court shall approve such
locations and cost Of constructions,
they shall advertise for not Len than
thirty days in one or moro nswgpapers
in such county, for sealed proposals. 70 |
construct such roads, in whole or In |
part, ct the discretion Of the court. i
Sec. 1915. The roads constructed
under the provisions Of this article |
hall b free t, the public and remain
70.