Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-02-20
MEN WANTED.

FIhSI~OLz4SCO h1LIN w dN ILL.
The new law relating to the manage
hent of the highway provides that
hch town shall elect a road commits
oner by ballot at each annual March
heetirg, who shall be invested with
lights and duties heretofore imposed
pom highway surveyors, road COM
issioners, selectmen, etc. The road
Commissioner is requested to give
binds to the amount of the money
hich shall be raised to be by him ex-
bnded. Among the duties imposed
BON him are the full management,
Instruction and repairing of all the
ghways in the town, except in cities
ID incorporated villages. Culverts
d bridges exceeding four feet in
ngth are to be built and repaired by
selectmen of the town. If a per-
n elected as a commissioner refuses
qualify before the 1st of April, the
ectmen are required to appoint a
pervisor. Road commissioners must
pend rs per cent of the money rails
for the highways prior to Aug. Is,
eh year. They are required to
ep accurate and detailed accounts
all money raised and paid out by
bm, and to settle their accounts
bvious to the first Tuesday of March
h year. They are to draw their
ney from the highway fund in the
En treasury by commissioners or-
s, keeping an order book, on the
ub" of which shall appear what
order was given for. The law
|vides for close and accurate ac-
nting. The commissioner is to be
not less than $500 day, the
hpens&tion to be fixed by the Sc
men.
he above outlines the duties Of the
missioner, so far as the law is con-
he'd, but it will suggest itself at
to the voters of the town that
office requires one of the best men
honesty and qualifications in the
n. The man should be honest;
E amount of money passes thro'
hands, and unless he Is honest he
so manage, and so fix his ac-
hts as to defraud the town He
Id be fairly good accountant, so
alIt1e details of his work can be
d and audited, if need be. He
Id be efficient in promptness,
mencng, pursuing and finishing
7oriE dn due season. He should |
man thoroughly informed, if pos
In the theory of road BUILDING |
road repairing. The average man |
has @'mended" the roads from
to year knows something by ex-
nee, and probably little or moth
of real, thorough road build
The making of roads has been
[bor of every country, ancient or
rn. and the theory of road
Ing hardened into science
hgo- Unfortunately in this coun
tile scientific road building has
done, ard the greater portion ef
y has been laid out from year to
in patchwork repairs, with the
ledge that all the labor and mon
pended vas only expended te
the roads Just up to last years. !.
ard. The commissioner who .
expend his money wisely viii
derstand the science of road
9 and repairing that what he
ill be scientifically done, and be :
permanent nature which will 4
or years that money has been /
kpended in that particular spot. 4
wn roadmaster must be man
Judgment; he must know the .
bf his town and plan his cam
of building and repairs early I
sely. He should have business |
which will enable him to organ ;
id put to work, under compe- j
en, such gangs of help as will
work efficiently and econom-
Of course this means, also, {
commissioner should be man I
0ws a dollar from dime, and
Il get, SO far as it can be pos '
dollars worth for the dollar {
ed. t
commissioner must be a man '
independence enough to run i
business, and a skin thick I
to repel the fusilade of criti- f
complaint that will be his