Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-13
THE COUNTY BOARD.
Proceedings of the Regular July Term
Official Record.


ment, all members present except
Supervisors Trent and Armstrong,
Supervisor Sinnett, chairman, pre-
siding. Minutes of Yesterdays pro-
ceedings read and approved.
Supervisor Cralle moved that the
county appropriate $50 to defray ex-
penses of treatment of George Hill
lier at the Chicago hospital. Car
ried.
The committee on roads and
bridges to whom the petition of the
Drury Toll Road company was re-
ferred at yesterdays meeting sub
mitted the following report, and SUI
pervisor Ford moved that the report
be received and approved and that
the prayer of the petition be granted
as recommended, which carried
The road and bridge committee to
whom was referred the petition of
the Drury Toll Road company to con-
struct toll road, plead at the De-
cember term, 1892, would respect
fully report and recommend that the
proposition made to said company by
your honorable body, and mentioned
in the report of the special commit
tee as recorded in book X, pages II
and Is of the record of your honora-
BILE body, as conditions upon which
the prayer of its petition aforesaid
would be granted, and which said
company declined to accept by its
declination in writing filed July II,
1898, with the county clerk of Rock
Island county, be Withdrawn and not
insisted on; and it further appearing
that the said company has complied
with the statutes of that state in Civ
ing notice Of its intention to file its
said petition and make its said APP
plication by publication in the Rock
island ARGUS, newspaper published
in Rock Island county, Illinois, for
four weeks successfully next pre-
ceeding the session of the county
board at which said application was
read as aforesaid. We therefore rec
ommend that said petition be granted
in terms and upon the conditions as
follows, viz:
The said Drury Toll Road company
shall have the right and is hereby
granted the privilege of building and
operating and for that purpose ac-
quiring all necessary land for the
period of 30 years, at the end of
which time it shall vest in the said
town of Drurv unless sooner termi-
mated by virtue of subsequent con-
ditions in the grant, toll road in
said county of Rock Island and state
of Illinois upon the following route
to-wit:
Commencing at the Illinois end of
the bridge across the Mississippi
river opposite the city Of Muscatine,
commonly known as the high bridge,
thence by the route of the present
Travelled highway commonly known
as the old government military road.
or dug road, castwardly through sec
ton l, in township 16, range 6 west.
and sections and in township 16.
range ) west, to the junction of said
road with the road leading from said
road to Illinois City in said section
as aforesaid, or upon any relocation
OF any part or parts of said dug road
between said terminal points. The
highway commissioners of Drury
township, consenting to the occupa-
ton of said parts of said roads in the
manner provided by statute and
particular plat of said road when
thus located and before any tolls are
to be filed and recorded in
accordance with law. Said toll road
to be constructed by said company
as soon as practicable and to be com
during the present year and
to be constructed n follows, to-wit:
TO be 20 feet wide on top, at least
feet above the high water mark of
1892, well built and gravelled and
there will not be more than one
bridge between what is known as
fourth slough and the bluffs. and one
bridge of at least the length of 40
feet span at the nearest slough to the
high bridge and to be maintained by
said company in good passable con-
dition at all times.
The maximum rate of tolls to be
charged by said company for passage
upon such toll road until otherwise
fixed in accordance with law shall be
as follows, to-wit: 10 cents per
round trip for double or single
team; D cents per round trip for
horse and cart or saddle horse and
rider; l cent per head each way for
cattle or horses in droves; 81 for
steam threshers, which shall onlv
have the right of passage after rea-
sonable notice, and like traffic: all
footmen and extra passengers in We
hicles shall be permitted to use such
road without charge; such tolls to be
collected only until such times as
the said tolls collected thereon shall
repay the stockholders of said COM
pany their capital invested with
per cent interest thereon over and
above the reasonable cost of collec-
ton and maintenance; and thereafter
the toll shall be reduced to such an
amount as will thereafter paw the
costs of maintenance of such road.