Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-02
A coon ROAD BILL.
Counties Divided Into Road Districts
With an 0yerseer for Each Dis
tr,et to be A~ppaintea by the
County Court.

In the House this morning the vote
by which House bill $50 was refused
engrossment was reeonsidered and
the bill, after being amended so as
to make the road districts not exceed
a township and allow overseers OF
road districts to hire teams at the
rate OF 81 per day, ordered engross-
ed. The bill is one Of a series OF
carefully prepared bills by the
House Committee on Roads and
Highways, and will undoubtedly be
one Of the principal bills passed by
the Assembly ON that subject this
session. The bill provides that the
several county courts shall divide
their counties into road districts,
said districts to include within their
respective limits not to exceed one
Congressional township. In counties
having fractional townships the
county court may attach such trao-
tional township or townships to
other road districts, or may form a
road district by uniting two or more
fractional townships: Provided,
that no incorporated city having a
population of more than 5000 shall
be included in a road district; and
the county court of the several coun-
ties shall, at the February term
thereof in each year, appoint a road
overseer for each road district in
their county, who shall hold office
for one year and shall execute and
deliver to said said county court a
bond of $500 for the faithful per-
Torrance of his duties.
QUALIFICATIONS OF H ovERsEER.
The person appointed to the office
of Road 0verseer shall be a resident
taxpayer of the road district for
which he is appointed, and shall be
liable to work on the roads, and
shall nave resided in said road dis
trict one whole year before his ap-
pointment, and it shall be his duty
to keep the roads in his district in
good repair according to the provis-
ions of the article, and it shall be the
duty of the county court Of each
county, at the February term thereof
in each year, to assess three days
poll tax to each person liable to
work On public roads: Provided,
each person SO assessed may be ex-
empt from such poll tax by the pay
ment Of 50 in money each year to
the road overseer of the road district
in which he may reside. In cases
of opening new roads, the overseer
shall have power to call out the
persons in his district to work on
the roads, and work the same in
proportion to the amount of road
tax they are required to pay in the
district.
MILO ARE SUBJECT TO POLL TAX
All able-bodied male inhabitants
between the ages of II and 60 years
having resided in the district enc
month are made subject to a poll
tax to work on public roads, but no
person shall be required to work in
more than one road district in any
one year.
Every person who shall furnish, at
the request of the Road Overseer, a
pillow, cart, wagon Or scraper, with a
pair of oxen, horses or mules, are en-
titled to receive for such days work
of such team and driver 50 for each
day, ard the Overseer may hire and
pay for the use of such implement
and team, at his discretion, 81 per
day, or he may employe a traction
engine to perform said work, where
the same can be done without greater
expense. The Oyerseer shall receive
for each day he may be actually en-
ployed in the work and business of
overseeing a sum not to exceed So
per day, to be paid out of the fund
provided for road expenses.
Persons subject to pay poll tax for
road purposes shall have the right,
at their election, to pay the same in
money or labor upon their proper
road division at the rate of 50 pei
day.
FoRFEITs PROVIDED FOR.