New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-02-20
o TOWN SUPERVISORS
The New Ulm Cycle Club Quotes the Law
toThem.

10 the town supervisors of Brown and
Nicollet counties j The following is an
extract from Chapter 10 of the General
Statutes of Minnesota of 1878.
Sec. 81. Town TO MAINTAIN GUIDE
PosTs. Every township shall, In the
manner provided herein, erect and NAN.
tain guide posts on the highways and
other ways within the township, at such
places as are necessary or convenient fol
the direction of travellers.
Sec. SO. SUPERVISORS TO MAKE REPORT
OF GUIDE PosTs. The supervisors shall
submit to the electors, at every annual
meeting. report of all The places al
which guide posts are erected and main.
tanned within the town, and of all places
at which, in their opinion, they ought tc
| be erected and maintained. For each
neglect or refusal to make such report
they shall severally forfeit the sum OF
ten dollars.
Sec. SO. Town TO DETERMINE PLA.
CEs WHERE GUIDE PosTs SHALL. Bf
ERECTED. Upon the report of the SUI
pervisors, the town shall determine the
several places at which guide posts shall
be erected and maintained, which shall
| be recorded in the town records. A
town which neglects or refuses to derter.
mine such places, and to cause a record
thereof to be made, shall forfeit thesum
Of five dollars for every month during
which it neglects or refuses so to do
and in such case upon any trial for not
erecting Or maintaining guide posts re-
ported to be necessary or convenient by
the supervisors, the town shall be
estopped from alleging that such guide
posts were not necessary or convenient.
Sec. 100. GUIDE PosTs, How EREc-
TED AND MARKED? At each of the pla-
ces determined by the town, there shall
be substantial post Of not less than
eight feet in height, near the upper end
of which shall be placed board, and
upon such board shall be plainly and
legibly painted, or otherwise marked, the
name of the next town or place. and
such other town or place Of note as the
supervisors think proper, to which each
Of such roads lead, together with the
distance or number of miles to thesame
and also the figure of a hand with the
forefnger thereof pointed towards the
towns or places to which said roads lead;
provided, that the inhabitants of any
town, may, at their annual meeting, agree
upon some suitable substitute for such
guide posts.
Sec. 101, PENALTY FOR NEGLECT TO
MAINTAIN GUIDE PosTs. Every town
which neglects or refuses to erect and
maintain such guide posts. or some suit
able substitute therefor. shall forfeit an
nually the sum of five dollars for every
guide-post which it SO neglects or refu-
ses to maintain, which SUM may be sued
for and collected by any person, before
any justice of the peace of the proper
county, and the moneys SO collected shall
be paid into the town treasury for the
ben eft of the roads and bridges of the
said town.
Referring to the above, we would say
that we have no intention to force the
tow nships to compliance with this law,
but that we will help them as much as
we can to put up guide boards, and pro-
pose to furnish them at cost price. The
great trouble heretofore has been to keep
the guide boards in good condition, they
have always been made of wood and Of
fered an excellent target not only for
the boys, but for men as we'll, to shoot
at. Our aim is to furnish neat guide
board made of SHEET STEEL, and prac-
tically indistructable, at from so cents
to rs cents each. To furnish them at
that price, we must have an order for at
least from so to 100 boards. We hope
you will bring this matter before the
town meeting in Mach; let each town
ship determine how many boards it
wants and send or bring in your order
before April LIST. In this way we will
be enabled to manufacture all the boards
in one lot, and the price will be compar-
atively low. The more boards we make.
the cheaper they will be. This of course
does not mean that you must order a
certain number. If you need few or
2 or dozen, we will gladly fill the Or
der We figure on about 20 townships,
and if they order on an average 10 each,
we will have 200 boards to make.
Any further information you may want
will be cheerfully given by our Secreta-
ry, A. H...Wagner, New Ulm, Mimi, to