The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-04-15
THE SHERIDAN ROAD BILL.
Just as It Stands NOW Before the Wiscon-
sin Assembly.
sENAE BILL no. 297 S.

sin Assembly.
SENATE BILL NO 297 S.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin,
represented in senate and assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section /. Frank r. Bull, Edward
4 Fowle, Edward G. Thiers, Jared
Thompson Jr, Walter Z. Dexter, John
Peterson, William Smith, George "A.
Yule and Patrick Cudahy are hereby
appointed commissioners, with full
powers and authority to survey, lay
out and establish a state road from the
south line of the town of Pleasant
Prairie, in the county of Kenosha, at a
point near the shore Of Lake Michigan;
thence northerly along or near the
shore Of Lake Michigan through the
said town of Pleasant Prairie and to
and through the city of Kenosha, and
through the town of Somers, in the
county Of Kenosha, through the town
Of Mount Pleasant and the city of RAJ
cine, in the county Of Racine and the
town Of Caledonia in said county, and
through the town of Oak Creek and
the village of South Milwaukee, in the
county of Milwaukee, and through the
town of Lake in said county, to the
southern limits Of the city of Mil
waukee.
Section ?. In case of the inability or
refusal to act, of or by any or either of
said commissioners, the remaining
commissioners may appoint a substi-
tute or substitutes who shall act as
such commissioner or such commission
ers, and shall have all the rights and
powers of those herein appointed. Said
commissioners shall have authority to
enter into an agreement with any
party or parties who may feel ag-
grieved or susts5n damages by the lay
ing out, opening and establishment of
such highway, and recommend to the
county board Of supervisors in the
county in which the lands may lie,
concerning which such party or parties
may feel aggrieved or sustain damages,
terms Of settlement, and in case said
commissioners cannot agree with any
such party or parties upon terms Of.
settlement, then said commissioners
shall proceed in the manner prescribed
by law for the taking Of land for the
laying out of state roads,
Section 3. The said commissioners
may lay out said road along or upon
such parts Of existing highways ocI
streets as may seem to the said com
.missioners available for that purpose,
but no damages shall be awarded for
any parts Of existing streets Or high
ways SO used.
Section 4 Upon filing the order Of
survey of said road in the office of the
county clerk in the several counties
through which said road may pass, the
said road shall become a public high
way and the said commissioners shall
have full power to open out the said |
highway and the same shall thereupon
be opened and worked. as is by statute |
provided.
Section 5. Said commissioners shall |
have power to employ such assistants
as may be necessary, not to exceed |
five, who shall receive as compensation
not more than one dollar and fifty |
cents per day; also one surveyor, who
shall be entitled to receive not more
than five dollars per day for each days !
service as surveyor. provided the ex-
pense in any one county shall not ex-
coed in all the sun Of five hundred |
dollars. ANY three of said commits
.sioners may act, without the presence
of the remainder of said commissioners.
Section 6. When said commissioners
shall have filed an order Of survey of
said road in the Office Of the county
clerk iii each of the counties through
which said road shall run, it shall be
the duty Of the county board of super
visors in each of those counties to audit
che accounts of said commissioners for
assistants and surveyors, on their filing
such ACCOUNTS, properly verified, With
said county clerks.
Section z. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pas
sage and publication.