The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-04-13
SHERIDAN ROAD BILL
SUBSTITUTE FOR NO. 239 S, NOW
BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE.
PROVIDES FOR SURVEY ONLY
It Limits the Expense Put Upon the County
to $500, and Leaves it optional
With the County-Pressnted
by Senator Eaton

tute for No. 10y 5, drawn up by Sena-
g tor Eaton, of Milwaukee, was presented
8 to the legislature at Madison last week
and is now before the Senate com
mittee. It differs from the original
bill in that it provides only tor survey
of the road and leaves the matter
optional with the counties, besides
putting limit of $500 on the expense
required; whereas the old bill authoriz-
ed the establishment of the road, set no
definite limit to the expense, and did
not leave it optional with the people.
The new bill as presented to the legis-
lature is as follows:
A bill, to authorize the making of a
preliminary survey of State road
from the southern boundary of the
State of Wisconsin to the city of Mil
Waukee.
The people of the State of Wiscon-
sin, represented in Senate and AS
sembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. The persons hereinafter
named may at any time within two
years from and after the passage and
publication of this act survey conu-
Gus state road from the south line of
the town of Pleasant Prairie, in the
county of Kenosha, at 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 Racine, in the
county Of Racine, and the town of
Caledonia, in said county, and through
the town of OAK Creek and the city of
South Milwaukee and village of Cudahy
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 2. Such road may be sur
veyed upon such parts of existing
highways or streets as to such persons
may seem proper and be of such width
as they may determine, except that no
road or street shall be changed by
them in any Incorporated city or
village.
Section 3. They shall receive FOR
their services three dollars each per
day, and may employ not exceeding
five assistants who shall receive not
more than one dollar and fifty cents
per day, and one surveyor who shall
not receive more than FIVE dollars
per day, but the total cost of said
survey shall not exceed fifteen hundred
dollars.
:. Section 4. The foregoing provisions
may be carried out by Jared Thomp-
son. Jr., Otis Johnson and Geo. A. Yule.
In case of the death, resignation or re-
fusal to act, or either of them, the
) others may appoint substitutes. Two
of said persons may act without the
presence of the other one.
Section g. The county boards of the
several counties through which said
road is proposed to be surveyed shall,
before any work is entered on or per
formed thereon, by resolution, de
termine whether said road shall be so
surveyed in their respective counties,
and if the said county board shall au-
thorize said survey to be made, the
expense of said survey when so au-
thorized, and not otherwise, shall be
paid by the counties through which
said road is surveyed in the proportion
that the length of the road laid out in
each county bears to the whole length
of the road, and said persons shall de-
termine the amount chargeable TO
each county and file such statement in
the Office of the respective county
clerk, and such amount shall be aud
tied and allowed by the county board
of each county and paid out of the
county treasury whenever complete
field notes and plats have been filed, as
provided in the next section.
Section 6. Within sixty days after
/ said persons have completed the work
, of surveying said road they shall file,
or cause to be filed, in the Office of the
county clerks of the respective
counties, through or into which said
? road extends, correct copy Of SO
much of the field notes and plat OF the
3 survey of said road as shall be located
8 in such county, where such exhibit
shall remain on file.
Section Z This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its
passage and publication.
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