The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-07
The new MODEL ROAD BILL.
MEASURE AGREED ON BY Leg
ISLATIVE COMMITTEES.
An Entirely New Plan Set Forth to
Accomplish the End
In View.

sents in full the new bill providing for
the model highway between the Capt.
tai and the State Prison at Folsom.
This bill is the measure agreed to by
the Committee on Highways Of both
houses, and yesterday ordered by the
Assembly committee to be reported to
the House that it do pass. AS it in
wolves the expenditure Of money lit will
then go to the Committee on Ways and
Means.
The bill will be found to be very diff
ferent from the original measure intro
duced, and to provide new means for
accomplishing the ends in view. Com
panion bills are before the Legislature
to meet the objections raised by the
Supreme Court and to make effective
this measure. The bill reads:
AN ACT
ITO provide for the construction of a
public highway or wagon road from
Sacramento City to the town of Folsom
in the county of Sacramento and max
ing an appropriation for the purchase
of crushed rock for matchmaking and
granite or stone blocks for drains, cul-
verts and bridges for the same.
The people of the State of California
represented in Senate and Assembly do
enact as follows:
Section /. A public highway or wag-
on road shall be built from a point on
the eastern limits of the city of Sacra-
mento to the State Prison at Folsom in
the county of Sacramento, as near as
practicable along the route of the pres
emit most direct line of county roads be-
tween those two points.
Section 2. Such road shall be built
nnder the direction of Folsom High
way Commission which is hereby Gre
ated. Said commission shall consist of
TWO executive officers to be known as
Folsom Highway Commissioners and
the Commissioners or Commissioner of
the Department of Highways, who
shall be by virtue of their office mem
bers and executive officers of the Fol-
som Highway Commission and ex off,
clio Folsom Highway Commissioners.
The Governor shall Immediately after
the approval of this Act appoint said
two Folsom Highway Commissioners.
who shall be residents of the county of
Sacramento, and who shall hold office
from the date Of their appointment I'M
I'LL the 1st day of January, 1902, and
who shall serve without compensation.
Section B. The Folsom Highway Com
nlissioners shall proceed to define. lay
out, locate and survey the road herein
provided to be built, and to an estimate
of its cost, and shall cause all work to
be done upon said highway either by
contract or days labor as they deem
best.
Section 4. The road herein provided
for shall be built so far as practicable
from broken or crushed rock from the
rock crusher at the State Prison at
Folsom and the State Prison Directors
are hereby directed and authorized to
supply such crushed or broken rock
for macadamizing together with the
necessary granite or stone blocks for
drains, culverts and bridges at the act
ual cost thereof to the Folsom High
way Commissioners for the construction
of such highway.
Section D. The said highway shall be
macadamized, be built according to the
most approved methods of modern
highway construction along the most
direct route available, and upon the
easiest grades, with proper drains, Gull
yerts and bridges, and shall be of such
width not to exceed twenty -four feet
as such Commissioners shall deem ex-
pedient and within the means at their
command.
Section 6. There is hereby apnranri-
ated out of any money in the State
Treasury not otherwise appropriated
the sum of So, COO to be paid to said
Folsom ~
much thereof as is necessary to be e,x-
pended for the purposes hereinafter
specified, to-wit: For the purchase
from the State Prison Directors of the
broken or crushed stone or rock for
macadamizing from the rock crusher at
the State Prison at Folsom and the
necessary granite or stone blocks Cor
drains, culverts and bridges. to con-
struct the highway herein provided to
be built The Commissioners shall file
with the State Controller the estimate
OF cost herein provided for and said
Controller shall not draw any warrant
on the fund herein provided until the
treasurer OF the county of Sacramento
shall file with him a certificate that
there has been provided and paid into
THE treasury of the county of Sacra-
mento an amount of money to be used
for the construction of said highway
which added to the amount herein an
propriated is equal to the amount nee
essary for the construction Of such
highway as established by such esti-
mate of the cost of construction. 1t
is hereby declared that such purposes
are a public use and that said appro-
priation is for the public benefit.
Section T. The Folsom Highway
Commissioners shall keep strict and ac-
curate account of every item of expense
paid. incurred or contracted, on account
of the construction Of the road herein
provided to be built, including the
value of the materials. work or labor
contributed or bestowed free OF charge
and report to the Legislature of Cali
fornia at it's thirty-fourth session the
exact cost Of the road and separately
the cost of its grading, rolling, the
value of the rock and top dressing used
the cost of spreading the same, and
the cost of re-rolling and of each stage
of it's construction So much of this
road shall be completed as is possible
before such thirty-fourth session of the
Legislature, and the same shall be ex-
hibited to the members thereof and to-
gether with a detailed report of the
said Commissioners serve as a model
to the Legislature in the construction
of necessary highway legislation.
Section s. The Controller is hereby
directed to draw his warrant in favor
of said Folsom Highway Commission
ers for the amount appropriated in this
Act, and the State Treasurer Is hereby
directed to pay the same.