The record-union., 1899-01-01
WILL TRY IT ONCE MORE.
GROVE l.. JOHNSON WILL IN
TRoDuCE THE BILL

GROVE l.. JOHNSON WILL IN
TRoDuCE THE BILL IS.
For the Construction Of the State
Highway From Sacramento
to Folsom.
Following is the full text of the bill
drawn up at the request Of Hon. Grove
L. Johnson by Chariss T. Hughes, Sec
rotary Of the Folsom Highway Com
mission, and which will be INTRODUCED
and it's passage urged by Mr.. Johnson
in the Legislature:
An Act to provide for the construc-
ton Of a State highway or wagon road
from Sacramento City to Folsom, in
Sacramento County, creating the Of
fees of Folsom Highway Commission
ers, providing for the appointment OF
an Auditing Board to the Folsom High
way Commissioners, authorizing ana
directing said Commissioners and said
Auditing Board to perform certain
duties relating to the construction Of
such highway or wagon road, to con-
denim land and property for the purpose
aforesaid, appropriating crushed rock,
and granite and stone blocks for drains,
culverts and bridges, for the same, and
making an appropriation for the ex-
penditures and purposes provided IN
this Act.
The people Of the State of California
represented in Senate and Assembly do
enact as follows:
Section IA public highway or
wagon road shall be built from point
on the eastern limits Of the City of
Sacramento to the town of Folsom in
the County Of Sacramento, as near as
practicable along the route of the pres
ent most direct line of the county
reads between those two points.
Section 2.-Immediately after the pas
sage of this Act the Governor shall APP
point three persons, who shall be clt1-
zens Of the County of Sacramento,
who shall be known as Folsom High
way Commissioners, and who shall
hold office from the date of their ap-
pointment until the LIST day of January,
1901 and who shall serve without
compensation. At the same time the
Governor shall appoint three persons,
who shall likewise be citizens OF the
County of Sacramento, and not all
members of the same political party,
who shall be known as the Auditing
Board to the Folsom Highway Com
missioners, who shall hold Office for
the same length of time provided for
the said Commissioners, and who shall
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Section 3. The highway or wagon
road herein provided for shall be maca-
dnmized, be built according to the most
approved methods of modern highway
construction, be built along the most
direct route available. with proper
drains, culverts and bridges, and shall
be of such width. as such Commission
ers shall deem expedient and within
the means at their command.
Section f. Such Commissioners I'M
mediately after their appointment shall
proceed to the location and survey OF
the road herein provided to be built
and to an estimate of its cost, and shall
report the same together with a map
OF profile Of such road to the Auditing
Board.
Section 5. The Folsom Highway
Commissioners shall have charge and
Superintendent of all work authorized
by this, Act and shall employ and direct
all employees, but no expenditures shall
be made without the sanction OF the
Auditing Board The said Commits
sioners shall determine the character
and extent of the work to be done,
ard shall have full power to carry on
and complete the same.
Section 6. There is hereby appropri-
ated out of any money in the State
| Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
the sum of seventy-five thousand dol
lars. to be paid to said Auditing Board
and to be expended for the purposes
hereinafter specified, to-wit: for the
purchase. construction and operation
Of implements. machines and appliances
to construct the highway herein pro-
yided to be built: to construct and
build the roadway, bridges. drains
culverts and embankments and other
works necessary for the carrying OUT
the purposes Of this act; to employ
persons in and about said work. and to
purchase such supplies as may be
necessary for the carrying on OF the
same and for doing all other work
necessary to carry out the construction
OF said highway or wagon road.
Section THE Folsom Highway Com
missioners shall have power to employ
such persons in and about said work as
the Auditing Board may determine to
be necessary, at a compensation to be
fixed by the Auditing Board. All con-
tracts for the purchase of materials
and supplies, or for such work as can
be done by contract, where the expense
thereof shall exceed the sum of $500
shall be awarded to the lowest and best
bidder, at a public letting thereof and
after a notice to bidders to be pub
lished in one newspaper in the city Of
Sacramento for at least once week;
provided, that at least ten days shall
intervene between the last publication
Of said notice and the time fixed for
opening bids and provided the same is
a fair and reasonable bid. All bids
shall be accompanied by such security
as the Auditing Board may require,
conditioned upon the bidder entering
into contract upon the terms of his
bid, on notice of acceptance thereof and
furnishing penal bond with good and
sufficient sureties, in such sum as the
Auditing Board may require, and to
their satisfaction, that he will faith
fully perform his contract. If all the
bids made at such letting are deemed
by said auditing board unreasonably
high the said board may in their dis
erection decline to contract, and may
again advertise for such time and in
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