Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-03-27

APPROPRIATION FOR STATE ROAD
IS NOW AVAILABLE.
Road From r1OnteSanO via Aberdeen
to CIaIIam County Gets $I3,5OO.
Amount to be Expended in Cheha-
lis County Will be Determined by
Road Commissioner,

lis COunfY Will be Determined bY
Road Commissioner.
The attorney general has rendered an
opinion that the bill for state wagon
roads, being in effect an appropriation
bill, Is already a law, even though it
contained no emergency clause. This
opinion has given increased interest in
the measure, and as no printed copies of
the bill are available, and the session
laws will not be printed for some time,
the law. so far as it applies to this coun-
ty, with verbiage eliminated, is given
below:
The act provides for the appointment,
by the governor, of highway commits
soner to hold Office for two years and
to receive salary Of $1,000, with actual
travelling expenses while officially en-
ployed not to exceed 81 900 year, and
Office expenses not to exceed ST. 800 a
year. He gives 5000 bond.
The state auditor, the state treasurer
and the highway commissioner, for two
years from the appointment of the COM
missioner, compose a state highway
board.
The commissioner is to have an office
in the capitol building in connection with
the state land commissioner, where his
records shall be preserved, and the office
to be kept open at such times as the
business of the commissioner shall re-
quire.
''Sec. 4. Immediately upon the ap.
pointment OF said commissioner, the said
highway board shall decide what proper
tion of the amount appropriated for each
of the roads hereinafter described shall
be expended within the boundaries OF
each of the several counties through
which it is propos led to pass, and shall
so notify the county commissioners of
the several counties.
'Sec. 5. Upon receipt OF the said no.
tice the county commissioners of each of
the sal counties shall, unless such high
way has been heretofore surveyed, direct
survey to be made of the entire length
OF said highway il said county; and they
shall have the same mapped, both in out.
line and in profile, and shall also have
plans and specifications prepared for the
construction or the repair Of said high
wav. Such maps, plans and specica.
tions shall be thereupon submitted to the
highway commissioner and no portion
of the appropria ian hereinafter made
shall be expended upon said road until
the said highway board shall have de.
clared said road feasible and the high
way commissioner shall have approved
said outline and profile maps and said
plans and specifications for the entire
length of said road iu said county; nor
until the county commissioners OF said
county secure the dedication or condem-
nation OF such right OF wav for said high.
way as the highway board shall desig.
nate, and shall provide for the expendi
ture upon said road within said county
from the county funds of sum equal
to one.half the amount of the said APP
preparation to be expended by the state,
exclusive Of expense incurred in connec
ton with the survey; the preparation OF
maps, plans and specifications and the
supervion and inspection of said high.
way, it being the intention OF this act
that the entire amount appropriated for
highways and an amount equal to one
half Of each appropriation shall be ex.
pended in actual construction work under
contract on said road.
"Sec. 6. Upon the approval of the
above mentioned maps, plans and speci.
tications, it shall be the duty OF said
county com mmissioners to call for bids for
the construction of said highway or such
sections thereof as the highway board
shall designate, according to the maps,
plans and specifications heretofore men,
toned. Calls for said bids shall be made
by publication in the official county pa.
per, and also in some daily paper of
general circulation in the state, to be
designated by the said highway COM
missioner, Tor not less than three con-
secutive weeks prior to the time set by
said commissioners for the opening of
said bids. The said highway commits
sioners shall meet with the said county
commissioners on the occasion OF the
opening of said bids, and no contract
entered into for the conStruc ion of said
road shall be binding upon the state
without the approval OF said commits
soner."
The section providing for the Monte
sano-Pysht road is as follows:
For building a wagon road in Jetfer-
son, Clallam and Chehalis counties. as
follows, to-wit: Beginning at the city of
Montesano, in Chehalis county, Wash
ington, running westerly to Aberdeen,
thence continuing to Hoquiam, thence
northerly over the county road to Hump.
tulips, thence northerly to Quinault post
office, thence northerly to Bogatciel, in
Jefferson county, thence northerly to the
forks IN Callam county, thence north
easterlv over the county road to Pysht,
thence easterly to connection with the
county road leading westerly from Port
Angeles, in Clallam county, Washing
ton, on the best and most practicable
route to Port Angeles, Washington, the
sum OF $l3, 500.