The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-11-26
Alternate Road
Law of 1881,
[Chapter rs; Sections 6 to &c. J

vi. The term of Office of said
board of surveyors shall COM
mence on the first day of January
next after their appointment.
The said board Of surveyors
shall be a corporation by the
name Of THE Board of Survey
ors district" by which
name it may sue and be sued,
plead and be implicated and con-
tract and be contracted with.
VII. After the first appoint
ment one surveyor shall be
annually appointed in said dis
trict, residing in the road precinct
of his immediate predecessor,
and who shall be a voter of his
district. The term of Office of
the surveyor go appointed shall
commence on the first day of
January, next after his appoint
ment. and he shall continue in
office for three years,
VIII. When there is O vacancy
in the Office of road surveyor,
the same shall be filed for the
unexpired term by the county
court at their next session.
TX. 1t shall be the duty of the
clerk Of the county court to give
written notice TO the appointee
of his appointment, as soon there
after as practicable, and each
person so appointed shall, within
ten days after having been
notified Of such appointment,
qualify by taking the oath pre-
scribed by the fifth section of
the fourth article of the constitu-
ton of this State, copy of which
oath, signed by the road surveyor
taking the same, shall be filed
in the Office of the clerk Of the
county court.
K. Any two of said surveyors
shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business, and
they shall not transact any
business except when sitting az
a board, except as herein other
wise provided.
XII Stated meetings of said
road surveyors shall be held at
the place Of voting in their dis
trict on the second Tuesday in
April and September of every
year, and special meetings at
such other times as a majority
Of the surveyors may determine.
XII. It shall be the duty of the
surveyors. within twenty days
after the first day of January
next after the adoption of this
act, and every three years there
after, to lay out and divide, or
cause to be laid out and divided,
all Of the county roads in their
respective road precincts into
sections not exceeding two miles
in length, which they shall
number and describe in a book
to be kept for that purpose by
the road surveyor of each road
precinct. They shall also dis
tinctly specify therein what they
may deem necessary for the
Improvement and keeping in
repair each section Of said county
road for a period Of not exceed
ing three years, and may also
recommend such new roads to
quarries, mills. coal mines, salt
wells, oil wells, or otherwise, az
they think for the benefit Of the
public.
XIII. 1t shall be the duty of
the road surveyor Of each road
precinct to expose for sale, one
section at a time, unless other
wise directed by tho county
court such Of the sections Of
road in his road precinct as he
may elect, TO the lowest and best
bidder, commencing on the first
Tuesday in April next after the
adoption Of this act, for the
period Of time previously deter
mined, as provided in section
twelve. But no road surveyor
shall be bidder, or become a
purchaser, either directly or
indirectly, of any section or
sections offered for sale or pro-
posed to be worked. Additional
sections may be sold in like
manner annually thereafter, the
sales To continue from dav to dos,