The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-08-22
THE ROAD Commissioner.

1ue law patSSeu ny tue w VisCouSih SV"oe
legislature at the last session relative to
county road commissioner is one that
is attracting the attention of the tax
payers all over the county and mnch
comment is being made on the different
sections III the law.
The law provides that a county road
commissioner be appointed by the county
board at the November session following
the passage of the law and that such
commissioner shall hold Office for term
of three years. He must be civil
engineer or competent road builder. The
law reads in regard to this Office as fol,
lows:
"The county board shall fix the com,
pensation of such commissioner in coun
ties having an assessed valuation less
than $40, 600, 600, at not less than four
dollars for each days actual service, and
in counties having greater valuation,
at an annual salary of not less than one
thousand dollars.
1T shall be the duty of such commits,
sioner, as the county board may require,
to examine any road or bridge designated
for improvement, make any survey or
map, establish any grade, make report
as to the condition of any road, bridge
or culvert in the county, and furnish
specifications for and estimate of the
cost of any improvement.
Such commissioner shall have per
sonal charge of any work ordered by the
county board and of any machinery,
tools and materials subject to its con-
troll.
Such commissioner shall be present
when required at any meeting of the
county board.
"Such commissioner shall keep re-
cord of all work performed, itemizing
and classifying all outlays 40 rs to show
the cost of any particular piece of work,
and from time to time make reports to
the county board.
The county board may appoint the
chairman of any town containing a
county road or bridge described in Sec
ton 1311p-4 as assistant commissioner
and may fix his per diem and prescribe
his duties, which shall be to make such
temporary repairs of any county road or
bridge as may be necessary for public
safety. the cost of which shall not ex.
ceed ten dollars including his per diem,
and Immediately report the condition of
such road or bridge to the commission
er, and the cost of the repairs made.
1.-The expenditure of the county read
ana bridge fund shall be under the ex.
elusive control of the county board, but
no part thereof shall be expended with
in the corporate limits of any village OF
city.
The county board is empowered tc
purchase, hold, sell and convey for pub
lie use as authorized by law, any con
tract necessary to the discharge OF its
duties in improving, constructing or re-
pairing any road or bridge.
THE county board may exercise, with
respect to any road or bridge designated
for improvement, any authority now
vested in and to the exclusion of any
town or county officer.
The commissioner shall keep a com
plete record of all work done; an accur
ate account of money received and ex
pended by him or under his direction,
which record and account shall at al
times be open to the inspection of and
annually reported to the county board
Such account shall show the cost of any
improvement on any road or bridge.
The county board shall publish an
nually and circulate report of the work
done by it and of its receipts and dis
| bursements.
"No person while holding the Office OF
the commissioner shall hold any town ol
county Office
The law is chapter 552 and is on page
25 of the law supplement- which wal
sent out in recent issue of the PILOT