Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-31

er, until a new highway commissioners
shall be appointed or elected, and shall
have all the powers and duties OF such
township highway commissioner.
Section IA. The highway commits
sioner shall be responsible for the dis
charge of all duties formerly required
OF overseers OF highways: Provided,
Such duties are not in contravention
of any provision of this act.
| Section 10. The township highway
commissioner shall be entitled to such
compensation as the township board
may decide, which compensation shall
be not less than two dollars per day
nor more than three dollars per day
for the time actually employed and the
overseer of highways shall be entitled
to such compensation as the township
board may decide which compensation
shall not be less than one dollar and
! fifty cents per day nor more than two
dollars and fifty cents per day for the
| time actually employed The compensa-
| ton of the highway commissioner and
the overseer of highways shall be paid
from the general or other fund of the
| township, in the same manner as other
| township OlHcerS are palu.
! Section 16. All work hereafter done
upon roads and bridges, except such
work as may be required for repairs,
shall have in view the permanent i'm
provement of such roads and bridges.
Before any such permanent i'm
provement on any highway, a survey
of the highway shall be made by a
competent surveyor and a profile OF
such survey shall be made and placed
on file with the township clerk. This
profile shall show the grade lines Of
! the center of the highway and the bot
tom of the bitches, and there shall be
indicated upon the profile a grade line
showing cuts and fills which, in the
opinion OF the surveyor, should be
made in order to establish a good
grade. All turnpilSing shall be done
according to this profile before putting
gravel or stone on the highway, unless
it can be clearly shown to the township
board, and agreed to by the board, that
the grade established on such profile
will be impracticable and inadvisable
when completed, in which case a new
grade shall be indicated on the profile,
which grade shall be satisfactory to
said board. Before proceeding to per-
manently improve any highway the
commissioner shall set grade stakes
not more than one hundred feet apart,
on the side of the highway to be inn
proved, to which the grade shall be
made to conform. The highway shall
be constructed in such a manner as
to form a turnpike, sufficiently crown
ing to shed water, with cutters or
bitches adequate for drainage. The
width Of the turnpike shall be not less
than eighteen feet between side
bitches.
Section II. After any such turnpike
shall be used for one year, the ruts
shall be filled, after which it shall be
graveled or macadamized in cases
where gravel or crushed stone can
conveniently be obtained. If it be ad.
visable to put on gravel or stone when
grading has been completed, the turn
pike shall first be thoroughly compact
ed. In graveling or matchmaking any
highway, the gravel or stone shall be
placed on the center thereof, in mass
not less than nine feet wide, and not
less than six nor more than twelve
inches deep, in the discretion CT the
highway commissioner.
Section IS. The work specified in
J section sixteen and section seventeen
of this act shall be continued until all
the highways in the township are made
equal to the requirements of said sec.
tons.
Section 10. Whenever any person
or persons interested in any highway,
wish to improve the same by grading,
graveling, matchmaking or paving
they may do so at their own expense,
and in such manner as may be ap.
proved by the highway commission
and when sufficient means shall be
provided by such party or parties to
make the Improvement desired, the
I highway commissioner shall furnish
a grade for such highway and direct
the manner in which it shall be grad.
ed and his per diem while so employed
shall be paid by the township as
though the township were making the
improvement. The highway commits
sioner shall. If requested TO 30 so by
the party or parties making tie i'm.
provement, supervise and direct the
graveling, matchmaking or paving, and
his per diem while so employed shall
be paid by the township as though the
township were making the improve.
ment: Provided, That no highway COM
missioner or any other town officer
shall be awarded any contract for
any labor to be performed under the
provisions of this act, and any such
contract, so awarded, shall be void.
Section 20. Materials for making
improvements under any provision OF
this act. may be taken from any prop.
erty set aside for highway purposes in
the township.
Section 81, Chapter two, assess.
ments for highway purposes, chapter
three, THE performance of labor on
highways and the Communication there.
for" of act number two hundred forty
three of the Public Acts of eighteen
hundred eighty-one, as amended. being
compiler's sections numbers four thou.
sand seventy-two to four thousand one
hundred three, inclusive, of the Com