The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-26

 year out of said fund; each county to receive an equal amount of said road fund.
 Sec. s. As soon as practicable, the highway commission shall prepare and adopt such rlues and regulations for the construction. improvement and maintenance of public roads as they shall deem most suitable to the res quirements of and bring the most practical results to, the several coun- ties of the State. Such rules and regu- lattons shall be printed and several copies shall be forwarded to the coun- ty treasurer and county commissioners in the state for general distribution. Such rules and regulations may be amended from time to time. but such amendments must be printed and dis tributed not later than March of each year.
 Sec. g. The county commissioners of any county may recommend such road or portion of roads as they consid- CT it most necessary to construct, im- prove or maintain by State aid.
 Sec. 10. The State engineer shall, when practicable. make the necessary surveys. establish grades and prepare plans and specifications for all roads which receive State aid. and each coun- ty that this State aid shall be required during process of conetuction to fur nish competent engineer. who shall supervise said work and see that all plans and specifications are complied with Whenever the cost of construc- tion, improvement or maintenance shall exceed $i.000 on any one piece of work. the highway commission, after prepar- ing plans and specifications and adver- tising at least thirty (30) days fin ad- vance in a paper in. the State Capital and paper in the country where the work Is to be performed, may receive sealed bids for all or part of said work. and let the contract to the lowest bid- der. reserving the right to reject any and all bids. and call for new bids, or perform the work by day labor. as 1t may deem best for the interest Of the State. Where any work is done by contract, the commission shall require bond of the contractor for the faithful performance of the work. the amount of the bond to be double the contract price. and to be approved by member of the commission On or before the first Monday in December each year, every country treasurer shall certify to said highway commission the amount of money expended for road purposes in his county during that year, and all county officials having charge of road work shall supply the highway com mission with any information relating to roads that the commission may de- sire. On or before February 1 Of each year, the highway commission shall mo- tify the country commissioners of each county of the amount of money avail able to be expended on public roads In said counties And it shall be the duty within one month thereafter for the county commissioners to inform said highway commission of the sum of money raised by the county to be expended on said roads. In no case shall the amount appropriated by the State be in excess of ore-third of that appropriated by this act. the allotment for such counties shall revert to the counties appropriating two-thirds of the sum for the succeeding year.
 Sec. II. All road and highways built under this act are and shall be in per- petuity free of toll.
 Sec 12 All acts and pafts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
 Sec. 13. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after -.
 AsnOciation's Position.
 The A1abama Good Roads Associa- tion.recognizing that the much-negiect- ed roads. of the State should be iTn- proved by business methods and the present system that is in vogue now is wasteful The Alabama Good Roads Association, after they failed in hay ing their bfll to create a highway com mission and give State aid enacted into a law, because it was claimed that the bill was unconstitutional. that 1t could not become a law, as the State could not appropriate money or loan its credit for internal Improvements. then the Executive Committee of the Ala bama Good Roads Association had Sem aror Overtor, who is a member of the Executive, GommIttee of the Alabama Good Roads Association to enact law asking that he Constitution be amended whereby a highway commission could be created and give State aid Go every county in the state. each county to share alike in having skilled trained engineers to give to the county corn-