Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-08-12
VIZ M EN0INRnRa
County Commissioners Should Com.
ply with Law.

Tne county cOmmlSblOueTb IN IN
counties surrounding Dickinson hav
Appointed county road engineers q
provided by the statute adopted Las
winter. But the Dickinson board ha
not and although there are severa
applicants for the place who are wei
qualified 1t Is reported that non,
will be named. The county road
need uniform treatment badly enough
and an engineer could do much to
ward getting It.
The law says: THE board Of
county commissioners of each county
In the state shall within months
after this act becomes effective in
each county of the state having more
than 10000 population appoint a
county engineer of highways and
bridges who shall have general SUI
pervision Of all the highway and
bridge work of the county" His
salary In this county is $1,000.
1T shall be the duty of the said
county engineer to be at his office at
the county seat at least one day in
each week, to be designated by him,
and at such other times as the duties
of his office shall require, He shall
consult with the township highway
commissioners and The road over
seers of the several districts Of his
county, and shall direct the manner
Of carrying on the repairs and Inn
provements of the roads, and shall
give instructions to such officials as
10 the best methods and plans to be
followed in making road repairs or
improvements, having regard par
icularly to instructions in reference
o the use Of the road drag and the
lines at which such drag shall be
lsed. He shall keep himself inform
d by actual view of the work to be
one upon the roads in his county,
nd shall make and deliver to the
DAD overseers outline plans for such
york, having special regard to the
rading and draining Of the same.
lie shall study the conditions as to
he character of the soil and topo-
raphy of the iand in the several {
,wnships of his county, and give di-
sctiOns to the officers having the d. h
oct supervision of the repairs and {
improvements of the highways in
ich townships as to the best meth Z
is to be followed III the c0nforma-
on concerning the various deposits
stone, shale, clay, gravel, sand and
ther bodybuilding materials, and !
lall investigate proper and most inn
-Oved methods of using the same.
Q shall classify the roads Of his
'unty according to their relative n
lportance, designating them as d
unity, township and local roads, o
cording to their Importance and II
Mount Of travel upon them; and he II
all see that the roads so classified h
kept and maintained in condition II
proportion to Importance and the al
l0unt Of travel. The township al
ghway commission shall classify d
. roads in their respective town di
Ips; provided, however, that APP hi
Al from such classification may be
Ide to the board of county commits
ners in like manner as now pro-
ed by law governing opening and RI
ocatton Of roads; provided further,
I in All such classification rcaSs
III be clabsed either as county or 10
-nship roads and not as local roads.
shall make maps of roads and
hways in the different road dis NJ.
It's and townships, and where there
no other records or the records
incomplete shall make maps and
IS and file with the county clerk,
CHI when passed on and adopted
the board of county commission {
shall be records Of such road
re there are no other records,
shall be additional and supple seel
tai to the road records wnen the pra
9 are incomplete or imperfect. Abb
shall have charge, under the pro-
lority of the board of county edy
of the county, the Wol
&c work of the county, and If afte
petent shall make the profile exp'
8 and specifications therefor and to
III engineering work In connec- stro
Herewith" thar
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