The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-10

HOUSE BILL No. 9S1.
AN ACT to amend section 655 of the Cen
eral Statutes of 1909, and repeating said
original section.
State of Kansas:
Section /. That section $50 of the Cen
eral Statutes of 1909, be amended to read
as follows: Sec. 655. That whenever the
board of county commissioners of any
county shall determine that any bridge
or bridges are necessary to be built or re-
paired in their county, it may in accord
ance with the statutes of this state, make
an appropriation therefor, not to exceed
the sum of five thousand dollars for each
of said bridges; provided, that where it is
necessary in the opinion of the board to
build or repair a bridge the cost of which
shall exceed the sum of five thousand dol
lars, it shall before making an appropria-
ton therefor, submit the question to the
qualified voters of the county at either
a general or special election, when If
majority of the votes cast on the PROPOSE
ton submitted shall be in favor thereof,
the board shall make the appropriation
in accordance with the terms of the
proposition submitted; and provided fur
Their, that in counties having an assessed
valuation of S15,000,000 and not more than
$20,000,O00 the county commissioners may
make an appropriation not to exceed $500;
in counties having an assessed valuation
of $40, 0,000 and not more than $50. 900
in an amount not to exceed $4,000 in
counties having an assessed valuation of
$50, 600 and not more than $40,000,000 in
an amount not to exceed $1,000; in coun-
ties having an assessed valuation of $40,-
COX. 900 and not more than $50, 600 600 in an
amount not to exceed $4,000; in counties
having an assessed valuation of $50, 600 600
or more in an amount not to exceed $25 600
for such bridge, or each of such bridges
without submitting such proposition to
the voters as aforesaid; provided, that
notice of the resolution making said APP
propriation setting out the full text there
Of shall be published once in the official
county paper; and provided further, if
within thirty days after the board of
county commissioners publishes such
notice of such resolution a petition signed
by ten per cent of the legal voters shall
be presented to the board of commission
ers requesting that the question be SUBJ
mitted to the people, the board of COM
nissioners shall order said election, and
if a majority of the votes cast on the pro-
position submitted shall be in favor there
Of the board shall make the appropria-
ton: and when the sum to be appropriate
ed shall exceed five thousand dollars the
board of county commissioners may pro-
vide for the payment of the same by Or
ders on the county treasurer, payable in
such sums and at such times as may be
agreed to by the contracting parties for
the building or repairing of such bridge
or bridges, but in no such case shall such
orders be given for a longer time than
three years from the completion of the
building or repairing of said bridge or
bridges; and for the payment of such Or
ders the board of county commissioners
shall levy tax sufficient to pay the same
as they become due; provided, that moth
ing in this act shall apply to any bridge