The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-03-10
ABSTRACT OF GOOD ROADS LAW
GIVING ALL THE IMPORT
ANT FEATURES
OPERATIVE FIRST OF JULY
Road Work Must be Done on Contract
After Advertising for Bids II
Amounting to More .
Than SiCO

fIerre-frC odClY I'd HeaSu e OF
legislation has elected as much in
terest and inquiry as the gocd roads
law, which becomes operat We Jlly /.
The essential and vital fat res of
the law a.e given in the following
ABSTRACT:
Does net become a law until July
l, 1911, and consequently VII have
little effect on methods of road work
until spring Of 1912.
Ado ishes Office of road owe seer.
Townships shall have charge of all
road work which in one place or con-
tinuous stretch of read shall require
expenditure of less than $500.
Township supervisors shall des g.
nate one or more of their numter
to oversee road work, to be paid So
per day for such services.
Poll taxes at 81 per year shall be
paid in cash unless township votes
otherwise at annual meeting in March.
Road work must be done on con-
tract after advertising for bids if work
amounts to more than $lC0.
uSuEp SupSlNisU , SudJl uldkS
annual levy on first Tuesday in Sep
temter each year which shall be en-
tered upon tax LIST by county auditor,
collected by county treasurer and
turned over to township treasurer in
same manner as other funds are trans
ferred to him.
At annual meeting in Ma CHI cleo
tors may decide by majority vote to
allow taxes to be paid in labor at the
rate Of 90 cents per hour for man and
40 cents FER hour for man and team.
Plans and specifications for work
done under contract shall provide that
all h'ghway grades shall be not less
than twenty feet in width with e ght
inch rise in the center sloEing each
way when completed.
In case of urgent necessity the chair
man of the bca d of supervisors may
make nominal repairs a. any time and
employ a man for that purpose.
All tayes for road purposes hitherto
LEVIED W tn opt on to pay the same in
labor must be worked cut tefo.e Sep
TENDER l, 1911, otherwise must be paid
in cash.
County commissioners shall meet
first Tuesday in September and levy
a road tax in add ton to township
levies, not to exceed five mills, to be
expended by said county board for the
benefit of the township from which
said tax is received. Majority of cleo
tors may direct a higher road tax up
to ten mills.
Sections IA to q inclusive are in
structions to county boards concern
ing letting of contracts and methods
of road work to be done under their
supervision; that is, work amounting
to $500 or more. 1t is provided that
in drainage work where the amount
of assessment against any n person
is more than 500, such assessment
may be pad in annual payments OF
800 with 6 per cent interest.
Section % relates to matchmaking
or oil roofing, graveling or ballast
ing roads and provides that such work
may he done on petition OF two-thirds
of property owners resident in county
OWING two-thirds of land abutt.ng on
road to be so imp owed.
Others sections of the bill up to 80
lSlht W Ia liodN SoSSihSS-
ways, cattle guards, state lands aNut-
ting on roads to be improved, handling
traction engines, etc. The PROVISION
in regard to traction eng mes requires
reasonable care not to brighten ho ses
and other animals met in the road:
requires the driver of such engine to
stop on signal and allow drivers o.
horses TO pass: require the plankine
of bridges, culverts and street cross
ings.
Section SO empowers the township
sure.v.sors to have the main trave ed
reads including mail routes d jagged
with any road or spl:t-log drag al
such time as they deem most hene-
fc;al and they shall contract therefor
at their March meeting. Not to ex-
coed forty per cent of the road la
collected under the township levy shat
be expended for this purpose and in
letting contracts for such wo k pref
erence shall be given to occupants Of
land abutting or adjacent to the road
to be improved.
The act goes INTO effect July l, 1911
but its operation may be SUSPENDED
in any county If before that date
petition is filed with the county com
nissioners signed by ten per cent o
the free-holders of the county, ask.
ing that the question of whether o
not the act shall be adopted in such
county be submitted to a vote at the
general election in November. 1912
Such petition will suspend the ae'
in such county until that time. L
the vote at such election is against the
law the question may be resubmittet
by the county commissioners at an,
succeeding election on pct ton o.
fifteen per cent of the voters.
Rapid City-Mrs. Bessie Wood ant
her son Roy F ank, widow and step
son of the late Chauncey l.. Wood
democratic leader of this state, have
returned to their home in Sea tie, at
err a brief stay in the Hills and befer,
going, settled one point at issue VIII
Ben and Buell. Wood, the two sons o.
Mr.. Wood, who are c~ontesting tht
widows rights to bury Mr.. Wood in