The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-12
ACT PASSED BY LAST LEGISLATURE
FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS

former Governor Haskell hopes tc
build his road to the northwest OF
| Oklahoma City:
BE it enacted by the people of the
state of Oklahoma:
Section l. Road improvement dis
! trcts consisting of not less than eigh-
| teen square miles in area and which
may include any city or incorporated
| town, may be created in any county,
upon a written petition signed by fif'
teen percentum of the qualified elec-
tors of the proposed road improve
ment district being filed with the
county clerk of the county in which
said improvement district Is sought
to be created. Such petition shall
state the metes and bounds of the
proposed improvement district, the
highway or highways to be improved
and the general character Of the i'm
prOvements to be made, and ask that
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suing the bonds OF such road improve
ment district
Section .. Immediately upon the fill
ing of a petition for the creation of a
road improvement district the county
clerk shall notify the county commits
sioners of such petition and the coun-
ty commissioners. at their next regu-
shall, by order, appoint a time for
holding a meeting on some day to be
fixed by them, to hear and consider
such petition, and any complaints or
objections that may be made there
to. and notice of such meeting shall
be published by the county clerk in
five successive issues of a daily news
paper or two issues of a weekly news
paper, published and of general circu-
lation in said county, and the time
fixed for said hearing shall be not less
than five days from the time OF the
last publication. At such meeting the
board of county commissioners shall
investigate and determine the number
and qualifications of the signers OF
said petition and If they are in COM
pliance with the provisions of this
act, then the county commissioners
shall enter the order establishing and
creating such road improvement dis
trict and determine and fix the
amount of bonds to be issued, which
amount shall in no case be in excess
OF five per cent OF the total valuation
of the taxable property in the said
district and shall order an election in
said district for the purpose of de.
termining the question of issuing such
bonds. At such election every quail.
fled elector residing within said road
improvement district shall be entitled
to vote. Said board shall designate
the time and place of holding such
election, appoint the necessary cleo
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resolutions necessary for the holding
of such election. The county clerk
shall thereupon give notice, by post
ing up written or printed notices,
signed by said clerk, in five of the
most public places in the district,
which notices shall be posted up at
least ten days before such election.
and shall state therein the object for
which the election is called, the
amount of the bonds proposed to he
issued, and the manner in which the
question shall be voted upon. The
ballots used at such election shall be
either written or printed. and the
question shall be submitted in the fol
lowing form:
Shall the board of county commits
sioners Of county be authorized
to issue bonds running for twenty five
years and bearing interest at six per
centum per annum, in the total sum
OF -, to pay the cost of road
Improvement in--road improve
ment district number, "Yes"
Upon the report of the commission