Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-09

overseer is hereby discontinued and
the township supervisors shall per-
form, or require to be performed
under their direction all the duties
with reference to building, repair
ing and keeping in order the roads
within townships and are authorized
to employ such persons deemed
necessary to do such work. The
price paid for such construction and
repairing shall be stipulated by said
board of supervisors. The township
supervisors shall designate one or
more of their number who shall
receive for their services the sum
of three dollars each per day for
attending to the road business of
the township.
Section 2. Every male inhabi-
tant being over the age of twenty
one and under the age of fifty
years, excepting paupers, lunatics,
and such other rs are now exempt
by law, shall he assessed two
dollars in each year for road and
poll tax purposes. The township
supervisors shall proceed to ascer-
tain, estimate, assess such taxes
upon real and personal property,
as is now authorized by law and in
the same manner.
Section 3. All construction
work which in any one place or
continuous stretch of road shall
require an expenditure of less than
five hundred dollars shall be done
by the township in which such road
is situated under the supervision
of tn, supervisors of such town.
ship. The supervisors may adver-
tise for bids for such work to be
printed in a newspaper published
in the county for two successive
weeks once in each week, the first
publication to be made at least
twenty (2O) days prior to the day
on which such bids will be opened
and passed on by the board and
may give such other notice as the
board may deem advisable. Such
notice shall specify the work to be
done, and state where the plans
and specifications may be examined,
the time allowed for the completion
of the work and the time and place
when the bids will be opened and
passed upon by the board. But
all road work costing less than one
thousand dollars need not be SO
advertised. All bids must be ac-
companied by a certified check of
ten per cent of amount of bid.
The board may for good reason
reject any and all bids.
Section 4. All assessments upon
persons or property shall be paid
in cash and it shall be the duty of
the township clerk, Immediately
after the board of township super
visors have made a levy of taxes
for purposes, or within three days
thereafter, to notify the county
auditor of the amount of the levy
who shall enter the same upon the
county tax lists to be collected by
the county treasurer in the same
manner as other township taxes
are collected and such taxes shall
be levied by the township super
visors on the first Tuesday of
September of each year.
Such tax when collected shall
constitute a road fund belonging
to the township from which it was
collected to be turned over to the
township treasurer in the same
manner as other funds are trans
fered to him. Provided, that
electors at the annual town meet
ing in March may upon notice
given by the township clerk by a
majority vote by ballot decide to
allow said taxes to be paid at the
rate of twenty (20) cents per hour
per man or forty (4O) cents per
hour for man and team.
Section 5. All contracts must
be in writing specifying the work
to be done, the time in which it is
to be completed, and the amount
to be paid, and the board nay
require the contractor to furnish q
bond with approved sureties in
such sum IS they shall deem suffi-
cient, conditioned on the faithful
performance of the said work.