Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19
A Good Roads Bill

A Good Roads Bill
Pierre, S. D., Jan. l6, 1911.
Reporter and Farmer,
Webster, S ID.
Please print a notice or
request substantially as follows, viz:
To the voters of Day county.
Your servants in the legislature
respectfully request that each voter,
vote yes" or mo" on a post card on
the proposed good roads bill' and
mail it to the chairman of the board of
supervisors of their township and that
the chairman forward the result to us
at Pierre not later than Jan. q, and
the result to govern our vote on said
measure.
Ross +. Parks
j. F. SCHNEIDER
A. C. Roberts
O. X. Berg
C. c. Bush.
The following is the bill, house bill
No. ].
Section / The office of road over-
seer is hereby discontinued and the
township supervisors shall perform, or
require to be performed under their
direction all the duties with reference
to repairing and keeping in order the
roads within the township. and are
authorized to employ fuch persons as
are deemed necessary to do such work.
The township supervisors shall receive
for their services the sum of one dollar
and fifty cents per day for attending to
the road business Of the township.
Section 2, Every male inhabitant
being over the age of twenty-one years
and under the age of fifty years,
excepting paupers, l~unitics and such
others as are now exempt by law, shall
be assessed one dollar and fifty cents
in each year for road and poll tax pur-
poses. They shall proceed to ascertain
estimate and 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 expend-
iture of less than two hundred dollars
shall be done by the township in which
such road is situated under the super
vision of the supervisors of such town.
ship. The supervisors shall advertise
for bids for such work to be printed in
a newspaper in the county, for two
successive weeks, once IN each week;
tie first publication to be made at least
ten 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 advis-
able. Such notice shall specify the
work to be done or state where the
plans and specifications may be exam
ined, the time allowed for the COM
pletion of the work and the time and
place where the bids will be opened
and passed upon by the board. The
board may for good reason reject any
and all bids.
Section 4. All assessments on per-
sons or property shall be paid in cash
and it shall be the duty of the town
ship clerk. Immediately after the board
of township supervisors have made a
levy of taxes for road 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 list to be collected by
the county treasurer in the same man
e as other township taxes are col
lected. Such tax when collected shall
constitute a road fund belonging to
the township from which it was COL
lected to be turned over to the town.
ship treasurer in the same manner as
other funds are transferred to him.
Provided that the electors at the annual
town meeting in March may by major
ity vote decide to allow said taxes to be
paid in labor at the rate of $3.50 per
day for man or So per day for man and
team for ten hours Of actual work to
constitute a days labor.
Section 8: All contracts must be in
writing specifying the work to be done,
the time in which it is said to be COM
pleted, and the amount to be paid, and
the board may require the contract to
furnish . bond with approved securities
In such sum as they shall deem sufi-
Gent, conditioned on the faithful per-
formance Of the said work according to
the plans and specifications.
Section 9. All work done under any