The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-18
INTER-COUNTY Y
STATE HIGHWAYS
Main Roads 10 Be Designated,
Named and Numbered
CONTINUOUS AND CONNECTED
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County Surveyor to Map, County
Commissioners TO Specify Kind Of
Roads, state Highway commls4
sioner 20 Determine Relative lm-
portanos and Value For commeroe
and to Designate Main Roads Of
the state.
Columbus, o.-(speclal)-In an ins
lerview given out here today, Jesse
Taylor, secretary % the Ohio Good
Roads Federation calls the attention
OF the voters OF the state to the pro-
visions of the act OF the general as
sembly OF June 9, 1911, and known
as the Mcclure bill, in so far as 10
relates to the inter.county system OF
roads.
The language Of sections 8, Q, 10
and IL of the act is found in the
session laws, published by the state,
or in Bulletin No. IL, issued by the
state highway department, is as fol'
lows:
Section 8. Within 60 days after
the passage OF this act, the county
commissioners shall, upon request
and under the direction OF the state
highway commissioner, cause the
county surveyor of each county to
make an accurate map or maps of
the county OF sufficient size to show
distinctly the rivers, railroads,
streams, township lines, the location
OF the cities and villages and public
highways of the county, which high
ways shall be given designated
name or number; the original of such
map or maps shall be carefully pre-
served among the files in the office
OF the county surveyor and a copy or
blue print of such map or maps shall
be forwarded to each board of town
ship trustees in the county by the
county commissioners Immediately
upon its completion, which copy or
| blue print shall be returned to the
county commissioners with the statis-
tics and information provided for in
the following section. The county
surveyor shall be paid from the coun-
1
actual time SO employed and his ac-
tual expenses.
Section o. Immediately upon the
receipt OF the copy or blue print pro-
vided for in the preceding section, the
township trustees shall proceed TO de-
note the relative value of each road
In the township in consecutive order
as a used highway. the kind of traffic
over such road, as well as the num-
ber of miles and the material used
In the construction OF improved roads
when constructed and their present
condition, together with such other
information as may be desired by the
state highway commissioner. These
statistics and information must be
compiled upon blanks to be furnished
by the state highway commissioner
and filed with the county commits
sioners within 80 days after receiving
such blue prints and blanks. The town.
ship trustees shall be paid the per
diem allowance by law for their SER
vices, for the actual time so en-
| ployed, and the same shall be paid
out Of the road fund OF the township,
which shall be in addition to all
other compensation allowed them by
law. suaSxuhl
Section 10. The county commits
sloners, with the assistance OF tho
county surveyor, shall compile from
the statistics and information fur
nished by township trustees upon
blanks to be furnished by the state
highway commissioner, statistics and
information concerning the roads OF
the entire county. They shall also
specify what roads are national, state.
county, toll, township or otherwise.
They shall, within 100 days from the
passage OF this act, file the statistics
and Information specified, together
with a copy OF the several blue prints
or maps, with the state highway COM
missioner, and may include In their
report such additional information as
they may deem OF value, copy OF
the report TO be kept for record IN
the office OF the county commission
ers. II tho county commissioners or
township trustees fall to comply with
| VIZ hclWo VI tNlo oCCtloUg ICldtlNO TO
maps and statistics, the state high.
way commissioner shall proceed TO
have the same done and deduct the
soot Of the same from any appropria-
lion for road building which may bo
or may become due tho county from
the state.
Section IL. II shall be the duty
or the state highway commissioner
and his deputies to determine from
the statistics and information fur
nished the state highway commits
sioner the relative importance and
value for, commerce OF the various
public highways OF the entire state
They shall designate by name and
number the main roads Of the state
which shall be known as 'Inter-county
hlghways'; and the parts thereof in
each county shall be designated so
as to form as near as practicable con-
J tinuous and connected highways and
shall designate the order of their rel
alive importance within the county
2 They shall begin work as soon as the