Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26


ing counties. The system of road
bridge and culvert work herein pro-
vided shall apply to highways out
side of the limits of Incorporated cit
les and towns. Such highways are
herein classified as county and town
ship roads, and such highways shall
hereafter be known as the county
road system and the township road
system
Section 5. AS soon as said county
roads are so designated, the board
of supervisors shall cause said coun-
ty roads to be plainly marked on a
map, which map may be furnished
to said county by the state highway
commission. Said map, after being
so marked, shall be deposited with
the county auditor and shall be open
to public inspection. Notice of filing
said map with the county auditor
shall be published in one issue of each
of the official county papers. After
the expiration of ten (10) full days
from the date of the earliest publ
cation of said notice, said map shall
be forwarded to said highway COM
mission. At any time before said
map is forwarded to said state high
way commission, any ten (10) or
more freeholders of the county may
file petition with the county audi
tor, asking for any change in said
designated roads, which they may
deem advisable, which petition shall
be accompanied by plat clearly
showing such proposed change If
no agreement is reached between the
county board and the petitioners. be-
fore the expiration of said G0) days,
the county auditor shall forward said
map, together with all petitions and
plats, If any, showing the proposed
changes, to the state highway CON-
mission.
| Section 6. The state highway co n
mission shall, upon receipt of said
maps, petitions and plats, proceed to
examine the same, with a view 20 de-
termining the correct lines to be fol.
lowed by the county highway, having
regard for volume of traffic, continu-
ity and cost of construction Such
portions of said map as meet with the
approval of said commission, may he
approved and returned as prelini-
mary map for immediate use and the
original map, when completed in ac-
cordance with the decisions of said
commission (Which decisions shall be
finaD shall be returned to the county
auditor and copy of same retained
in the office OF the highway commits
sion. No increase shall be made in
the mileage of the county road system
until this system is completed, except
from fully improved township roads,
as hereinafter provided.
Section Z. Should any county fail
to make the designation Of county
roads, as herein provided, and fail 20
forward the same to the state high
way commission within the time here
in provided, said commission shall
have the power to make a PROPER des-
ignation OF said county roads for said
county, and when so made by the
commission, said commission shall
certify to the county auditor of said
county the actual cost of making said
designation, and said county audi,or
shall thereupon issue warrant on the
county read fund therefor.
Section s. AS soon as any part of
said approved map is returned to the
county auditor, showing the final des-
ignation of county roads, the engineer
shall, in writing, divide said roads
into divisions, designating each divi-
on by some appropriate number, name
or letter and clearly designating the
starting point and terminus of each
OF such divisions, and such designa-
ton shall be recorded at length in
county road book, whereupon the en-
gineer shall proceed to survey said
roads and report to the board of SUI
pervisors the plan for the road, bridge
and culvert work thereon. Such sur
vey and report shall be on the basis
and with the object in view of the
permanent improvement of said coun-
ty roads, both as to bridge, culvert
and road work. Said survey and re-
port shall consist OF an accurate plan
and profile of said roads, showing cuts
and fills and outline of grades, with
careful attention to surface, and lat
eral drainage and sub-drainage, and
shall show the location of all bridges
and culverts, their length, height and
width, and foundation soundings. and
an estimate of the watershed relat-
ing to each bridge and culvert. Culv-
erts constructed under the provisions
VI tHio dSl snail nave Cl6dT TOdu-
way of not less than twenty (20 ft.)
feet. Proper bench marks shall be
established at each permanent bridge
culvert, which shall clearly designate
and credit on said plan and profile
all existing permanent bridges, culv-
erts and grades. The board may eth
er cause all divisions to be fully sur
veyed and report made thereon be-
fore proceeding with the improve
ment contemplated by this act,
or, in order to enable the
board to proceed with the most nee
essary and urgent work, said board
may designate the order in which the
different divisions shall be surveyed
and planned, and may order the eng
ineer to survey and report on certain
named divisions before completing
the survey and report on all divisions
y, lenever it may become necessary
in grading the highways to make a
cut which will disturb or destroy, or
a fill which will cover up a govern
ment or other established corner, it
shall be the duty of the engineer to
establish permanent witness corners,
and make record of the same, which
shall show the distance and direction
the witness corner is from the corner
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