The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-08-28
EXTRACTS FROM
STATE ROAD LAWS

In view of the recent recall trouble
and the questions that have been asked
as to the authority of the county court
for the appointment of road master,
the following extracts from the road
laws Of Oregon are pertinent:
1922. The county commissioners, or
county court of each county in the
state, may, at the first regular session
in Jaunary, 1904, and annually there
after, appoint a road master, or mas
ters, who shall serve one year, or until
his successor is appointed and quail
fed, unless said office becomes vacant
by resignation. death, or removal; and
the said county court, when they APP
point a road master or masters, shall
pay said officer or officers a salary suf-
ticient to justify competent person or
persons to devote his or their whole
time, or as much thereof as the county
court may deem necessary, to the mat
ter of roads and bridges. Before en-
tering on the duties of his office, he
shall take and subscribe an oath to
faithfully and impartially perform the
duties Of his office, and that he will
not for compensation, directly or indi-
rectly act as agent for the sale of ma
Chinery, tools, or implements, or ma
terial of any kind TO be used for road
purposes; and he shall enter into a
bond in the sum of not less than 50, 900,
as the court may direct, made payable
to the county. with three or more free
holders of the county as sureties, for
the faithful performance of his duties :;
and that at the end of his term, or on
his resignation or removal, he shall
turn over and deliver to his successor
in office all machinery, tools, impe-
ments, books, and papers pertaining to
his office. Should the county road
master neglect or refuse to perform
his duty TO the entire satisfaction of
the county court, the said county court
shall have the power to remove him
from office forthwith, and appoint
some suitable person to act in his
stead.
'6323. The county road master
shall have the power to determine
when and in what manner the road su-
pervisors of the several road districts
in the county shall expend the tax ap-
portioned to their several districts. and
the instructions of said road master in
hii ihdtNSAo itiaNlIk W Alt CullSlfuC~
tiOn, improvement, or repair of the
public roads and bridges shall be i'm.
plicitly obeyed by the said road super
vlsors. II shall be the duty of the
county road master to assist the county
court to prepare the specifications to
govern work to be done under contracts
hereinafter provided for; superntend
all work done upon the roads and
bridges in the county, whether done
under contract or under the road super
visor; to make recommendation TO the
county court as to the method to be
adopted for the construction, improve
ment, and repair of roads or bridges
TO report in writing to the county
court, as often as they shall require,
as to the progress of the work on the
roads and bridges in the county; to in
vestigate petitions for road improve
ments, and to report his findings and
recommendations thereon in writing to
the county court; to have charge of
all county road tools, and to require
the road supervisors of his county to
make semi-annual reports of all tools
in their possession, and report any
shortage to the county court, whose
duty it shall be to charge such short
age to the supervisor of the road dist !