Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

the engineering college Of the state
university.
2. The commission shall maintain
- its principal office in the
state capitol at Madison, and division
offices at such other cities as the nee
essities of the work demand. The
superintendent of public property shall
provide suitable rooms for the use Of
the commission and such furnishings,
instruments, postage, stationery, maps,
books, periodicals and office supplies
as may be necessary to carry on the
work of the commission, and all ex-
penses therefor shall be audited and
paid as other state expenses are audit
ed and paid.
(Section 13f7m-2) l. The commits
sion shall have charge of all matters
pertaining to the expenditure 4
public roads and bridges in the state,
and shall do all things necessary and
expedient in the exercise of such su~
peryision.
2. The commission shall have au-
thority to employ and remove y
engineers, experts, clerks, stenogra PHI
ers, and temporary employees as may
be necessary to carry on their work;
and may assign such duties and dele
gate such authority to these employees
as they deem advisa BILE. Their chief
engineer shall be known as the state
highway engineer The engineers, ex-
commission shall be exempt from the
operation of sections 990-1 to 900
30, inclusive, of the statutes.
4. The commission shall make suit
able regulations for the adequate sur
| veyfng,, planning, constructing, main
tanning and inspecting of all roads and
bridges constructed under sections
1317m-1 to 1317m-15, inclusive.
the counties to make them eligible to
receive state aid for high
ways.
s. The commission shall conduct
hold such public meetings, and attend
or be represented at such meetings
and conventions inside or outside Of the
state, as may in their judgment tend
to the benefit of highway construction
in the state. They may cooperate
with the state or national organiza-
lions in experiments and work for the
advancement of highway construction.
If the commission shall deem it nee
| essary and expedient for one Of it's
| members to attend and conduct or par
ticipate in any road school or other
public meeting held in the state to
discuss highway administration, con-
struction or maintenance, 1t may depu-
tie one of it's appointive members to
attend such meeting, and shall fix his
/ compensation at a sum not to
exceed ten dollars per day, and all &C
tual and necessary travelling expenses
for each day he may SO attend and
conduct or participate in such meet
ing.
6. The commission is authorized to
receive any gifts, appropriations, or
requests made to the state for road
! purposes, and as far as practicable,
shall expend such gifts, appropriations,
or requests in accordance with the
wishes of the donor, and such moneys
shall be paid into the state treasury.
1t shall have necessary authority to
perform all other duties imposed by
the Legislature from time to time.
Such expenditures shall be audited and
paid as other expenditures of the COM
mission are audited and paid.
7. The commission shall apportion
the = state highway aid
among the counties according to sec
lions 1317m-1 to 1317m-15, inclusive.
9. The commission, on the request
of the county board of any county,
shall take direct charge of the con-
struction and maintenance Of state
The actual cost of such supervision
shall be paid by the county y
treasurer each month, upon presenta-
ton to him of properly itemized
vouchers showing such expense, ap-
proved by the state highway commits
sion and the chairman of the county
board.
10. The commission shall ex-
anime the candidates for the office of
county highway commissioner to test
their fitness for the position, and shall
make such rules for these examina-
lions as seem advisable. Examina-
tons shall be held at the county seat
of the county in which there is a
vacancy.
Section 2. There is added to section
1317m-2 of the statutes a new sub
section to read: (Section 1317m-2) 49,.
The state highway commission is given
the additional power to contract with
any railway company for transporter
ton wholly within the state, of ma
terial for the construction of any state
aided highway, and such company, any
law now existing to the contrary not
withstanding, shall be free, without
referring the matter to the state rail
road commission, to aid in making Of
any Improvement of any public high
way by granting a special freight rate
on such material.
Section 8. Subsection / of section
1317m-3 and subsections and Of
section 1317m-4 of the statutes are
amended to read: (Section 1317m-3)
1. (a) The systems of prospective
county highways which have been Sc
lected by the various county boards
pursuant to section 1311-10 or sec
ton 1311p of the statutes shall be
known as the county systems of pro-
spective state highways Each county
board which has not already selected
such a system shall make provision
for system of prospective state high
ways at their first regular meeting
after the passage and publication Of
this act. The system shall at first in
clude not to exceed fifteen per centum
Of the road mileage of the county, and
shall begin at the corporate limits Of
the county seat and of the various
market towns and railroad stations of
the county and include the main trav-
eled highways leading into each town
in the county.
(b) Each county board shall at it's
November, 1913, session, add to its
county system of prospective state
highways, such streets in incorporated
villages as directly connect the ends
of roads then on said system, and such
streets, when so added, with the APP
prevail of the state highway commits
sion, shall become part of the county
system of prospective state highways.
Each county board, or it's committee,
shall by conference with the county
boards of adjoining counties or their
committees, or otherwise, cause their
respective systems to join so as to
make continuous and direct lines of
travel between the counties
(Section 1317m-4) l. (a) The elect
ors Of any town at any regular meet
ing or legally called special meeting,
may vote, in addition to all other
taxes, special tax Of not less than
two hundred and fifty dollars for
building bridges on a prospective state
highway, or tax of not less than
four hundred dollars for improving a
portion of the system of. prospective
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