St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1913-05-02
CHAPTER 254-s. F. No. eo4.

AN ACT relating to the construction. mnin-
tenance and repair of roads bridges n: and
than twenty-five hundred square miles and
a population OF more than fifteen thousand
Inhabitants and containing no city or viii
lase having a population Of more than
thirty-ive hundred Inhabitants. and Great
I'M; and relating in + to = the hi. Of &c Of COUNTY an;nt su-
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the
State of Minnesota:
Section 1. In each county now or here
five hundred square miles and a population
of more than fifteen thousand inhabitants &C
federal census, and containing no city or
village have a population Of more than
such census, there shall be appointed by the
county board a county superintendent of high
ways who shall be a competent surveyor and
person as the county surveyor Of said coun-
ty. The officer so appointed next after the
passage Of this act shall hold his office until
after the next. general erection. and until his
successor is appointed and qualified; and each
for four W years and until his successor is
appointed and qualified: 1t shall be the duty
of such county superintendent of highways
to inspect all roads, bridges and bitches con-
and material furnished under contract with
tenance and repair of roads. bridges and
bitches. promptly, from time to time, as re-
qucsted by the county board: and no moneys
SAl4ll NC JAW ool Wy tIC AOl1iS oI alAs oNSii
contract until the said superintendent OF
highways shall have certified that he has
inspected and found sufficient and in conf
pliance with such contract the work or ma
terials for which such payment is desired,
nor until the county attorney Of said county
shall have certified that the payment so
desired is due and in accordance with the
terms of such contract.
Sec. 2. Said county superintendent Of high
ways shall receive five dollars $500 per day
for. time actually devoted to the performance
of his duties. and shall be allowed his ac-
cidental to the performance of his duties. All
lenses shall be on his iten,ized and ver1-
shall give bond to the county in the sum Of
Five Thousand Dollars !is5.o0o.oN with suf1l-
eient %sureties approved BY the county board:
his duties; and for each willful violation OF
the conditions Of his bond by either act or
to the county, or TO any other person dam
aged thereby in the full amount Of the dam
age resulting therefrom together with the sum
be necessary for the prompt performance OF
his duties, but he and his bondsmen. shall
be responsible for their acts or omissions.
Sec. 8. Nothing herein contained shall be
construed to prevent said county board or
sonally inspecting such work or materials in
the event such county superintendent Of high
ways shall fail or neglect to properly and
county board; but in such case the total
expense to the county board for, such in
%spection by the board or it's member or COM
mittee shall not exceed Fifty Dollars (S5O.G0l
on any one contract or job, nor shall it OK
coed ten per cent Of the contract price: IN
such case the inspection by said board or Its
written report thereon shall answer the pur-
poses of an inspection and certificate by said
Sec: 4. This act shall take Hise" eject and be
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April II. 1913.