The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-05-28

after the hard surfacing OF the same,
! shall be maintained under said patrol
| system wholly out of the county's al
lotment of the urinary road fund.
II any county fails to maintain any
of it's hard surface roads to the sat
isfaction Of the state highway com.
mission, said commission shall have
power to assume charge of such main
tenance and pay therefor out of said
county's allotment Of the primary
road fund. The amount of mainte-
nance vouchers, when the work has
been done by the said commission,
shall be charged to the county's al
lotment account, and warrants for
the amount OF such vouchers shall
be issued by the auditor of state on
presentation of such vouchers, and
paid by the treasurer Of state as in
other cases. In case any town fails
to do the draining and grading re-
CURED to be done in. such town in
primary roads about to be improved
hereunder or fails to maintain, to the
satisfaction OF the state highway
commission, any hard surfacing con-
structed hereunder in said town, the
said commission shall have power to
assume charge Of such grading, drain
ing or maintenance and pay for the
same from the primary fund belong
ing to said county, and, in such case,
the cost thereof shall be certified by
said commission to the county treas
urer, who shall reimburse the pri-
n fy,nN re l,n ~ \ 5n1
the amount from the next succeed
ing apportionment of tax funds be-,
longing to the general fund of said
town
The federal aid engineering fund,
created by Chapter 249, laws Of the
Thirty-seventh general assembly,
shall be continued. and the treasur-
err h Of state Is hereby directed an
nually to transfer to such fund from
the funds, derived from year. to year
under the act regulatory of motor We
hicles, an amount equal to- the esti-
mated cost8of plans and specifications
for the current year, as certified by
the state highway commission. Said
fund shall be used for engineering
work in connection with federal aid
road projects and paid out only on
properly tented vouchers approved
by the state highway commission and
audited by the state board of audit.
The amount of bonds issued under
this act by any county shall not,
Of the county, exceed in the aggre-
gate three per cent on the actual
value Of the taxable property within
such county, any other statute to the
contrary Observation-Disclosures be as
certained by the last state and coun-
ty tax list previous to the mourning
of such indebtedness.
The board sof supervisors Is en-
powered to accept on behalf Of the
county donations of property in aid
of highway construction, and from
and after such acceptance the title
to such property shall vest in the
county for the sole purpose for which
donated, and the obligation on the
part of the officials charged with the 4
possession and disbursement therefor
shall be the same as attends any
other property OF the county.
Section one thousand five hundred
seventy thirty-two (1571-m32),
oupp1CuICuIdA supplement- W LIE COuS,
1915, supplemental supplement to the
code, 1915, is hereby repealed and
there is hereby created a fund for
the maintenance of the state high
way commission consisting of two
and one-half per cent of all moneys
paid into the state treasury under
the act regulatory of licenses on
motor vehicles. Said fund shall be
used for no other purpose than as a
fund for said state high
way commission and shall be drawn
out only on warrants drawn by the
auditor of state ON itemized vouch-
ers approved by the state highway
commission. The expenditures of
said commission shall be audited by
the executive council, and a full and
completes report OF all said expendi-
lures shall be published In the an
nual report under the act creating
the state highway commission. At
the end of each biennial period, the
funds remaining for said
biennial period shall be placed to the
credit of the primary road fund
The secondary road system shall
embrace the. following classes Of