Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-04

nate and request.
The secondary road system shall
embrace all roads not embraced IN
the primary system and not embrac.
ed within the limits of cities or
towns. Roads embraced in the Sec
ondary road system shall continue to
be classed as at present, as county
roads or township roads as the case
may be.
There is hereby created fund
which shall embrace the federal-coun-
Incorporation road fund as created
by chapter 249 of the laws of the
ThirtylSeventh General Assembly, all
additional and future federal aid
road funds, and all other funds de-
rived from year to year by the state
under acts regulatory of motor We
hicles, commencing with and includ-
ing all fees for the year 1920, except
such portion of said motor vehicle
fund as shall be necessary to main
| Tain the federal aid engineering fund,
and as may, by law, be retained IN
| the state treasury as commission,
or as fund to cover administration
of the motor vehicle department.
Said primary road fund shall be ap-
portioned to the respective counties
in the ratio that the area OF the
county bears to the total area or the
state, and shall be employed as here
in provided, solely in the drainage,
grading, surfacing and maintenance
of the roads of the primary road sys-
TEN, except as hereinbefore provid-
ed. The portion of said fund ap-
portioned to each county as above
provided, is hereby pledged to the
completion of said primary system
and is dedicated by the state to the
county, to be used solely for the pay
ment of the cost of such improve
ments or the maintenance thereof,
and for the redemption Of any bonds
issued thereof as herein provided.
For the purposes of administration,
the apportionment to any county may
be made up partly from the federal
aid road allotments.
The state highway commission
shall open an account with each coun'
ty in the state in relation to the pri'
mary road fund, and shall first cred
it each county with any unused por-
ton of the allotment of the federal
INCORPORATION road fund, as
shown by the official supplementary
bulletin Of the state highway commits
sion Of June, 1917, and designated as
Volume V, No. g." and shall each
year credit each county with its al
lotted portion of the primary road
fund, and charge ii with the amount
of all duly and finally approved
vouchers for claims properly charge
Oh %0
shall also show the amount of each
separate authorization OF bonds or
road certificates hereunder, and the
amount, number, date, maturity, and
interest rate of each series of bonds
or certificates actually issued by the
county under this act. The said COM
mission shall, at all proper times,
keep each county fully informed as
to the state of its account.
Each county, acting through its
board of supervisors, shall have three
options in the expenditure of its al
lotments from the primary road
fund.-
First, il may elect to complete the
grading and drainage of any part or
all of the primary roads within the
county before laying any hard sur
face; or
Second, it may hard surface in any
one year, such portion of the roads
in the primary system in its coun-
ty as may be met by its allotted por-
ton of the primary road fund for
said year, plus any balance remain
ing to it's credit from previous allot-
ments, plus the special assessments
on abutting and adjacent real estate
as hereinafter provided; or it may
proceed in any one year with drain
| ing and grading on one or more diyi-
sions of the primary system and with
hard surfacing on other divisions OF
| said system.
Third, it may proceed with said
hard surfacing in a more rapid man
ner when authorized to do SO by the
voters of the county as hereinafter
set forth, provided no hard surfacing
shall be constructed on any division
| of the primary roads until the drain
age and grading of said division shall
have been fully completed.
1t is hereby made the duty of the
board of supervisors to proceed in
| the improvement of primary roads
under this act as fast as the primary
road fund is available, until the i'm
provement of the primary system is
completed; provided, however, that
any county, after draining and grad.
| ing its primary system or any divi'
sion thereof, shall have the right to
surface same with gravel or oil or
both if by resolution of the board OF
supervisors it elects so to do. Such
crawling or oiling shall not be con
| sidered hard surfacing within the
| meaning of this act. Said surfacing
shall be done in accordance with the
plans and specifications of the high
way commission applicable to such
improvement and the cost of such
improvement when SO done may be
paid from the primary road fund
Vouchers therefor must be approved
| by the board of supervisors and for
| warded to the highway commission
for final audit, approval, and pay
ment as provided in section thirteen
(13) hereof.
The board of supervisors shall not
proceed with hard surfacing OF roads
until such work shall be authorized
by a majority vote of the electors OF
such county at a general election, OF
special election, called for that pur