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Timestamp: 2019-11-20 20:38:09
Document Index: 134619373

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 17', '§ 18', '§ 19', '§ 20', '§ 21', '§ 23', '§ 17', '§ 18', '§ 19', '§ 20', '§ 21', '§ 23']

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MISSOURI. 71
the  use of materials for the same, the person or pesons', so aggrieved or inju.
fed, shall receive such compensation as may be hereinafter prescribed.
§ 17. Should any member of the board of internal improvements, commissioner or other person employed by'or under them, in the construction of the
works under their charge, except along the navigable rivers of this State, purchase or lease, enter or hold, directly or indirectly otherwise than by descent or
devise and (except in the name and for the use and benefit of the State, or for
his or their immediate accommodation and use, while actually employed in the
duties devolving upon them in the progress of construction of said work) any
real estate, or interest in any real estate, situate within two miles from the line of
either of the said public works for a longer time than two years during his term of
office, it shall work as a forfeiture of said office—provided however, that said director or commissioner, may purchase, lease, enter or hold any real estate or interest therein, along said work after the same shall have been completed, and declared by the board to be open to the public.
§ 18. No civil officers of this State, holding their office either by appointment by the Governor and Senate, or by joint ballot of tho two houses of the
General Assembly, shall, during the term of holding such office, be eligible to
an appointment in the board of internal improvement.
§ 19. The board may make and alter from time to time, such by-laws and
regulations for their own, and the government of the engineers and agents under
their superintendence, as may be necessary, in their opinion, to further and regulate, in the most approved manner, the interest of the State. Provided, the
same be not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States.
§ 20. It shall be the duty of the board of internal improvement, to settle
and account with the Auditor, on or before the first Monday of October in each
year, for all.the moneys received by them, and each of them, from whatever
source and such settlement, specifying the sums respectively paid to all commissioners or engineers, contractors, agents and servants of every description employed on the work, and to all persons having received compensation for damages, and the names of all such persons, with a full and detailed account of the
costs of all works done since the last settlement; which shall; without delay, be
reported by the Auditor to the Legislature.
§ 21. It shall be the duty of the board, to cause all tracts of rail road here*
after ordered to be surveyed, or constructed in this State, whether public or pri-
vate, to be of uniform width between the rails, which shall be fixed upon, after
they shall have ascertained the most approved width.
$ 22. No public works or improvements shall be undertaken by the board of
internal improvement, until appropriations shall have been made for the purpose,
«y authority of the General Assembly; and whenever such appropriation shall
be made, either for surveys or the location and construction of public works, the
said board shall immediately carry the same into effect, in the most approved and
permanent manner, having due regard to the economical application of the
funds appropriated to the purpose, and they shall perform such other duties, as
the General Assembly shall direct by joint resolution, or as shall be prescribed
§ 23. For the purpose of creating a means for internal improvements, to be
applied by the board as the Legislature may direct and appropriate, there shall
"e constituted a fund which shall consist of all the moneys which may be raised
by the sale of stocks, or in any other manner by virtue of loans authorised by
taw for that purpose: of all appropriations which may have been or may here-
U'ter be made for those objects; of all the proceeds or moneys which may hfy
derived from the tolls and rents of said works, of all the proceeds of lands gran-
ed, or that may hereafter bo granted by Congress for the purpose of aiding fit
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Transcript MISSOURI. 71 the use of materials for the same, the person or pesons', so aggrieved or inju. fed, shall receive such compensation as may be hereinafter prescribed. § 17. Should any member of the board of internal improvements, commissioner or other person employed by'or under them, in the construction of the works under their charge, except along the navigable rivers of this State, purchase or lease, enter or hold, directly or indirectly otherwise than by descent or devise and (except in the name and for the use and benefit of the State, or for his or their immediate accommodation and use, while actually employed in the duties devolving upon them in the progress of construction of said work) any real estate, or interest in any real estate, situate within two miles from the line of either of the said public works for a longer time than two years during his term of office, it shall work as a forfeiture of said office—provided however, that said director or commissioner, may purchase, lease, enter or hold any real estate or interest therein, along said work after the same shall have been completed, and declared by the board to be open to the public. § 18. No civil officers of this State, holding their office either by appointment by the Governor and Senate, or by joint ballot of tho two houses of the General Assembly, shall, during the term of holding such office, be eligible to an appointment in the board of internal improvement. § 19. The board may make and alter from time to time, such by-laws and regulations for their own, and the government of the engineers and agents under their superintendence, as may be necessary, in their opinion, to further and regulate, in the most approved manner, the interest of the State. Provided, the same be not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States. § 20. It shall be the duty of the board of internal improvement, to settle and account with the Auditor, on or before the first Monday of October in each year, for all.the moneys received by them, and each of them, from whatever source and such settlement, specifying the sums respectively paid to all commissioners or engineers, contractors, agents and servants of every description employed on the work, and to all persons having received compensation for damages, and the names of all such persons, with a full and detailed account of the costs of all works done since the last settlement; which shall; without delay, be reported by the Auditor to the Legislature. § 21. It shall be the duty of the board, to cause all tracts of rail road here* after ordered to be surveyed, or constructed in this State, whether public or pri- vate, to be of uniform width between the rails, which shall be fixed upon, after they shall have ascertained the most approved width. $ 22. No public works or improvements shall be undertaken by the board of internal improvement, until appropriations shall have been made for the purpose, «y authority of the General Assembly; and whenever such appropriation shall be made, either for surveys or the location and construction of public works, the said board shall immediately carry the same into effect, in the most approved and permanent manner, having due regard to the economical application of the funds appropriated to the purpose, and they shall perform such other duties, as the General Assembly shall direct by joint resolution, or as shall be prescribed by kw. § 23. For the purpose of creating a means for internal improvements, to be applied by the board as the Legislature may direct and appropriate, there shall "e constituted a fund which shall consist of all the moneys which may be raised by the sale of stocks, or in any other manner by virtue of loans authorised by taw for that purpose: of all appropriations which may have been or may here- U'ter be made for those objects; of all the proceeds or moneys which may hfy derived from the tolls and rents of said works, of all the proceeds of lands gran- ed, or that may hereafter bo granted by Congress for the purpose of aiding fit