Year: 1871




Road Law for the county was passed at the
request of our delegation. The first twenty.
three sections relate to what roads are pub.
lie highways and how to open new roads OF
change old ones. The next fourteen sec
tions makes sweeping and radical changes
which we will refer to in some future mum,
Der of the HERALD. We give the fourteen
sections below that all interested may read
and preserve them:


SECTION "a The Board Of Supervisors
of said county, at their regular meeting in
February, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, of each year thereafter, shall appoint
one Road Commissioner for each road dis
trict as hereinafter fixed and laid out Such
Commissioner shall, within ten days after re-
ceiving notice of his appointment, qualify by
taking and en- cring on the back of his certi-
fcate of appointment an oath that he will
faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of
Road Commissioner. He shall hold his
office for one year and until his successor is
appointed and qualified If vacancy oc-
cur the Board may fill it.


SEC %. Each of said Road Commits
sioners shall, within the first year after his
appointment, make out list of all roads in
his respective district which are or may be
declared highways, according to the provis-
IONS Of this Act, and make out and file with
the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors des-
cription of each of said roads; and the Board
shall, ftqey approve the same, at their next
meeting make an order declaring each of
them public highways, and the Clerk of the
Board shall enter it in the road beck


SEC. 26. The Board of Supervisors shall
also, at their first meeting after the passage
of this Act, divide said County of Placer
into road districts, convenient in size, so that
the inhabitants of each district may be able
to perform work on the roads contiguous to
their places of residence, and may, from
time to time, as the public convenience re-
quires, alter the boundaries of any district


SEC q. Each male inhabtant in said
county, who is over twenty-onc and under
fifty years of age shall be liable to perform
one days work in each year upon the public
roads in the road district where he resides;
and in addition thereto, there shall te asses
sed for each year, to the owner Of each one
thousand dollars worth of real aid personal
property within each district (as shown by
the assessment roll or rolls of said county,,
one day work on said roads, and for each
fraction Of one thousand dollars, over five
hundred dollars, one full days work; all of
which work shall be performed under the d.
recton of the Road Commissioner of the dis
trict, as herein before provided; prOrided,
that the amount of work or labor thus as
sessed or apportioned shall be necessary;
but the Board of Supervisors shall have The
power to discriminate in the several distri is,
as may be required in each district, making
their assessment for each district to meet its
own requirements in the necessary construc-
ton and repairs of roads within its limits.


SEC. 2S. The Auditor of said county
shall, Immediately after the meeting of the
Board Of Equalization Of Taxes in each YEA.
make out list Of the persons assessed for
taxes that year in each township, and esti-
mate the number of days work each of said
persons is liable TO perform on the road, as
hereinafter provided, and mark the same
opposite his name, together with the amount
Of his property as assessed. Each Road
Commissioner SHALL in the month of Novem-
ber, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and
in the month of September, each year there
after, make out and forward to the auditor,
a list of all male inhabitants in the road dis
trict over twenty-one years of age, liable to a
road tax; and upon the receipt of the same
the Auditor shall make out and deliver to
each Ropd Commissioner warrant, COM
manding him to cause each of the persons in
his district, and named in said warrant, to
perform the number Of days work on the
public roads in his district assessed against
him in said warrant Said warrant shall
contain list of the names of all persons liza
BILE to road duty in the district, and the num-
Der of DAYS work he is liable to perform.


SEC. 49, Upon the receipt of said war
rants, the Road Commissioner may, at any
time during the year ensuing after the date
of the warrant, call upon and require each
person therein named to perform work on the
public roads in district, at such time and
place as the Road Commissioner may re-
quire. A span of horses and wagon, or
plough or scraper, or a yoke Of cattle and
wagon, or plough or scraper, If required of
any one by the Commissioner and furnished,
shall be reckoned each day as tho work Of
one man.


SEC. 80. Commissioners shall give at
least two days notice to each person Of the
time and place Of the required work, and it
any person is not found at his place Of re.i'