676 ANNUAL REPORT OF TPIE Off. Doc. 



MR. HUNTER: lu reply to thai. I would say, why dout that towu- 

 ship make application to the county of Mouioe to take that road 

 under the Flinn act and let the county apply to the State for the 

 construction of the road. That would relieve the township of the 

 expense of that road. 



MR, SCHWARZ: I am thoroughly in favor of good roads, but if 

 the county commissioners would do that they would never be re- 

 elected. Of course the small townships would vote for them but 

 the larger townships would vote against them. Wo nil know that 

 it is human nature. 



MR. HUNTER: That is purely selfishness, undefiled. 



MR. SCHWARZ: Certainlv, but we have to face it. 



MR. MILLER: Can I ask the Commissioner a few questions? lu 

 our county the people are wondering how this law would atfect the 

 tax-payers and we have been urging the- supervisors to go ahead 

 and get ihis two-thirds, and others who were in the Legislature ad- 

 vised them not to do it because there was too much red tape about 

 it. Will you furnish blank petitions foi- the citizens of the township 

 and must we survey the road? 



MR. HUNTER: The law recjuires that a i)lau must accompany the 

 petition. That plan should give the necessary information that will 

 enable the Highway Commissioner to make such a plan as will enable 

 him to make an estimate showing the amount of excavation nec- 

 essai'v to be made and the amount of material to be used on the 

 road. The expense does not, necessarily, fall on the county. The 

 county should primarily pay the bill, although in some cases they 

 have not; the township authorities paid it. The cost of that survey 

 goes in and two-thirds of that is paid by the State and the survey is 

 part of the cost of doing the work. If you don't make a survey you 

 cannot get started. I have a few blank forms here for distribution. 

 Here is a resolution and petition of the supervisors; here is a peti- 

 tion of the citizens to the supervisors and here is a copy of the letter 

 of instruction sent to every set of county commissioners in the State 

 (exhibiting) and sent to every supervisor in the State as far as I have 

 been able to get their addresses. 



MR. NELSON: Just a few words on the (juestion, in regard to 

 the county not reporting. I had some experience in my county some 

 years ago and I paid six mills tax. There is very little travel on 

 the roads because most is on the railroad. The roads are 

 very narrow and you often have to wait for a team to come a mile 

 on the narrows before you can pass. There is a little settlement up 

 the sti'enm. along the road, and a little bunch on the plateau, on 



