No. 6. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. VJi 



MR. HUNTER: If that is still a towuship road and the township 

 authorities do not keep it in order tbey are indictable. 



MR. HOLMAN: It is a road that was newly opened by the com- 

 missioners. Do YOU know anythinj,^ about that, Mr. Stephens? 



MR. STP:riIKXS: The road was built by a contractor with an ap- 

 propriation made by the State. In the first place they got an ap- 

 propriation from the State. Theie were three commissioners ap- 

 pointed and it was built on a cut-and-cover style. They only cut 

 through the rock half way and tilled up and when the floods came 

 they washed it awav. After the road was constructed these commis- 

 sioners or trustees took the contract oft' the hands of the contrac- 

 tors and they threw^ it onto the township. The township did keep 

 it up for awhile but they still kept fighting and fighting about it, 

 and eventually there was one man, a little smarter than the rest, 

 and he went to Bloomfield and employed the whole bar of lawyers. 

 He got up a petition to have it taken off the township and the other 

 party had no attorney and it went through. 



MR. HOLMAN: What would be a proper way to have this road 

 built by State aid? 



MR. HUNTER: It is immaterial to the State Department where 

 the money comes from to build the township's share. 



MR. HOLMAN: There would be no law to compel Howe township 

 to make an effort to secure State aid? 



MR. HUNTER: No, sir. The law^ comjjels them to keep it in 

 repair. 



MR. SCHWARZ: Where I contribute money to repair a road, in 

 a township, do you mean to say that they can bind the township? 



MR. HUNTER: The application must come from the supervisors. 

 The arrangement is made between the man who contributes the 

 money and the supervisors and the supervisors must make the ap- 

 plication. The citizens can petition the supervisors and if the su- 

 pervisors fail to act on that petition then they can go into court and 

 ask the court to make them act. 



MR. SCHW\ARZ: I would like to second the motion made by Mr. 

 Herr, that the address of Mr. Hunter be published in pamphlet form 

 and be distributed as largely as possible, for the purpose of giving 

 this valuable instruction to the people of Pennsylvania. 



MR. HUNTER: In answ^er to the gentleman who spoke with ref- 

 erence to offering an amendment compelling the use of the broad 

 tire. T would say, there is a bi-oad iivc law nud T don't know- why 

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