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MR. BEMAN: That is not a question for the State Highway De- 

 partment, but a question for the people of Pennsylvania. 



M R. BLYHOLDER: There is one question I would like to ask, and 

 that is, under the recent law that we are under now, supposing they 

 can, in certain townships, get men to serve without compensation, 

 what would be the action then? Or supposing a township should 

 elect their men and they should refuse to serve, what recourse has 

 that township then? 



MR. BEMAN: I would say in reply, that that is a question that 

 I have never been able to answer satisfactorily to myself. 



MR. FENSTERMAKER: I think that the Court appoints in that 

 case. 



MR. BEMAN: It does not seem to me that there are many com- 

 munities where there are no public spirited citizens who are willing 

 to try for a year at least the experiment of this new law; there are 

 a number of things, of course, that are not perfect, but it seems to 

 me that at least a year's trial would be fair and proper. 



As to the question of compensation, the Deputy Attorney Gen- 

 eral held that the Supervisors could not receive any compensation 

 for the time spent by them in performing their duty, but that they 

 could be reimbursed for their actual expenses. 



A Member: "What is the actual minimum amount of miles that a 

 road master can take. 



MR. BEMAN: The minimum amount is five miles. 



A Member: What is the maximum? 



MR. BEMAN: The entire county, if the supervisors see fit to do so, 

 but it must not be less than five miles. 



A Member: Why is it that the farmers are left in ignorance in 

 regard to the road law? 



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MR. BEMAN: The State Highway Department issued several 

 months ago a copy of both of these new law r s and placed in the hands 

 of every newspaper in the State, a full and careful abstract of all 

 the new provisions of the law, with the request that each of these 

 papers should publish it, or as much of it as they were willing to do. 

 Further than that we are not able to do; we are not able to ship 

 copies of the law to every person in the State, but we do send them 

 to every person who asks for them. 



A Member: I would like to inquire as to the Secretary of the Board 

 of Supervisors; he has a good deal to do, and has to do that all for 

 nothing. 



MR. BEMAN: No. the Secretary of the Board has the right to re- 

 ceive compensation for the work that he does as Secretary. 



