10 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



TITLE VIII-OF WORKING ROADS. 



CHAPTER 2. CODE OF 1897. 



Section 1528. POWERS AND DUTIES OF TRUSTEES. The town- 

 ship trustees of each township shall meet on the first Monday in April, 

 or as soon thereafter as the assessment book is received by the town- 

 ship clerk, and on the first Monday in November, in each year. At the 

 April meeting said trustees shall determine: 



1. The rate of property tax to be levied for the succeeding year 

 for roads, bridges, guideboards, plows, scrapers, tools and machinery 

 adapted to the construction and repair of roads, and for the payment of any 

 indebtedness previously incurred for road purposes, and levy the same, 

 which shall not be less than one nor more than four mills on the dollar on 

 the amount of the township assessment for that year, which, when col- 

 lected, shall be expended under the direction and order of the township 

 trustees; 



2. The amount that will be allowed for a day's labor done by a 

 man, and by a man and team, on the road. To certify to the board of 

 supervisors the desire for an additional road tax, of not to exceed one 

 mill, to be levied in whole or in part by the board of supervisors as here- 

 inafter provided. At the November meeting, they shall settle with the 

 township clerk and supervisors of roads. 



Section 1529. GENERAL TOWNSHIP FUND— CLERK TO GIVE 

 BOND— CUSTODY OF IMPLEMENTS. The trustees shall set apart such 

 portion of the tax provided in the preceding section as may be neces- 

 sary for the purpose of purchasing the tools and machinery and paying 

 for the guideboards mentioned therein, and the same shall constitute 

 a general township fund; and they shall require the township clerk to 

 give bond in such sum as they think proper, conditioned as the bonds 

 of the county officers, which bond, and the sureties thereon, shall be 

 approved by them. Said clerk shall have charge of and properly pre- 

 serve and keep in repair such tools, implements and machinery as may 

 be purchased, and may determine at what time the supervisors of the 

 several road districts may have the u?e of the rame cr any part thereof, 

 and he shall be responsible for the safe keeping of the same when not 

 in the custody of some one of the supervisors, and shall receive such 

 compensation as they shall provide to be paid out of such fund. 



Section 1530. COUNTY ROAD FUND— HOW LEVIED AND PAID 

 OUT. The board of supervisors of each county shall, at the time of 

 levying taxes for other purposes, levy a tax of not more than one mill 

 on the dollar of the assessed value of the taxable property in 



