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its county, including all taxable property in cities and incorporated 

 towns, which shall be collected at the same time and In the same man- 

 ner as other taxes, and be known as the county road fund, and paid 

 out only on the order of the board for work done on the roads of the 

 county in such places as it shall determine; but so much of the county 

 road fund as arises from property within any city or incorporated town 

 shall be expended on the roads or streets within such city or town, or 

 on the roads adjacent thereto, under the direction of the city or town 

 council; and the county treasurer shall receive the same compensation 

 for collecting this tax as he does for collecting corporation taxes. 

 Money so collected shall not be transferable to any other fund nor used 

 for any other purpose. The board of supervisors shall levy such an 

 additional sum for the benefit of such townships as shall have certified 

 a desire for such additional levy, as provided for in section fifteen hun- 

 dred and twenty-eigbt of this chapter; but the amount for the general 

 township fund and the county road fund shall not exceed in any year 

 five mills on the dollar. 



Section 1531. EXPENDITURE. It shall, at the regular meeting in 

 April, determine from the auditor's and treasurer's books the amount 

 of money collected and credited to said road tax fund. It shall also 

 determine the manner in which said tax shall be expended, whether by 

 contract or otherwise. 



Section 1532. CONSOLIDATION OP TOWNSHIP INTO ONE ROAD 

 DISTRICT. The board of township trustees of each civil township in 

 this state, at its regular meeting in April, 1903, shall consolidate said 

 township into one road district, and all road funds belonging to the road 

 districts of said township shall at once become a general township road 

 fund, out of which all claims for work done or material furnished for 

 road purposes prior to the change, and unsettled, shall be paid. 



Note. — This section makes the one road district plan mandatory. 



Section 1533. DUTY OF TRUSTEES. Where the one road district 

 plan is adopted, the board of township trustees shall order and direct 

 the expenditure of the road funds and labor belonging or owing to the 

 township; may let, by contract, to the lowest responsible, competent 

 bidder, any part or all of the work on the roads for the current year, or 

 may, appoint a township superintendent of roads, to oversee, subject to 

 the direction of the board, all or any part of the work, but it shall not 

 incur an indebtedness for such purposes unless the same has been or 

 shall at the time be provided for by an authorized levy; and shall order 

 the township road tax for the succeeding year paid in money and col- 

 lected by the county treasurer as other taxes. It shall cause both the 

 property and poll road tax to be equitably and judiciously expended for 

 road purposes in the entire road district; shall cause at least seventy- 

 five per cent, of the township road tax locally assessed to be thus expended 

 by the fifteenth day of July in each year; shall cause the noxious weeds 

 growing in the roads to be cut twice a year, when necessary, and at such 

 times as to prevent their seeding, and it may allow any land owner a 



