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reasonable compensation for the destruction thereof, when growing in 

 the roads abutting upon his land. If a superintendent of roads is em- 

 ployed, it shall fix the term of office, which shall not exceed one year, 

 and the compensation, which shall not exceed three dollars a day; and 

 no contract shall be made without reserving the right of the board to 

 dispense with his services at its pleasure. 



Section 1534. QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS. The trustees shall 

 require the township clerk, contractor and superintendent, contemplated 

 in this plan, each to qualify as other township officers, and to execute 

 a bond with approved sureties for twice the amount of money likely to 

 come into their hands, respectively. 



Section 1535. DAY'S WORK. Eight hours' service for a man, or 

 man and team, shall be required for a day's work; but except on extra- 

 ordinary occasions no person shall be required to go more than three 

 miles from his place of residence to work, and, for the purposes of the 

 one road district plan, the residence of a man with a family shall be 

 construed to be where his family resides, and for a single man, it shall 

 be at the place where he is at work. 



Section 1536. CONTRACTORS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. The 

 powers, duties and accountability imposed on road supervisors, so far 

 as may be, under the one road district plan, shall apply to contractors, 

 superintendents and assistants. 



Section 1537. TOWNSHIP SYSTEM TAKES EFFECT. In all 

 cases where the one road district plan for the township shall have been 

 aciopted, it shall be competent for the township trustees to designate 

 when the eame shall take effect as to the working of the roads. 



Section 1538. COMPENSATION OF TRUSTEES, TREASURER AND 

 CLERK. The trustees shall receive the same compensation per day for 

 time necessarily spent in looking after the roads as thy do for other 

 township business; the county treasurer shall receive the same per cent 

 for collecting the road taxes here contemplated that he does for collect- 

 ing corporation taxes; and the township clerk shall receive two per 

 cent of all the meney thus coming into his hands and- by him paid out 

 for road purposes. 



Section 1539. FURNISH PLAT. The township clerk shall furnish 

 each road supevisor a copy of so much of the map or plat furnished 

 him by the county auditor as relates to the roads in his district, and 

 from time to time shall mark thereon the changes in or additions to 

 such roads as the same are certified to him by the auditor, which map 

 or plat shall be transferred by him to his successor in office. 



Section 1540. TAX LIST— LEVY OF PROPERTY ROAD TAX FOR 

 1903— DELINQUENT ROAD TAX FOR 1903. He shall within four weeks 

 after the trustees have levied the property road tax for the succeeding 

 year, certify said levy to the county auditor, who shall enter it upon 

 the tax books for collection by the county treasurer as other taxes. And 

 he shall, not later than the fifteenth day of April, make out and deliver 



