18 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



briefly describing by words and cuts the Russian thistle, with the best 

 known means of staying its progress and effecting its extermination, 

 which shall be printed by the state printer at public expense, from time 

 to time, in such numbers as the secretary of state and said professor of 

 agriculture may direct to supply the demand. A sum of money sufficient 

 to pay for the cost of printing and making suitable plates for illustrating 

 said bulletin is hereby appropriated from any funds in the state treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated. 



Section 1565. DISTRIBUTION. The secretary of state shall furnish 

 to the agricultural college such number of said bulletins as it may desire 

 to circulate, and also to county auditors, on their requisition, such num- 

 ber as may be necessary to supply all township and town or city officers 

 with copies, and a sufficient number to supply all farmers desiring the 

 same. 



Section 1566. SETTLEMENT WITH SUPERVISOR. The road su- 

 pervisor shall, on the first Monday in November, meet the township trus- 

 tees, at which time there shall be a settlement of their accounts connect- 

 ed with the road fund, and after payment the trustees may order such 

 distribution of the fund remaining in the hands of the township clerk 

 as may be expedient for road purposes, which shall be paid out as ordered 

 by them. 



Section 1566-a. ITEMIZED ACCOUNT— DUTY OF TRUSTEES. 

 That the trustees of each township shall take (make) and file with the 

 board of supervisors on or before the first Monday in each year a full 

 and itemized account verified by the township clerk showing each item 

 of expenditures and receipts of all moneys received and disbursed during 

 the preceding year for road purposes in said township, which report shall 

 remain on file with the county auditor, and a copy thereof shall be pub- 

 lished in the published report of the proceedings of the January session 

 of the board of supervisors. 



Section 1566-b. MEANING OF "ROAD SUPERVISOR." That wher- 

 ever the term "road supervisor" appears in the code and amendments 

 thereto it shall be held so far as applicable to mean the superintendent 

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Section 1567-b. ACTS IN CONFLICT. That all acts and parts of 

 acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. 



Note. — The above section is a part of Chapter 53, Acts of the Twenty- 

 ninth General Assembly, and has special reference to any act or part of 

 an act in conflict with the intent of that particular law. 



Section 1568. NEGLECT OF DUTY— PENALTY. A supervisor fail- 

 ing to perform the duties required of him by this chapter shall forfeit 

 and pay, for the use of the road fund of his district, the sum of ten dol- 

 lars, to be collected by an action by the township clerk in his name. 



Section 1569. TURNING TO RIGHT. Persons on horseback or ve- 

 hicles meeting each other on the public roads shall give one-half of the 

 same, turning to the right. A failure in this regard shall make the de- 



