180 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



(4686-41) SEC. 4. [Ballots for election.] That whenever the 

 township trustees shall determine to submit such question to the electors 

 of any such road district, they shall pass a resolution to that effect, in 

 which resolution the boundaries of such road district, if they be not co- 

 incident with the boundaries of the township, shall be designated; and 

 the clerk of said township shall file a certified copy of such resolution 

 with the deputy state supervisors of elections of the county in which 

 such road district is located, not less than fifteen days before the time 

 therein fixed for said election ; and the deputy state supervisors of elec- 

 tions shall cause to be prepared and furnished at the expense of such 

 township, ballots for said election, on which shall appear the words 

 "Road improvement bonds Yes,'' "Road improvement bonds No ;" 

 and when such road' district is a part of a township the notice of the 

 election above provided to be given shall designate the boundaries thereof. 



(4686-42) SEC. 5. [Judges and clerks of election.] That, at 

 any election held thereunder, the judges and clerks of election for the 

 time being of the township in which the same is held, shall act as judges 

 and clerks, and vacancies shall be filled in like manner as in other elec- 

 tions ; and such officers shall certify the result of said election forthwith 

 after it shall have been ascertained, to the clerk of said township, who- 

 shall abstract and record the same, and the electors at such election, desir- 

 ing to vote in favor of the proposition shall place a cross mark, in black 

 lead pencil, to the left of the words "Road improvement bonds Yes/' 

 and those desiring to vote against said proposition shall place such cross 

 mark to the left of the words "Road improvement bonds No ;" and 

 if a majority of the votes cast, upon such question, at such election, 

 shall be in favor of the proposition, the township trustees shall proceed 

 to improve the public ways of such road district and to issue bonds to- 

 provide means therefor; and the township clerk shall forthwith certify 

 the result of said election and the description of the boundaries and the 

 name of such road district to the county auditor. 



(4686-43) SEC. 6. [Employment of engineer; his duties.] That 

 immediately after said election, if said proposition shall have carried, 

 the township trustees shall employ a competent civil engineer and such 

 assistants as shall be necessary, which engineer shall be the engineer 

 of the road improvements of such road district and shall prepare a cor- 

 rect plat of such road district, showing all of the established public ways 

 therein, which plat shall be designated by the name of the road district, 

 and shall be forthwith recorded in the office of the township clerk; and 

 thereupon the said trustees shall determine the order and manner in 

 which said public ways shall be improved, beginning, so far as prac- 

 ticable, with the main roads ; and in improving such public ways the 

 macadamized, or graveled, portion shall be so located, whenever' prac- 

 ticable, as to leave sufficient space for a dirt road at its side, and said 

 graveled or macadamized portion shall be not less than eight, nor more 

 than fourteen feet, in width, and the gravel or macadam shall be not 

 less than twelve inches in depth in the center, and eight inches in depth at 

 each outer side. 



(4686-44) SEC. 7. [Division of improvement into working sec- 

 tions.] That as the improvement of each public way is determined 

 upon, the engineer shall proceed to divide the improvement into work- 

 ing sections and to make a correct profile of each working section of such 

 public way as it then exists, and a profile of the grades established for 



