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it is to keep the road in good order, general repairs 

 should be made in the months of October and April, 

 by removing all accumulations of mud, cleaning out the 

 side channels and other drains, and adding fresh mate- 

 rial where requisite. 



"The importance of keeping the road surface at all 

 times free from an accumulation of mud and dust, and 

 of preserving the surface in a uniform state of evenness, 

 by the daily addition of fresh material wherever the 

 wear is sufficient to call for it, cannot be too strongly 

 insisted upon. Without this constant supervision, the 

 best constructed road will, in a short time, be unfit for 

 travel, and with it the weakest may at all times be kept 

 in a tolerable fair state." 



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1. All the surface soil should be removed to the depth 

 of one foot on the whole line and width of the road, and 

 deposited along the line. 



2. All roots and other vegetable matter should be 

 excavated, and wholly removed from the roadway, and, 

 together with logs, brush and wood, be burned, or re- 

 moved from the park. 



3. All deposits of decomposed vegetable matter, or 

 light spongy soils, should be excavated to a proper 

 depth, and deposited on the line of the road. 



4. That portion of all water courses or drainage 

 streams, which crosses the line of the road, should be 



