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sioner had the power to appoint, with the advice and consent of the 
commissioners’ court, a deputy, who was to act as road commissioner for 
his precinct. This law required county convicts to be worked at the 
usual allowance of 50 cents per day and made provisions for paying the 
county officers costs within certain limits. It also provided that any 
citizen could, by paying on or before the first day of January of any 
year, the sum of $3, he exempt from road duty for that year. "Road com¬ 
missioners were allowed $2 per day, provided they should not receive 
more than $45 per quarter. 
In 1895 (acts 1895, pp. 203-207) a road law was passed for the coun¬ 
ties of Fannin, Kaufman and Robertson. The provisions of this law 
were similar as to county commissioners being ex officio road commis- 
sioners and as to their duties as such to the provisions of the law for 
Collin, Grayson, etc., passed in 1893. It made provisions for working 
convicts on roads, for payment of officers’ costs and payment of road 
commissioners, but allowed no more than $90 to he received by a road 
commissioner per quarter. It made provision for exemption from an¬ 
nual road duty by the payment of $3 on or before the 1st day of Jan¬ 
uary; or by the payment of $1 to the road overseer before the day set 
for work, an exemption was obtained for that day. This is also the law 
for Hill, Cooke, Hunt et al. 
In 1895 (acts 1895, pp. 213-217) a special road law was passed for the 
counties of Dallas, Lamar and Medina. This law contained the same 
provisions as to county commissioners being road commissioners, the ex¬ 
emption from road service by the payment of $3 and the working of con¬ 
victs as the Fannin law of the same year. The road commissioners re¬ 
ceive $2.50 per day, provided they receive no more than $75 per quarter. 
The law specifies that all convicts in Dallas county shall be kept at work 
all the time upon four first-class roads, beginning at the city limits of 
Dallas and extending as nearly as practicable north, south, east and 
west to the county lines, except in eases of emergency, when they may 
be transferred; that when these roads are finished, others as nearly as 
practicable centrally between them should be constructed; that the roads 
built by convict labor be macadamized, except in black waxy neighbor¬ 
hoods. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
. Gen. Gillmore’s Roads, Streets and Pavements.$1.50 
F>yrne’s Highway Construction . 5.00 
Gillespie’s Roads and Railroads.. 2.50 
Hersche'l & North’s Road Maintenance . . . ... .50 
Gen. Roy Stone’s New Roads and Road Laws. 1.50 
