Beginner's civics for North Dakota . Steel Bridge overseers are allowed but $ 2 a day for their road work,and so cannot afford to give much serious time to some cases the township supervisors have got ridof the local road overseers, not wanting to bother withthem. The township road taxes, unlike the school tax,the poor tax, and all other taxes, may be paid in laboror in money. The other taxes must be paid in township road tax consists of (a) a road poll taxof $, and (b) a road tax, levied by the town meet- STATE GOVERNMENT ing, which may be as high as 10 mills on the proper
Beginner's civics for North Dakota . Steel Bridge overseers are allowed but $ 2 a day for their road work,and so cannot afford to give much serious time to some cases the township supervisors have got ridof the local road overseers, not wanting to bother withthem. The township road taxes, unlike the school tax,the poor tax, and all other taxes, may be paid in laboror in money. The other taxes must be paid in township road tax consists of (a) a road poll taxof $, and (b) a road tax, levied by the town meet- STATE GOVERNMENT ing, which may be as high as 10 mills on the propertyin the township, or may be as low as the voters these two ways much money could be raised; but,as a matter of fact, very little is raised, often none atall. For these taxes, which may be paid in money orlabor, are generally paid in labor. But the labor thatis put forth when the tax is worked out is not usuallyvery valuable or beneficial to the roads. A UnitedStates road expert says: ? #. Beautiful Roadside used as Dumping Ground You know that the men who work the road, as arule, know nothing about it, shirk responsibilities, andare not amenable to discipline, and generally leave theroad worse than it was before they touched it. Inthis criticism I am not blaming the men but the system;it has grown up a venerable institution handed downfrom generation to generation, a custom made mellowwith traditions of the old time frolics when our fathers worked the roads V GOOD ROADS 199 Changes Proposed.—Civil engineers, farmers, andwriters have all suggested their ideals of a road sys-tem. A few of the more important suggestions arethe following:— (1) Central supervision should be exercised over allroad work, as is done in railroads and in our schoolsystem. Railroads have their roadbed kept in goodcondition by having the road divided into sections, aforeman or boss over each section of five or six miles,and a superintend-ent over all theforemen. In thisway the work isdone ac
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