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714 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 25
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105. Commissioners to lay out.
106. County commissioners to deter-
mine course of.
107. Application and return to be
recorded.
108. Road to be kept open by appli-
cant.
109 Penalty for obstructing
110. Private road through lands hi
an adjoining county, how
obtained.
111. Private road to quarry.
112. County commissioners to pre-
scribe continuance and use of.
113. Private road from mill, factory,
distillery, quarry or lime kiln
to railroad.
114. Assessment of damages; loca-
tion of crossings.
115. Railway may be laid on such
private road.
116. Private railroad not to pass
through quarry.
117. Ten days' notice required before
commissioners appointed.
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118. Apportionment of damages
amongst owners.
119. Compensation of commissioners
how paid.
120. Road not to run through gar-
den or yard.
121 Appeal to circuit court.
Public Landings.
122. Establishment of public land-
ings.
123. Proceedings similar to those
for public roads.
Schools.
124. County commissioners are au-
thorized to receive and control
money given in trust by will
or deed for purposes of edu-
cation
125 State's attorneys are charged
with the duty of seeing to the
pioper execution of such
trusts.
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General Provisions.
1888, art. 25, sec. 1. 1860, art. 28, sec. 1. 1874, ch. 411
1. The county commissioners of each county in this State
are declared to be a corporation and shall have full power to
appoint road supervisors, collectors of taxes, trustees of the
poor, a clerk to their board, and all other officers, agents and
servants required for county purposes not otherwise provided
for by law or by the constitution, and they shall have charge
of and control over the property owned by the county, and-
over county roads and bridges, and whenever in their opinion
the public interests require or will be thereby advanced may
commit the whole matter of grading and constructing public
roads and the repairs thereof, and the construction and repairs
of public bridges to the charge of competent and scientifically
educated civil engineers, who shall direct and manage all such
public works under the immediate control of said county com-
missioners, and who shall hold office for such time, with such,
salary, under such bond and subject to such regulations as may
be directed by the said county commissioners from time to time
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