REMODELING OF ROAD LAWS.
On motion by Mr. BELL, his bill [S. 187], making the Township Trustee of each civil Towhship Superintendent of Roads, and fixing a commutation road tax in lieu of road labor, was taken up, it being a special order set to follow the bill just disposed of. After it was read the second time, he said it was a complete remodeling of the laws of the road laws of the State. It has been a quarter of a century since the substantial features of our road law were enacted. He cared not so much for the form, but desired it got in the proper shape to meet the wants of the times, and believed no more important matter can command the attention of the Senate.
Mr. KRAMER said: The Trustee is not the proper person to levy a road tax in incorporated towns.
Mr. GARRIGUS offered an amendment to do away with that objection by striking out the first three lines of Section 3.
Mr. MACARTNEY opposed the amendment.
Mr. URMSTON thought the amendment all right.
The amendment was agreed to.
On motion by Mr. CHAPMAN, the Committee on Prisons had leave of absence in order to visit the Penitentiary North.
Leaves of absence were asked and obtained for about a dozen Senators, and it was ordered that when the Senate adjourn it adjourns till Monday at 2 o'clock p. m.
And then the Senate adjourned
