Biennial Report of the State Highway Commissioner, Volume 4Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Company, State Printers, 1912 |
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00 County 00 Township Applied Built approved Arcada Township BBBB BBBBB Benton Township binder bitumen board of county bridge Brookfield Township Cancelled center line Class clay Clearwater Township compacting cost County and township county road commissioners county road system County.-Con crown crushed stone crusher product passing Date of application Date of payment Dayton Township District ditches or gutters dollars Emerson Township engineer Ferry Township filled finished road Grant Township gravel road haul Haven Township highway commissioner Highway Department inches thick layer less limestone load macadam bed macadam road Mancelona Township metal bed Michigan mile Morton Township Newark Township Number of TABLE Pine Grove Township Rapids Township Reward paid reward roads Richland Township River Township roadway roller rolling sand Sherman Township shoulders side ditches slag soils specifications stringers sub-grade three inches Total last report township or county Township-Total last report twenty feet wagon width
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Page 94 - The commissioner so appointed shall, within fifteen days from the time of notice of his appointment, take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution, and shall...
Page 94 - ... shall upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars nor exceeding two thousand dollars.
Page 94 - ... file the same in the office of the secretary of state, and the said commissioner shall give to the people of the State of Michigan, a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with sureties to be approved by the auditor general, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office.
Page 112 - After the shoulders and macadam bed have been formed as above described the whole roadway shall be rolled until no more compacting is possible. The hollows developed by this rolling shall be filled with suitable material under the direction of the officers in charge, and the roadway again rolled, and left in a solid and firm condition, sufficiently crowned to produce a roadway with the required crown when macadamized.
Page 103 - The gravel for this course shall consist of good clean bank gravel, not less than sixty per cent of which shall be pebbles that will be retained on a screen of one-eighth inch mesh, and will pass through a screen of two and one-half inch mesh, and forty per cent shall be binding material in the form of coarse sand, clay, clay and iron, or pulverized limestone.
Page 102 - ... in the manner above described, a layer of gravel shall be spread on the prepared bed to such uniform thickness as to be not less than five inches deep after thorough rolling.
Page 103 - The material for this course may be of a suitable grade of crushed slag, limestone, cobbles or trap rock, and shall consist only of that part of the crusher product passing over the three-fourths inch section and through the three-inch section of the crusher screen.
Page 104 - ... a free and uniform flow of water to the nearest natural outlets, which outlets must be so improved where necessary as to carry the water quickly away from the highway. The slope of the banks of ditches shall be not steeper than one and onehalf horizontal to one vertical.
Page 116 - Measuring Materials. — The method of measuring the materials for the concrete, including water, shall be one which will insure separate and uniform proportions of each of the materials at all times. A bag of Portland cement (94 Ibs. net) shall be considered one ( 1 ) cu. ft. 15. Mixing. — The materials shall be...
Page 94 - The governor shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars; the judges of the circuit court shall each receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars...