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Page 71 - 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 72 - ... 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 68 - ... auditors and paid upon the warrant of the auditor general. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in said office of commissioner by reason of death, resignation or otherwise, the governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment, but such appointee shall hold office only until the next general state election when a new commissioner shall be elected for the unexpired term.
Page 71 - ... 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 94 - ... 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 solid and firm condition, everywhere parallel to the finished roadway, the metal bed being seven inches below the finished grade and having the same crown.
Page 94 - After the shoulders and gravel 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 completed.
Page 72 - Violations of the provisions of this act may be prosecuted in the name of the people of the State of Michigan, and it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of each county to prosecute for any violation of the provisions contained in sections four and five of this chapter.
Page 116 - By hardness is meant the resistance of a rock to the grinding action of an abrasive agent like sand, and is tested as follows: A core 1 inch in diameter, cut from the solid rock, is faced off and subjected to the grinding action of sand fed upon a revolving steel disk against which the test piece is held with a standard pressure. When the disk has made 1,000 revolutions the loss in weight of the sample is determined. In order to report these results on a definite scale which will be convenient the...
Page 74 - ... specifications made by, or approved by the State highway commissioner, shall merit, if approved by the State highway commissioner, a reward from the State of $1000 per mile and pro rata for extra miles and fractions thereof in excess of the first mile.
Page 94 - Any hollows that may develop in the gravel during the process of rolling shall be filled with the same kind of gravel and the rolling continued until the surface is uniformly smooth and hard and everywhere parallel to and three inches below the surface of the finished road. The crown can be preserved during construction by the occasional use of the grader or other suitable floating tools.

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