The County: The "Dark Continent" of American PoliticsGilbertson, Henry S.
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The County: The "Dark Continent" of American Politics
Gilbertson, Henry S.
County government -- United States
SEC. 24: Subject to rules and regulations which shall be
adopted by the Board of Supervisors, by ordinance, the Purchasing Agent
shall be the buyer of furniture, fixtures, tools, supplies, materials
or other articles of personal property for the county and for county,
township and all other officers.
SEC. 25: Each county or township officer, Board or Commission
shall have the powers and perform the duties now or hereafter
prescribed by general law, and by this Charter, as to such officer,
Board or Commission.
ARTICLE VII.
_Road Department_
SEC. 26: The Board of Supervisors may provide for the formation of road
districts for the care, maintenance, repair and supervision of roads,
highways and bridges; and for the formation of highway construction
divisions for the construction of roads, highways and bridges; for
the inclusion in any such district or division of the whole or any
part of any incorporated city or town upon ordinance passed by such
incorporated city or town authorizing the same, and upon the assent
to such inclusion by a majority of the qualified electors of such
incorporated city or town or portion thereof proposed to be so included
at an election held for that purpose; for the organization, government,
powers and jurisdiction of such district or division, for raising
revenue therein for such purposes, by taxation, upon the assent of a
majority of the qualified electors of such district or division, voting
at an election held for that purpose; for the incurring of indebtedness
therefor by the county, district or division for such purposes,
respectively, by the issuance and sale, by the county, of bonds of the
county, district or division, and the expenditure of the proceeds of
the sale of such bonds, and for levying and collecting taxes against
the property of the county, district or division, as the case may be,
for the payment of the principal and interest of such indebtedness at
maturity; provided that any such indebtedness shall not be incurred
without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified electors of the
county, district or division, as the case may be, voting at an election
held for that purpose, nor unless before or at the time of incurring
such indebtedness, provision shall be made for the collection of an
annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it
falls due, and also for a sinking fund for the payment of the principal
thereof on or before maturity, which shall not exceed forty years
from the time of contracting the same; and the procedure for voting,
issuing and selling such bonds, except insofar as the same shall be
otherwise prescribed in this Charter, shall conform to general laws
for the authorizing and incurring of bonded indebtedness by counties
so far as applicable; provided, further, that the construction, care,
maintenance, repair and supervision of roads, highways and bridges
for which aid from the state is granted shall be subject to such
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