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since Crane County ie not able to quallry under the optional road law.

*We are intarested in having a reply as soon so possible, since if we are doing eny- thing ille@. we want to stop sane. Please let us have your opinion by Marah 85th.”

Artiole 6785, Vemon*s Annotated Civil Statutes, re- rerretl to in your letter, authorizing the appointment or a apbclal road overseer, does not apply to Crane County an the 00naiti0ne a0 not axlet as speairiea 5.0 Articleu 6771-6769, Vernon*e Annotetsd Civil Statutea.

Fran the facts stated in your letter, and for the purposes this opinion, we asuuw that you ham rorerrea to a road superintendent as mentioned In hrtl~ls 6745, VW- non’s Annotated Civil Statutes, WhlOhmds es follovm;,

*Thfhe oo5alstafonare oourt of any county subjoat to this law may appoint&d a aompetont parson aa road ruperlntahcent ror auah oounty, or one such superintendent in each oonsais- sioners precinct, as it shall detemlns by an order made at a regular tern thereof. Buoh order shall be entered on the minutes Of ruoh oourt, and shall not to vold.ror want or form but a subetantial oomplianoe with the grw~slorls this subdivision shall be mri- Every road euper,intendent shall be a olent. for

quallried voter In the aounty preolnot which he Is appointed, and shall hold his ror two years or until ramved by the orrics oonmisai~nerta dourt for g00a oauss. wo OountJ ehall be under the operation of this law whose ooimiasionara oourt does not appoint a road sugerlntendent OCR super.!.ntendents,w

Artiales 6749-6761, provide:- for the appointnisnt Of road superintendents, set forth their duties and powers, and fix their salnry, elm.

Article 6743, Vernon*8 Annotated Civil Statutes, provides : %aeh road superintendent shall reoeive court may rix,

suoh salary ea the comalusioner8 to be paid on the order of oaid oourt at atatrd *3 Honorable Charles EL Potwt, Page 3

lnterval.8. 18~ th6n rirt880 in tt0wtm thoumnd lnhabltmta tho oounty superlnten- dent’s mlary shall never exoeed one thowand dol..LRrs per annuq and in aountles cb sore than fifteen inhabitants it shall thowend not 8X080a twelve hundred dollars per annum.

The Mlary or preolnot 8u~erintendent.r ln L~SO than rirtesn th0wMd 00ukt0 in- habitant@ still net ezoeed three hundred dollars pier aoiauui, and la oountl,iro of over fifteen thousand Inhabitants, it ahall mvev: sxoeed rour hundred dollars mr annum.

court may suspend tha mlary of tiny rugerln- tendsntk whom oontinued eervloes am not needea.*

.Cr?me County has a population of 8,841 lnhmbitantr aooordlng to the J.mt Bederal 13eaaua. It will. be noted that hrtiale 8743 i)roVldes thnt win oounthe lewd than flrtean thousand inhabitante the oounty r:~patitendentis rslary etnU aover eroeed one thoumnd dfdlara per annum . . .(I Thaw ior8 the comtals810ner** court or Crane county 00Illd not lw&y pay mid road su?erlntend.ent a salary emeedlng one thouaend dollore per year.

BP Ardell Wllliamm Asrlstant AWtoO APPROVEDAPR 7, 1941

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