Excerpt from Road Legislation and Administration in IowaIn the same manner the county, a unit of local government which forms a necessary connecting link between the civil town Ship on the one hand and the state on the other, has also been clothed with large powers and authority in road matters since 1888, when Iowa became a separate Territory by act of Congress. From 1888 to 1851, the so called commissioner system of county government prevailed in Iowa. The county board, which con sisted of three commissioners, had jurisdiction over the laying out and opening of public roads, levied taxes for road and bridge pur poses and in fact exercised general supervision and control over roads and bridges.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.