| Show I I I J SALT SAL LAkE LAk TELEGRAM TOll CHARGE BY AS PROTESTED I Builders of Millard County Highway I Ordered to Return 2 Fee Millard county citizens have filed tiled a protest with the state road commission commission commis commis- sion against the action of the contractor contractor contractor con- con conI I tractor for the construction of the I highway between Delta and Holden Iwho I Iwho Iwho who Is charging It Is alleged a fee of 2 from all travelers who pass pas over the tho finished part of the highway Ho gives the traveler a pass Dass It is declared declared de do- dared by Hugh Hilton and A. A O. O Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson members of the school board of the county which carries the th traveler traveler trav tray eler to th the end of the finished road ld The two men named in their protest pro pre protest test to the state slate road commission ex exhibited exhibited exhibited ex- ex the pass which was given them which reads as follows ReceIved Received Received Re for pass on Dodge car Utah 21 fee feo 2 Signed B. B Dinton The fee was paid by the members l' l i It f f the school board When they i reached cached the end of the tho road they were re requested requested requested re- re quested to give up their pass but they declined to do so unless they were given I a receipt from tho the of the contractor that they hod turned over the pass to him VIOLATION ALLEGED Ira R. R Browning ti the the only member member I of the road commission sion present presen in the theoffice theoffice theoffice office when Hilton and Anderson filed flied their complaint at once took the matter up with the tho at attorney orney general and In his absence Assistant Attorney General W. W Hal Farr at once wrote the county attorney of or Millard county as follows This road is a state highway and anda a federal aid project and the contractor contractor contractor con con- tractor who is constructing it has a contract with the stats state road commission commis commis- I slon sion whereby he agrees to maintain a detour In order that the road may be ho i I kept open for traffic at all times I understand that it is the contractors contractor's orders that this toll fee be exacted from all persons using the road and anel this he ho has no right or authority to do In my opinion he is violating the provisions of section compiled laws of Utah 1917 which makes It a I misdemeanor for any person to charge toll on any public highway without I first having been granted a license or franchise to do so This contractor is by the terms of his contract bound to furnish a detour and even een though he has not done clone so he has no power or authority to collect the toll fee and If It he does so he Is violating the law FEE DEMANDED Will you take this matter up with the contractor as well as the parties above referred to who I J am informed collected the f fees s from one Hugh Hilton Hilton Hilton Hil Hil- ton and advise them that unless this this' money is returned immediately prosecution prosecution prosecution prose prose- cution will follow Under his contract th the contractor for the highway is required to to- tomain maintain maintain main main- tain fain a passable detour tour and this It Is alleged ha has not been don done In addition addition addition addi addi- tion to exacting a fee declare Hilton and Anderson the contractor has Invaded In- In the grounds of the schoolhouse at Greenwood 1 and In the taking out of If gravel h hs h's has left an excavation TOO feet long 93 feet wide and about six feet in depth The Tho school board declared the tw two members will institute institute tute lute action against the contractor to compel him to place the grounds In Inthe inthe inthe the same sanie condition they were when he Invaded them I Public Favored Road Toll Charge It was the general public and not the contractor who was was was' responsible for tor the toll charge on the highway between Delta and Holden said officials daIs clas of the Sevier Land Lend and Water company in a report to the attorney general Friday afternoon The general public and county officials officials officials Joined in the request it was declared and some persons it was said who were not cognizant of this fact reported the matter to Assistant Assistant Assistant Assist Assist- ant Attorney General Farr Fan who called the attention of the county attorney for tor Millard l county to the facts and the law in the case and asked him to Investigate It was reported yesterday by officials officials daIs for the company that the detour required under the contract has been maintained but that practically all ali county roads In that part of Millard are impassable Just at present and persons desiring to go from Delta Detta to Holden and return had requested the use usa of ot the Incomplete federal aid road project The contractor ob objected objected ob- ob on the tho ground that the road is now nearing completion and traffic over It before It Is accepted by the federal government may result in loss to the contracting company which will have to place the road in first first- class shape When the request was renewed with the statement that those desiring des to travel over it would gladly pay the cost of any damage done to the road the plan was devised of charging each automobile 2 2 for fora a way one-way trip |
