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Show and county attorney, will be sent out at one. The conference decided that It waa np to the atate road commission to look after the maintenance of the roads and to enforce the law regarding motor mo-tor vehicles and to see that proseru-Uun proseru-Uun follows through the county officials offi-cials hav mentioned. In the circular letter which I eent out and which I In the nature of a command, the boards of commissioners are to take Immediate steps toward the Installation of scales where necessary and to provide an Inspector to stop svery motor vehicle which appears to be overloaded and If the vehicle la so overloaded, that the owners and driver be at once taken before a Justice of the peace and complaint and prosecution followed. As a part of the plan wMrhlhe state road commission has worked out and which was adopurd at the conference a parole aystem Is to be established In eery county for the purpose of checking check-ing up all violations of law in so far a motor vehicles are concerned. Thla means that users of narrow tired vehicles, ve-hicles, persons who overload trucks, thoee who neglect to obtain the necessary neces-sary license platea or who attempt to use plates on trucks which are obtained ob-tained for pleasure rare and other violators vio-lators of the law must pay the penalty. I The county officials, who are charged with the maintenance of the highways must, therefore, see that the motor ve- hide law la enforced. MOTOR VEHICLE LI ILL BE EKED Violators to Be Prosecuted for All Infractions of Rules Vigorous prosecution of violators of the motor vehicle law waa decided upon today by the governor, .secretary i of atate. attorney general and the stat road commission at a conference held In the office of the secretary of stat. Members of the stat road commission commis-sion In their travels over the state In Investigating the matter of the maintenance main-tenance of the highway discovered that the greatest damage to the highways high-ways waa due to overloaded trucks snd narrow tired wagon and other vehicle. vehi-cle. Violator of the motor vehlcl law. In so far aa the overloading of Jrueke la concerned, are many, aa discovered by the commission and also by the larce number of complaints that come to the offlo of the secretary of state, although there are many other violations viola-tions of the law. Who la to enforce the provisions of the law In so far aa violators are concerned con-cerned haa been a queatlon which has been discussed by the atate road commie. com-mie. Ion and other stat officials, and today the decision was reached that thla part of the law and Ha rigid enforcement en-forcement belonged to the official of the varloua counties In the state and that they must see that this enforcement enforce-ment Is made. This, after carefully working out a plan which will he promulgated pro-mulgated in a circular letter from th stat road commission and by personal talk by th commission with the county officials. The plan, which con- tains rules and regulations for the gov- I eminent of tioarde of county commissioners, commis-sioners, shvrlfls. justice or the peace |