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§ 3130. POWERS AND DUTIES OP SUPERVISORS. Tit. XII, Ch. 2.
73 to lay out, alter or discontinue any highway extending through their
74 own and one or more other counties, subject to the ratification of the
75 board.
76 14. To fix the compensation of all services of county and town-
77 ship officers not otherwise provided for by law, and to provide for
78 the payment of the same.
79 15. To authorize the taking of a vote of the people for the re-
80 location of the county seat, as provided by law.
81 16. To alter, vacate or discontinue any state or territorial high-
82 way within their respective counties.
83 17. To lay out, establish, alter or discontinue any county high-
84 way heretofore laid out, or hereafter to be laid through or within the
85 county, as may be provided by law.
86 18. To provide for the erection of all bridges which may be nec-
87 essary, and which the public convenience may require, within their
88 respective counties, and to keep the same in repair, except as is other-
89 wise provided by law.
90 19. To determine what bounties, in addition to those already pro-
91 vided by law, if any, shall be offered and paid by the county on the
92 scalps of such wild animals taken and killed within the county as it
93 may deem it expedient to exterminate, butjio such bounty shall ex-
94 ceed five dollars.
95 20. To purchase for the use of the county any real estate neces-
96 sary for the erection of buildings for the support of the poor of the
97 county, and for a farm to be used in connection therewith ; to remove
98 the site of and designate a new site for the erection of any building
99 or buildings for the care and support of the poor, and in case of such
100 removal or change of site or purchase of real estate for buildings and
101 a place to be kept and used for the care and support of the poor, to
102 sell any interest that the county may have in the real estate and im-
103 provements thereon which were theretofore used and occupied for
104 that purpose, and make appropriations not exceeding three hundred
105 dollars in any one year for the growing of experimental crops thereon
106 under the direction of the board.
107 21. To have and exercise all the powers in relation to the poor
108 given by law to the county authorities.
109 22. To make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with
110 law, as it may deem necessary for its own government, the transac-
111 tion of business, and the preservation of order.
112 23. To purchase real estate for county fairs, the title of such
113 real estate to be in the name of the county.
114 24. To employ a competent person who shall perform all of the
115 duties now belonging to the office of county surveyor, and who may
116 be employed by them for the purpose of making general specifica-
117 tions for the grading, repairing and building of roads, bridges and
118 culverts, and to perform such other duties as the board of super-
119 visors may determine.
120 25. To contract with any free public library in the county for
121 the free use of the books thereof by the residents of the county out-
122 side of the cities and towns therein, as provided in section thirty-
123 seven hundred fifty-two of this supplement, which contract when
124 made shall supersede all contracts made by townships or school cor-
125 porations, and to levy annually on the taxable property of the county