Opinion of the Justices
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
By sections 15 and 16, chapter 35, Laws 1905 (which were added to the original enactment by section 5 [4], chapter 155, Laws 1909), the governor and council were directed to designate for improvement a continuous highway from the Massachusetts state line at Nashua to the boundary between the towns of Woodstock and Lincoln, to be known as the Merrimack Valley road, and were authorized to change the route of said road from existing highways to such extent as the public good…
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By sections 15 and 16, chapter 35, Laws 1905 (which were added to the original enactment by section 5 [4], chapter 155, Laws 1909), the governor and council were directed to designate for improvement a continuous highway from the Massachusetts state line at Nashua to the boundary between the towns of Woodstock and Lincoln, to be known as the Merrimack Valley road, and were authorized to change the route of said road from existing highways to such extent as the public good might require. Pursuant to the power so granted, the governor and council in 1909 designated for improvement a section of…
1Opinion of the Court
To His Excellency the Governor, and the Honorable Council:
We are asked as to your power to require the “relaying, alteration, and repair” of a portion of the Merrimack Valley road in Nashua and Merrimack.
So far as the changes proposed can be considered repair or maintenance of the highway improved under the provisions of chapter 139, Laws of 1907, or of chapter loo, Laws of 1909, there can be no doubt of the power of the governor and council to order such repair as they consider necessary and to impose such portion of the expense as they find equitable upon the municipalities in which the…
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