Applications, agreements, contracts, grants, licenses, bonds, plans, and plats regarding the installation and construction of water pipes, sewer pipes, telephone lines and poles, electric lines and poles, gas lines, railway tracks and crossings, and private roads. Many of the private roads were dedicated to public use and accepted by the county as public facilities. The county highways commission required the filing of these documents in order to issue permits for utility work along, under, or over public roads and streets. When the commission was abolished in 1914, the board of county commissioners assumed responsibility for the activity. The books are composed of papers that are glued or paper clipped to the pages, or filed loosely. Each volume is indexed by the names of companies or places. Access available in electronic form derived from the indexes and the records themselves.