The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-11
To Boards of Supervisors and
superintendent of State Roads.


STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, I
OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WoRKs.
WHEELING, June Sth, 1885,
THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS De
sire TO call attention of the Boards of
Supervisors and superintendent OF State
roads in the several counties to the following
"CHAP. liz. An Act to provide for the re-
pairof the Roads and Bridges throughoutthe
'' ..Passea February Is. 1886.
''Be il enacted 6y the Legislature Of Hest Tfr-
Oi1id:
'sThe interest of this State in all the turn
pike roads and bridges within this State is
hereby transferred to the several counties in
which the same or a part thereofmay be; and
the boards Of supervisors of the several
counties in which such road. or part thereof,
or bridge may lie. are hereby vested with all
the rights, powers and duties heretofore vest
ed in the State as a StockhOlder in such road
or bridge, among which shall be the power to
and transact all other lawful business. The
suspension bridges across the Monongahela
river at Fairmont and Morgantown, and
any other such bridge in this State, and the
Kanawha turnpike, are not intended to be
included in this act Provided, that this act
shall not apply to the Maryland and Virginia
Bridge Company
1t will be seen that this act transfers abso-
lutely and at once the control of the States
Interest in the roads and bridges therein
designated, hitherto vested in this Board, TO
the boards of supervisors of the several coun-
ties within which the same or any part of
them may be 1t might be supposed that
this action terminated the duties of the super
intendentS of roads acting under authority OF
appointment from this Board; but the gene
raj provision of law that all officers continue
in the exercise of their functions until their
successors are qualified, will apply in the
present case. The superintendent should
continue to discharge their duties until re-
lieved by action OF the boards of supervisors.
They should render final accounts to the
Board OF Public Works up to and including
the day on which the act of transfer became
law-February %, 1868. For all matters
after that date they should account to the APP
propriate boards OF supervisors. In case of a
road passing through more than one county,
the superintendent should report his trans
actions in each county to the board of the
county in which they take place.
This Board desires especially to impress on
the boards Of supervisors the very great i'm
pOrtance Of speedily assuming the care Of the
public roads in their several counties. No
one agency contributes more than good roads
to the convenience and prosperity of a people
or the development of state; and nothing
more certainly attracts industry and enter
prise from abroad. 1t is scarcely possible that
we can have, for many years at least, any
81 stem of internal improvements by State
appropriations; so that the Indispensable
work of repairing the raVaRes and neglect
growing out OF the rebellion from which all
the pn6llc thoroughfares have nered in
greater or less degree must devOlve on our
county organizations.
BY order OF the Board:
A. I. FOREMAN,
President Board OF Public Works.
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