The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-12
Lost.
Prices Reduced
To Boards of Supervisors and
superintendent of State Roads.

VI SSfAbS dSSNSS@Ss
STATE OF WEST vIRGINIA,
OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC W WOE Is;o
WHEELING, June 6tn, 1856
TIME BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS DE
| sire TO call attention OF the Boards OF
| Supervisors and superintendent OF state
roads in tine several counties TO the following
" .:ciiAP. liz. An Act to provide for the re.
pair of the Roads and Bridges throushoutthe
S''"'e' "Passed February Is. 1886.
"Be II enacted by the Legislature Of Vest Pfr-
| 0fTid:
"The interest of this State in all the turn
| pike roads and bridges within this Stale is
| hereby transferred to the several counties In
| which the same or part thereof may be; and
| counties in which such road. or part thereof,
| or bridge may lie. are hereby vested with all
the rights, powers and duties heretofore vest;
| or bridge, among which shall be the power to
establish gates ann collect lawful tolls, and do
| 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
shalt not apply to the Maryland and Virginia
Bridge Company"
II 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, 70
the boa DIS 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 su per-
intendents OF roads acting under authority OF
appointment from this Board; but The gene
nal 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-
Iieved 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
a law-February %, l-G6. For all matters
after that date they should accountt to the APP
propriate boards OF supervisors. In cise of a
road passing through more than one county,
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 people
or the development of stale; and nothing
more certainly attracts industry and enter
we can have, for many years at least, any
8. stem OF internal improvements by State
appropriations; so that the Indispensable
work of repairing the rayages and neglect
growing out OF the rebellion from which all
the public thoroughfares have ffered in
greater or less degTee must devOlve on our
county organizations.
By order of the Board:
A. I. FOREMAN,
s. JACOBS, III. JACOBS,
New York. Wheeling.