Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-06-07
Shepherdstown and Halltown
Turnpike. ~ a.
May it please your Houors, gentlemen
OF the County Court of Jefferson:

NAY ~ Please your l1onors, gentlemen
OF the County Court of Jefferson:
A brief reference to the matters in
connection with the Shepherdstown and
Halltown Turnpike is not only due to
your honors, but necessary to convey to
You proper understanding az to all the
affairs pertaining to the road.
herewith present for your consider
alton as full statement of all the work.
ings of the road as due regard for
brevity will admit, but fully ample for
all necessary information to your honor
able body.
Voucher No. contains a full and
exact statement of ali the receipts of
the road at both gates and from all
sources, during the eleven months of
the year ending April 30th, 1879, max
ing total of $357.75.
Voucher No. 2 contains a full and
complete statement of all the necessary
incidental expenditures Of the road, con-
sisting of the Presidents salary Ordered
by the Court to be paid out Of the pro-
ceeds OF the road), gate-keepers pay,
Sc, &c, amounting to $l9l.15, and
including all repairs except the delivery
of stone and the breaking and spread
ing by the perch. Vouchers Nos. 8
and contain the delivery and breaking
and spreading of the stone by the perch,
the number of perches delivered, and
the number of perches broke and spread
with cart, &c.
1t will he seen by those vouchers that
2S6 perches of stone have been deliv-
cred on the road during the above men
toned time, except AZ perches delivered
during Mr.. Lynchs superintendency,
by Mr.. Daniel Hendricks, which re-
manned unsettled for, but which have
since been settled and of course been
included in the vouchers for the deliv-
cry of stone. The breaking of those AZ
perches was settled for by the former
President, and l suppose included in his
report.
The AZ perches delivered by Mr..
Hendricks, and some nine or ten perch
es used in filing ruts and repairing
breaks, makes a discrepancy in the num-
ber of perches delivered, and the num-
Der of perches broke and spread, of Sc
perches, which this statement will make
satisfactory 10 you: the number deliv-
cred being ESQ perches, and the number
broke aud spread being 230 perches !;
leaving a balance in favor of delivery OF
5G perches
Voucher No I shows the sum total
received from all sources 10 be S357.75,
and voucher No. > shows the necessary
Incidental expenditures 10 be Sl9l.l5,
leaving balance to be expended on the
/ road in stone of GO
To which add the Si0.37
furnished by myself 4O.37
! As seen IN the rccaptua- -
( ton makes S2069 81
From which subtract the
amount paid to ID. Hen
bricks for the delivery
of Il percheS OF stone $3.50
/ Leaves balance of SlSS.17
for which You have had delirered, broke
and spread go perches of stone, and a
little over ten perches unbroken for the
repair OF ruts and breaks.
In closing this report, deem it ne
ceSSary to call your attention to the
( original construction of Tie road, the
: bridges of which were planked with
such inferior material as TO require new
planking soon after the county took
possession of il, and the gates and gate
posts being constructed Of like material
have entirely rotted down, and had to
he rebuilt. This old and worthless
structure has all been replaced 10y new
and sound material except the stills OF
the bridges, which will also soon need
replacing with better material, the old
ones having been made OF very inte-
rior quality of oak, instead of good
sound locust The cost of these repairs
has diminished the amount Of money
for putting on stone at least equal to
two hundred and fifty perches, and the
sills which must soon be replaced by
better material will still tend to dimin-
ish the means for putting on stone. If
this expense could have been pruden;ly
avoided, it would have furnished more
means for further covering the road
with stone in places 50 lamentably def
cient of that material in the original
construction of it. If your IIonors will
bear in mind that in the original con-
struction of this 70 I'D only a lit
tie over fit en- hundred perches
Of stone, mixed with little dirt, were
put on it per mile, in the place of 1876
perches as the contract required, YOU
will not he astonished that wagons
heavily laden will cut through it in
very wet weather, or when the frost is
coming out of the ground in the break
ing up of winter, in those places where
YOU have not been able to rcpike it
since you took possession of the road.
REHABILITATION.
April 80, 1S7S-9-Rec'd at Shepherds
Monthly toll. ................Sl7S.25
Farmers annual toll in cash 80. 300
"toll in delivery Of stone 1892
Received at IIalltown.
Monthly toll. ............. 52.4S
Farmers annual toll in cash. 1915
toll in delivery of stone OO.OO
Total receipts from all sources s357.75
April 80, lS7S-9-Neecssary
incidental expenditures. ....$191.15