The Arizona champion., 1884-04-19

Who Is liable for the road tax? Is the maj
 who lives fronting on said road any more resident of lawful district than the one wh, resides hundred miles away? How is ,h, over>eer to determine who is liable How far away fro such road must a man liv, before he IS a resident of another district Representing your tax payer as living ex actiy midway between two such roads, whici termine which overseer must warn him out or being warned and failing to pay or work in wh at district would the notice of sale, after levy. he publi.hed3 1.-the people of portion of the county desired to levy the ten cent tax where. on the ground, would the line of taxa. ton be drawn1
 That it has been the "custom" ofyour Board to create supposed road districts, as you suggest, nave no doubt, but such custom, does Lot make the law, and the Board having erred should cSme to the revival, confess it's sins. seek forgivne;s and give to the petition. CTS road district; one that is tangible, one that is so m law a d fact, one in which the law can be enforced. and wherein the peti. tioners will know who are residents and tax. payers and upon whom tax may be levied they want no piece oi road, no unborn chrid christened by the Board, no protean quantity or ethereal essence. but real municipality, |, o.e that is the offspring of legitimate parents, namely: the laws fl the TrIritory.
 As to the boundaries requested, tley may seem to embrace large territory. but recol feet that they do not embrace any territory tributary l. Prescott, and the proposed dis. trict will assist those contributory to Flagstaff the Board should not trample on the project lxe were herd of cattle or choee it lik. an enraged parent. It is generally under stood in this vicinity that thus county has no money to pay for building roads tributary 10 Flagstaff. Ii this be so. then vi the petition ers the means within the power of the Board 10 create the necessary funds for improving roads. and the distinct will take care O. ltsel., being content with such crumbs as ma, lall from the table of the Board, laden with road money, more than half which the people oi the northern portion oi the cou. [, have contributed, and all oi winch has beer. confscaled Dy others
 To these petitioners it matters not how many county roads there are in the district, Il there are any the records sh W; if there are none, the residents can, through the Board, have them created.
 presume. however, that there are two, the Ionto Basin and Verde roads. Certain 1t i, tha. the overseer can no more spend the pub. lie money or labor upon private road than he can with the same build private residence, nor could he labor upon roads outside vf hi, district.
 It is not desired or prcposed by the petition. CTS to compel the county to accep, any cattle trail, deer ruh or plvate way. as a county road, nor could il be done II 50 wished, for Sec. 34S4 Comp. Laws, provide that "aii roads and highways which have been located by order ofthe Board and all roads m pubic use which may have been re corded as public highways. or which may be recorded by authority of the Boari are hereby declared to be public highways, all other roads are declared vacant. So that your petitioner. fail to see how they can com pell the Board to accept and record any road against the will of such Board but, they do humbly pray for some power. which will com pei the Board to create the proposed district, at its mex, meeting and withou, any further delay. Yours. Resp'y.
 E. NJ. SANFORD.