Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-31
Money toioan at = per cent.
Tyler a. Donnelly, Att'ys
Stone Roads.


The Board Of Commissioners has found
and 50 entered on their journal, that the
public interest requires the constructing and
improving, with stone or gravel, Of the So
called Bryan pike road, between the Wabash,
St. Louis q Pacific railroad track, in Napol-
con, Ohio, and the section line between sec
tions no. and 8 in Napoleon township,
Henry county, Ohio.
The County Surveyor, upon the order of the
Board, has examined into the matter and has
made a report and estimate of such improve
ment, as follows;
Said road built with stone, the road bed to
be 16 feet wide and Is inches deep in the CEN
ter by inches deep on either side, viii cost
complete $8,sl2 30 per mile, or total of
gil, ,6s3 rs for the whole distance.
Said road built of gravel in the same man.
ner will cost $4,000 per mile, or the sum of
$11, $50 for the whole length.
Upon motion of Henry Rohrs this report
of the engineer was approved by the Board.
Henry Rohrs and VIM. 81. Booher voting in
the affirmative and Geo. Daum in the mega
tive. Upon the next motion that the Com
missioners require 66x per cent. of the esti-
mated cost of said improvement to be raised
by subscription, and that thereupon said i'm
provement shall be made.
The Board voted as follows: Yeas, Henry
Rohrs and VIM. II. Booher; nay, Geo. Daum.
In explanation of this vote of a majority of
the members of the Board of Commissioners
it is nothing more than just that the follow
ing facts should be stated:
1st. The citizens and legal tax payers of
Napoleon, Freedom and Ridgeville townships
have already raised by subscriptions the sum
of $3.50 for said improvement, and the
subscription lists are not yet closed.
I'd. Taking the highest estimate of the
County Surveyor in his report, at 81 ,693 70
for the whole improvement, and deducting
the amount already raised by subscription,
it would leave only the sum $4153 75 to obe paid
out of the general county road fund on
hand.
3D.. The townships of Napoleon, Freedom
and Ridgeville, at the close of the tax col
lection for 1885, will have paid over $500
more into the general county road fund than,
together with the present subscriptions,
would be required for the full completion of
said improvement, as the following official
table will show, to-wit:
General County road levy in 1882, 2 mills.
Napoleon Township, valuation. 81 ,316,SA 90
Freedom 7" :. 305,S15 90
Ridgville 7" =. 254,600 co
Road tax, mills, $3,754 IS.
General County road levy in 1883, 2 10 mills.
Napoleon Township valuation. 81, 800 1867 90
Freedom /" :. 307,355 90
Ridgeville g =. 259,570 90
Road tax, 2-1O mills, 1915 25.
General County road levy in 1884, 2-10
mills:
Napoleon Township valuation 81, ,3O7, ,515 90
Freedom I" :" 3O9,77 90
Ridgeville I" :. 260, $50 90
Road tax, 2-10 mills, 1915 63.
General County road levy in 1886, $40
mills:
Napoleon Township valuation 81, ,295, ,104 90
Freedom :. 309,960 90
Ridgeville /" &c !. 263, $50 90
Road tax, $40 mills, $3.50 65.
Making total of $5,065 81 to the credit of
these three townships contained in the unex-
pended county road fund on hand, or $911 16
more than the highest estimate of the engin-
eer would require.
4th. The construction of this contemplat-
ed improvement can and will be completed
without any expense to other than the above
named townships, which is plainly shown by
the foregoing figures.
9th. The money for said improvement be-
ing on hand there is no necessity and no in
tent to issue any county bonds for the same,
or to increase the general tax levy of the
county to higher rate.
9Th. The townships which are directly ben
eftted by this improvement and have to raise
669s per cent. of its cost by private subscrip-
tion, do largely contribute under the county
bridge levy, to bridges and improvements
made in the very townships where the biggest
howl is raised about stone road which does
not cost the howlers one cent.
With all the foregoing facts before them
the majority of the present Board of Com
missioners voted as in their Judgment Justice
and equity in this matter required them to do.
HENNY RoHRs,
VIM. ii. BooHER.
NAPOLEON, o., Dec. 80, 1886.