Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-18
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EDITOR GAzETTE.
WALKER COUNTY.
fIrNrwnLE, TIN, March :, issG.
TO the Editor OF the Gazette.
Road service should be eQualiled.
Some oycrseers report having worked
their roads NJ high as five days, others as
low as two, and usually the first con.
scicntiously report their roads In bad or
at best 'tmpassablen condition, while
the last, as an excuse for failure TO per-
form their duty, report their roads In
good condition Oyerseers should be
held to more rigid accountability by the
grand lures and the people The pre-
cinct supervisors report certain roads in
their precincts IN bad condition, with
mile posts and finger boards down, etc.
The reports are sent to the grand Jury as
the law requires, aud that is the end OF
the matter
Unless oyersrGrs are required by law
TO work the full number Of days provided
by law, or at least there is q minimum
number OF days established, not less
than which Over-seorers must work their
roads, IL win avail nothing to increase
road service from five to ten days
So long as II IS discretionary
with them, so long win they continue to
work from two TO five days per unnum
md the state ho cursed by almost impas-
sable roads,
Under recent decisions Of the court OF
appeals Gin Davidson VS., State, 10th Ct,
OF appeals reports), authorizing inquiry
In criminal prosecutions for ohslructing
public roads or failing TO work same, as
TO whether the public roads were legally
established, and every Formally Of the
law complied with IN such establishments
there Is not public road IN the state
over ten years old that IL can be shown
was legally established. The law should
provide that there should be no going be-
hind the action of the com
missloners' court establishing q public
road IN the rial Of such eases.
Commissioners courts should have
more discretionary power In changing
public roads. As IL now is (sca art 1850,
chap. rs laws Of $3.50, no matter how
much better ground tue change would
put the road ON, unless 1t will shorten the
road, the court Is powerless to make the
change
SCHOOL LAW.
There should be county supcrintend-
cnt In each county, to be appointed by
the commissioners court and appoint
ment confirmed by board OF education,
an nppointee satisfactorily passing an
examination as TO his qualifications.
County judges are not fitted professional
w to supervise public schools, and the
multliarious duties required OF them by
law makes the same an imposslbility to
be properly performed The county SUI
perlntendent should take the scholastic
census, organize, visit, lecture to and SUI
peryise the public schools OF his county
aud with the assistance Of the trustees
apportion the fund.- contract with teach
crs aud audit their vouchers. District
trustees should not be required TO tax,
the scholastic census, aud II the officer o
county superintendent be not created TIT
county assessors should take the census
as in counties having the community
| system. They have to visit tn,
people anyway, are men Of bust
ness Qualifications, and 1t Is ia
more easy TO enforce prope
compliance with the law from our assess
/ or than nifty trustees. Trustees SHOULD
/ be required TO discontinue their schools
whenever the attendance falls below
certain rate per cent. In many eases
trustees are now continuing schools
where the attendance has dwindled dow
to almost nothing, and the fund irlttere,
away IN order To give employment TO fu
yorite teachers 4 teacher with II,
scholars should be ashamed to teach
and If he Is not, should hc made TO stop
Trustees ought not TO be allowed t
pay rent for a schooI-house for over tw
q years II after That time parents care 81