Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-04-24
WIN 1t Was Done.

AT meeting of citizens held in
the court horse in March, 1924, the
following action was taken:
1t was resolved that, for the ne1t
year, tho tax for town purposes
ought not to exceed fifty cents ON
tho hundred dollars of assessed value.
This would call for curtuilment OF
expenses and suspension of extended
public improvements, and it was un
derstood that those named on the
ticket would accept this idea as n
platform II was resolved that the
salary of mayor ought TO be reduced
to 500 per .annum and TINT of scr
geant to $3.50 and commissions"
The council elected at that time,
for reasons best known to themselves,
did not see fit to carry out the wishes
of tue people and made the sergeant's
salary $3.50, aud later on increased
it $50. making Tho salary S40O which,
considering everything. was not too
much, but tho people had expressed
themselves othorwise. and their opin.
ion should have hnd some wei5bt
with tho couLcll.
In tho lust issue of the fazewell
Republican appeared an article sign
ell ~ in which the writer, after
stating the situation, says:
"rhero is one more fact which
ought to be- stated. The only issu.
made by the friends of tho old ser
geant III tho convention to nominate
councilmen, both lust year and tins,
was to zee that majority of the
counclnien were favorable to him DO
ing appointed sergeant. The notni
nation and election of a majority Of
the present council was with the inn
Piled understanding that ho was 10
be continued, aud no reduction of
salary was contemplated.
III it had been suspected that a
majority OF the present council would
under any circumstances fail TO res
pond to tho wishes of the majority of
the voters md tax payers of he town,
another act of men would have been
nominated aud elected"
We desire to say TINT tho friends
of the "old sergeant made no fight
whatever in the meeting held this
year, but, MS we understand it, the
hight was to secure good council.
ono that would do all in their power
to reduce. taxation. aud to do this il
was necessary to make reductions in
salaries al around. The council has
done its duty, as they have obeyed
the voice of the people in this mat.
ter as will be seen from the extract
published above from the extract
published abf We from iepresodta
tive meeting of tho people.
The same conditions that existed
in 1884 exist now, and, so far as We
can hear, tho people are still of the
same opinion that they were when
they passed. the above resolution.
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