The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-04-30
No More Road Commissioners

No More Road Commissioners.
| Awell known farmer Of Mill Crock
Hundred, who was In our city TO day sPld
that the bill passed by the Hshsa yestsrday
| was bad one. Intakes away all the pow
or IN SIX months from the Road Commits
sioneys lu New Castle County. Ths bill II
as follows:
Section /, That from and after the SEQ.
ond Tuesday In February, 1893, the offices
Of road commissioner and road superviss
ors for the several hundreds Of New Castle
county, and any person appointed by the
said road commissioners or supervisors, be
and are hereby abolished.
''Sectlon .. That from and after the SEQ.
! Qnd Tuesday Of February A. d., 1893, all
| OF lie roads In New Castle county now
under the control Of the road commission.
ers. supervisors or other persons In Tie
several hundreds or which may hereafter
be opened according to law. shall be nndet
the care and control of the Levy Court
commissioners Of New Castle county"
| Section That it shall be the duty of
| the Levy Court commissioner Of each Of
the districts of New Castle county on thu
second Tuesday In February, A. D.. 1888
and annually thereafter to make return "a
| the said court of such various districts Oh
divisions as 1t may be deemed necessary
| or proper to divide each hundred into iii
order to properly manage and caro- foe
said roads and shall be the duty Of the Court
at the same time to appoint supervisor
| or supervisors in each OF the said distriotA
! or divisions, who shall, undor tho direT
tion Of the Levy Court commissioner for
the district In which said hundred is, reA
| pair and take care OF all roads in said divts
| sion or district.
| The compensation to DO paid to each
| such supervisor shall be fixed by the Levy
| Court. and also the pay OF any agents, ass
sistants of workmen who may ba employ
| ed. Each supervisor SO appointed shall be
| residento of the district or division ion
| which he shall! DO appointed In such hum
| dred.
section 4. The said Levy Court cons
| missioner shall during the month of April
make return to tho said Levy Court of the
/ amount of money which Will be required
for those roads In his district which by
this act are placed under his control; and
the said court shall when fixing the tax
levy and rate tor said county purposes, sets
tie and levy a rate to be laid for said road
tax In each of the hundreds which said
tax shall be collected as other taxes are.
Provided, that nothing In this section shall
authorize the leyying and collecting OF
any road tax in any city, town or district
where the said roads are not now under
the control and management OF the said
road commissioner.
Section 5. Tho county treasurer shalI
keep separate book for euch hundred, Id /
which shall be clearly and explicitly set :
down and stated the amount Of road tax ed
received on account of each hundred and
the amounts paid out Cd account of the
same
section 6. An bills and charges for and
on account of the said roads shall BIO paid :
by orders of the Levy Court commissioned
for the district where the work Is done, on
the county treasurer which said bills and
accounts shall be examined and audited
as other accounts by the said Levy Court.
Section Z All taxes levied and raised
in any hundred for road purposes as aforet
said shall be expended in and for the bene4
fit of said hundred exclusively.
section y. In estimating and returnt
ing to the Levy Csurt the amount Of money
which will be required in any one year for
the roads in any hundred, the Levy Court
commissioner making said return may In
clude In tho Same the probable cost of
opening any new road or roads that may b9
established by law.
"Section 0. When any commissioner ap.
pointed by the Court of General Sessions
shall have made return In favor OF newt
road the Levy Court commissioner for
the district in which said new road is
shall have supervisors appointed by the
Levy Court to make and open tho same,
tho cost Of which shall be charged to the
hundred hundreds where such new road ia
located.
section 10. All provisions of this act
shall extend to bridges heretofore Kept up
by the road commissioners, supervisors or
other persons of the several hundreds
Section II. The said Levy Court COM
masioners snail receive such an additions
al compensation for each and every day
necessarily occupied and employed by
them respectively In the performance Of
the duties imposed upon them by this act,
as shall be allowed them by the said Lovy
Court upon tho presentation to that body
of a true and itemzed account of said ser3
vices duly verified under oath according
to law. =
Section 49, The amount Of road tax in
the several hundreds remaining duo and
and unpaid at the time this act goes into
operation shall be received and collected by
the receiver and collectors Of taxes and
credited to tho several hundreds as is pro-
vided In this act And the said road
commissioners in zach and every hundred
shall within two weeks aftor this act goes
Into operation turn over and deliver to the
Levy Court Of New Castle county oil
books, papers, money and vouchers in
their possession relating or belonging to
the roads and road taxes in said hundreds.
And If the said road commissioners
shall fail to comply with this provision tho
receiver OF taxes, after receiving from the
Levy Court notice of such future, shall
proceed in his own name for tho use OF
hundred for which the said parties are the
road commissioners to recover and collect
the same by proper and appropriate legal
proceeding.
"Section 49, All acts or parts Of acts in
consistent with this act arc hereby re.
pealCd."