West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-01
DISTRICT BOND LEVY.

THE VALLEY DISTRICT BOND LEVY.
The tax payers Of Valley district
who think they have a small fortune
coming to them on account of the
lapsing of the railroad bonds. can
now come TO the sherif's Office
here and get their money back.
The levy for these bonds was only
iald one year, 1899, and was
collected by the sheriff and has
been in his hands ever since. and
now that the SIS, 900 district bonds
have laPsed owing to the failure of
the railroad to carry out their part
OF the contract and complete the
Nj. * X. road to Reedsville in two
years, as the time was up in June
and the road is only built to the
county line, where it has been hung
up for nearly year, the money that
was collected to pay on this bonded
Indebtedness, has been ordered
refunded by the Court. The
amount is s4os. 90 and this is to be
divided among several hundred tax
payers, most of than only getting a
few cents each.
The County Clerk has had a big
job going over the books and max
out about six hundred county
orders, but they are all ready now
to be paid. There are about fifty
that amount to over one dollar that
go to the heaviest taxpayers and
there are over fifty that are for
amounts under four cents, and
many for sums of five, six and
seven cents each.
The sheriff will get his commiss-
ion for collecting and disbursing
this money and the expenses of
making out all these orders and
paying it back, will be almost as
much as it is worth. 1t was a
mistake in the first place to lay
levy for that purpose that year, but
since it was done and the money
unused, it would have been much
better to dispose of it according to
the plan suggested by Mr.. ]. S.
Dunn, the County Commissioner
from that district. Since this rail-
road levy was for fifteen cents on
the hundred dollars valuation Of
property and the road levy for
Valley district this year would have
to be the same, he proposed to the
taxpayers up there to use this fund
which had already been collected
and was in the sheriff's hands, and
not lay any road levy this year,
which would make it Just the same
to the taxpayers and save money
and trouble beside. He prepared
petitions and sent to each post
office in the district with a letter
explaining the matter and asked for
signers in approval of this plan,
intending to carry it out if major
ity signed the petitions, but as
hey failed to do so, it could not be
carried out and levy of IS cents
had to be laid by the Court and
will be collected by the sheriff
while paying back to them the same
levy. In the meantime, the sheriff
VIII get his commission for paying
this out and collecting the new levy
and some of it will never be paid
out, as some of the partie are dead
or moved away and can not be
found and the amount too small to
bother with and there will be a sum
mat VIII never get back to the dis
trict at all.
We surely think that the taxpayers
of Valley did not understand the
matter or they would have acted
more sensibly about it and approved
the plan to use the money already
in the sheriff's hands and save quite
a sum for themselves and lot of
trouble besides. Probably most of
them didn't know what a small sum
they had in that railroad levy they
kicked so much about and when
they get an order for four cents or
some such small amount they will
still be kicking and imagine that
some one has gotten away with
most of it in some manner.
This Office has had a big lob on