The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-23
County Debt i'm 1898.

Court House bonds. SIC, 100000
Bridge bonds ............. 5,OO0.0O
Floating debt ........... 1S,OoO.oo
Total $43,0 OO.OO
County Debt in 1904.
County court house bonds. $40, 100000
Bridge bonds ............. 5,000OO
Bridge bonds ........... 100000
Funding bonds :,:.......' $1,000 oo0 o0
County floating road debt. 100000
Total debt $87, 10000
(7.) If in six years Cor leSs) the
Board 5of Commissioners of Wake
county have succeeded in increasing
the county debt IN the sum of $4,000,
how long Will the same or a similar
board require to bankrupt the county?
Isl Why was it necessary to pay
$1.214.S0 to three Raleigh newspapers
for advertising the bond election for
Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina
railway, as follows:
News and Observer, $525.00:
Morning Post, $459.S0; Evening Times
$4,000, when only $3.50 as invested
i'm the Times advertisement would
have met every requirement of the
law"
9th.) Why is the county debt
$4,000? Why was it that the annual
statement, required by law, was not
made and published by the County
Commissioners in December, 1908, so
that the people might know, in detail
the receipts and disbursements of
their money?
G0th) Will the Board of Com
missoners or any of it's friends, fur
nish the people with a statement
showing the annual cost of maintain
ing. and the annual income from the
ferI If
about coo acres?
(11th.) Will the Board of Commits
sioners, or any. of it's friends, furnish
the people with q statement showing
approximately, the annual cost OF
maintaining the inmates of the Coun-
ty Home?
U2th.) Will the Board of Commits
sioners, or any of its friends, explain
to the people why the superintendent
of the County Home was authorized
to make such permanent Improvement
Second story on residence of the SUI
perintendent as he thought best which
cost over $4,000 when the county
was so much in need of funds, that the
commissioners We're forced to borrow
money to meet current expenses?
O3th.) Will the Board of Commits
sioners, or any of it's friends, state, IN
the absence of a record showing the
fact, whether or not the Superintend-
ent of the County Home and Roads
in addition to the salary he receives,
is permitted to support Tin parD him.
self and family and maintain his sew
eral fine driving horses at the expense
of the county?
(14th.) Why did the Board of
Commissioners order a new registra-
ton of the voters in Raleigh town
ship, st. Matthews and Marks Creek
townships for The Raleigh and East
ern North Carolina Railroad Com
pany, at several hundred dollars cost
to the county, when there was already
a full registration?
(15th) Before ordering a new reg
istration, the same being optional with
the board, why did not the Commits
sioners require the railroad company
to agree to pay the expense incurred
by the new registration and election?
(16th.) If the Raleigh and Eastern
North Carolina Railroad Company
desired the notice of the bond election
published for it's benefit In three Raj
eigh newspapers when one was suffi-
cient, why did not the Commissioners
require the railroad company to pay
the expense of such advertisement in
stead of the county, to-wit: $525.00 to
the News and Observer for forty-two
days; $459.S0 to the Morning Post for
thirty eight days, and $4,000 to The