The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-04

laws of the State the Board decided to
 adopt the plan, as experimental, in two
 beats of the County, of placing a sal
 aried foreman with two double teams
 and necessary road machinery and sup
 plies to work continuously in Beats 13
 and 16, using the labor liable for road
 duty as far as possible, the regular
 County Superintendent of Roads taking
 the place of the superintendents and
 the foreman that of the various over seers. Some very effective work has been done under this plan but sufficient time has not elapsed to fully judge of it's merits.
 The finances of the County are in a sound condition and every just obli- sallon IS prOml tly paid when examined and properly certified.
 The following statement will show about the ordinary expenses of County administration although there is in cluded $2,5O0 paid for expenses of quar- l Intine against yellow fever while rag ! ing in New Orleans and more than ST. 1 OOU on permanent repairs to the court house and $16.513.S7 paid for redemp-
 tion of bonds. The showing is approx imately correct and is for twelve ! nonths ending April 1. 1906: | Cost of courts, including salaries of
 Judges and Solicitors. $19,220.93. | Roads and bridges, maternal. imple-
 ments, pay of overseers. superinten- dents, teams. etc, $2S,376.40 Court house and jail repairs, lights fuel etc, $13,S01.46.
 Health Department. including ex- penSes of quarantine. $5,45452. Salaries of County officers, not in cluding judges and solicitors. but in- | cluding pay of Tax Assessor ($5,7S6.66) $l1 ,oJ1.o3. Miscellaneous, including printing and sta nty nt military etc., $4,554.15. County poor, $5.O37l1.
 Interest on County bonds, $23676 97 Redemption of jail and court house bonds, Sl6.5l3.S2. .-=. The county now owns fifty-seVen valuable mules with necessary wagons | road machinery and equipment. also
 one traction engine and tank wagon
 md elgAt dumping road wagons. three road machines, and two and half ton roller. It also has a full supply Of Snovels and s4 ades in the hands of the | various road superintendents and over seers.
 The county owns twenty acres 0! | land, eIeven miles from the city, in the | northwestern part, on which is large | supply of valuable gravel. It is sit
 uated aoout one mile from the Western | Railroad, but the cost of spur track to the pit renders in unavailable al
 the present time for shipment. but the | material is used for the grdveling anC
 re airing of the Selma road. which runs through the tract.
 ! The city has a bonded debt of about two and q half million dollars. ano i the county of four hundred and twenty ! five thousand dollars, which is it prl posed to increase to six hundred an .vtnty five thousand dollars, il th ! quali.ed voters of Montgomery Count vote for it on the 9th of Novembel next If this amount is Issued an sold the annual interest charge will b ! thirty two thousand five hunared dol 1 lars, a sum sufficient to construct abou ten miles of hard road per year, The assessed valuations snow tE
 two thirds oi the taxable property .
 the county included Tn the city limit
 must pay all the bonded debt of t.
 city and more than two-thirds of tn.
 uf the county
 The constitutional limitation for ii
 curing bonded debss by city nun
 cipal organizations is seven per cent
 and by county three and q half per | cent on the total assessed value O.