Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-10-25

opinion that the Act was mandatory,
and that it was the duty of theBoard
TO appoint n Superintendent of roads.
the appointment took from the
members of the Board the part of the
salary they had before been drawing
for letting contracts, inspecting and
supervising work on the roads. The
amount paid the Superintendent is
about equivalent TO what the MEM
bers had before been receiving for
the same services. In addition TO
this, the Superintendent has received
donations i'm work on the roads from
citizens i'm the several districts
amounting in the aggregate TO u
larger sum than is paid him as n
salary. 1t will be seen from this
statement that the amount of funds
TO be used on the work of improving
and building roads instead of being
decreased by the appointment of the
Superintendent have actually been
increased. The roads in Jacksonville
District, for which Mr.. Thompson is
Supervisor, are in better condition
than they have been known to be in
in the history of the county. Every
dollar belonging To the road fund
that could be expended on them un-
der the law has been used for the
roads or is still i'm the treasury TO be
used and not one cent that was eX-
pended on the Jail or for other pur-
poses could have been lawfully ex-
pended on the roads.
WHAT THIS BOARD HAS DONE.
II has built the best Jail i'm the
State at n cost so low as To excite the
surprise and commendation of archi-
tects and builders. And IL has paid
for the Jail from the regular county
levy without increasing taxation one
cent by a special levy for that pur-
pose.
Ii has acquired for the county the
valuable property known rs the Brit
tain property, adjoining the court
house square, paying 50, for il
and out of the regular county levy.
L has saved from one 10 two thous-
and dollars on the expense of treat
ing smallpox patients in the coun-
ty.
If the critics will examine the re-
cords in the Clerks Office they viii
find how this has been done.
BY improved methods il has reduc-
ed the expenses at the County Farm
about one half; and the farm this
year will be more than self sustain
ing. The Superintendent of the farm
has already turned into the county
treasury for this year the sum of
81, 7SS. Is, and before the year is ended
hopes TO swell the amount TO So, 900.
The farm is now fully stocked, with
sheep, cattle ct cetera for the next
year
The Board refused to increase the
School levy in the three districts in
TO the people for them TO vote upon
il, as required by law.
The Board refused TO increase the
salaries of the Commissioners of the
Revenue and saved for the county
about the sum of $400 annually.
1t refused TO make an appropria
tion for the jamestown Exposition,
and saved TO the tax payers of Taze-
well county the sum Of 81, 500.
The enemies of the Board first
circulated the report that the Board
had increased the rate of taxation TO
pay for the Jail. That falsehood has
long ago been exploded. Instead of
increasing the rate of taxation, the
Board has reduced the county levy
from the rate of sixty cents to the
rate of fifty cents ON the one hundred
dollars.
AT the instance of the Board OF
Supervisors the State Corporation
ordered that the assessments on coal
lands in Tazewell county be advanc-
ed, which was done by proceeding in
the Circuit Court. The increased as
sessments on the coal lands have ad-
ded TO the revenues OF the State and
county about So, 600 annually.
Has Tazewell county or any Other
county in the State ever had better
Board OF Supervisors than this onei
Shame upon those men who fol
personal reasons have been criticisinl
and disappearing the acts of this
Board.
A Tax Payer.