Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-10-24

receiving for the same services. In
addition to this, the superintendent has
received donations in work on the roads,
from citizens in the several districts,
amounting in the aggregate to larger
sum than is paid him as 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 ap-
pointment of the superintendent has
actually been increased. The roads in
Jeffersonville district, for which Mr..
Thompson is supervisor, arc in bettsr
condition than they have ever been
known to be in the history of the
county. Every dollar belonging to the
road fund that could be expended on
them under the law has been used for
the roads or is still in the treasury to be
used; and not one cent that was ex-
pended on the Jail or for other purposes
could have been lawfully expended on
the roads.
WHAT THIS BOARD HAS DONE.
1t has built the best Jail in the State
at cost so low as to excite the surprise
and commendation of architects and
builders. And it has paid for the Jail
from the regular county levy, without
increasing taxation one cent by a
special levy for that purpose.
1t has acquired for the county the
valuable property known as the Britain
property, adjoining the Courthouse
Square, paying $5OOO.OO for it out of
the regular county levy.
1t has saved from one to two thousand
dollars annually on the expense of treat
ing smallpox patients in the county. If
the critics will examine the records in
the clerk S office they will find how this
has been done.
By improved methods it has reduced
the expenses at the county farm about
one-half; and the farm this year will be
more than self-sustaining. The super
intendent 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 $1,000 90. The farm is now
fully stocked, with sheep, cattle etc.,
for the next year.
The board refused to increase the
school levy in the three districts in the
county, but referred that question to
the people for them to vote upon it, 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 S40O.0 annually.
1t refused to make an appropriation
for the jamestown Exposition, and
saved to the tax payers of Tazewell
county the SUN OF 81, 10000.
The enemies of the board first circu-
lated 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 increas-
ing 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 hundred dollars.
At the instance of the board of super
visors the State Corporation Commission
ordered that the assessments on coal
lands in Tazewell county be advanced,
which was done by proceedings in the
circuit court. The increased assess
ments on the coal lands have added to
the revenues of the State and county
about 100000 annually.
Has Tazewell county or any county in
the state ever had a better board of
supervisors than this one? Shame upon
those men who, for personal reasons,
have been criticising and misrepresent-
ing the acts of this boardl