Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-12-17
FAVORS ROAD BONDS
Ex-senator Ayc0ek'S Bill and his
Present Views as TO Betterment
of Our c0unty'S Reads
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Fremont, n. c., Dec. IA, 1901

Fremont, N. c., Dec. IA, 1908
EDITOR ARGUS:
In your tissue of Wednesday. Dec.
9th, under heading, 1--WE 20 Forward"
you use this languages
1.-THE Chamber, after fully discuss
ing many plans for public roads i'm
provement, unanimously voted to re-
quest the Board OF County Commits
sioners to ask the Legislature for .
special act authortzing the holding Of
an election on the question of o bond
issue tor the county. for road better
ment and bridges"
was surprised when I saw that in
your paper, for Wayne county already
has the best road law of any county
in the State. It is a copy Of the Meek
lenburg and Forsythe road law, with
some decided improvements to meet
4 our conditions as we'll as general con-
ditions. I did my best to persuade the
4 com missioners to put it into operation.
i The County Com missioners already
have the right under that act to have a
vote on bond issue. L refer to the bill
introduced by me. being S. B. 69e, H.
B. 1896, ratified Feb. 27, 1907. 1 do
not know of any thing that would help
The county so much as to put this bill
in operation and improve our public
highways.
VIII thank you it you will reprint
this bill, (Which you can find in the
public laws of 1907 and let the people
know what they have, if they could
only get it in operation. l never have
understood why the old board refused
to carry it into effect.
The time has come when we must
have better public highways The
only Legislation that might be neces-
sary would be the reappointment of
some road commissioners and pen
atty against County Commissioners
upon refusal to put it in operation. /
am confident the State can not do bet
ter than to underw rite the bonds fol
the several counties of the State with
proper protection tor road building
That's plank hope to see go into the
next Democratic platform, or prepare
a fund like the Swamp land fund .tha
we now are building school houses
with, to loan to the various counties
who desire to improxe their roads. We
mast and wild have better roads. The
| farmers, merchants, doctors, preaeAe
along with everybody else, all demand
it. The good of the county demands
it. Let us have them
Very truly yours,
B. 2. AYCOCK,
! f. J.. 4.
The law above referred to by ME-.
Ayeoek is Chapter 432, Public Laws
1907, supplemented by Chapter 729.
This bill, w which is exceedingly lengtfg5
in its machinery provisions opens "a,
4 follows:
''The General Assembly of Nortl
Carolina do enact Sec. THAT upoI
the petition OF one hundred of the quail
fed voters OF Wayne County the Board
of Com OF said Wayne Coun-
ty are hereby authorized and empower
ed to call an election to be held in said
Wayne County after thirty days
notice of the same, Published in some
newspaper of said county to de-
eide the question as to whether or not
said Board Of Com missioners shall is
sue bonds Of said county to an amount
not exceeding two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, the proceeds TO be
used for the purpose of repairing, i'm
Iproving and macadamizing the public
roads of said county,.
But the Cham Der of Commerce did
not know whether the machinery clause
in the said bill providing for the election
OF Road Commission in the general
election of 1908 nullified that act as a
whole or not, said Commission having
failed to be voted for in said election,
and so the Chamber was simply NOV
ling to bring the question to focus
a III secure action thereon.
Let us have the bond issue and let Us
have,it with all legal points fully set
tled-ED RGUS.
The Mission