The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-06-11
Full Text Of Senate Bill as Was
Passed by the Thirty
First Legislature.
THE ISSUANCE Of BONDS
They May Be Authorized in Any
Subdivision Of a County.
Small Tax for Sink
ing Fund.

! Perhaps one of the best laws pass
! ed by the thirty-first legislature was
senate bill No. 81, by Terrell of Nc
! Lehman county, giving counties and
| political subdivisions or counties the
| right to create road districts for the
| Improvement of public highways.
| This law gives ay subdivision of a
! county the right to vote bonds for
the purpose of graveling or macad-
amiZing the public roads or build
ing turnpikes. Some counties have al
ready taken advantage of this law
| to improve their roads but as yet
! that line has been attempted in Ell
| lis county, the banner agricultural
county in the state. There is not a
| county in the state that is more COM
ipetent to build good roads than Ellis
| icounty There is plenty of material
! here with which to construct them
and the citizens of the county are as
! prosperous and as public spirited as
/ may be found anywhere. The small
tax tnat would bc required TO main
| tam a sinking M d for bonds would
not be hurdcnoome on any one.
! There will probably never be a bet
! ter opportunity for road building.
/ The immediate creation of road dis
tricts in the various justice precincts
! of the county would meet public
necessity and furnish employment
to hundreds of citizens who, by rea-
! snn of the failure of their crops, will
be forced to so elsewhere to earn
money with which to purchase neces-
sary supplies for their families. BY
| giving these men and their teams
work to do on the roads they could
retain their citizenship in the county
| and their landlords would no doubt
give them another opportunity to
| cultivate the land on which their
! crops failed this year. Then again
i the roads of the county are in fine
| condition to be graveled. On account
| of the protracted drouth the road
| beds are hard and firm and only
small amount OF grading would be
required to put them in shape for the
reception of gravel
Under the provisions of the new
road law fifty tax paying voters of
/ any proposed district may petition
the commissioners court for an cleo
tion to give the tax payers of such
district an opportunity to vote on
road building purposes This election
! may be ordered at any regular or
! special session of the court. Ellis
county can have a fine system of
good roads if her citizens will only
get busy A careful study of all the
| conditions apparent to the observer
shows that the most feasible plan for
securing good roads is the creation
of road districts in the eight justice
precincts in the county. The citizens
of these precincts should take the
! matter III mana dl once ana petition
the court for elections. and in order
that they may know how to proceed
undes the new law its full text is
given below.
| A bill to be entitled an act to au
thorize any county or political sub
division, o. other defined district of
! a county, upon a vote of two-thirdS
majority Of the resident property tax
payers voting thereon, who are quail
/ flied electors Cf such county or po
] litical subdivision or defined dis
trict of the county to issue bonds
or otherwise lend its credit in amy
amount not to exceed one-fourth of
the assessed valuation of the real
property of such county or political
subdivision or defined district there
of, and TO levy and collect taxes to
pay the interest on said bonds. and
to provide sinking fund for the
! redemption thereof for the purpose
of constructing, maintaining and
operating macadamized, graveled and