Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-03-18
some PROVISIONS
OF new ROAD LAW
Board of Supervisors Will
Meet in April to Comply
With the New Law.


County has just been passed by the
Legislature. Tho old law was not
satisfactory. Under it there was
great deal of complaint by the citi-
o. zens OF the different sections of the
county that the money for the repair
of the public roads was not wisely
spent and fairly distributed, and
some neighborhoods complained that
they were paying out money for tax
es and never saw ary of it come
back to repair their roads.
The road question is a hard one at
best, and it is impossible &c please
everybody. No doubt the SupArvis-
Ors will be glad that this burden il
removed from their shoulders.
In order TO remedy the objections
TO the old law and make some other
changes, new one was considered
necessary, and some'of the represen-
tative citizens got together and
worked out a new bill, which was
sent TO the Legislature for passage.
This new law provides that the
roads in each Magisterial District
shall be divided into road precincts,
each precinct to contain from seven
TO twenty miles of road. The tax
payers of each precinct recommend TO
the Supervisors the man they want
for road Superintendent of that pre-
cinct, and the road superintendent
has charge of the repair of the roads
and spending the money in his pre-
cinct. The Supervisors are required
to allow each precinct at least one
half of the district road tax paid by
il, and the balance TO be distributed
py the Supervisors among the pre-
cincts as the public interest may de-
mand. The bill provides that the
money to repair the roads shall be
raised by levy, not to exceed 25
cents on the 500. 90 OF taxable val
ues, in the three Magisterinl Dis
tricts, and the amount OF money col
lected from each district is kept sep
arate and used on the roads therein
For the purpose of macadamizing
the roads, the bill provides for a
county road tax, not To exceed 25
cents on the 500. % of taxable val
ues, which is 10 be divided equally
between the three Magisterial Dis
tricts, and applied therein TO mac
adamizing the main roads and Ie-
building and restoring the old mac
adam roads, and this macadam work
is under the control of road COM
mittee for each Atagisterial District,
composed of the Supervisors and two
public spirited and successful busi-
ness men, who are TO serve without
any compensation for their services
The bill also provides that where the
macadam road fund belonging 10
any Magisterial District is supple
mented by private subscriptions to
the amount of one third of the f1nd
cn hand, 1t shall be the duty of the
road committee TO expend the fund
and the private subscription upon
that part of the main highway to
which such private subscription is
made, but in no case shall funds be
expended to macadamizing less than
one mile of road, except for extend
ing macadam roads already built.
The Supervisors will at their next
meeting in April appoint three dis
Greet persons in each Magisterial Dis
trict to divide ap9 lay off the public
roads into road precincts. After the
road precincts have been laid off and
located. the taxpayers of each road
precinct will have to recommend In
writing to the Supervisors suitable
man to appoint for road superintend-
ent who serves for the term of one
year.
1t will be seen that the success of
this new law depends largely upon
whether the Taxpayers see to it that
a good superintendent is appointed.
This superintendent is entitled to
only $3.50 per day for time actually
engaged. So it appears that there is
but small pay in this job and the
man who gets it should be more in
tsrested in the public roads OF his
section than in the salary of the
office.