The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-13
NOTABLE DECISION
 BY SUPREME COURT City Entitled to Part of Road
 Fund BOND ISSUE IS PROBABLE Directors of County Good Roads Asso- citation Meet Tomorrow-Hoad Talk All Over County-Mass
 Meets Scheduled
BOND ISSUE IS PROBABLE

million or two million-dollar bond is- sue for the improvement of Jenerson county roads Is now considered practical ly assured.
 The opinion handed down by the su- preme court yesterday in the case or She city of Birmingham vs. the county .--ard of Revenue means that the city VII get the benefit of half the fund if the bond issue is approved, and this, it is believed, means that the bond is- sue will be supported by the city and the election carried
 The opinion was a reversal of former decision favorable to the Board of Reve- nue as defendant in the suit. The case was heard before Judge A. o. Lane in the circuit court in 1909, when decision was rendered holding that the city was entitled to half ths 10 per cent road fund' An appeal was taken and the supreme court reversed Judge Lanes decislon' Yesterdays opinion was a granting of the city's application for rehearlng' setting aside of the first judgment of re- yersal and the rendering of a Judgment of affirmance of Judge Lanes decision'
 While the members of the Board ot Revenue are apprehensive as to the effect of the decision on the OUTLOOK for good roads in Jefferson county II is held in other quarters that the et- feet will be anything but harmful It is pointed out that million dollar bond issue would never carry in Jeff lon, of money could not be expended within the cor porate limits of Birmingham, Bessemer and the other municipalities.
 A meeting of the board of directors of the Jefferson County Good Roads association has been called for tomor- row. The meeting will be held to- morrow morning in the directors room of the Chamber of Commerce and tul attendance is desired John w. O'Neill. president of the Jefferson County Good Roads association, stated yesterday that the association will bend every effort to assure the bond issue. Whether the issue is to be for one million or two million dollars is yet to be determined, the directors be- ing divided on the question.
 Roads Live Topic
 The supreme court decision ot yeSter- day seems to have given new life to the good roads movement in the county big mass meeting will be held tonight at Rebie hall in Bessemer when the bond issue will be fully discussed and the con struction of the boulevard from East Lake to Bessemer will also be brought up for notice. Charles W. Thatcher, known as the Good Roads Apostle has been diligently campaigning the county Tn the interest of good roads during the last few days and reports that the tune IS al hand for the bond issue.
 He is to address the Bessemer mass meeting tonight, and has three engage r1ents to speak in the eastern end Of the county during the day. He will speak to the students of Howard college this morn ing at o'clock, to the pupils or the East Lake public school at 12 o'clock, and al tbe Woodlawn school at 2;S0 o'clock this afternoon. ,,
 Tuesday night a big mass meeting will be held in Woodlawn, and MT. Thatcher will deliver an address
 For Road Commission
 The passage of bill at the legislature now in session providing for the estab- lishment of a county road commission similar in plan to the sanitary sewer com mission is a subject that Is being widely discussed in connection with the bond is- sue project This would mean that the Board of Revenue would not have active charge of the funds to be derived from a possible bond issue, and various members of the board are particularly in favor of 1t. No definite plans have yet been made and no expressions have been ventured but the topic will probably become live one within a few days.
 Meanwhile the good roads bond issue is a live wire in every portion of the coun- tv. and doings of great portent are looked