Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-10-18
NEW COURTHOUSE
HAS BEEN VETOED
Sentiment of People Against
It-Road Matters Settled
Other Business.

pnrtance and interest to the county
were discussed and passed upon. The
committee appointed to recommend
changes in the courthouse, considered
absolutely necessary, submitted a'sup-
Elementary report, which stated,
among other things, that it appears
that the sentiment of the people is
against the building of new court
house. and that in view of that fact.
certain recommendations are made to
meet immediate demands:
''First: We recommend that the
roof of the courthouse should be re-
paired, or renewed which ever may
be necessary.
Second: "We recommend that an
additional vault room be provided for
the preservation of the papers of the
county, in which can be placed all of
the papers that are not in current
use, and thus leave the present vaults
for the use of current papers, and
which we think would be ample for
that purpose.
Your committee suggests that the
construction of said vault room could
be made by the removal of the south
wall of the present vault of the Cir
cult Court Clerks Office, so rs to in
clude in the vault a portion of the
room now used by the Board of Sup
efvisors for their meetings, and your
committee is of the opinion that by
thus removing this wall, and thus en-
larging his vault, that there will
then be sufficient vault room for the
preservation of all the papers of the
county.
Third: Your committee recon-
mends that an independent heating
plant be installed in the basement Of
the present courthouse, of sufficient
capacity to heat the courtroom and all
of the offices of said building.
Fourth: Your committee recon-
mends that there be constructed in
the basement of the courthouse, or in
such other part of the building as
may be best adapted for the purpose,
or on the outside, adjoining the build
ing, sufficient toilets and lavatories
for the use of the building, both for
men and women. the two being con-
structed separately and apart from
each other.
Your committee believes that
when the four items of repair above
suggested have been completed that
the present courthouse will be ample
for the necessities of the county for
years to come, and that the arrange
ment above suggested will make the
building suitable and convenient for
the purpose for which it is intended,
and that these repairs can be made
by the expenditure of few thousand
dollars, and thus save the people of
the county from an increase of the
burden of taxation.
Since your committee has ascer-
tanned the sentiment of the public as
above indicated, it now reports that
the foregoing repairs will meet with
the approval of the sentiment of the
county, and will be sufficient for the
purposes of the county above stated. {"
The following resolution was offer
ed by Supervisor Daniels, and passed
the Board:
"At meeting of the Board of
Supervisors held at Tazewell Court
house on the 18th day of October.
1912, it is ordered that an expert
accountant be secured to go over the
payrolls of the county road work and
report to the board the amouat of
money spent, (results obtained) i,
what per cent of the peoples money
is being paid TOR engineers, foremen,
ETC., and what per cent, is being
paid for labor in actual construction
of roads in the county, and what per
cent of new location of roads made by
the State Highway Commission in
the preliminary surveys had been
adopted by the construction engineer,
and what per cent thereof has been
rejected, and the estimated cost OF
surveying rejected.
1t is further ordered that the en-
gineers in charge of road work fur
nish this Board with list of all
salared employees, foremen, over
seers, the character of work done,
the wages received by each.
1t is further ordered that no en-.
gineers. superintendent, foremen
overseers or other salaried men shal
be employed in any Maigisterial dis
trict or salary fixed without the ap
proval of the Supervisor of such dis
trict.
The attention of the road engineer
is called to the fact that some sec
tions of road are being constructed
without the use of grade stakes. an,
also that some of the nJants how,