Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1913-08-06
new ROAD LAW
FOR THE COUNTY OF ROWAN,
AND FOR LEVYING TAXES
FOR PUBLIC ROADS IN
DOVTAN COTJNTV
DR. PUBLIC ROADS
ROWAN COUNTY.

Tae General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
Sec. l. That the board of com
missioners of Rowan County be
aud are hereby authorised to levy
annually q specific tax not to ex-
csed thirty.fivs cents on the one
hundred dollars valuation OF
property, real and personal. in
said county. and not exoee ling
one dollar and five cents on each
poll (the constitutional equation
TO be always observed) to be ex'
pended for building and repairing
the public roads in said county,
and for all necessary expenses per.
tanning thereto, including buying
read machinery, equipment and
supplies. Said specific tax shall
be levied and collected each and
every year. as other taxes are
levied and collected.
Sec. 2. That the board Of COM
nissiouers of Rowan County may
on the first Monday IN the month
of June, one thousand nine hum
dred and thirteen, and annually
thereafter, levy tax of pot less
than fifteen (l5) cents and not
more than twenty five (25) cents
on the one hundred dollars valua.
tion of property subject to taxa.
ton in the several townships of
the county of Rowan, property in
incorporated towns in the several
townships excepted, and not less
than forty five (45) cents. and not
more than seventy five (75) cents
.,,;,l.illS:sch and every poll sub
Npoll tax in the saw
sownshiIs of the county #
Rowan. polls in incorporated
towns in the several townships ex.
osptsd, which said taxes shall be
collected in the same manner as
the other taxes are collected for
state and county purposes, and
shall be kept separate and apart
in the tax books of the said coun-
ty from other tsxes, and shall be
known % ''Township Road Fund, :"
and SAID taxes shall be used In
the construction, improvement
aud maintainace Of the public
roads of the several townships,
and in each township shall have
its own apportionment of the tax.
o. levied and collected therein.
and the said taxes levied and col.
lected in the several townships
shall be used exclusively in the
construction, improvement and
maintenance of the public roads
of the township where levied snd
collected under the direction of
the board of commissioners of
Rowan and a committe OF
three appointed in each town
ship by the board of COM
missioners for the purpose of
consultation with said board as to
how the taxtes levied hereunder
are to be expended in their several
townships. Provided. however,
that no part of ''The township
Road fund" tax levied in this Sec
tion shall be used in the constuc-
tion, maintenance or improvement
of the streets of the incorporated
towns of the several town
ships of said county: Pro-
vided, however, upon the petition
of sixty per cent of the freehold
ers and qualified voters of any one
Or more townships petitionine
against said tax levy, the board o.
county commissioners may not
levy said tax in said township
may continue to work roads II
said township or townships in &C
cordance with provisions of chap
ter two hundred and nineteen
Public Local Laws one Thousand
nine hundred and eleven.
Sec 8. That there may b.
elected by said board of commits
. sioners ut one of their regula
meetings competent superintend
ent of roads, skilled in the moderl
method of road building, wh
shall bs paid a reasonable com
pensstion, to be fixed by the boar
of commissioners, and said super
intsndent of roads may be remov