Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-27
FARMERS COMMITTEE
AUTHORIZED TO PROCEED.
CONTINUED from page c.


minutes say:
Communication from the Good
Roads association of Road District
No. 5 endorsing M. j. Neylon as road
supervisor was read and placed on
file."
A couple Of weeks later we read:
81. A. Mckenzie rendered his resig-
nation as supervisor of Road District
No. 2. On motion the same was ac-
cepted. On motion of Commissioner
Gibson, who took Office the preceding
week, II. A. Raymond was appointed
supervisor of Road District No. to
succeed Mckenzie"
What Happened This Year.
The minutes for January 5, 1914,
state:
"a communication was read from
Mrs. O'Connor, secretary of the Good
Roads association of Road District
No. 5, advising that certain persons
had held an illegal meeting of the as
sociation at which candidates for
road supervisor had been selected,
and a committee appointed to pre-
sent the same, and that all of the
said proceedings were irregular. At
ter reading the communication it was
ordered placed on file.
"A committee from the Good Roads
association of Road District No. ap-
peared and filed list of names, from
which they asked that a road super
visor be appointed. On motion the
matter was taken under considera-
ton"
The minutes for January IL, 1914,
a week later, state:
ION motion, all members concur
ring, the board appointed the follow
ing road supervisors for the year
ending the second Tuesday in Janu-
airy, 1915, appointees to furnish good
and sufficient bonds to the satisfac-
ton Of the board in the sum of $500
each:
District No. III. A. Raymond.
"District No. PA. B. Smith.
District No. 81. c. Nelson.
District No. 4-John McNulty.
District No. 5--M. J. Neylon."
For your information your commit
tee will state that all Of these were
re-appointed but John McNulty. The
name of G. A. Erickson appears
throughout the minutes for 1913 as
supervisor of Road District No. 4, up
to the pay rolls for October Z, 1913.
The minutes of this meeting, jan
uary IL, also state:
"The Good Roads association OF
Road District No. 5 filed list OF
names selected by the association as
candidates for road supervisor. The
board having already appointed
supervisor for said district, and his
bond having been received and ap-
proved the communication was placed
on file. A communication from Peter
Mckenzie. endorsing M. ]. Neylon for
Road District No. was read and
placed on file."
1t occurs to your committee that
very likely this communication from
this Good Roads association just re-
ferred to was received by the board
before the supervisors were appoint
ed.
While according to the commits
sioners' minutes the bond or M. j.
Neylon as road supervisor of Road
District No. was received at the
meeting when he was appointed, jan
uary -, the bonds Of John McNulty'
supervisor of Road District No. 4,
and ]. C. Nelson, Of Road District NO.
8, were not received and approved
until February %. Whether the
bonds of the other supervisors have
been received and approved. your
committee has not been able to de-
.termine from this examination OF the
minutes.
The Road Funds.
1t might not be amiss for your
committee to call your attention TO
the fact that the road funds OF the
county got into such shape in 1913
that in several instances the commits
sioners were compelled to issue per
cent warrants to cover certain lndep-
tedness. For instance: The board
paid the Coast Bridge company 49,
500 in warrants on the road ana
bridge fund for 1913 for the Ruth
bridge and the same company S15,-
600 in warrants on the road ana
bridge fund for 1913 for the Prather
bridge.
Conclusion.
Herewith your committee has pre-
sented what it considers the more I'M
portant features of its investigation
relative to the commissioners meth
DDS of handling the county's affairs,
though it has a mass of other infor-
nation incidental to these more I'M
portant matters which adds still fur