The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-07
For Enactment into a Law o
the State by the Present
Legislature.

The West Virginia Legislature will
ibe asked to enact the following post
roads bill into law: q
BE 1t enacted by the legislature Of
West Virginia:
That there shall be assessed on ev-
cry license to maintain an automo-
bile, $40, which shall be paid to the
auditor, and shall by him be placed
to the credit OF the state, in a fund
to be known as follows: Seventy -five
Der OF licenses sol din each county.
each year shall be used in the con-
strqction and maintenance OF post
roads, and shall be returned by the
auditor to each county, as hereinafter
provided, in proportion to the num-
be rof licenses sold in each county.
That balance of said general road
fund shall be used first to .defray all
necessary and legal charges and ex-
penses incurred in collecting said Ii
cense tax and issuing license certifi-
Gates and metal tags bearing the NUM-
Der Of the license certificate; and any
balance remaining OF said % per cent
Of the general road fund shall be used
for the construction of inter county
seat, cross state, Interstate and ocean
to ocean highways, military and COM
mercial roads, by connecting post
roads where the same fail to connect,
overlap, interlate or intersect, fol-
lowing as closely as possible the gem
eral direction OF the railroads from
station stops OF which said post roads
emanate.
Post roads, as used IN this act, shall
be taken and held to mean any pub
lie road or highway outside OF incor-
porated cities, over which the United
States regularly carries rural mails
either by free rural delivery OF star
route carriers. 80
The Is per cent OF said general road
fund shall be returned to the several
counties Of this state by the auditor
as provided for above The several
county treasurers shall place tho same
to the credit Of their respective coun-
ties in a fund to be known and des-
ignated as the county road fund The
county court OF each county shall use
the same for the purpose OF con-
structing, building, opening and main
tanning post roads within their re-
spective Jurdsdic tions; post roads go-
ing from and leading to station stops
OF railroads over which rural mails
are delivered shall he first constructed
and maintained in the manner herein
after set forth and provided The
county road engineer shall ascertain
and report annually, not later than
the 31st day OF December Of each
year, the number Of miles OF post
roads within his jurisdict ion, and the
county court shall expend annually
an equal amount from the; county road
fund upon each OF said roads.
The work OF constructing said post
roads shall begin at the corporate
limits Of the cities from which they
extend. or at the station stops of the
railroads from which rural mails are
delivered, II not at an Incorporated
town or. city, and shall be continu-
ous from year to year.
Post roads shall be not less than
forty feet In width with proper drain
age on both sides, and shall be kept
we'll rounded from the center to the
drains; they shall be at least twenty
inches higher at the center than att
the edges Of the drains. The surface
Of said roads shall be composed OF
the following: brick, concrete. tar via.
or earth. II concrete, tar
via or macadam be used the coats
thereof shall be not less than eighteen
inches In thickness at the center end
not less than twelve inches IN thick
ness at the edges. II brick be used
the same shall be laid over q con-
crete body Of not less thon nine inches