Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-06

of the Highway Commission of this State asking
them to assent formally to its jurisdiction in mat
tiers of this kind and to pledge their support for
the maintenance of all highways improved with
the aid of federal grants. The Commission has
prepared and distributed for this purpose stand
ard resolution to the following effect
"At a meeting of the board of county
commissioners COR ordinary as the case may
be), having charge of the roads and revenues
of said county, the following resolutions
adopted:
Resolved, That We hereby appoint the
State Highway Department of Georgia as our
duly constituted authority in this county to
the Office of public roads of the United States
at Washington for the approval of the Sec
rotary of Agriculture, and We hereby agree
and bind the county Of - to furnish labor
and material necessary to construct the road,
or roads. as projected in said county under
the direction and supervision and according
to the plans and specifications of the said
State Highway Department. We agree to
levy a tax sufficient for said purpose in con-
sideration of said county being reimbursed
by the Federal Government of fifty per cent
of the cost of said labor and material as ex-
pended ON said project not to exceed ten
thousand dollars per mile.
1--WE further agree to properly maintain
said road and to levy tax for and to set
aside each year during the period of five
years sufficient funds to guarantee the proper
maintenance of and the making of the needed
repairs and the preservation Of reasonably
smooth surface on said highway, considering
the type of road to be constructed under this
agreement with the State Highway Depart
ment and the Federal Government"
The latter clause of the resolution is particu-
larry we'll advised, for no phase of highway
Improvement is more important than that involv-
ing road maintenance Millions Of dollars have
been wasted on roads which we'll built, but
which went to pieces for lack of timely repair.
The Georgia Commission is eminently right in
that each county expecting to share in
the national fund shall set aside each year for the
prescribed period an amount Of tax money sufa-
cient to guarantee the upkeep Of the roads i'm
proved This will assure efficiency in the of
the local as we'll as the general fund and will
result in a substantial saving to the taxpayers of
each community concerned. Furthermore, it will
assure character of roads far superior to that
which the average county heretofore has known.
BY heartily cooperating with the Highway
Commission, the counties will receive not only
their due share of the two million dollars which
the national Government will expend in Georgia
during the next five years, but also invaluable
measure of expert counsel and assistance in con-
structing their roads. The skilled engineering
service which the Commission will provide will be
freely at the disposal of county subscribing
TO the Commissions terms. Thus Georgia will
acquire a system of well-built and thoroughly
co-ordinated roads that will promote the welfare
of every community and foster all the elements of
economic and social life from which the States
is derived.