The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-04-19
COMMISSIONERS HOLD LONG
AND BUSY SESSION. --ROADS AND
BOND ISSUE TAKE MUCH TINE

out such road and to assess the dam
ages and benefits accruing to the own
ers of any Of the land over which the
same may pass by reason of the alter
alton, changing, widening or location
thereof, and the proper cost Of open
ing such road to travel, and to make
la full and complete report to this
Board.
The Board also received road pc
tition for public road from Forrest to
the Cap Rock signed by N. l.. Cation,
ct al. and being in proper form ap-
pointed John p. Nelson, j. w. Woodland
and Charles W. Rhoades together with
A. X. Moses, county surveyor, as view
ers and directs them to meet at 10
o'clock a. m, on Friday, May l, 1917
at the place of beginning of said pro-
posed road. and then and there to pro-
ceed to view and mark out such road
and to assess the damages and bene-
fits accruing to the owner or owners
of any of the land over which the same
may pass by reason of the altering,
changing, widening, or locating there
of and the proper cost of opening said
road for travel and TO make full and
complete report to this Board.
The Board also received a petition
signed by J. II. Welch, ct al for public
road running from east and west thru
Forrest
The petition was KID and the board
appointed f. f. Darby. r. X. Hicks
and J. D. Sledge, together with A. R.
Moses, as viewers and directs them
to meet at 10 o'clock on Monday, May
Ii 1917 at place Of beginning of pro-
posed road and then and there to pro-
ceed to view and mark out such road
and to assess the damages and bene-
fits accruing to the owner or owners
of any of the land over which the same
may pass by reason of the altering,
changing, widening or locating there
of and the proper cost of opening said
road for travel and to make IA .ull and
complete report to this Board.
Five liquor licenses were granted
The Board now takes up the Puerto
Road petition and finds that the Pc
tition was duly filed, deposit made,
viewers appointed and their report
made but that no survey was made and
filed with the report. The county
clerk is therefore to notify the county
surveyor to survey said proposed road
and file the survey with viewers re-
port after which. it is ordered by the
Board that said proposed road be, and
the same hereby is, designated and es-
tablshed as a public highway.
The road petition, Plaza Largo
bridge north, is next taken up and the
Board finds that the petition was duly
filed, deposit made, viewers appointed
and their report made but that no sur
vey was made and filed with the re-
port. The county clerk is therefore
instructed to notify the county sur
veyor to survey said proposed road
and file the survey with viewers re-
port after which, it is ordered by the
Board that said proposed road be, and
the same hereby is, designated and
Established as a public highway.
And it is further ordered by the
Board that as soon as the plats are
filed for the two above mentioned
roads, notices shall be posted at three
public places along the line of such
roads, giving all parties notice that
they have or will direct their proper
officers to open and work the same
from and after sixty days from the
date Of such notice.
The Board now receives the itemized
statements of the First National Bank
Tucumcari, American National Bank
Tucumcari, and First National Bank
Of Nara Visa, repositories of the
County Treasurer, John NJ. Eager, and
} the same are approved and ordered
. filed.
! II Is now resolved that when the
City has been overburdened with the
care and burial of paupers, they shall
, make an itemized statement Of such
expenditures and present to the Board
! Of Commissioners, and shall be given
relief by the county.
= In the matter of the opening of the
road from Ragland southeast to the
county line, between Quay and Curry
county, it now appears to the boar6
that petition was filed, deposit made
and viewers appointed on April 3, 1915
e and IL further appears that the view
= ers were duly notified and that Their
g report was filed June 22, 1916. bu
that said proposed road was never
I opened. 1t is therefore ordered by th'
4 Board, that said proposed road be, an'
{ the same hereby is designated and es
2 tablished as "A public highway.
The Board further orders that thre,
Z notices shall be posted in conspicuous
places along the said proposed high
!. way which road runs from Raglan'
d south and east to the county line be
r tween Quay and Curry counties.
> A petition was presented signed b,
t more than ten per cent of the quail
y fled electors of Quay county, n. NJ
4 who are also taxpayers in said count
n requesting the board to call a specia
k election for the purpose fsubmittin