The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-05-03
require.

Board OF commissioners as. SOOT
as possible after they are elected
e to lay off the public roads of sale
county in sections with due re-
gard to the location of said roads
and the amount of travel and use
f to which they are subject. Pike
roads will be laid off in sections
to themselves, and the dirt roads
Of the county will in like manner
be laid off in sections to them
5 selves. After the roads have thus
: been sectionized, it shall be the
duty of said Board to place upon
each section of the pike roads a
man or men and provide each Sec
ton with the proper tools ard
machinery, and such teams, wag
ons and carts which may be nee
essary for keeping said roads in
proper repair, and they shall keep
constantly upon said pike roads
laborers sufficient to keep the
same in. proper repair, and shall
pay for said road labor such
amount per day as in the judg-
ment of the Board is proper and
commensurate with the character
of labor performed. The Super
intendent shall have charge of all
t. e laborers employed upon the
different sections of roads
throughout the county and said
laborers shall be paid out of the
road funds of the county upon a
warrant of the County Judge or
Chairman of the County Court,
which warrant shall be issued
upon the order of the Road Com
mission, signed by the Superin
tendent, and at least one associate
member One of the associate
members of the Board shall do
the clerical work of the Commits
sion, showing the amount of
money disbursede to whom paid,
and for what purpose. The road
funds of the county shalt be one
common fund, WITHOUT reference
to civil districts or road districts,
and shall be used and applied by {
said Road Commission to the prop {
er repair, upkeep and maintenance {
of the roads in any section of the
county where in the Judgment of
the Commission it is most needed {
The dirt roads of the county will
De maintained as nearly as posi- a
BILE by the labor of those subject {
to public road duty under the law, i
who may be assigned to work r
upon the various dirt roads by S
said Road Commission. %
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, Il
That the County Court OF each t.
county under the provisions of o
his Act shall, at the January term p
If the Quarterly Court of said t
county, each year, or at some sub II
term of the Quarterly t
Court of said County, levy a tax t
1pon all property, both real and {
PERSONAL, outside of the corporate :
limits Of incorporated towns, for b
he purpose of improving and {
maintaining saido roads, O
which tax shall not be less than e
twenty-five (25) cents on the one il
hundred dollars ($100OO) of the 4
axable property of sad corn+,' f;
Tor more than fifty (50) cents c
N the one hundred dollars b
$1OO00) of the taxable properly D
# sad county to be expended by
aid Board of Road Commission I
RS created under this Act In {
edition to said road tax levied as O.
.erein provided, all male inhabi- b
ants between the ages of twenty tt
ne (21) and fifty (50) years: e:
hall be required, unless exempt e,
d by the County Court, for some al
hysical disability provided by N
aw, to pay into the county treas ca
ry a sum not to exceed two dol A
hrs and fifty ($2.50) cents each, OF
mich shall be a part OF the road al
md of the county, which shall be til
,vied by the court and collected oN
S other taxes are now collected; Dc
rovided that anyone subject to er
lis road tax may pay and dis in
large the same by the perform sd
nee of two days labor upon the &C
ublic roads at such time and Sc
lace as the Superintendent may tic