The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-08-01
ORDER FOR 20 CENT
ROAD TAX ELECTION
State OF Kentucky, Ohio
County Fiscal Court
June 26th, 1919

road purposes and that the present
system of road working by road hands
is inadequate and unsuitable for the
working and up keep of the roads of
Ohio county, and having been called
upon by the State Commissioner of
public Roads of Kentucky, as well as
by large number of citizens of Ohio
county by petition for a better and
more adequate system of the working
and upkeep of the country roads of
Ohio county, and being DESTROYS of
meeting this demand in the best and
most practicable way, and it further
appearing that a special election upon
the question of a zoe road tax may
be held at a primary election at but
very small expense in addition to the
expense otherwise required, and made
necessary by holding of primary
election for its general purposes, it
is now. on motion of Esq. b. F. Rice,
ordered and adjudged by the court
that a special election he held
throughout Ohio County and in each
and all the precincts therein on Au-
gust 2, 1919, for the purpose of sub
hitting the question of voting a tax
of zoe on the $4,000 on all property
subject by law to local taxation for the
improvement or construction "f the
public roads and bridges of the coun-
ty, either, or both. Said amount of tax
shall be zoe on the hundred dollars
each year for a period of five years
and no amount of money in excess of
the amount that can be raised by the
levy in one year shall be expended in
that year, and all Indebtedness Great
ed in any one year for such road AM
bridge purposes shall be paid out of
the fund raised in that year. Said
tax to be an ad valorum tax to be
levied each year and collected by the
sheriff at the same time and in the
same manner and by the same pro-
for the collection of the tax levied |!
hereunder the sheriff shall be entitled |
to and allowed commission of 1 per |
cent of the amount so collected and |
no more, as provided In section 1901 |
B4 of Kentucky Statutes, Vol. 3.
The question of voting said tax of |
zoe ad valorum on the hundred dol
lars worth of property subject by |
law to local taxation, small be sub
mitted to the voters in the following |
and not otherwise:
Are you for a property tax of
twenty cents on each one hun
dred dollars worth of property
in the county, to be levied each
year for five years, for the pur-
pose of improving or construct
ing, either or both, the roads
and bridges Of the county,"
S. A. Bratcher, sheriff of Ohio coun-
Iy, Ky, is hereby appointed, ordered,
and directed to hold said election,
and he shall cause a poll to be open
ed in each and all of the precincts
throughout Ohio county, on the above
named date as the law in such cases
directs and he will first advertise
said election by having a certified
copy of this order published in a
weekly newspaper published and hav-
ng the largest circulation in Ohio
for at elast thirty days be- {
lore the date of said election, and w. {
:. Blenkenship, Clerk of this court, is
ordered and directed to Immediately
furnish the sheriff aforesaid a certi-
led copy of this order for the pur- :
pose of said advertising.
Said sheriff and said clerk are
further ordered and directed to do {
and to perform each and everything
under the laws of the Com
monwealth of Kentucky in adver-
Using and conducting said election,
md in preparing and preserving the
,allots and canvassing and certify
ng the vote, and said election is di- |
'ected to be held in all respects as re- [
luired by law governing such cleo.
ions, and under the general election
avs of this commonwealth now in
orce which relate and apply to such
elections.
1t is resolved and so ordered tina. I
he money derived from the taxes so [
evied and collected shall be used,
expended and applied in each and sew
'ral Of the respective magisterial dis !
riots of the county where said taxes
ire so levied and collected, so that {
zach of said districts shall receive
III and in full the taxes so levied and !
collected therein. Persons carefully I
elected for their competency and put &
inder bond for the fair and faithful
of their duties will be
employed in each district to see after :
he work therein, and said taxes shall !
be for the exclusive working and .