Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-07-11


Il Commission of Halifax County
: composed of five members, A
! Paul Kitchen, John L. Patterson
A. B. Schichter. s. p. johnson
and j. Il. Dickens, which vii
take the place of your presen
highway commission of twelve
members. These five men
named in this act are at present
, members of your highway com.
mission. If the bond election
carries, they will be your
highway commissioners until the
election next year, at which time
you will elect along with your
other County officers, the five
members of the highway com.
mission. The members of the
commission shall be paid $1,000
a day, but shall not be paid for
more than one day in each month.
Our present highway commits.
sioners are paid $500 day, and
there being twelve of them, the
total amount is practically the
same. The highway commission
will elect one of its members
chairman, and some competent
person as secretary. The chair
man will receive no extra salary
but the commission can fix the
salary or perdiem of the secretary
and require him to give bond.
The commission will annually
elect and fix the salary of some
competent and experienced per-
son as superintendent of high
ways, and may elect some COM
petent cIvfl engineer as high
way engineer, and fix his sal
airy. They may combine both of
these offices if they think best,
by electing one person to both.
The superintendent of highways
shall give $5,O00.00 bond for
the faithful performance of his
duty. The new highway COM
mission will take over all duties
and all the powers heretofore ex-
ercised by the highway commits
sion of Halifax County, the board
of county commissioners of Hal
flax County. or by the road Of
ficals of any of the townships in
County, with respect to the pub
lie roads and bridges in said
County; In other words, the
act vests in the new highway
commission, every duty relating
to the management of the roads
and bridges all over the County.
The act further abolishes our
present system of working the
public roads by townships, ex-
pending within each township
the road taxes collected in that
township; and provides that here
after the money collected from
the road taxes in the County
shall be used by the highway
commission in its discretion
wherever in the County it is
necessary and best to use it to
build and maintain a continuous
and uniform system of good
roads all over the entire County.
The highway commission is
authorize under the act, as it is
now, to use the convicts of the
County on the public roads and
to employ such other labor and
make such other contracts as
may be necessary to build and
the roads of the County. |
AS is the case under the present
laws, the commission is author
lied to condemn land for road
purposes. Each year the high
way commission shall pres
ent to the board of coun-
ty commissioners a state
ment of the rate of road tax
which the commission desires to
have levied by the board of
county commissioners for such
year for road purposes, and the
county commissioners shall levy
he tax as requested; provided |
hey should not be required to
evy tax in excess of sixty-fve
'ents on the one hundred dollars
'aluation of taxable property,
or the purpose of building and
maintaining the roads.
This act further provides that |
he County shall aseunoa tho nov