The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-01-29
OHIO COUNTY FISCAL COURT,
REGULAR TERM, JANUARY
23RD, 1919.


voting a tax of the sum of Twenty
(20) cents on the One Hundred
($100. 00) Dollars worth of ell
property subject by law to local
taxation, under section 157 a. of
the Constitution, for the improve
ment and construction of the public
roads and bridges, of the county,
be submitted to the voters of Ohio
County. Said tax to be levied each
year for five consecutive years i'm
mediately following said election
The tares to be collected and ac-
counted for by the Sheriff, at The
same time and in the same manner
and by the same process, that he
collects other taxes, and an cleo
ton is hereby ordered to be held
throughput Ohio County, in all the
voting precincts therein, on the 8,
day Of March, 1919, upon the
proposition of whether or not a
property tax of Twenty 600 cents
Oil each One Hundred (S1OO.00)
Dollars worth of property in Ohio
County, shall be levied for five go
consecutive years next Immediate
ly following said election, includ-
ing the year 1919. for the purpose
of improving and constructing,
either or both. the roads and
bridges Of the Ciunty.
Said election to be advertised,
held and conducted in the manner
and according to the several provi-
sions and requirements of the laws
of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
now in force governing such cleo
tons and under the general cleo
tion laws of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky, where same relate and
apply to elections held to determine
the above question, and no amount
Of money, in excess of the amount
that can be raised by the levy in
any one year shall be expended in
that year.
S. A. Bratcher, Sheriff Of Ohio
County, Ky. is hereby appointed.
ordered and directed to advertis>
: the time and purpose of the cleo
; ton and the amount of taxes to be
levied each year and the number
Of years for which it is to be levied
and collected as aforesaid, in the
newspaper published in Ohio Coun.
t!t having the largest circulation
for thirty 600 days before the
said elections and the said Sheriff
= will cause a poll to be opened in
each and all the precincts in and
, throughout Ohio county, on the
named date, as the law in such
eases directs, and he may adyer-
Use said election by having a certi-
fled copy Of this order published, as
above directed, and w. C. Blanken-
| snip, Clerk of the Ohio County
Court, is ordered and directed to
furnish said Sheriff with a certi-
fed copy of this order, as it APP
, pears upon the Order Book, in time
Tor said publication.
The said Sheriff and County
: Clerk are further ordered and di-
rec,ed to do and perform each and
every thing required under the
'2vs OF the Commonwealth Of Ken
r.cky, in advertising and conduct
, ing such election ard in the preser-
walton of the ballots and the can
J vascing md ,certiiication Of the
votes and said election is directed
: to be held in all respects as requir-
ed by law governing such elections.
II is further ordered that = is
, the sense of this court, in the event
said election results in favor of the
levy and collection of such tax, as
aforesaid. the money thereby deriv-
ed shall be so used and apportioned
as that in each MagisteTial District
of the county there shall be used
the sum derived. as aforesaid, III
such district, for improving and
constructing either or both. the
roads and bridges therein, from
said tax. though this shall not IN
any way restrict or impair the OK
peaditure of other lawful funds in
each respective Magisterial District
for sa!d purposes, just as funds are
now end have heretofore been used
so far as such funds may he nee
essary and available and in the
manner provided by law, and that a
more adequate and effective meth
cd Of working the roads be put Il
operation than is now in effect.
Ayes and nays being called for,
resulted as follows. B. f. Rice,
Yes; w. c. Daugherty, Yes; C. w.
Rowe, Yes; Q. b. Shown, Yes; b.
C. Rhoa6h. Yes, Iam IA Stevens.
Yes, Ed Shown, Absent and w. s