The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-02-26
OHIO COUNTY FISCAL COURT,
REGULAR TERM, JANUARY
23RD, 1910.

voting TAX OF the sum or twenty
600 cents on the One Hundred
(s100.00) Dollars worth Of all
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
property tax of Twenty (2O) cents
on each One Hundred (S100.0OD
Dollars worth OF property in Ohio
County, shall be levied for FIVE CD
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
tions and under the general cleo
ton 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
tion 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
published in Ohio Coun-
tN 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
cases directs, and he may adver-
tise said election by having a certi-
fled copy of this order published, as
above directed, and w. C. Blanken-
ship, Clerk of the Ohio County
Court, is ordered and directed to
furnish said Sheriff with a certi-
fed copy of this order, as it ap-
pears upon the Order Book, in time
for said publication.
The said Sheriff and County |
Clerk are further ordered and di- /
rected to do and perform each and |
every thing required under the
laws of the Commonwealth of Ken |
lucky, in advertising and conduct |
ing such election and in the preser- |
walton of the ballots and the cam
wasting and ,certihcation OF the
votes and said election is directed |
to be held in all respects as requir-
ed by law governing such elections.
1t 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 deriy-
ell shall be so used and apportioned
rs that in each MaGistarial District
If the county there shall be used |
he sum derived, as aforesaid, II
such district, for improving and
either or both, the
'oads and bridges therein, from
aid tax, though this shall not in
my way restrict or impair the ex-
,enditure of other lawful funds in
zach respective Magisterial District,
or said purposes. just as funds are
low and have heretofore been used
10 far as such funds may be nee
'ssary and available and in the
manner provided by law, and that a
more adequate and effective meth
I'd of working the roads be put iP
'peratiou than is now in effect.
Ayes and nays being called for,
esulted as follows. L. f. Rice,
Yes; W. c, Daugherty, Yes; G. w.
rowe, Yes; Q. B. shown, Yes; 3.
:. RhoadE, Yes, Eam l.. stevens,
'es, Ed Shown, AEse:t and w. $
Jean, Absent. Motion carried ana