Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-07-25
do so and pay one-fourth of the
cost thereof.

10 SO ana pay One-10urtn OF tnf
cost thereof.
The Federal Government il
expending large amounts Of
money under the Federal RoaC
Law, in aiding the building Of
roads, and where they approve
the project, put up dollar fol
dollar put up by the county and
State. This State and Fedora
aid is in the discretion of the
State Highway Commission and
the United States Department OF
Good Roads, and it will be up tc
our commission, if the bond is.
sue carries, to secure their ap.
proval and assistance in our pro,
jects. | know of one instance
now in this State where the
County is paying one-fourth. the
State one-fourth and the Fed.
eral Government the other one.
half of the cost of the con-
struction of a road. Roanoke
Rapids Township in this County
has already gotten from the Fed
eral Government part of the cost
of the road from Roanoke Rapids
to LittletOu. | am confident that
our Highway Commission will be
as capable of impressing and Sc
curing the assistance of the
Highway Officials, State and
Federal Cover nments as any
other in the State. and that we
may reasonably expect very con-
siderable aid from these two
sources.
With respect to the form of
the ticket which will be voted in
this election. | desire to resent
for your members of the Gener-
al Assembly any insinuation that
the form of the ticket was Sc
lected to secure any unfair ad-
vantage. In every road bond
election that | have ever heard
of, seen. or read about. it has
been the same. Unless major
ity of those voting in the elect
ion vote ballots For Good
Roads" in favor of the bond is
sue, the bond issue will be de-
feated, and its companion ad-
ministration act will also be in
operative. To my mind this
means exactly the same thing as
requiring a majority of the quail
fled voters who vote, to cast
their ballots Against Good
Roads" to defeat the bond issue.
Your Representatives named
Mr.. A. Paul Kitchin a member of
the new Board in the act which
is submitted to you for your ap-
proval. for the reason that he
had lead the opposition to the
passage of the act by the Gener-
al Assembly, and we thought it
fair to put on the Board at least
enc man who was opposed to the
bond issue and would vote against
it in the election.
A tax rate of thirty-fve cents
on the total property of the
County assessed for taxation
will yield $4,000. 90 on a valua-
ton of $4,000, 10000 and the
total property assessed for valu-
alton in the County is now in
excess of that amount. $40, 000.-
90 annually will pay the interest
on, and provide a sinking fund
for the retirement of all the
bonds of the County and town.
ships after the whole amount Of
this new issue of $500,000. 90
worth of bonds has been issued.
In addition to this interest and
sinking fund tax, the commits
sioners will annually levy a tax
for maintenance of the roads,
which shall not be in excess of
sixty-hve cents for that purpose.
If the election carries, every
special and local tax will be auto
matically repealed and the road
tax will be exactly the same all
over the County, and the money
will be expended by the commits
sioners in the County as they
may think best to secure a uni
form and adequate system of
roads without any regard to
township lines. In order to
make just and equal this change
to a County system from our
present township system, it is
nothing but fair that the people
of the whole County should as
sumo the bonds and notes already
issued by the several townships
for the purpose of building good
roads. Otherwise we would be
taking over their assets in the
form of the roads which they
had built and taxing them fol
the purpose of building roads in
the townships which have not al.
ready issued bonds and built
good roads without giving them
anything in return. As it will
be, if the bond election carries,
the remainder of the County