The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-02-14
SAUNDERS INTRODUCES
HIS GOOD ROAD BILL
Gets Opinion of Attorney General and Legislative
Reference Librarian-Also Puts New Life Into
County Highway Commission


Bill providing a bond issue of
$500, 900 for hard surfaced roads
and bridges for Pasquotank
county was introduced in the
House of Representatives yester-
day. The bill has been carefully
drawn and approved by the Leg
islative Reference Librarian,
Judge Sykes, and by the Attor-
ney General, Hon. James S.
Manning. The bill empowers
the Pasquotank Highway Com
mission to issue the bonds, this
provision having been made in
anticipation Of a refusal of the
County Commissioners to issue
the bonds. The present Board
of Commissioners seems to be
opposed to spending money for
any sort of improvement.
Supplementing the Good Roads Bill,
Representative Saunders has introduc-
ed another bill which will give Pasquo-
tank county a Highway Commission
that will not only issue the bonds, but
spend the money intelligently and econ
omically. The Commission to be Great
ed by the Saunders act will be COM
posed of ]. J. Morris. w. ]. Woodley, J..
W. Foreman, A. B. Houtz and W. l..
Cohoon. After careful consideration
Representative Saunders is convinced
that a more enthusiastic set of good
roads men, possessed of experience and
Executive ability, could not be found in
Pasquotank County.
Representative Saunders has done
another unusual thing. He has taken
the chain gang out of the town and
given it to the county. The chain gang
as now operated spend two summer
months in town at a time when it is
most needed on the county roads. In
future the Highway Commission will
not have to abandon work on county
roads to send the chain gang to town
jim June and July. 1t can make such ar
rangement with the Board of Aldermen
as it desires and use the chain gang
when desired, for what it was inteded;
for the working of the county's roads.
The full text of the Saunders Good
Road Bill follows
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER
THE PASQUOTANK HIGHWAY
COMMISSION OF PASQUOTANK
COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS TO
BE USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION
AND MAINTENANCE OF PER-
MANENT ROADS OF THAT COUN-
TY.
The General Assembly of North Caro-
lima Do Enact:
Section 1. That the Pasquotank
Highway Commission of Pasquotank
County be and they are hereby authors
lied and empowered to issue bonds not
exceeding five hundred thousand dol
lars ($50O, ,OO0.0O), to be denominated
"Pasquotank County Road Bonds"
That said bonds shall be issued in de-
nominations of not less than one hum
dred dollar ($10O.OO) nor more than
five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), to bear
interest at not exceeding six per cent
and be evidenced by coupons attached
to said bonds. The said Pasquotank
Highway Commission is also authorized
ito prescribe the form of said bonds, the
length of time they shall run, and the
denominations in which said bonds shall
be issued. The said bonds shall bear the
signature of the chairman and secretary
of the said Pasquotank Highway Com
mission and the coupons attached to
the said bonds shall bear the facsi-
rnile signature of the chairman of the
said board, and the said PaSquotank
County Road Bonds so issued shall be
IA valid and binding obligation of the
county of Pasquotank.
Sec. 2. That no bonds issued under
= LI,S- boil hc col
Or otherwise disposed of for less than
par and accrued interest. Said Pas
quotank Highway Commission is au-
thoriZed and empowered to sell or dis
pose of the said bonds either by public
pr private sale or by. sealed bids, as
20 them may seem best. and in case
they sell at a public sale, they shall give
notice thereof in one or more news
pa pers published in the State of North
aCarolina for at least thirty days and
aid Pasquotank Highway Commission
hay also advertise the sale of said
bonds in one or more newspapers which
nay make business of advertising
'uch sales, published within or without
The State.
Sec. 3. That the purchase money
lrising from said sale of said bonds
ssued under the provisions of this act
hall constitute a separate and distinct
und to be applied and appropriated
10 the laying out, construction and main
enance of the hard surfaced public
Foads and bridges in Pasquotank coun-
", and the said Pasquotank Highway
Commission shall cause the treasurer
pr d1sbursing officer acting in the place
pr the treasurer of said county to keep
separate accounts of said funds so that
he condition of same may, at all times, |
be sh6l9, and they shall also keep a
Pook in which the number of bonds
fold shall be entered, and with them
the date, the amount paid for the same. |
nd when the interest shall fall due.
Sec. 4. That the disbursement of the |
Ea1d funds arising from the sale of the |
IDS aforesaid shall be under the dir
on of the Pasquotank Highway |
commission created by chapter one |
undred and twenty six of the Public !
avs of one thousand nine hundred |
no fifteen, or their successors in office. |
sec. 5. That Immediately upon the |
esue OF the said bonds they shall be
ertIled by the secretary of the Pas |
uotank Highway Commission to the |
oard OF county commissioners of Pas
uotank Cunty and in order to pay the |
lterest on said bonds as it may accrue /
tlu create sinking fund for the pay
enL or said bonds at maturity, the I
'aro OF county commissioners of Pas
uoIank County shall annually levy a I
Peclal tax of such amount as in their