The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-02-21
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Fiscal Court Calls
Road Tax Election

On motion of Esq. @. b. Brown, IL
is ordered that the question of voting
a tax of the sum of Twenty (20l
cents on the One Hundred ($100.0O)
Dollars worth of all property subject
law to local taxation, under Section
157 a. of the Constitution, for the
improvement and construction of the
public roads and bridges of the coun-
ty, 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 taxes TO be collected and account
ed for by the Sheriff, at the same time
and in the same manner and by the
| same process, that he collects taxes,
and an election is hereby ordered to
be held throughout Ohio County, in
II the voting precincts therein, on the
Sth., day of March, 1919, upon the
proposition of whether or not n
on each One Hundred ($100.O0) Dol.
lars worth of property in Ohio Coun-
ty. shall be levied for five CD con-
secutive years next Immediately fol-
lowing said election, including tn,
year 1919, for the purpose of improv
ing and constructing, either or both,
the roads and bridges of the County.
Said election to be advertised, held
| and conducted in the manner and &C
cording to the several provisions and
requirements of the laws of the Com
monwealth of Kentucky, now in force
governing such elections and under
| the general election laws of the Com
| monwealth 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, or
dered and directed to advertise the
time and purpose of the election 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 pub
| lished in Ohio County, 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 advertise
said election by having a certified
copy Of this order published, as above
directed, and w. c. Blankenship,
Clerk of the Ohio County Court, is
ordered and directed to furnish said
Sheriff with a certified copy of this
order, as it appears upon the Order
Book, in time for said publication.
The said Sheriff and County Clerk
! are further ordered and directed to
| do and perform each and everything
required under the laws of the Com
monwealth of Kentucky, in advertis-
| ing and conducting such election and
in the preservation of the ballots and
the canvassing and certiiication of the
votes and said election is directed to
be held in all respects as required by
| law governing such elections.
| q 10 no 10
of this court, in the event said cleo
tiOn results in favor 'of the levy and
collection of such tax, as aforesaid,
the money thereby derived shall be so
used and apportioned, as that in each
Magisterial District of the county
there shall be used the sam derived,
as aforesaid, in such district, for i'm
proving and constructing either or
both, the roads and bridges therein,
from said tax. though this shall not
in any way restrict or impair the ex-
penditure of other lawful funds in
each respective Magisterial District,
for said purposes, just as funds are
now and have heretofore been used,
so far as such funds may be neces-
sary and available and in the manner
provided by law, and that more ada
quate and effective method OF work
ing the roads be put in operation
than is now in effect.
Ayes and nays being called for, re-
suited as follows: b. +. Rice, Yes;
w. c. Daugherty, Yes; G. w. Rowe.
! Yes; @. b. Brown, Yes; b. c..
IhOads, Yes; Sam l.. Stevens, Yes;
Ed shown, absent and w. S. Dean, alb
sent. Motion carried and so order
cd
MACK COOK. J. o. c. C.
state Of Kentucky)