The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-23

bOarQ OF OOunLy commissioners
there were two resolutions adopt.
ed by the body. One of them
condemned the increase in the
tolls over the Overseas Highway
land other other requested Gov
ernor Fred p. Cone to APPOINT
only actual bona fide resident:
and qualified voters of Monroe
county as commissioners of The
Overseas Road and Toll Bridge
District.
Both of the resolutions are
published herewith:
LIE S o L U TON
| WHEREAS, it has been brought
to the attention of the Board OF
County Commissioners of Mon
roe County, Florida, that at q
meeting of Overseas Road and
Toll Bridge District held on the
18th day of August, AID, 1899
said Commissioners voted to in
crease the present toll rate
through said Overseas Road and
Toll Bridge District from the sum
of One Dollar ($1.00) per vehicle
and driver to the sum of One
Dollar and Seventy-Five Cents
| ($1.75) per vehicle and driver, eff
fective September l, 1889, and
|. WHEREAS, such action was de-
Tended upon the ground that the
present tolls arising from Over
seas Road and Toll Bridge Dis
trict were insufficient to meet
the financial requirements there
of, and
WHEREAS, this Board OF
County Commissioners is of the
opinion that the failure of Over
seas Road and Toll Bridge Dis
trict to derive a sufficient sum OF
money from tolls is occasioned by
the fact that the Overseas Road
and Toll Bridge District has been
inadequately advertised to the
general travelling public, and
WHEREAS, it is the opinion of
this Board of County Commits
sioners that the general travelling
public. and particularly the VIM
ter tourists, will regard such in
crease in toll as an unwarranted
burden upon the privilege of
visiting the City of Key West,
Florida, and that such increase
will prevent many thousands of
visitors from coming to the City
of Key West, Florida, during the
coming winter season, and
WHEREAS, 1t is the opinion of
this Board that the lessened traf-
fic through said Overseas Road
and Toll Bridge District as re-
suit of such increase in toll will
more than offset the proposed in
crease in toll and that said Over
seas Road and Toll Bridge Dis
trict will actually derive less rev.
enue through such increase in
toll, and
WHEREAS, this Board of County
Commissioners feels that an in
crease in toll of not over Twenty
Five percent ESQ of the exist
ing rate would not prove onerous
to the travelling public and that
the funds derived from such
Twenty-Five percent esq in
crease could very profitably be
spent in establishing an adequate
advertising program for said
Overseas Road and Toll Bridge
District, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMITS
SIONERS OF MONROE COUN-
TY, FLORIDA, in special session
duty assembled, that this Board
places itself upon record as being
strenuously opposed to any in
crease in toll for vehicular traffic
through Overseas Road and Toll
Bridge District in excess of
Twenty Five percent (25qo) of
the existing rate.
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the Clerk of this Board be
and he is herby instructed to
| furnish certified copies of this
Resolution forthwith to the Gov
ernor of the State of Florida, the
Overseas Road and Toll Bridge
District, the Public Works Adj
ministration and the local press.
Adopted by the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners at special
meeting held this 18th day of
August, AID, 1899.
r E S o L U T ON
WHEREAS, Overseas Road and
Toll Bridge District is a political
subdivision of the State of Flor
ida lying wholly within the con-
fines of Monroe County, Florida.
and ~
WHEREAS, it is the belief of
this Board that residents Of Mon
roe County, Florida, are more
closely in touch with and are bet
ter able to understand and cope
with the various local problems
confronting the Overseas Road
and Toll Bridge District than are
residents of other sections OF
Florida, and that therefore the
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