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• • • • • • • • •••••• Ecads Will be Worked by Means of Taxation. MEANS BETTER PUBLIC ROADS. !■' r I *. i ^ The Board of Supenrisors Consists of Geraldn? Rice, W. M. Warren, A. F. May, W. J. May, W. H. Taylor and J. C. Watthews, Wlio ‘Will Have Control of H.oads, After Juno 1, For Two Years—Read the Bill Carefnlly, Below mil be found the load lov,' recently passed by the Ie,£cislatnre for this act elect one of their nuniber That if at any time the chaiunaii of the said Board, and one Mannings Township Road Supervia- ot their number Clerk, .who shall hold having the roads worked by office until June, 1910, or until their eonvict labor then the Mayor, of sucessors are elected, and then every Spring Hope and justices of peace of two years, thereafter, tliev shall elect ^^annings Township are hereby auth- a Chaiiman and a Clerk. At the orized and empowered in their discre- same time they c;hall elect one of their t5 sentence parties convicted in number or some other suitable person fl^eir respective courts wherein they as Treasurer, who shall be known as ^ave jurisdiction to work on the pub- Treasurer of Manninsrs Township roads of Mannings Township for Road Fund, who shr.ll hold omee nn- a period not over thirty (30) days, 111 his sueessor is elected and qauli- •'>"'5 ‘lie Supervisors of Mannings ties, and his successor shall be elected | Township shall order the cost paid in thereafter at the same time as the' case out of the Township Road Chairman and Clerk. That the Clerk Fund, but no convict under this act i may receive such sum as compensa- shall be required to wear stripes. j for services rendered as the! That it shall be unlawful Board may think right. The Trcas-|fo>' person to block or All up any i-er shall enter into a bond in the | Of waterway by the side Mannings‘t'ownsh'ip. The readers of thousand dollars, and also across any public road in Manning ~ _ AT _ _ _ :i._ * I- X* riwti rni*nino* TiTotoT* TV/"irM hi 1 '"'I ■ i 1 m ... 4 The Leader are advised to read tlie act carefully, and to preserve this copy of The Leader for fatnre reference. Kvery lax payer should bo interested in this law, and The Leader is glad tj be able to print it is full. An Act Entitled an Act To Improve the Public Rcada of Mannings ToTvnshlp, Nash County. The General Assemuly of Carolina do enact: Section L That in order to pro vide for the proper eimstruction, im provement, and mainlenance of the I’ublic .Roads of Mannings Township, ■County of Nash, the Board of County ('ommissioners of the said County, at take and subscribe an oath fuithfnilv, Town.ship, by turning water from hill to discharge and perform the duties side ditches into said roads, with nec essary arrangements to carry off said water, without injury to road, plow ing into, nr dumping trash rubbish, or underbrush into anv such ditches of his office Sec. 7. That tlic Clerk of said Board shall be required to keep an account of the business of said Board when in session or sessions, | or waterways. Any such person vio- niachinery, tei'^ms, tools, and all other j l*^t'ng this section shall be guilty of a property'bouffht or other\yise belon?- nlisdemeanor, and upon conviction North Township, and shall shall be’lined not more than $50 or issue his orders on tlie Mannings i“Pi'>soued not more than thirty (30) Township Treasurer for all accounts days, or sentenced to the roads under of whatever kind approved by the i of tl'i® act. Board and signed by the chairman, and said Cl'^rk shall keep on the stub of his "order bo issued what ii is for. and to 'vhom issued, and shail also its regular annual meeting, in June,.^ame u|)on his minutes. ■’909. and at each regular annnal That the.Mannings Town- meeting thereafter, is authorized, and I^oad Supervisors may elect Su it is made the duty of .said Board to pennfeiident of roads, wlio after re levy a lax upon all property subject iClerk for all .macnin- to taxation, under the State law’, in l^’’^’ other tools, wagons, carts. Mannings township, in said County, | etc., shall have charge and not less than ten (10) cents and I of hands, labor, teams, riot more than thirty (30) cents on, ^°o!s of every kind, machinery, etc., one hundred dollars worth of prop-1 '^®6d on the said roads, subject, how- srty, and not loss than- thirty (30) 'o the supen’ision of the Super- oents nor more than ninety (90) cents of said roads. That said Su perintendent shall give a bond in such sum as required by the Hoad Super visors. which bond w-ith the bond of the Treasurer shall be filed with the Register of Deeds and recorded in the Nash County Registiy, and said Register shall receive from the Man- jn tho pol! Sec. 2. That the Board of County ^Commissioners, of Nash County, is hereby directed and required annual ly to cause to be made out a full and laomplete list in accordance with sec tion 1 of this act, to be placed in a ' separate column on the regular tax books of the County of Nash for Mannings Tow^nship, to be tureed over to the Sheriff, of said county of Nash, for collection as required by nings Township Road Fund such sum as allowed by law in recording other bonds. The said Superintendent be fore entering, upon the duties of his office shall take and subscribe an !aw, and the Sheriff aforesaid, is re-|0^th before a magistrate of. said Huired to..collect said tax and account |"township, for the faithful discharge for the same under tlie same rules |0^ duties..as required by this act. and laws and penalties, as he is re- Sec. 13. That if the poll tax of section 1 of this act is not collected, then in that event all persons be tween the ages of 21 years and 43 years, not living in Spring Hope, and subject to work the roads under the State law, as it now exists, shall be required under an overseer appointed by the Mannings Township Road Su- penisors. as herein befoie mentinoed, to work on the public roads of Man nings Township, four days in each year, dating from June 1, 1900, pro vided any one so subject to the roads may quarterly pay to the Clerk of the Road Supervisors or to the overseer of the road, the sum of one dollar, shall be excused from working on roads., provided, however, that if poll tax is collected, then all persons re ferred to above shall be exempt from free working of public roads, from and after June 1. 1909, and any per son after having three- days’ notice in the same manner as hands are or dered to work public roads under the State law, and shall f.iil to do so, or pay the dollar, shall be punished ac cording to the State law for the same offense. Sec. 14. That said Mannings .Tow’u- are The Superintendent shall receive such Supervisors are hereby . jairei to collect and account for s'alaO’ n.ay be fixed by the Man-|““^^onzed and empowered that when- ■,.S;.ate and County taxes, and ho shall Township Road Supeni.sors. It 'f ' re,eive the same compon.atlon - ‘I'e further dutv of -S »-Su- 'oik m .,mmer and fall sea.sons That tw .V.; Sh6r.iT r,rul he PW ^ rdent ,t,* may^ or.^w such sui^s of money. . ‘shKll be li.a»ie iiVr the .«fV* 'i-i .sfijti’. jeeojil ea.-h ,t »_ e . ;• -•) ^'r wn. tar i/H-,jsiuv»6i: .tsou if hnbie unt f ‘ "■ '‘o^rnea.l of tlie.miab o • ••«««■ suau mjf ..’ff MRme, . ’m)-d vvtnfy .uui ^ t-fia sai'] j .'Sec. 3. That the Sheriff, aforesaid. rt5«?-nuni(;er' of fibure'Wbrk perfortnfnf account to the Treasurer of >‘®ch, aud. the amoutit paid each i4a.nnings Township Road Fund, t5 be elected by the Man- ™ngs- Township Road Supervisors, person, together with a list' of all tools, implements, carts, w-agons, ma- chmery, or other apparatus received Jifl'eafter appointed, in like manner j o’’ t'le disposition of same. But if .an' jie accounts to the ' Treasurer of Mannings Township Road Super N«,«h County, for State and County ■■xcs by him collected. ' ’ l?ec. 4. That the Treasurer of Man- aiiij'-s Township Road Fund shall re- '■w-'jU and hold said taxes, and give j!)-' receipt to the Sheriff, aforesaid, ;£u^ the same, and he is required to ke^. an account for his receipts and ilfe'jutsements, in a book kept for ..’■i.s puipose, which book shall at all t,iliies be kept open for the inspection fi ..the aforesaid Supervisors. ■' That 1 he said Treasurer may receive in .fifSipensation for said work, a com mission. of not more than three per cent (3 per cent.) on , the disburse- -. iicnts, to he fixed by the Manning T-vnship Road Supervisors, at the time of liis annual settlement with the Pnpen'isors, at their regular meeting in June of each year. Sec. 5. That Oeraldus Rice, John C. Matthews, W, M. Warren. A. F. May, W. H. Taylor, and W. J. May are hereby appointed supervisors of Public Hoads of Mannings Township, Nash county, and shall be known as the Mannings TJwnship Road Super visors, ad shall hold otlice as follows; The first two until the first Monday in December, 1010 ;the second two nntil the first Monday in December, 1912, and the third or last two until the first Monday in December, 1914, and each and all shall continus in office until the election and qualifica tion of his or their successrs. The successors of the tirst tw’o shall be elected as other township officers are elected at the regular election for State and County officers in 1910, and shall qualify on the first Monday of December next after the election, or in fifteen (1§\ days thereafter, and the others in the order mentioned above every two years thereafter. That the s^ld\.p£>«rd of Supervisors and their spcesfors in office shall before entering upon the duty of their office, take and subscribe an oath for their faith'ful ]ierformance of duty.. That all vacancies by death, resignation and other cause, except expiration of term, shall be filled by the Board for the unexpired term. Sec. 0. That the Mannihgs Town ship Ro&d Supervisors shall at., the first meeting after the i-atification of visors think best they may instead of electing a Superintendent have the roads worked by contract, letting out said road to ditferent parties, and may furnish to said parties or con tractors snc-h tools, carts, scrapes, etc., as they have, and may whenever they think proper require of said con tractors bond for the faithful per formance of their contracts, and when they have a general Superintendent they may work hired labor,or convict labor as they deem best. Sec. 9. That the Mannings Tov.'n- ship Hoad Supervisors are hereby, in vested with the full power and auth orized to purchase .such material, ap- parratus, implements, and machinery, such as shovels, picks, road scrapers, rollers, plows, and all other necessary material, tools, or machinery as in their discretion are to the advantage, and necessai-y for the work of the said roads, as well as to purchase such horses, mules, or other teams, and to employ such labor .as may be-neces sary to carry on said work, and to pay for the same out of the Mannings Township Road Fund. Sec. 10. That the Mannings Town ship Road Supervisoi-s be, .md are hereby authoiized and empowered to discontinue and crrfate new roads, to widen any of the public roads of Mannings Township, wherever and whenever in their opinion wider roads are the better for keeping up said roads, not exceeding twenty-four (24) feet nor less than t’,venty (20) feet, and when it can/be done an aqual amount shall be taken from each side of said road. They shall also have rifiht to enter upon adjacent lands not in eultivatiou at that time, and take therefrom gravel, dirt, or rock,j and timber and material, for the pur pose of working said roads, shade, grove, and fruit trees excepted. Any pei-sons so aggrieved may present their claims to the Manning Town ship Road Supervisors, and if they can not agree upon the damase done, then it may be left to two disiuter- ested p,arties and if they fail to agree they may call in the third man, and if either party dis.sents from the said decision they may take the legal pro cesses of law to settle the same. jlec; 1,5. no part of the tax collected under this act shall be spent on the street.s of any incorporated town, or otherwise efiiect them in their present manner of working their streets. Sec. 16. That this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification. Sec. 17. Thai all laws and clauses of law’ in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. More Than 10,000 Murdered in Ada&a. Adana, By CabW.—The estimates of from 20,000 to 25,000 Christians killed by Mohammadans in th« prov ince of Adana made a fortnight ago mnst be revised. It is now ascer tained that the number can hardly reach more than 10,000, possible less. Thousands who were supposed to have bc.?a killed in the country dis trict have since come into some one of the large towns- for relief. It re mains a fact that much brutality was suffered by v-t,men. Alabama E,at6 Case. 'Washington, Special..—Tlie Su preme Court of the United States Monday danied the applications for writs of certiorari in the injunction casts between the Al'ibama Railroad Commission .and the various railroads of that Stilt--’, involving the consti tutionality of the Alabama railroad rate Lt.v. T'le effect of the defisioii is against the bringins: of the cases to this court, as that was the purpose of the petition. Steel Wire to be Lcwered Washington, D. C., Sp3oial.—The lowering of duties in the case of eight or ten classes of wire goods con tained in the steel schedule upon mo tion of Scaa or A.ldrich. in '•harge of file tariff ’oil!, gave gieat enconrag- ment to Ssaators who are advocating a revision downward. With evident pratificaiiou f’enator Beveridge sreet- cd these pfiiipoped .-’.mendirerils by the chairman oi' t’.ie finance coi'jmittce by doclaring: • ‘-Vood, that’s making progrt:iS. ’ ’ The Ka-nsas legislature Intimates, Bays the Atlantic Constitutton. that ■blind tigers *'111 hereafter have to ao- sume names other ttan that ol "drug gtO're.” I rifE 'RU'RAL EDITO'R I The following in the National Printer-Joumalist is from a poem, written by Mr. J. Duuaars, and read before the mooting of the Ohio Edi torial Association at its sixth annual meeting in Dayton on .Tanuary 19, 1859, and republished by the Sprin'fieid, O., News. It contains thought* and hints of interest and value lo ail newspaper makers even i« the year Bi 1900: ' Once on a time—so run all tale prefaces-— (I make no mention here of dates or places,) I knew au Editor—’twas long ago. • • • • * Forth came his paper, neatly launched and freighted And when it came, the village was elated; Ignoi'ing parly, in a party sense, .^.voiding nil that might excite offense. It praised the town, its prospects, its advances, Its enterprise, resources aud fin.mces; It praised the schools, the teachei-s so profound, Until their fame was known for miles around; It prrisc'd the village parson’s eloquence. His modest bearing, lack of all pretence; But-mcst his Icr.niing aud his solid sense; So it fell out, between the spring and fall. That worthy, from the city had a call, With such an offer for his preach-ed w’ord, That he felt sure that call was from the Lord; It praised the doctors as uncommon skill’d, Adding with great suaviter and grace, Their treatment cured more people than it kill’d; It spoke—and of its trath some doubts will spring— Of honest lawyers—an uncommon case. In short, it praised so well, that people grew To think that praise waj> merited and due; It was bis fault, and grew from an excess Of aim to please and profit—nothing less: And had been to self but half a friend He was to others, he had met an end That you might safely aim at and commend. His influence was felt—the town’s fair fame, With all who read his paper, found a name; The city plcasnrists resorted there. Enjoyed its quiet and its healthy air; The artist came, and sketched suck charming scenes, That they were sought to grace the magazines; And thither, too, came men of enterprise— Bloiks rose on bl-ocks. and mills and factories, Hotels palatial, and stores that 'ried With those on Broadway, or along Cheapside, In brief, the town, that ere the printer caaae. Had scarce “a local habitation or a name,” As though ’twere touched by magic, grew to be An inland city. • • • • • ' A bunch of bad segars, tWat some one sends, Expecting thrice their valne in a ‘'local;” Unopened invitations frt/m his frieuds. Asking liis presence at a oonccrt vocal, Or at a lecture, party, hop or ball. At such a date (please mention) and such HaU; Novels and books not worth a decent rating. Sert out—they send few others but for cash— Bj’ castei’n firms, who take that way of bait! ig The ountry press to advertise their trash: In short, an hundred .things by men d^ised To (J’et their baiibies ,chc^i>pV)’^!’*^r’fi){'P ‘i‘: T)ii>r>,’pat:!'fit' toUert .nV-'.flwlpl ' •" TH' ;:|bf)rtd ' i.ef» 8fc‘' > 4“' Ore-.-, lijcn in p»rssn. Jinnin his larder; And still he toiled, from dawn to twilight gray, The tirst of men to court—the last to pay! Some said that he was rich—it might be tme, Provided that you reckoned what was due; But this his dearest friends both said and knew— His wants were many, but his dimes were few. ' His paper bills came in, which must be paid, Bo, to delinquents he appealed for aid; He would take pork, potatoes, corn or oats, Axe-helves or hoop poles, or, at worst, their notes, In short, take anything they had to pa)'. Provided it was brought by such a day. And thus he turned short comers, always pressed, A sad example of Pope's sagest saw, “Man never is, but a-1 way's to be hlessed,” The victim of a fate that knows no law. ! Beset by butcher, by his baker teased, By creditors beseiged, by bailiffs squeezed, He j’ielded slowly, in the desparate strife, His dingj' office and his troubled life, ■ And gave to quiyt earth and modest stones His many virtues Jind his aching bones. Some generous friends have built a cenotaph Of spotless marble o’er tho sleeper’s breast.' Oti which the passer reads this epitaph: “Here lies a man who died of too much trust 1” ’Tis a plain story, rather roughly told. Of one who trusted others and was “sold;” By hope allurtd, in turn by fear a.9sailed. ' He gave credit all he had, and failed. The moral you can draw, Tho Country Press Should seek for independence—nothing less. Ready to aid the good, sustain the wise. Direct and counsel proper enterprise. Revealing to the public naze the way Where toil may profit, and where skill will pay, Wlierc revenues are reaped and fortunes grown, But should be carefn! to preserve its own. The Country Presi.^! though limited its sphere Of influence, demands attention here. Where it is free, the people will be free; Where it is pure, the people will be pure. Where ^unep the light, there libe.rty shall be; Where it stands “firm, there freedom shall endure. In the great march of mind it leads the van. The guard of pubhc right, tho friend of man. Though humble to'lers, they are not the least W ho sow the seed anil garner for the feast; By little means fhe noblest ends are gained,. By S’Doll advances victories ettained. 0. humble toilers! ye who g\iide the press. Though slow the propress, sure will be success. Pf.Uieut in labor, strong in hope; in faith Outreaching time, and circumstances, and death, '3e yours the aim, by Heaven at tirst designed, '. r.''ise to higher range of thought the mind, 1 tilding amid tiie floods of selfish life, The storms of passion and the waves of strife, A fa;rer island in each hiiman soul. ' here Love shall dwell, and Virtue have control, An Eden blessed, and fairer than the oUl. By poets sung, by prophet lips forctr>ld. The hoirc of Tiin:5cence, Religion’s shi’ine, '\vbere God may reign, and Man become divine. ^ It'
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