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The Southern Herald
Liberty, Amite County, Mississippi
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A special committee reports to the New York State Assembly on improving roads, recommending central oversight in Albany, state aid sharing costs with counties and towns, reducing road officers, abolishing the pathmaster system, a wide-tire law by 1900, and using prison convicts for road materials. Each recommendation includes a bill.
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Summary of the Report Made to the New York State Assembly.
The special committee on good roads authorized by the last assembly reports as follows:
First—That there be at Albany a central head, which shall act in an advisory capacity and shall have the superintendence of all roads hereafter built, the prime idea being that the maximum of utility shall be reached with the minimum cost.
Second—That state aid to the amount of one-third shall be given, subject to certain conditions and restrictions, and that the initiative may be taken by three alternative methods—(a) upon the petition of a benefited district paying one-third, the county one-third, and the state one-third; (b) upon a petition of the town or by a resolution duly passed at any annual or special town meeting, in which event the town, county and state shall each pay one-third, and (c) upon a resolution of the board of supervisors petitioning for a county road, of which the county is to pay two-thirds and the state one-third.
Third—That the number of road officers be decreased, and that there be one commissioner of highways only in each town, who shall act in connection with the town board.
Fourth—That the present wretched "pathmaster" system shall be abolished, and the money system of taxation for highway purposes be used throughout the state.
Fifth—That there be a wide-tire law throughout the state, to take effect in the year 1900, and regulating the width of tire to the weight carried.
Sixth—That the convicts in the state prisons be utilized for the purpose of manufacturing the material for road beds at the prisons.
Each of these recommendations is accompanied by an appropriate bill.
THE UNIVERSAL NEED.
Wanted: a perfect country road whereon the noble steed
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recommendations accompanied by bills for implementation.
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Special committee on good roads reports to the assembly: central advisory head in Albany for road superintendence; state aid of one-third under various petition methods; one highway commissioner per town; abolish pathmaster system for money taxation; wide-tire law in 1900; use prison convicts for road materials.