Michigan State Farmers' Institutes Volume 18 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...report to the board of supervisors at its October session showing the particular roads or parts of roads they propose to improve and just how much money they propose to expend on each road or part of road. If the board of supervisors approves the action of the commissioners, it may then vote the tax levy asked for. If not, it may reject it in whole or in part. The tax levy, however, cannot exceed fifty cents on each thou sand dollars of valuation in counties assessed for more than one hundred millions; one dollar on the thousand dollars of valuation in coun'tie's assessed at between fifty and one hundred millions; two dollars on the thousand dollars of valuation in counties assessed at between twenty and fifty millions and three dollars on the thousand dollars of valuation in counties assessed at less than twenty millions, as shown by the tax rolls of the last preceding year. Up to date, March 1, 1912, thirty seven of the eighty-four counties Fig. 24.--A State Reward trap rock road in Dickinson County. of Michigan had adopted the county system and thirty have actually got to working under it. At the October and January sessions of the hoards of supervisors, it was voted to submit the question of adopting the county system in thirteen more counties. The In'ople will vote on the question at the April election of this year. BENEFITS OF THE COUNTY ROAD SYSTEM. In summing up this question, it occurs to the writer that there are seven good reasons for working under the comity road system, any one of which is weighty enough to warrant its adoption. Of the thirteen counties voting on the county road system at the April election, nine elected to adopt the plan. (1) It is an equitable plan, spreading the cost of constructing main roads over all the taxable property i...