Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — STATE TAX BOARD CONSENTS [ARTICLE]

STATE TAX BOARD CONSENTS

To Issuing Additional Road Bonds to Complete Roads in County. Taxpayers in the townships affected will no doubt be interested to know that the state board of tax commissioners has magnaminously consented to the Issuance of additional bonds to complete the following roads in' Jasper county: Kankakee township, Slight road, $2,000; Wheatfield township, Barlow road, $14,000; Jordan township, Gorman road, $800; Hitchings road, $4,000. Governor Goodrich’s “best legislature in 50 years’’ provided that i road contractors should be relieved of the contracts entered into when prices were lower —even though such contractors had never made any honest effort whatever to get busy and complete their contracts. It also provided—one of Governor Goodrich’s pet measures for the centralization of governJ.'uent —that no bonds could be issued for any public improvement without supplication, meek and humble, being made to the state board of tax commissioners sitting in upholstered revolving chairs in the state house at Indianapolis, and which application in each case is an added burden of expense to the municipality desiring to issue bonds. Of course, the fact that the aforesaid gentlemen at Indianapolis know nothing whatever .regarding the needs or necessity for the improvements desired to be made cuts no figure whatever. Their consent imust be secured before a bond can be issued.