Ontario Sessional Papers, 1904, . ablyexpected to confer upon all other muni-cipalities in the district. The following are instances of dilti-eulties of equalization, which the com-missioners were required to take into liberal consciousness of favors alreadyreceived, gave handsome majorities infavor of the scheme. In two countydistricts local municipalities had a fewyears previously purchased from theCiovernment some 15 miles of macadamroads, which they had since kept in re-pair, in these cases it was consideredreasonable, and provision was made inthe scheme to allow compensation^ $6,
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1904, . ablyexpected to confer upon all other muni-cipalities in the district. The following are instances of dilti-eulties of equalization, which the com-missioners were required to take into liberal consciousness of favors alreadyreceived, gave handsome majorities infavor of the scheme. In two countydistricts local municipalities had a fewyears previously purchased from theCiovernment some 15 miles of macadamroads, which they had since kept in re-pair, in these cases it was consideredreasonable, and provision was made inthe scheme to allow compensation^ $6,500 being appropriated for this pur-pose) to these municipalities when in-viting them to contribute their furtherquota to the general scheme. Many and varied were the objectionsto the scheme, which seemed seriousenough at the time, but which, viewedin the light of after experience, lostmuch of their weight. For instance,from the noticeably large increase in thepublic travel on the Went worth roads. Co Lcn ^u roci ds sAo,/^y dotted, Zz^£,. \Ventworth Countv Roads. account, when endeavoring to allot toeach of the several local municipalitiesits fair pro})ortion of improved roadmileage and expense: Of the 38 miles ofexisting county roads, 27 were situatein the North Riding; two townships,also in the North Ridiu^-, had unques-tionably received the almost exclusivebenefit of at least $25,000 out of recently expended on countyroads. In one township in the NorthRiding, the leading roads, including oneroad, running its whole length of 14miles from north to south, were at thistime already county roads. It was amoral impossibility that municipalities,situate like the above, should in theproposed distribution receive their fullequivalent of county favors. It, there-tore, redounds greatly to tlieir creditthat when the vote was taken the rate-poyers of these munioipalities with a shortly after they were taken over bythe county, it is fair to assimie that alarge and increasing
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