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get down to a system of public road building that will be for the 

 good of all the people. I like the bill that was presented, I think, in 

 1901, to lay a tax of one mill upon all personal property and set 

 aside a public road fund that would amount to millions of dollars 

 a year and so placed that it could not be used for any other pur- 

 pose. It was said in the past that if you wanted road legislation, 

 if you had a political pull, you might get it; if not, you would not 

 get it, but to-day we are getting State aid, although ten years ago 

 we were told we could not get it at all. We have got it, and we are 

 going to have aid from the general government. It is coming just 

 as surely as the sun shines, and we are entitled to it, and if the farm- 

 ers of this country who use the public roads and to whom the 

 • public roads belong — at least the people in the towns and cities 

 have said so — now they are coming to believe that they are part 

 owners of the public roads. The general government is going to 

 give us substantial aid, and I tell you, fellow-farmers, we only 

 need to keep fighting on this line, and we will get the best road 

 system yet that there is in the United States, though we may 

 be the last to get it. 



MR. HERR: I suppose we all have our ideas about the value of 

 good roads and how to make them; but until w'e have some mode of 

 action brought before us, I think it is perhaps a waste of time for 

 each individual to give his particular opinion as to how the roads 

 should be made. I think it would be wise to defer the further dis- 

 cussion of the question until we hear from the Legislative Commit- 

 tee so that our work will take some definite shape; therefore, I 

 move the discontinuance of this question, until we hear the report of 

 the Legislative Committee. 



SECRETARY CRITCHFIELD: I second the motion. 



The question being on the motion, it was agreed to. 



MR. HERR: I think that the Memorial Committee have their re- 

 port ready. 



The report of the Memorial Committee was presented and read 

 by Mr. McClellan, the Chairman, as follows: 



Whereas, We have learned with regret of the death, on Jan. 22, 

 1905, of Geo. G. Henry, Esq., ex-member of this Board, from Clarion 

 county; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That we remember with pleasure the associations with 

 Mr. Henry in the meetings of the Board and recognize the valuable 

 services rendered by him in the management of Farmers' Institutes 

 in his county; 



Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Henry the State has lost one 

 of its best citizens, the agriculturists an upright, fearless champion 

 of their cause, and this Board one of its strongest friends; 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the 

 family of the deceased, and that they be spread upon the minutes 

 of this Board. 



S. X. McCLELLAN, 

 J. A. HERR, 

 C. B. HEGE. 



