GOIN' TO THE CORNER BY ViHmotmCommfmkm from ihs IMm- a ■?•?!£ %?***WU£J&WKU tooatod to w, dated th* Zl*t of OCTOBKH, 1*77, toprtv - tidierU* Act HUi Via Cop. l.tooooor- tola lb« d*ia*f» or odvoou** (hot moj oow*o 10 0* pftrUai throufbwboo* lood o -lfc» Of Boutfe iitUiidod to bo ROAD COMPENSATION ACT. mmum loading Well's mils, wttfci* Mo* Ipff folk . 00f»pliaoco with Um abort r-frrrntftfr-n niMDAY, UhtMf t o'cMLIa a* 2a XBSft lo? il IHoff on. Poojutiir iftfe, wti, The Summerside Journal, Dec. 20, 1877 A newspaper ad announcing particulars of the Road Compensation Act All roads on which public money was spent were declared public roads or highways. Any overseer who did not perform his du¬ ties was subject to a fine, not exceeding five dollars. We do not know who the road overseers were in the early days of our communities but in 1914 the road overseer in Elmsdale was Elmer Wallace , in 1925 it was E.W. Johnston , and in 1927 it was Frank McKenna . The Island Farmer April 6,1921 reported: An Order in Council has been passed prohibiting the operation of a motor vehicle during thepresent month of April. The order did not apply to streets and roads within the limits of Charlottetown or of other incorporated towns... In 1923 there were highway improvements made between Bloomfield and Elmsdale . The tender for the project were awarded to Maurice Fitzgerald of Lauretta. We are not certain when the practice of paying road tax was introduced, but a news¬ paper ad of April 27,1932 advertised: All persons in the province desiring to perform labour in lieu of their road tax shall make application in writing on the forms supplied to the tax collector of their respective school districts not later than the 1st day of May 1932. 32