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Show HAVE 0000 ROADS IN GEORGIA l.eoe Ml lea ef Tbeas Belli la Tea Tears Largely by Ceavlet Lawee. In Improving Its highways the state of Georgia eow leads the rest of the South. Nearly 1.000 miles of graded roadB have keen built In the state In the laat ten years and under a law passed In ISM the various counties now raise 1100,000 annually for road making and mending. The stste now permits the employment employ-ment of chalu ganga of misdemeanor, convlcta on road making aa a relief to hired free lan-r. Tbe convicts are quartered in movable camps and during dur-ing the winter In county barracks, which hsve all the conveniences of well regulated prison. The only persons In the state who object to thle method of Improving the highways are the convicts and the opinion does not count |