The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-11

Meeting of the Board OF Supervisors OF
Ohio county Yesfertlny;--I Important
iProceedlngsI In Relation TO a Dispute
abouf BOunlics Alleged to have been
RrroneousIy Paid speeeh by sDr. J.
Ia! HGpp Naturalization OF the hoard
L 0fIS64and its OmeeFs-4 The 0ilieeF
sastained BY tthe Tetelslt 4 board: ~
The. Board of Supervisors for Ohio
County met yesterday forenoon at the
Court House for the transaction of their
regular monthly business. The report
of the COMMITTEES, appointed, on the 2lst
ult. to examine into and report what
bonnties, il. any, had been erroneously
paid toisold diers prior TO February eth,
1864, was taken up, read and discussed.
The COMMITTEES reported that eight men
had, In their Judgement been thus err
roneonsIy paid The motion being
upon tte'adop ptions OF tie report Or. 4. :,
G! Hupp, President of the Board, called
Capt. Wallace to the chair, and after
doing SO proceeded toad dress the Board
as follows; .,-gI-sls7, sF{ ss.4a.Ias
gf MR. CHAIRMAN > Iobiect to the adop-'
the pleasure of the Board to hear my
reasons therefore. The committee re-
port that eight fmen have been paid, the.
Ohio county bounty errone eously which
II deny. Now take it, this Board de-
siTes the facts In this matter To pre-.
sent the truth to You in as concise a
manner as possible, ts my purpose. I'm
doing sd in the first place; i .shalliask
the clerk 10. ne kind nough to turn to
the record of February 18th, 1851 ,'1 4
,14E'The Doctor here read the original or
der of the Board of 18th OF February,
1854, Rhich sets forth that Ohio county
Will pay a bounty 70 men enhsting,
mustered in and credited; TO Ohio coun-I
1854. IT,, S1-ss q ''ll ..a' I5liis llInsi79I
From this you see that February 9th,
1854, was the day from and amer " aich
the Board Of Supervisors authorized
the pay1nentof bounty to men muster
ed in and credited TO Ohio county TO I'LL
the quota then required y r7-,aAtt - =
In the matters ofifilIing quotas and
paying out botnties, the Board was at
that time inexperienced. Their duties
led them into, what to them, was new
and unexplored territory, where their
every step enconntered nnexpeeted in
tricacies and perplexities. To ascer-
tain the exact quota assigned to the
county, was to them, for some time
desideratnm. The, magnitude and in-
tricacy OF the work of paying out the
bounty money they didsuot5 ut the be-
ittcould be done in a few hours, and that
their President could do IL 1inat tded.
And as to IpltoW theshounty should be \
paid, WAS n question that inyol Yed the
unaided minds of the Board in may
labyrinth of specnlatiye conjecture,
from which they scarcely kneWt1oTV To
eS eStricatethemselyes. -l1iev - 80
But when they found themselyes in
an unavoidable pred dicameht OF doubt |
and nncertainty,lfhe fhelBnrd and Its ex-
ecntive officers, governed by that sedu-
lIDus care and caution which character
fzed their official acts In paying iout
bounty money under speFy call for /
troops. Invariably discontinued the pay
ment of bounty until eteyy .pestige of
doubt wins removed from their minds.
4 Now turn TO the records of March
END and 25th,, and off April 18th and
2Sth, 1854, and there Eead the acts OF the
Board in relation TO, the identiqal men
whose nanlss appear Ia that report as
having been paid fsTEOneously. "a
AZ sAIARoH "a 1854.
Ordered, that General JamesS.yR Wheat
the attorney for this Board, beiappotnf-
ed to examine theenFo ollments enIlst1ng
and mustering into the ssEvioe OF the
Uatted States of soldiers under the eal4
I'of The President of the United States
dated Fab. .A1st,, 1854, and report the
names of enlisted soldiers, who, In the