The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1870-01-24

psper Of Dec. -, 1869, headed !" ne
Doctors VS.. the Supervisors" dated
Weston, Dec, l5.r You declined to
give III. hi. name, OF. siy' my article a
place in your paper OF last week, but you
addressed Vic the following note;
DEMocnAr OFFICE,
~ Weston, jan. 10, 1870.
WI. a. Warsos, EsQ,-Dear Sir
The author OF Of the article Aligned
IN sdieus," Of which you have demanded
the authorship, is L. 3. Camden, Of
Weston. Respectfully,
GEo. CuzAp, Editor Democrat.
I presume you meant Dr.. I. b: Cam
den, us there is no other man in Weston
Of that name. If he Is the man, his
nerves have failed him very, much slucc
he wrote an anonymous communication to
The pgnccRar Of Nov. - 1869, signed
By Drs. Roach, Garden, Edniston, W.
j. Blaud, N. Is. Bland, Christian, Hall,
Musser, Jodon and McWhorter, Now,
why ! say. his uerves have failcd him, is,
that he did not sign his true name TO his
article. | understand, too, that this
same man wrote the article in your issue
of Nov %, 1860, signed j, himself, car
ricd it around and got tho other doctors
to sign their names 10 bis grcnt WORK and
then tried to put it off upon the pablo as
tho proceedings of meeting that should
have been hsld in Weston, but failed to
give the time aud place of,he things
birth. | lad heard that tue thing was
being horned" a month or SO before it
came TO the public; but person would
not have thought that the thing would
have 10 60 all over the country before it
came to lig..
That article dill FAY that The acts of'he
Board of Supervisors were "unWarrsnta-
bic by law, and gross assumption Of
power )" which ! take as equivalent to
saying that tho Sur.rti,ors were all fools
or oil corrupt. a fool can deny what
will task tho mightie.t intellect to prove.
In my. article in your paper Of Dsc. 9TH |
tired TO prove to these great men that we
had the low for our acts, and | called on
them tdsiio~ the Law for their prctrn-
sions. They failod to do SO. but 7. B.
Camden came ont in his anonymous let
ter, signing himself "sledicus' in place
CT his right name, ind did not answer any
point male.
Now, for The tened, Of tie taxpayers
Of Levi, County. / will make brief
statement Of this whole matter: When
the Board Of Supervisors Of 1863 came
into Office, tho paupcrs d the County had
been sold out to the lowest bidder by the
previous Board. to DO KEPT until April
30. 1860. On the 1.t Of April, 1860,
the Overseers Of tie Poor cea,cd to be
Board, aud the duties heretofore dcvoly-
ing upon them fell upon thu Supervisors
On tile 50th of April the Supervisor met
and hired different pcrsous to iako care Of
all the paupers Who we're then County
charso~7to be kept, clothed, fed aud doc.
tored.-the person having charge Of the
panpcr to pay all doctor bills. &C.. for
one year from that date, with the under.
standing TIM: II The parties who bad the
paupcrs in charge did not do their duty
by them, the Overseer of the Poor Of tue
township in which thoy lived should hsys
what he thought. was needed BY them. to
be furnished at the cont Of the County
and it became the duty Of the ,OYersecr to
report tho same 10 the Board Of Suncrvi-
sors, who. at their lazy meeting, would
deduct from alc price sgrecd to be paid
all such expenses.
Tic doctors know these are facts; for
some Of them we're before tile Board and
tried to keep them FROM making such All
arrangement, and tried to have It changed
so that they could doctor tho panpers
without having auJthmg TO d, with the
men who had them in charge. / will
not mention names unlcs, It's statement
i denied. So you see That tile County
hos 30 paurcts to doctor except those WHO
arc waited upon at the exrcns. Of The
expense Of tho men who have lhe,u in
charge. n
The Board Cfsuperviisors met on The
first Wednesday in Aurust 10 l,v IN.
County ley and receive and allow claim.
against the County. Among III. ,nuhy
claims presented were several largo doc
tor.bil some Of which NE allowed IN
full and 10 Other cases allowing only what
We thought was right, to III. best Of our
weak judgment. Some Of thu doctors
gave US a great dsa1cf trouble INJECTING
their bills right, so we Fixed .hs,s a We :
thought just and proper. Still thcJ we're
dissatisfied SO, tbsasc the samo troGbls
at = tho next Ivy meeting, We pissed the
following ordnance, in which we SO
sinned nsaiustthe doctors thut' W. cannot
get forgiveness therefor. neither BY
puking nor purging:
"BE IT ORbAlsIb, That hereafter This
Board will allow no cl.iinNfor services OF
Assistance rendered to lie poor Of this
County, unless The same las been given
Upon the order Of The Oycrster Of the
Poor of the proper township, and then
not Until The claim has been presented in
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