The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-09-22
READ THE TRUTH! II!
THOSE REMOVAL NUTS CRACKEDl

We despise publishing Court proceedings
in the newspapers of the day for political
effect, and our only excuse for inserting the
following is that the questions were publish
ed in tie Removal organs, and is no more
than just that the ansccrs should be pub
| lished also.
The Court relieved the officers to whom
these questions we're propounded of all blame
pronounced the answers full and sat
isfactory-whereupon James Potts immedi
ately left Ebensburg on foot, and was found
wandering somewhere near Wilmore and
taken charge of by his friends:
Lewis Pitt, C. B. Ellis, John ]. In theCommon
Murphy, John Gels, et- al, Pleas of Cam
mara, and James E. Neason. STU IN Equi-
Commissioners of Cambria
County, and William Linton, No. /, Jun
Treasurer. J Term, 1870.
To THE HONORABLE THE JUDGFs OF SAID c. URT:
The answer of John A Kennedy, Maurice
Mcnamara, and James E. NeasOn, Commits
| sioners of Cambria County, and VIM. Linton,
| Treasurer of said County, in response to an at
! tRchment awarded by your Honorable Court,
respectfully represents: That your respondents
hereby, upon their corporal oaIhs, purge them
selves of any contempt of said Court, in not
replying to the interrogatories propounded by
said complainants True 1t is that certain in
terrogatories were served upon your respond
ents, requiring an answer in fourteen days, but
as said interrogatories are accompanied by
what purported to be an amended bill without
the sanction or endorsement of this Honorable
Court thereto appended, and your respondents
being unaware that any such sanction or en-
dorsement had been obtained, believed and
we're instructed that they were not bound to
answer the same. Your respondents further
aver, upon their oaths aforesaid, that they have
been st all times. since the original bill
fled in the above case. ready and anxious 20
comply with every order of the Court in the
premises, and have so instructed their solicit
ors, and have faithfully endeavored to have a
hearing and have final disposition of the case
before the Court.
To the several interrogatories of the com
plainants your respondents do respectfully
make answer and say:
l. To the first interrogatory your respondents
answer and say: That the purchase OF the land
from Eliza Mcdonald was made on the Doth
of October, le69; that it was made at the date
of the written agreement, and that said pur-
chase was concurred in by full Board Of Com
missioners.
Z. To the second int erroga tory youF respond
ents answer and say: Said purchase was made
before any of the Bonds of Cambria county
had been issued. Eliza Mcdonald was paid
twenty nVe collars IN cash at the time she
agreement was signed, and on the 22d of April,
1870, County Bonds Nos. I6, II. IS, ~ and %,
each for the sum of FIVE hundred dollars, were
delivered to Gen. Joseph Mcdonald, Attorney
for Mrs. Eliza Mcdonald, for balance of pur-
chase money due on the purchase of said land
Eliza Mcdonald paying the amount overpaid
by the Bonds to the Treasurer in cash. The
Bonds delivered to Gen. Mcdonald were dated
22d April, 1870
5. 10 the third interroga tory your respond
ents er and say: The Bonds were delivered
to Gen. Joseph Mcdonald. Attorney for Eliza
Mcdonald, by your respondents, and were re-
ceived by her at par.
4. To the fourth interrogatory Your resrond
ents answer and say: Your respondents, nor
neither of them5 nor any other person to our
knowledge. had an interest in the purchase
from MIS-. Mcdonald of the ground in question
D. 10 the fifth interrogatory your respond
ents answer and cay: Your respondents en-
ployed Mr.. HaViland on about the first day
OF August, 1863, at compensation of Eve per
cent. On the contract price of the new Jail. and
to be paid in money
b. To the sixth interrogatory your respond !
ents answer and say: Your respondents were
advised by Mr.. Haviland, and on a careful ex-
animation their own Judgments coincded with
that OF the architect, that it would be much less
expensive TO erect the new Jail OIL its present
location than to construct it upon the ground
occupied by the old Jail. Your respondents
never contemplated the erection of new Court
House, but IN their action sought only to COM
ply with the acquisitions of the Grand Juries |
and Court in the erection of new Jail.
I. 1 o the seventh interrogatory your respond |
ents answer and say: That, to the best of your
respondents knowledge, it is about six hundred !
and seventy eight feet.
&. To the eighth interrogatory your respond |
ents answer and say: That neither the architect |
nor any other person, so far your respond |
ents know, has any interest in the purchase of |
the ground from Eliza Mcdonald, or in the |
erection of the new Jail.
y. To the ninth interrogatory your respond !
ents answer and say: Your respondents adver-
tised the Letting of the new Jail in all the |
newspapers OF the county. viz: in the Cambria |
freeman, Johnstown Democrat, Ebensburg |
Alieghanla, and JOhnstown Tribune; also in |
the Pittsburgh Post The notices.were adver- t
tised fonr weeks prior to the Letting. Ten |
bids IN all were received, and from the persons |
and IN the amounts following. to wit: Michael |
Brawley and Dennis Brawley & Co., ninety
hve thousand four hundred and eighty dollars;
Frederick Snyder and Philip Collins, eighty |
i've thousand seven hundred and sixty Eve |
dollars and three cents; j. King McLanahan, I
eighty FIVE thousand dollars Shoemaker 4 |
Co, eighty tour thousand FIVE hundred dollars;
) ames d. Marshall. eighty four thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars; Jas. Myers, seventy
nine thousand five hundred dollars; j. Rhule
seventy eight thousand six hundred and twenty
four dollars; William CaIan. seventy-three
thousand dollars William D. Robinson, sixty
seven thousand eight hundred dollars; and one
bid for the cast iron from VIM j. Anderson &
Co, eighteen thousand dollars. They were
all received as sealed proposals, and none were
opened until after the time for receiving bids
had passed.
10. To the tenth interrogatory your respond
ents answer and say: None of the bids were
opened, nor had we any knowledge of their
contents, until after the time for receiving bids
had passed. They were all opened at the sa me
time and in the presence of the architect, Mr..
Haviland.
IL, To the eleventh interrogatory your re-
spondt nts answer and say: full set of plans
we're for exhibition in the Commissioners Of
lice, and all parties notified of the same by
advertise meRt. There were about one dozen
OF copies of the specifications in the Office and
furnished to those desiring the same
~ To the twelfth interrogatory your re-
.pondcnts answer and say: The architect, Mr..
Haviland, did not furnish his estimate of the
cost OF the building until all the bids were
opened. His estimate was about seventy. five
thousand dollars. Of course your respondents