The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-22
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.


SIXTH DAY-Sasurday, March 10.
The special committee, appointed at the
Decem Der term, 1869, to care for the insahe
paupers of this county, made the following
| report which was received and adopted
Your COMMITTEES report that there are the
following named persons who have been
pronounced incurable and who are paupers
| Of this county, VIZ Mrs. Caroline Fersalius,
Mrs. Orlando Walker, Peter McGinnis,
john Nenberg, Mary Powsrs, and Christina
johnson. Your committee further report
tina. there are other persons who are likely
to be thrown upon the county at any time
| the trustees for the Illinois State Hospital
! for the Insane paupers are now kept at the
Jail, poor house aud in private families at
the expense Of the county, as the county has
no suitable place or binding in which to
keep them. We therefore recommend tnA,
suitable building in which to keep saiu
, persons, be Immediately erected on .ne couh'
" poor farm. under ike direciion OF co"
mittee appointed by this noAru'
Respectfully submitted,
c. B. Knox,
WA A. HAROLD, Com.
JAS. NJ. BEARDsLEY,
The resolution Of Supervisor Johnston,
asking for an appropriation of five hundred
dollars to build q bridge in Port Byron
township, tabled on the 18th inst, is called
up by Supervisor Abbott. Supervisor Knox
moved its adoption. The yeas aud nays be
ing called, resulted as follows Yeas 5, nays
10. Those voting in the affirmative we're
Supervisors Abbott, Johnston, Harold,
Barnes aad Ballard. The negative were
Supervisors Allen Wainwright, Webster,
Knox, Coon, Wilson, Morris, Bruner. Moore
and Underwood. Absent, Supervisor Nice
wanger.
On motion it is ordered that the assess
! ment of personal property against Alfred
| Do1ee for 1869, IN Rock Island township,
be abated.
| The committee on roads and bridges
made the following report which was ad
opted: 3D..
| Your committee report that we have ex-
.mined the matter of ferry rates as now es-
esblished in this county, and recommend
that the rates of ferriAge be continued and
remain the same as the rates fixed by this
Board at its March term. 1869, for ell the
ferries in this county. except for the ferry
across the Mississippi river between Rock
island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, upon
which the rates of toll or ferriags shall be as
follows Foot passengers, cts instead OF
| 10 cts, as now established horse or mule
and rider, 20 eta instead of "a cts, az nov
established; wagon or buggy or other vehicle
draw by one horse, 40 cts same, drawn BY
lwo horses. so cts; for each additional ami
| nal, Is cts; cattle, five in number or less,
20 cts. cattle in droves, ell over, 5, 10 cts
sheep OF hogs, 10 or less, ) cts instead of !
It's sheep or hogs indrove all over 10, 3 cts
freight, per cwt., 6 cts and provided tina,
! aid ferry com psny shall be allowed TO charge
hfty per cent additional upon the above
rates from November Is, 1870, to April l,
1871.
| Respectfully submitted,
GEO. ALLEN,
| DAN'L NICEwANGER, Com.
o. q. P. MOORE.
Supervisor Knox reports that in Decem,
Der, 1866, BY order of The Board, he received
$22S So from the county treasury for the
benefit Of the poor; that up to date he has
expended for that purpose Sl20,10, leaving
ia his hands $l07.S5. Report adopted and
ordered placed on fIe.
Ordered that Carr. Bamblin Il Co. be
allowed the sum of ii 90 as per bill on file,
Ordered that the estate of +. Miller be
| allowed l.50.
ordered tnet area CQm DacA De a!ioWeu
% IS.
Bailey Davenport, by Osborne Curtis, his
attorneys, asked an abatement on read aud
bridge tax levied upon his real estate with
IN the city limits, in Black Hawk town
ship. Referred to the committee ON sbate
tneu,s, and on Recommendations of said com
nittee the county collector is directed to
receive all taxes except the road tax, and
report the delinquency of road tax TO the
county court at the proper time, with other
| delinquent lands and lots for adjudication.
Supervisor Moore offered the followin Z
resolution. which was referred to the special
| com mittee on Warsaw and Rockford rail
! road indebtedness, VIZ:
| ResoEced, That this Board instruct the
special committee on finance to see that the
jail tax be applied TO the payment OF the
jail bonds. and to no other purpose, until
| those bonds are paid
DRIED and canned fruit are sold By Bard
the Grocer, at extraordinary low prices, be.
.ides he has everything iu that line that
grows.