The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-21
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MONDAY, October 20.

MONDAY, October x
The Board met pursuant to adloGrp'
ment.
Present--Clark. English, Fisher
Kleives, OesterliDg. Sheppard, Schultz
Witham and President Handlan.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read, approved and signed.
The Committee on Finance reported
bills to the amount of SS5. Is and offered
the customary resolution for payment,
which was adopted.
The Committee on Printing and Sta
tionary reported bills to the amount Of
$52.O7 and the resolution for payment
was adopted.
The Committee on Court House and
Jail reported in fovor OF paying bills to
the amount of $3.50; they also re-
ouested G. w. Kennedy to take charge
of the Court House as janitor, at a SAL
airy of $50 per month, until further mo-
tice or a change is made, and that the
janitor have notices painted and put on
Court House fence, forbidding the post
ing of bills, all of which was adopted.
The petition Of Alex Wallace, lookup
keeper, for new vault, was granted.
The following was reported by the
Finance .eommitte and laid over for
examination: =
Resolvsd, That the clerk notify the
Judges of Courts that the Board will
hereafter refuse to pay stenographers.
The following was adopted:
Resolved, That the clerk issue an
order for 1920 salary due late clerk Tor
quarter ending October LIST.
Petition OF Isaac Morrison to be re-
funded 500. 50, paid by him was refer
red 10 the committee on Court House
and Jail.
Bills for election, held on Thursday,
October 10th, from the different voting
districts in the county, we're ordered
paid at the rate OF So per diem. :.
Bill of VIM. Clohsn, OF Webster dis
trict, $3.50 was ordered paid.
Bond of VIM. E. Freeze, as consta-
BILE OF Webster district, was accepted,
The clerk read 4 statement Of the
amount expended for roads and bridges
for the present year showing mat
Sc, 465. IS had been expended from that
fund to date.
Petition OF J. II. Cox asking that
Byers T. Yates, Justice ofthe Peace TOR
Liberty district, for charging illegal
fees, wss read and referred to the Pro-
scouting Attorney.
The Committee on Roads and Bridges
reported in favor Of paying bills to the
amount Of $3.50, and in favor OF sp-
pointing L. P. Sisson road surveyor,
with authority to call out two days
labor, on the road running from Roney's
Point past Sisson's house 10 Liberty
district line. The report was adopted.
Messrs. Short, Thorn burg and M. N.
Dunlap presented bills for work done
on roads. Mr.. Dunlap was ordered to
come in and sign his contract. The
other bills were ordered paid if the
bonds were signed.
Aaron Kelly, Superintendent OF the
first section of the Wheeling ano
Bethany pike reported that he hac
paid out $3.50 for repairs on his por-
ton of the road, and that it will cos
81 ,140 to place it in complete repair
He also asked an appropriation o
81, 300 for his section OF the road fol
the current year.
Mr.. Whitman from Committee OF
Roads offered the following:
Rssolued, That the appropriation
asked for by Mr.. Kelley in his repor
be granted, be giving vouchers for pas
and present expenditures, provided Gin
ton hill road be included in the amour
hereby appropriated to be expended
One.half the amount appropriated to b
paid for out of the levy OF 1873 and TIT
other half out of the levy of 1874.
The yeas and nays being called, al
the commissioners except DR.. English
voted for the resolution.
On motion the Board adjourned.
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