, 1873-01-09
COUNTY AFFAIRS.
Consideration Of Bids for County
Supplies.
Report of tho Conlmlttco on Public
Records.


The Board Of County Commissioners nanon1-
bled yesterday afternoon, President Miller TN
tho chair. There wero prosent Commissioners
Ashton, Doguo, Cfoigl,. Crawford, Galloway,
Harris, 1IarriHon, uorting, Jouos LonorJan,
Ruseoll, Singer.
Tllo first bus'nosa to ho attended to was tho
further examination Of bids for furnishing sup
plica to tho county. Tho matter Of lruga and
medical supplies was taken up, and DR.. Ben.
Miller had to DO called upon to road OF the
nnnos and prices, as we'll as to atato tho amount
OF tho various items nocosaary to be purchased.
The familiarity displayed by tho Commissioners
with tho ontiro range Of druga wns something
surprising. They know all about every nrticlo
Its use and its orthography; in fact, thcy woro
as competent to paus upon drug bids ns thoy
would have boon to dotormiuo the accuracy OF O
6anscrlt yorsion Of Shakespeare.
Aftor ono bid had been read by DR.. Miller,
Commissioner Crawford s lrain began to rool
under tho terriio strain involved in Keeping
trnck Of hydrocyanie acid, bnlean copaibn, cnil-
tharidcB corato, ilnfd extract OF cannbus indica,
stilingin composite, hytro-jorum, ctc. Com
missioner Crawford weakened, md although ho
donanda that al tie bids should be read and
examined before tho full Doard, ho moved to
sugpond thy furthor roadng Of drug bids.
anxious to havo tie Ssrous | bids @ Acted % upon by
tho Board and not by Committees, seconded tho
motion, aud 1t prevailed unanimously. Tho
subject lad become q drug IN tho Board, and
they were MI glad to got rid Of it.
Commissioner C1ough kept tally for whilo but
Commissioner Crawford had had enough Of 1t,
and would aoonor SEQ the interests Of Cook
County suffor fow cents q pound than bother
~ 44.n3 H. Ii, =.
7 Tic remaining mombers Of tho Board road
newspapers, smoked cigars, talked about tho
strngoney Of tho weather, and tho money, tho
Importance Of vaccination, otc: Buffalo Mllor
played with his presiding 1unllot, only pricking
up Lis cars now and thon as "wet grocorios -"
woro mentioned.
General Niles, tho Clork, was proceeding to
road tho thrilling particulars with reference to
beans and bacon, whom Commissioner Crawford
rose and said TINT, inaamuch as tho Board was
now in possession Of the most important faots
concerning groceries (ono bid Lad boon read),
ho should moyo that the further rondiug Of bids
for groceries DO dispensed with. OF col1rao this
In tho bids for printing, tho Board was ontirc-
ly at homo. An exrroBeion Of Intelligent UNDER
standing was visible on tho faco Of every Com
missioner when the Clerk read tho following:
"Ditto oxtra Russia ends and bands GAO pages
pnrer full Government white No. 1896 small
sizo Estabrook's falcons swell handles red and
blue London letter clips choek npindlos md ch1l-
cellfr ruled and printed so centa per thousand
ems."
Commissioner Crawford understood 1t por-
foctly, and thereupon moved that tho further
reading Of printing bids bo diHpensed WITH and
that the Board DO split up into CommitteoB to
motion wasfadoptcd, and tho division into COM
mittoos was announced by the Chair aB follows: !:
On Characterization, Hcrting. Harrie, aud Ash-
o. Printing and stat:onery-noguc, Rupso1l, and
o. Drt.1s-clough, Galloway, Loncrgan, and Singer.
Afisccllaneous-CrawfordJ jones' and noele.
On motion of Commissioner Crawford, tho
Superintendent OF Public Charities WAS in
etrlictcd to TINT tile operation Of vaccination
be performed upon all potsons applying to tho
county for relief either at the Poor II oueo or at
tho County Agents Office, and that 10 rolicf bo
extended until tho perHonB have consented to be
yacclnatcd.
Commissioner Galloway submitted tho follow
ing resolution:
Resolrcd, Tint IN all towns III Cook County whore
tho relief required by tho Eoor c1cerda $50 per month";
bo to report iii ca-es entitled to nii from tic county,
d s sns ana reef
qnire sha tho ovcracer Of thb Poor OF the town bc
authorized 10 siyo orlcrs for supplies.
Tho resolution was adopted.
Tho Committee on Public Records reported
recommending the adoption Of the following
resolution:
Reso{cea, That all private indyidunls being tho
Of abstracts Of tito to lans iu Cook County DO,
aud they hereby requested to deposit tho sano In
tho office Of the Recorder Of Deeds cf Cook County
for tho Ienet of the public, taking the receipt OF tho
Recorder, ~ho shall keep them in tho vault.
2. In cast auch owcra ahAn decline 10 leave such
abstracts permanently with tho neeordcr, THY arc
te for copiea thereof to be taken by the Recorder.
8. The Recorder shnll make an index Of all such
abstracts, and shall preserve copy Of cvery abstract
hefore 1t shall bo delivered to the owner.
4. Tho Recorder ehall furngh copea Of abstracts 10
my person applying therefor charging such rates per
folio III allowed by aw for certified copies Of deeds,
but In shall tho original nbstract be open to
public inspection.
s. This resolution shall apply also to all certified
copies Of tho proceedings Of auy Court Affecting any
land In Cook County,
Tho report was concurrod in and tho resolu-
| ton adopted.
Tho Board adjourned until Monday noxt, ut
2p.m NJ.