Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-01-22

other townships, numerously signed,
against the building ofa new Jail, while
10 petitions were presented i'm favor of
the project. The circumstances were
read and ordered to be filed. According
to instructions given at the March meet
I. s. Ford presented plans and
specifications for a new Jail, and csti-
mated the cost thereof at 1902 dollars.
Messrs. Mullineux, Lawson & Co. also
plans for a Jail, estimat-
ing the cost, according to their plan, at
1876 dollars. They also prepared plans
and estimates for repairing the Jail, ac-
cording to which the repairing would
cost l0404 dollars. After a careful ex-
animation of these plans and without
coming to a decision, the question of
building a new Jail or repairing the old
one was postponed to the 14th May,
1873.
A payment of 127 5O-1OO dollars was
ordered to be made to Ansel Lawless for
building a bridge according to contract,
across White Oak creek near Jonah
Robinson's, in Morgan Township. Con-
and guard fees amounting to
y VO-1OO btlllAS hClS allOh " III OlNICh
ed to be paid.
Bridge notices were ordered to be pub
lished as follows, to wit:
The job of completing the piers for a
bridge at Gardner's Ford, of RaccoOn
creek, to be let April %, 1873, said job
been abandoned by the con-
tractor, Lewis Dyasl.
The superstructure of a bridge across
Little RaccoOn creek, at Wrights' Ford,
Huntington Township, to be let April
18th, 1873.
The building of a bridge across a
ravine about one mile above Crown City.
The job of siding and roofing the
Swan creek bridge, in Ohio Township.
The job of bridging Big creek about
two miles above Crown CITY; the last
three to be sold on the 18th day of May,
1873.
ADJOURNED SESSION, MAYl IA, '73.
The Board resumed the consideration
of the Jail question and asked legal adj
vice how tn proceed, in case they should
determine to sell the old Jail and build
a new one. but received no definite in
formation in the matter, and again post
pOned its consideration until May DIST,
1873.
A cost bill from a Justice of the Peace,
amounting to s 75-l0 dollars, was al
lowed.
John l.. Armstrong was allowed thirty
dollars for repairing a bridge neal Frank
McDaniel's, in Greenfield Township.
According to the notices duly publish
ed, the bridge near Crown City vas let
to Ansel Lawless for PA dollars.
The bridge across Big creek was let to
VIM. H. Crawford for 297 dollars.
The job of siding and roofing the Swan
creek bridge was sold to Ansel Lawless
for $40 dollars. The fill for said bridge
was sold to A. LawleSs for 1872 dollars.
The job of completing the piers for the
Gardner Ford bridge across RaccoOn was
awarded to f. n. Ridgway, at the rate
of four dollars per perch.
And the building of a bridge across
Little RaccOon creek at Wright's Ford
was sold to Ansel Lawless for 446 dollars.
At the adjourned session, May q, 1873,
the Board again considered the Jail ques-
ton, and upon further examination,
found that before they could begin the
construction of a new Jail, or the repair
and alteration of the old one, the co, t of
either of which should exceed ten thou
sand dollars, they must first submit the
question to the voters of the county, and
thereupon the subject was postponed in
definitely.
The job of making a culvert near Jacob
C~oughenour's, in Cheshire Tp., was sold
to Ansel LawlesS at ? 12-l00 dollars per
perch.
JUNE SESSION, 1873.
A view and survey for Il road altera-
ton in Walnut Up, beginning near the
TOwn-hOuse, We're granted upon the APP
plication of Jacob Maddy and others.
ESCHEATED LANDS.
The County Auditor and Commission
ers having been authorized by a special
act of the Legislature, passed April %,
1873, to settle tie sale of 50 acres of es-
cheated land in Springfield TIP, which
had been sold February IL, 1860, to
Charles Topping, by the County Auditor,
agreed to settle for arrears on land, pro-
vided the said Topping would pay the
sum of seven hundred dollars, on oil be-
fore the first day of October next, which
he promised to do; otherwise the balance
due on said land should be collected by
law.
In the matter of the petition of A.
WoOten and Others, for the alteration of
a county road in Clay Tp., the viewers
having reported against the same, the
petition was dismissed at the cost of the
petitioners.
Bills were allowed on the County Fund
to the amount of 1915 65-l00 dollars.
Payments were made from the Bridge
Fund as follows:
To J. NJ. Kerr & Co, iron for bridge, SG.51
j. c. Graham, IS y'ds rock fill, 1919
COUNTY AND POOR LEVY.
A levy of one mill and six-tenths of a
mill 1.6m.) upon each dOllarOf the tax
able property of the county, vas made
for county expenses, and n levy of me
mill upon the dollar was made for poor
expenses.
The fill at the west end of the Ports
mouth bridge was let to Lewis SmeltZer
at IL cents Il cubic yard.
Payments were made from the Bridge
Fund to the following persons, to wit:
To &. f Johnson for piers of
bridge across Symmes creek. S155.42
To NJ. II. Gee for repairs to Du-
pre- Ford bridge.............. 1000
Al q special meeting, June 2Stni 1878,
it vas decided to give notice that bids
would be received to repair the bridge
across RaccOOn creek at Waterloo, on the
10Th day Of July, 17T3.
The following payments were ordered
to be made from the Bridge Fund, to wit:
TO Caswcll Martin for repairs to
bridge across Chickamauga,
near John A. Rodgers house. $500
To S. p. Wood for flooring the
bridgeat Fishers Ford of Little
RaccOOn creek.............. ... $500
TO George Siders for bridge across
a branch of Barren creek on
Porter and GallipoIis road. 94.75
To f. N. Ridgway, LIST payment
on abutments of Gardner Ford
bridge $780,. 10000
The following bridges have been re-
ceived and payments ordered therefor
since the June session, to wit:
July =, '73, To E. N. Ridgway for
completing abutments of Gard
ner Ford bridge-.....-.--..... $4,000
July s, To A. Lawless for bridge
across Pumpkin run..-.-.-.-. 125.O
July 26, To J. G. Henshaw for