The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-07
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

Present Messrs. Handlan president
CLARK, Ensllah, J, Fisher KlleveI, List
oeatqling, aheppatdI .scheltzI 1YhlI
ham.
The Committee on uours HSuse iainI
jail reported In regard, to, the. charge
against the Constable Of AWaahingtoI
District, the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Comnlitte on Cour
House and Jail are hereby gtthnftzed u
summon Mr.. DeabGugh and other partie
before them, and report at, next tieetini
Of the Board. ,,'.gs, .
Adopted. ,.GEat q
lB; 6hAnl6y Poor Agent, submitted I'M
following report for the mcnih Of March
Expendltufeg, kS2 70;p6 rec6lp Ium,
Der Of inmates, A.; white mAles, a; dC
females, 22; colored males, /; do Iemale1
.; Under year Of age-white males, /
do females, 2; over l and under 10 year
Of sse-white males I; do females, 1
colored males, !; do females, 0; no BIRTH
or deaths. Received and filed.
Committee on Printing reported bills
amounting to $64 90. Ordered paid.
Committee on Poor House and Farm
reported billsameuntipg to 1881 II. Or
dered paid. Irg
Committee on Court House and jail re.
ported bills amounting to $22S 40. Or
detedf paid. ! IFVs9 l7git9s, ma
The Committee on Finance and Ac-
counts recommended thst the Board re-
fund Robert Campbells taxes Tor 1873,
amounting to 50 81, and pay Sheriff
Brown interest due him amounting to
$251 2S. The report was received and
the recommendations adopted.
Bill for water rent for 1873, for Court
House and Jail, amounting to 5000, was
referred.
Bonds Of VIM. Gaston, surveyor OF
rosdsin district No. 4, Liberty township,
and oI Michael Edwards, Sealer Of
Weights and Measures, were received and
filed.
The resignation oi Noah Price, as Con:
stable. Of Washington District, was read
and accepted. s- 5'as. v. .a ~ .
Godfrey Price was elected to fill the
vacancy Occasioned by the resignation oI
Noah Price, and his bond was received
and approved.
Con mitteo on Roads and Bridges re-
ported isvorably upon an appropriation
for Meeting House Hill and Boggs' Hill
roads. Upon other petitions they asked
more time. In regard to the petition Of
Wharton on the Bethany Pike, toll was
taken of by order Of the committee, and
they reported the road In travelling condi.
ton; they also recommended the discon-
tinuance Of toll through the month Of
April. They recommended the payment
Of $50 10 II S. Thornburg, for bridge
across a ravine on Middle Wheeling Greek
road, according to contract.
MI. List offered the following, which
was adopted:
RsoIEed, That the Committee on
Roads and Bridges furnish an estimate Of
The necessary amounts required on the
roads, at meeting oil the
Board, viz Meeting House road, River
,oad, Fairmont pike, Bethany pike, and
Iuch other roads as they deem Import
ant.
On motion OF Mr.. English, the Super
OF the Bethany pike was order
ID 70 submit his receipts and expendi.
lures to the Committee on Roads and
Bridges for examination.
The Committee on Roads and Bridges
reported that they had selected o site
Tor bridge across Whet ling Creek, ct or
near Chambers store, and recommended
that said bridge be built above Chambers
store on the natural dam" below the
junction Of Middle and Big Wheeling
Greeks, as the cheapest and safest location.
A resolution authorizing the President
TO employ VIC. Smith, or some other good
engineer, to draw q plan and furnish esti.
mates for the stone work Of a bridge over
Wheeling Greek, and when said plan Il
advertise for proposals to fur
nish iron or wood superstructure for
same, was adopted.
Application Of Hugh Harrison Tor sp-
pointment as constable Of Madison town
ship was received, and on motion Mr..
Harrison was appointed to the Office, and
his bond for same approved.
A communication was received from
Thomas McC Cormick, Justice OF the Peace,
ltating that there wete two .constables ID
his district, both OF whom were working
men, and as they had declined 10 sarVe,
be was left with no one to attend to the
necessary business,
On motion Of Mr. Schultz, the offices Of
he two constables Of Centre District were
declared vacant, on account Of these
1facers neglecttng to attend TO their
1uty. ltga Gtll!. II
Thomas B. Rose was elected constable
of Centre District, and bis bond for same
received, approved and filed.
Petition OF citizens in regard to county
road leading from Robinson's saw mill to
HaneytoWn was read and referred to
Committee on Roads and Bridges.
Counter petition to above was referred
10 same committee.
D. NJ. Maxwell was elected to serve as
Road Surveyor In Richie District,
The Board OF Equalization were order
ed to meet as early as possible in order
to examine and report upon the books Of
the county. V.gr -E..l g..s
Mr.. Whitman submitted specifications
the building Of county roads,
which were accepted as the basis Of ali
contracts made by the Board.
A communication was received from
Justice Clohsn, Of Webster District, ask
ing that the Office Of Constable In his
District be declared vacant, and J.. @.
Bellville appointed to fill the same! Pc
tition granted.
Petition Of members OF the bar and
officers Of the county court, for page for
court, was granted and the salary o. said
page was fixed at 81 per diem.
Bills oI Drs. Cracraft and Storer were
referred 10 the Committee on Poor.
Aresolution authorizing the payment
Of $5 for the frSt year, and g for every
year thereafter, to any one placing
trough containing running water upon
county roads, accessible TO animals either
loose or In harness, was adopted.
Mr., Whitman received the thanks Of
the Board for amap of,the county, pre-.
pared and presented By him.