The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-03-12
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Proceedings Of the Board Of County
Commissioners
COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE,
Wichita Kansas. March 2 lSI4.


The board Of county commissioners met
pursuant to adjournment.
The following members were present. to
wit:
| J. g. York. W. g. Hobbs and J. r. Carpen-
ter.
! The recorded minutes Of last meeting were
! read and approved.
/ ing up complete inventory OF public proper
/ ty now in the han Is Of county and township
! officers and requested further time.
On motion. one month was allowed him to
I complete the record and make the required
report ordered at the last meeting township
third.
The report Of II. & Day and Geo. ii Sweet.
/ road viewers, appointed 10 view a road petit
/ toned for by William smith and others ac-
cording and BY plat and field notes Of survey
! or was then taken up.
The viewer after careful survey according
! TO law, report the route not practicable, for
| The following reasons, viz:
! Iii. Z" The distance being one and 0ne-half
miles farther then the old road now travel
I ed.
| ID The river is $50 feet wide against 125
I feet al the respective crossings of the new and
old road.
81. The amount 81 damage sustained by
land owners by reason of the opening OF the
new road. and recommend that the petition be
rejected.
1t was moved that the report of the viewers
be sustained and the petition be rejected
The motion carried
Petition for abatement of VIM A. Daily.
was not allowed.
The petition asking for vote on hedge
bounty. presented at the last meeting and laid
/ ov'r wa then taken up, and, upon motion,
the question as to whether the hedge bounty
law shall be in force in sedgwick county. or
not, was ordered to lie submitted at the spring
election next ensuing
on motion. the order of the board. passed
at 4 meeting OF the board Of county commits
| sioncrs. held February =, 1874, granting the
county medical and surgical attendance TO
Chas. L. Fisher. was rcconsidered and, on
motion, was recinded.
On motion. it was ordered that sealed bids
be received at the present meeting for the
medical and surgical attendance of county
paupers.
The following bids were filed:
DIR. II. Owens and DIR. c. c. Fnrley.
The board proceeded to open and inspect
the proposals
On motion, the bid of C. c. Furley was az
cepted. his bid being the lowest, VIZ:
Two hundi ed and thirty dollars per annum,
commencing Feb. lst, A y. 1874. and ending
Feb. lst, 1879, IN addition to which be was to
receive thirty cents per mile for all necessary
travel under this contract.
On motion. B. W. Cloud was appointed
township clerk Of Watson township.
oH hlOtlOu. >. :. IbOWTDau was appointed
township clerk Of Waco township.
The appointment OF W. +. LOOMS, +. Bar
ker and James Sackett as appraisers TO ap-
praise section 10, township %. range west,
school land, was confirmed.
Road petition OF c. V. Yoper and others,
presented at last meeting and laid over was
then taken up.
All the requirements OF the law having been
fulfilled the following parties were appointed
viewers. viz:
{. Pierson, F. d. Chase and Henry Wash.
burn.
To view road between section II and Il,
township 26, range west
On motion, an abatement of g.. 30 was al
lowed +. Brown, OF Kechi township, and Or
dered that county order be drawn i'm his IA
vor for that amount
+. Brown. county treasury .. So 20
On motion, an abatement of personal prop.
erty tax Of $3.50 was allowed to JAS X. Mead,
Of Gypsum township.
On motion, the county clerk was ordered TO
procure one blank book for the county sur.
vcyor.
II being IL O'Clock, the board adjourned one
hour for dinner,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
All present.
A petition was presented. sighed by fifteen
residents Of Watson township PRAYING for
change of the township name and asking that
1t be called Ransom. instead of Watson.
After some discussion. the petition was laid
over until next meeting in April
The following bills were allowed viz:
10 4