The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-09
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
December Term, 1874.
SECOND DAY,

SECOND DAY,
Tuesday, Dec. S.-Board met pursuan
to adjournment. Present all the member
Of theiBoard excepting Supervisor Mars
ton. Supervisor Grenell. chairman of the
Board, presiding. Minutes of yesterday
meeting read an approved.
Supervisor Todd moved that the com
mittee appointed at the last meeting o.
the Board, TO make repairs on Cour,
House and Supervisors Room be contin
ued. Carried. .
Bills Of miscellaneous character were
read and referred to proper committees.
p. l., Mitchell, President of the First
National Bank of Rock Island, by Ken
worthy 4 Beardsley, attorneys, presente
a petition yraying the Board to order tha
the amount of tax be abated to p. l.
Mitchell, c. Lynde and Phil Mitchell
stockholders Of said bank, on the taxes Of
1871 and 1872, heretofore paid by them
upon their payment of the amount due
by them upon the said stock for the yeal
1878.
Supervisor Wright moved that C. b
Knox, Coroner of Rock Island county, pay
into the county treasury $22.75 collected
by him from relatives of aman who die0
at the Bellows House. said sum of money
having been forwarded to said Knox after
the county had paid him his bill for ser.
vices as coroner in said case,
Supervisor Dart moved that the peti-
ton of p. L. Mitchell be received and re-
ferred to special committee of three.
Carried.
The chairman appointed as such COM
mttee Supervisors Dart. Kerr and Daley.
On motion of Supervisor Dart the petit
tion of Alvin Hull for an Abatement of
1886 was referred to the Committee on
Attachments.
Supervisor Daley moved that action in
the matter of granting license to John Mil
Ter, of Coal Valley, to sell beer be post
poned until clock P. NJ. Carried.
On motion of Supervisor Jacobs the
matter of approving the report of the spe-
cial committee on the decision of the terri
tory of Coal Valley was deferred until to-
morrow morning at 9 o'clock.
Supervisor Dart moved that the Board
adjourn until to morrow morning at 9 o.
clock. Motion lost.
Supervisor Parmenter moved that the
bill of the Rock Island Light Artillery,
for services rendered during the Blooming.
ton excursion be rejected, Carried.
On motion of Supervisor Morey the bill
of VIM. Boehme, amounting to So, for car
riage hire for the Bloomington excursion
lists, was referred to the Committee on
Claims,
The semi-annual reports of George d.
Gould, Circuit Clerk, John V. Cook,
County Clerk, and Wm Payne, Sheriff.
were referred to the Committee on Fl
nance.
Supervisor Dart, chairman of the special
on the application Of P.L, Mitch
ell for refund of bank tax, made verbal
report, which, on motion of Supervisor
Parmenter, was received and the committee
discharged.
Supervisor Dart then moved that the
prayer of the petition of L. H. Mitchell be
granted.
The yeas and nays being called resulted
as follows:
Ayes-Supervisor Silvis, Morey, Hun
toon, krell, Dart, Jacobs, Hanna and
Wray-S.
Nays Supervisors Feastcr, Daley,
Trent, Kerr, Todd, Parmenter, Smith and
There being tie vote, the Chairman
voted in the affirmative and the motion
was carried, and an order to refund the
amount prayed in petition upon payment
of tax of 1873 by p. L, Mitchell, g, Lynde
and Phil Mitchell) granted.
Supervisor Smith moved that Supervis-
or Slvis be excused, at his own request,
from further attendance as a member of
this board. Carried.
On motion of Supervisor Hanna, the re-
port of Samuel r. Porter, County Treas
urer, was referred to the Committee on FL
nance,
The matter Of granting license to John
Miller, of Coal Valley, to sell beer, was
again called up, and the yeas and nays be-
ing called resulted as follows:
Ayes-Supervisors Morey, Huntoon,
Krell, Dart, skerr, Jacobs, Wray, and
Wright-S.
Nays-Supervisors Feaster, Daley,
Trent. Todd, Parmenter, Smith and Han
ma.
Neutrality-suspicious. Campbell and
Marston,
Carried, and license granted for one
year,
Board adjourned until to- morrow morn
ing at o'clock.