The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-17
Comfy Commissioners.

The County Commissioners met OF
Tuesday aud Wednesday last. Present
Messers Armstrong, Crawford and Gerry.
The bonds of the newly appointed Col
lectors were approved, viz: First district,
Amos Wilson; Second, Edward III. Biddle;
Third, Samuel II. Miller; Fourth, Henry
Hess; Fifth, j. Scott Ferguson, Sixth,
William NJ. Tosh: Seventh, Joseph f. Rey,
nolds: Eighth, Richard Ii. Crothers; Ninth,
Geo. W. Oldham.
The bonds of John T. Rutter and Ben
iamin Il. Caldwell, Constables of the
Seventh district, were examined and ap.
proved.
William NJ. Tosh, Collector, was ordered
to release Job. Gatchel taxes for 1876 ON
$50, and return the same insolvent.
County tax, S2,32; State tax, 63 cents:
total, $j.95.
1t was ordered that the several Collectors
of Taxes be allowed six per cent, for Col
Letting the taxes, provided they complete
the same within one year from the time
of receiving their duplicates, viz, the
second Tuesday Of June, 1871; if not, five
per cent, as formerly.
The following accounts were examined
and passed: Final account of Is. b. Price,
Collector, First district, 1879, So, G1S,31;
do, dog taxes 1874, $3340l; do, insol-
vencies, $3.50; final account of DR.. w G..
karsrer, Collector Second district, 1874,
$40 90; do, 1915, 50, 7S2.4l; final account
of NJ. NJ. Naudain. Collector Third dist,
1874, SS1.94; do, 1915, $l1 .00S39; do. i'll
solvencies, 1875, $14,69; final account of
Joseph Steele. Collector Fourth district,
1874, 1894, 50; final account of NJ. T. Mes
bitt, Collector Sixth district. 1875, $3.50,
nol of 7 Inl
lector Eighth district, 1873, $500. 80; do.
iEsolvencies on dogs, $2l; account of Dr.
r. G. Mackall, Assessor 1924; occount of
f. G.Chandee, Assessor 1924: account of
William S. Kerr, Assessor, 1921: account
of DR. II. Ii. MITCHELL, paint, $10,1:3.
Messrs Daniel Bratton, r. L. Thomas
and Joseph 5. Wingate were appointed ex-
aminers on the Turkey Point road
George F. Harlan was authorized to re-
pair the road near his mill, for two years,
at so per year.
The following miscellaneous accounts
were examined and passed: George w.
Denny, Supervisor second district, so: p.
Litzenberg, painting. $12o5; John 7. Lee,
plank for bridge, $74 80; Hugh Wright.
Supervisors Seventh district, $50. 60; Jos
Harris, bridge, $3.50; S. J. England, for
bridge, S5,G7.
Charles t. Clark was appointed to attend
the draw bridge oveI Back Creek, at Ches-
apeake City, at Il salary of $50 a year.
1t was ordered that George w. Ford
straighten the road running through his
farm, in the Fifth district, and make the
same in good travelling condition, at his
own expense
James S. Nickle was authorized to pike
a piece Of road at West Nottingham, at a
cost to the county of $50. said Ncklc and
others to eXpeud a like amount; no charge
to be made for stone: bills to be rendered
to the County Commissioners; if less than
500, Commissioners to pay half; if more
than 800, county to pay only $50.
The report Of the Examiners in the mat
ter of the application for altering and
widening the public road leading from the
west end of the bridge over the Octoraro
creek, near Rowlandsvile, towards Ian
caster, between the same end of the bridge
and point short distance beyond the
rolling mills of the Mccullough Iron Com
pany, having been duly considered, it is
thereupon, this 18th day of June, in the
year 1876, by the County Commissioners of
Cecil county, ordered that the said report
and return of the Examiners be and the
same hereby is approved, provided the
Mccullough Iron Company pay the ex-
penses of widening the same.
The report of George Gillespie, James
Tosh and Barclay Reynolds, Commissioners
appointed on the petition of the McCul-
Tough Iron Company, for private road
from their rolling mill at Rowlandsville to
the Philadelphia & Baltimore Central rail
road, having been considered, it is there
upon ordered, by the County Commission
ers of Cecil county, this 14th day of June,
1876, that the said private road be granted
as petitioned for, and as located by the
County Commissioners, upon these terms:
That the said Mccullough Iron Company
shall cause a tlagman with 4 flag to be sta
toned at a point on the public road one
hundred and fifty yards westerly to the
place where said private road crosses the
public road, whenever and during all the
time that cars are crossing said public road
or the private road; and in case of failure
on the part of the Mccullough Iron Com
pany to comply with these terms, the said
private road shall be shut up.