The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-03-06

BOARD OF !CoMMIssIoNERs.-B |
met yesterday pursuant TO adjournment,
in regular session.
Present-Messrs. Ewing, Frew. Hand |
Ian, Myles, McColloch, Roth, Speidel,
Waddle, Witham ana Bayha.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The Committee on Poor House Farm
reported bills on account OF pJor house
amounting to s4ss.0s, and on account of
contingent poor bills amounting to
1884 IS. Ordered paid.
The report of the Joint Committee on
aplan to work county roads, sppropria-
ting s1l,70O for expenses in keeping such
roads in repair, was adopted.
The report Of the Committee on
Finance and Accounts, in relation to
claims for erroneous assessments, ETC.,
was adopted.
The Committee on Court House and
Jail reported In favor of awarding the
contract for furnishing coal for use ct
these buildings to 81. Bradley Wheat;
also that at their last visit to the Jail
thew had found the sanitary condition of
the same to be good, and recommended
the payment of bills amounting to 1882.
Adopted.
The county engineer reported that ne
cessary repairs on roads and bridges had
and hat tho N
good order for the time CT year. Adopted.
The agent of the poor house reported
that the expenditures OF that institution
for the month were 1858 As, and that
there were seventy-six inmates of the
poor house, IS follows: white males, So;
white females %; colored males L; under
one year of age, white males 2; white
females 8; under ten years of age, white
males l. Deaths, colored males l. Tran.
siert poor during month l53. Report
read and filed.
The Committee on Roads and bridges
reported the acceptance by various land
owners on the line of the Dixon run road
of damages to the amount of 5000, and
bills amounting to $2975, and recon-
mended their payment. Adopted.
BONDS APPROVED.
The bonds OF B. Stanley rs agent Of
poor house, in the sum of 81 900, with II.
Good and f. G. Crscrsft as sureties; of
Charles Exley, constable for Clay dis
trlct, IN the sum of $1,000, with w. J.
Johnston and George Crumbscker as
sureties, and of d. NJ. Thorn burg to Sc
cure Ohio county on duplicate order, in
the sum of $25, were approved.
Adjourned till 2 P. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Board resssembled at two o'clock, Mr..
Speidel absent.
A number OF petitions of various kinds
were taken up and referred to the proper
committees.
BOARD OF SURVEYORS ELECTED
For Triadelpha district-James Nc
Conn, +. NJ. Henderson, Samuel Buchan-
non, Brice Supler, Alfred Kimmins, ID.
Epple, James Smith.
Triadelphia district-Thomas Gard :
ner, A. j. Wilson, o. Welshaus, james
Sawtell, Russell Bane, Robert McLi-
gear, Joseph Morgan, Frederick W..
Lushel VIM. Mitchell, John Sohyer,
Jacob Bruner, VIM. Conley.
Liberty district-James Dixon, James
McCommon. John Patterson, VIM.
Rodger, &. S. Terrell, Jas. Wayt.
APPOINTMENTS.
Lee r. Ham was appointed con-
stable for Union district, and number
OF petitions of other applicants for the
constabuary in different districts were
referred.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That the clerk be authorized
to purchase four copies Of the Code of
Yves. Virginia and three copies OF the
acts of 1928, for the use of the justices
of the county.
Adopted.
Resolved, That the surveyor of Pre-.
cinct No. of Richsnd district be di.
rected to use such legal means as will
enforce the orders of this Board in rela-
ton to the proper drainage of the water
on the Lash farm.
Adopted.
Resolved, That the Constables of Ohio
county be, and are hereby, ordered 10
procure uniforms, one-half of the expen-
SOS to be paid by the county, and the
other half by the Constsbles, the style Of
uniform tc be decided by the Committee
on Court House and Jail.
Referred to Committee ON Court House
and Jail.
WHEREAS, At former meeting Of the
Board of Commissioners of Ohio county
an order upon the Sheriff was ordered 10
be drawn in favor of Erb and Mccormick
for the sum OF two dollars; and
WHEREAS, The said order was drawn
and is now lost or mislaid,
Resolved, That the clerk of the Board
of Commissioners be, and is hereby, au-
thorized to draw n duplicate of said order.