The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-05
noARp OF consIssloNERs.
Tho Regular nonthlyneetlng Yesterda


The Bourd Of Commissioners met yester-
DAY morning. in regular session, all the
members being present.
The minutes OF the previous meeting
were read, approved and signed:
COMMITTEE REpoETS
The following committees submitted
their reports:
Finano and Accounts. n Recommendations
were made as follows: that the Wheeling
Wagon and Carriage Company be relund'
cd on $3.50, valuation for tho year 1871,
In Union district; that the claim OF james
McCiill, OF Triadelphia district, be rejected I;
that the statement OF the Bank Of Wheel:
ing on the 4 per cent loan, and return oil
ia coupons, inst isshe P. W. < Ky. Rail-
road bonds, be accepted, and the same be
nassed 10 the credit OF OF said Bank on nc:
count OF said loan, also that the payment OF
coupons and bonds OF I'd issue be paid on or
about Nav /, 1870, as suggested By said
Rank; that Lewis MetEger be assessed
with 500. and VIM. Meminger, trustee for
Erncs,ine Cline, with $500, on realty in
Washington district assessed TO Lewis
MetzCer; that bills aggregating SsSl ~ be
maid: that the Clerk be instructed 10 eS-
anime the original purchase Of Ohio
county law books, and II any OF the books
renorted lost were lost when the library
was removed to the Court House TO report
them 10 the Committee, with the cost OF
such books, so that the claim may be set.
tied; that the settlement with the Sheriff
md examination of accounts be referred
for n special meeting, Nov. Z. The report
! l.,,nI Hl'H
Poor Home and Frm.-Rccommended
the payment of bills aggrcgating 1923 %,
which were ordered paid.
Poor Agents report: Number Of in
mates 80, white males "A, do females y,
C0lored males ., do females !; deaths,
JohnArmstrong, George Miller and Thos.
W. Allen, white. Report filed.
Court House and jail. Recommended the
payment OF bills aggrcgating SI6@o. So
ordered.
PritilS.-This committee, having care
fully examined the land records and other
county books in the Recorder svault, found
them generally in bad repair. The com.
mittee recommended that the contract Of
reminding the books be awarded TO Lewis
Baker & Co, of the Regider Printing Com
pany. Also that bills for printing, aggre'
eating 81 80, be paid.
Roads aud B1ayEs.-Submitted recon-.
mendations US follows: that the route oi
the CastlOnan's Run Road, from the Rice
and Weiderman road 10 the Brooke county
line. be established as county rond; that
tho Davis and StOolirc route be establish
ed as q county road; that John lIcCrum
be notified TO keep the riprap wall at Nc
Crum's bridge, on the LIST Dty. ": W. L. 4
B. Turnpike, in repair in the future, or /!
will be done by the county; that bills az;
gregating S96i 0Sbo paid; that bills OF road
SURVEYORS, aeGregating S66S "a, be paid.
The report was adopted and the bills or
dered paid.
COUNTY ENGINEERS nEroEr.
w Smith, county Engineer, reported
that all the county work contracted for at
the general lettings last spring has been
completed, and in all cases within the
amounts appropriated.
OF the work put under contract at inter
vals during the summer, the most import
ant, that of repairing the bridge at the
mouth OF Short Creek, is reported as i'm:
ished, and the bridge in use, but final
inspection and estimate are yet TO be made.
The light grading on the first mile Of the
Valley Grove and Middle Wheeling road,
south OF Valley Grove, was let to Thomas
Curran & Co. in September last, by order
OF the Road and Bridge Committee, and
will he completed by the Goth inst. The
expense viii not exceed slI5, and is paya-
BILE from the appropriations made to that
road. :,
Some repairs on Glenn's Run Road,
nude necessary by recent floods, were I'M
dertaken last month without the requisite
appropriation, as the unsafe condition OF
the road did not admit delay. respect
fully ask that the amount needed, $50, be
appropriated out Of any funds availabletor
that purpose.
The wooden truss bridge over McCutch-
ems Hollow, on the W. W. & R. ?. Road,
.NAsEoandt to he in need Of immediate and
rather extensive repairs, which were or
dered and will be executed in the course
OF next week. The unexpended potion
OF the appropriation for this road will more
than cover the cost, which will not exceed
500.
A short distance, somewhat less than
one-half milk, of the Rice WiedermRn Road,
let to W. N. Dunlap by direction OF the
Road and Bridge Committee, is nearly
completed. The cost OF this work, about
$50, is provided for by existing appropri-
alton.
In regard to the Peninsula Road, Engi-
neer Smith reported its progress as slow
and unsatisfactory,
The report was ordered filed.
NrSCEtL-GSEnrs.
The Commissioners of Election of Ohio
county submitted their report of an exam
nation OF the returns OF the election held
on the Sth Of October, which was received
and placed on record.
Official oaths were filed as follows: Vim.
Myles, Commissioner elect from Centre
I district: John w. Boring; Commissioner