Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-16
COUNTY BOARD.

| AstIOnOmicd1 ODserVdUOry-0ottluS 0Oys
into the Reform school-Debts of the
Fort Smelling Bridge Commission.
An adjourned meeting of the county board
was held yesterday forenoon, Acting Mayor
Rhodes in the chair. Present. Commits
sioners Fink, Bohland, Grace, Hoyt, and
| Wagner.
A communication was read from Lieutenant
E. Mcguire. engineers Office, Department of
Dakota, requesting authority to erect an as
Economical post on the grounds surround
ing the court house, for tho purpose of tax
| ing observations to determine the Longitude
of various points in Dakota and Mont ma,
and also to determine the longitude of Carle.
| ton college, Northfeld, for the purpose of
obtaining correct time.
On motion the request was granted.
The sum of $50 was appropriated to
| finish the Battle Creek and Alton road
bridge.
City Attorney Murray called the attention
of the board to the difficulty encountered
in getting incorrigible boys into the reform
school The action of the board was dis
graceful. It was an outrage to sentence
boy to the reform school, when the county
board refused to sign the commitment.
-Four weeks ego boy had been sentenced by
the municipal judge to the reform school,
since when he has laid in the
county Jail mingling with the
hardest criminals in the country.
Mr.. Murray thought the whole thing was be-
coming farce; it was too bad that child
should be sent to the jail to mingle with The
hardened criminals. A boy sentenced to -
rofc oh I,o 70 kboi ia.1
atall. After long discussion the matter
was referred to special committee appoint
ed by the chair, consisting of Fink, Grace
and HoYt, with power to act.
A communication was read from County
Surveyor RuDdlet relating to the proposed
culyert on the Fort Smelling road on the low
ground about a half mile east of the new
bridge. The cost of the work is estimated
| at $469. Referred to the committee on
roads and bridges with power to act.
County Auditor Davis called attention to
the communication of Mr.. Thomas Cochran,
submitted at the previous meeting of the
board. relative to the Indebtedness of the
Fort Smelling bridge commission. The un-
paid indebtedness, arising from the con-
struction of the bridge, was stated at $780,
600, for the payment of which Mr.. Cochran
| urged the issuance of bonds as provided for
under the special act of the legislature. Tt
was explained by Mr.. Davis that the county
board had $50, 900 of the bonds in the Mer-
chants National and First National bank,
put there for safe keeping, from which 800,
600 could be had to pay the Indebtedness.
The chair thought that report should be
submitted of all funds disbursed in the con-
struction of the bridge. On motion the SUBJ
ject was referred to the committee on ways
and means, and the county attorney. with
power to act.
Commissioners Wagner, Bohland and
Hoyt, were appointed as committee to ex-
anime into the proposed vacation of the old
Fort Ripley and Point Douglas road.
The committee will meet on Friday the
oath inst, at 2 P. M, at the Ciow's hotel, to
examine into the proposed change.
The sum of $50 was appropriated to re-
pair the Saltwater road in the town of New
Canada, to be expended under the direction
of the committee on roads and bridges.
Mr.. E. a. Hollinshead requested the
sanction of the board and warrant for q
requisition for the return to this State of
q man in Iowa who ran off with pair of
mules on which a mortgage was held by DR..
Mintzer. 1t was explained that the governor
would not grant the requisition unless the
county board would pay the expense. On
motion the board decided to not entertain
the proposition. Adjourned.