Daily Republican., 1880-03-05
FROM YESTERDAYS LATE rD,,,,,
THE LEVY COus,r.
Arguments ofthe wu,

Arguments Ofthe wilmi,..
egates Representing ,hs sn D
Psyers-slow Progress or ~, ia
sessmenfs. he
Special Correspondence Of Repub,,,,
New CASTLE, March a.
President Bright said this a w.. 4'A
nanaial body and not msrslv as =
after the assessment Of cjti,oa"o !"
thought that there was somstb rs' ;u
behind this movmsnt than the lug
Of paying taxes. dues'
Mr.. Bush said he did adni, a.
was not merely a financial movsmsn 'uaI
that they were anxious that thss
should not be deprived Of tbai, ,Ss ~
He did net think that 1t was ~" w
tention Of the Levy Court IL n.' aus
persons from saying who shonldP P,ss' "
sent them in the Levy Court, ~
President Bright stated tb,,
Court had q variety Of interests a. !. !
after and could not give much tIms
q particular branch TO the exolusias '
other interests. There was A l tims
said when these voters should baSs
Piled to the proper place to be asss.'
without troubling the Court.
Mr.. Washington Hastings, ,.;d
had no reason to suppose that tho 7
Court had any intetion to "a fu..
assess these men who have appea,sS
get assessed, indeed when the ds,s
ticn came In they found the COM,
gagged in that business; but II was
to facilitate the assessments. M N
ting also appealed to the court in
half of justice to the large class Of
zens who are not assessed and yet "
to be assessed.
Mr.. Bush again appealed to the q
to fix time and do all that could
done to facilitate the assessments,
delegation consisting of Messrs, Cisn
W. Bush, George W. Stone. h. Tatr
Warner, Washington Hastings. Hs,
Mendinhall, James Scott, John Ia,
Thomas s. Bellah and Benjamin M
Esq, then retired.
The assessments were then nroos
ed with and the names were MA
upon the assessment
James Bayard Pierce, West Bran
wine; George Loper, Ninth Ward
gustus Henry George, New Castle; j
Burnside, 9th ward; Jacob stsrk
Sth ward and Thomas II. Brown.
name of J. Watson Philips of the NJ
ward was corrected to Watson ]. p
ips. Mr.. George Ward assessor Of
northern district of Wilmington reod
ted the court to place upon the ass
ment list the name of William B.
ley, of the Seventh ward. He sd
that Mr.. Wiley had made applics
at the city hall to get assessed, that
had taken his name, but by some zoe
1t had been omitted from the list
he never knew but what he was re
larly assessed until his attention
called to that fact by an article in
REPUBLICAN,. Mr.. Ward asked
under these circumstances the nj
be placed on the list.
President Bright was of the opiu
that the Court could not do SO IN
Mr.. Wiley was present in person W
out lying Itself open to a violation
the law, the penalty for which
very severe, Mr.. Silver concured
the views Of Mr.. Bright, and Mr.. W
was requested to ask Mr.. Wiley to q
before the Court and be assessed.
Mr.. Weir offered a resolution set
forth Thursday, March II, for hesl
arguments and all other matters ID
lation to schools and roads. AdOp
He also offered a resolution, which
adopted, instrnctipg the Clerk Of
Peace to notify the Trustees Of the
that the Court would on the oath id
make their official visit and inspec
of the almshouse.
The Coult at IL o'clock took a re
until ! O'Clock.