The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-08-14
TIE PUBLIC BIZ SINESS.
County Commissioners.

The Board met in regular session on Tues
day. rrcSent-all the members.
Dog inSolvcncies of Alexander jackson
late Collector Seventh district, examined
and passed
Ordered, That the Collector of the Fifth
district release Charles Stevenson tax OF
$500 assessed value of certain lots in North
East and collect same from II. G. Stout.
Ordered, That the Collector of the First
district release James NJ. Budd tax on
$1,000, Philadelphia city stock and 81 ,20C
on buildings assessed to Mrs. L. II. Thomas,
and return the same insolvcnt
| Orders for merchandise amounting to
! $3.50 We're granted.
| The Clerk was instructed to investigate
| the unusually large gas bill for July.
! The following sheep awards were eNamin-
ed and passed: T. II. Patten sl5.75, George
w. Poist $3.50, j. c. Price $3.50.
| The following accounts We're examined
and passed: Vim. benjamin. $50 90; John
| s Smith, Collector Fourth district, 1873,
/ dog tax amounting to S306; \. jackson,
Collector Seventh district, dog tax S444, Il.
II. Bell, coilins S610; Zimri Taylor, work
on roads, $3.50.
Report of the observation-disclosures. II. II.
Duyckinck, j. T. England and Wilson d.
Pierson-to view and determine the prepri-
ETY. of opening Il road in the Ninth district
from Woodrow gate to G.. w. Chidester's,
was received, considered and laid over.
Miss Fannie w. Walmsley, of Frederick
town, was appointed TO the vacant free
scholarship in St. Mary's Female Seminary,
st. Mary's, Md, by the Commissioners, to-
uether with the School Examiner.
Petition of J. S. Merritt and others, ask
ing for the opening of new road in the Isl
district leading from the Cecilton and War
wick road to point on the road from Bohe-
mia Bridge road to the Roman Catholic
Church, was received. Also petition of
the citizens of Elkton and others, asking
that draw be made in the bridge over Elk
river at the foot of Bridge street, in Elkton.
The Board were in session on Wednesday.
All the members present.
Report of w. r. Miller, Esq, appointed
10 tNstllllllt pNtI ltllll Citth, oll
Elk Neck road, was read and approved,
and Mr.. Miller appointed to rebuild the
bridge according to plans accompanying
the report.
The Clerk was ordered to advertise for
proposals for furnishing the county build
ings with 80 tons of coal.
The matter of repairs and alterations on
the iron bridge in Elkton was postponed for
further consideration, and the Clerk in
structed to obtain estimates of work and
information as to the probable cost of a
pier.
1t was ordered that proposals for opening
the Carpenters Point Neck road, in the 9Th
district, be advertised for
The following accounts We're examined
and passed: David p. Cameron, fence wire
for creek, $40; \. p. Manley, Treasurer
aims house, 50, O56.76; John Simpson, mend
ing bridge, S1.01; VIM. H. Ewing, eX-Col-
lector 18th district dog tax, 1921: II. McCul-
Tough, counsel fees in Grice case, $50; James
\. Pearce, do, 500; y. T. Biddle, do, SO;
incidental account of Commissioners office,
SlO1.55.
Ordered, that hereafter no allowance be
made for probate to accounts to be passed
by the Board.
Ordered, that counsel for the Board in
quire into the legality of the bill for taxes
against the Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany of Cecil county.
Ordered, that the Clerk pay the passage
of Fisher a. White, an inmate of the aims
house, to Troy, y. Y, if it appear that it
would be to the interest of the county to do
so.
Additional work to Il new road i'll Elk
Neck was referred to the road inspector Of
that section.