Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-03
COUNTY, Councillors.

regular meeting of the county commits
sioners was held yesterday with full attend
ance.
Petitions were received from the chairmen
of the boards of supervisors of Excelsior and
Mnuetonka asking that appropriations be
made of 1915 for Excelsior and $3.50 for Min
netonka, to repair roads and bridges. Referred
TO the committee on roads and bridges.
The committee on taxes reported back the
applications for attachments of Silas Moffitt,
]. Koehl, Henry Schmitz, r. B. Langdon, John
Halloran, Ben q. Mari and James Ryan with
the recommendation that they be not granted.
Adopted.
The committee on taxes reported that abate-
ments be made on the applications of John
Rollins, the trustees of the German Lutheran
church, Chester Roach, McAllister Bros, DR..
D. l.. Pratt, Mary c. Filbert and f. G. Corser.
petition of Charles Clark and Others ask
ing for the location of n highway from
Minneapolis town to Richfield was referred to
a committee who will meet on May 10 to view
the proposed road.
The following special laws were ordered
printed in the Tribune, VIZ: The law estab-
fishing commissioners salary and districts,
the law providing for the change of common
school district boundaries, the law restrict
Ing cattle from running at large, and the law
ItidllUE 10 Int SldubluS VI HuuOI lltcIoco
within thirty yards of the school buildings in
the county.
The bills of J. NJ. Eustes for $3.50, Charles
Robinson for 500, o. S. Gates, for 500. 80, and
D. c. Hunt for S367S, which were referred
to the county attorney and approved, were
ordered paid.
Claims to the amount of 81 ,260.40 were
ordered paid.
The Superintendent of thes poor farm re-
SOS0 SS raaniyp1 InriOU tho mi of
April, and S332.72 expended. Inmates cared
for during month 81; number received s; dis
charged 49, number of inmates on MAY
1st, -.
The sum OF $40 was appropriated to take
Ole Benson, an inmate of the poor farm, to
his friends in the old country.
A petition from the supervisors of Rchfield
aud Minneapolis town, asking that $500 be ap
propriated for county roads, was referred to
The committee on roads and bridges.
DR.. Ames presented bill of Sl4 for medical
attendance on inmates of the Jail in NAY and
October. The board compromised and allowed
him IS.
The committee on jail and court house who
were compelled to make an examination of thu
new Jail on account of the rumors set afloa
bv Auditor Mcdonald and the sensational re
porter of the Tribune, reported as follows:
Your committee having examanied the caus,
of the settling of portion of the interior wal
of the new Jail are of the opinion tina
the same was caused by the wall being
built over what was once cesspool and wal
not properly filled. The damage being yer,
slight your committee had the same repaired
by driving in piles and making a solid foun
dation."
The report was accepted and placed on file
J.. P. Andrews was granted license to sci
liquor in the town of Dayton.
The old iron taken from the jalwas orderet
to be disposed of at public auction.
The county auditor was instructed to In
form the board IN writing why he did not ap
peal from the award made by the commission
ers of the Hastings & Dakota road for the Ian
condemned belonging to the poor farm, whcl
step he was authorized TO take by the board i
October, 1880.
7 he bill OF Samuel Hinton, amounting t
S231 IS, for labor and material on old and ne,
Jail, was allowed.
The committee on court house and ia
were instructed TO remove all wooden bui
dings around the court house, build a stou
wall along the front of the lot on Fourt
street, and grade and repair the yards as the