The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-07
COUNTY co,r1IssIosERs.
Yesterdays Regular session-No nnsi.
ness % Importance Transacted.

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Yesterdays Regular tession-No nusi.
ness % Imp0rtanee Transacted.
The Board was prompt In gathering yestet.
day morning, and by 1918 quorum was
present aud the body was called to order by
President speldel, the following members
answering at roll-eall: Mear. Atkinson,
Armstrong, Caldwell; Nichols, schult1s,
Stein and Terrill. The minutes Of the pre-.
yious meeting were read and approved.
The FIRST report takenup was the one OF the
Board Of Equalization and Appeals. The
Board reported the rejection Of o large NUM-
Der Oi petitions, mainly for reductions OF
taxes, aud also that In some cases the Board
found II had no Jurisdiction. Each district
was reported on separately and the improve
ments and reductions stated In detail,
The Committee on Finance and Accounts
recommended the relnndlng 20 the following
parties OF the amount Of taxes Rt xed to their
names Henry K. List, % 40; James Flanni.
gan, $3.50; a. Loring, so Bank Ofthe Ohio Val
ley, $50; A. j. Sweeney, Agent, $72; John
Catlin, s.; James Cummlns, 81 90; George
Chapsou, 81 %! Herman Keiger, 81 %; Geo.
BeswanGeF, IS 81. The report was adopted
with one exception.
deted refunded the Bank OF the Ohio Valley
was stricken out.
The Committee on Court House and Jail
reported bills amounting to 5000 n, which
were ordered paid. :.
The Committee on Poor House and Farm
recommended the payment OF bills amount
Ing TO 800 S for miscellaneous matters, and
q, 373 % on account Of the county poor, The
report was adopted.
This committee madea special report 10
the effect that at q special meeting OF the
committee II had been resolved to request
all persons In the county to vacCinate and oil
those not able TO pay for the same, tocall Oh
their commissioner andget On order on d
physician that the same may bedone at conn
" expense; 1t had also been resolved that
each commissioner select o physician for hii
district for the purpose Of vGCcinating, and
that the compensation be 80 cents per eacl
Que vaccination. This report was adopted a
the action Of the Board.
| The Committee on Roads and Bridges ask
ed the payment Of bills amounting TO $6I3, Z.
which we're ordered paid. The committee
reported the rejection OF the petition o
Mai. A. Loring for the building OF dan
across the creek at his place, but resolved
that the petitioner might build dam at hi
own expense not to exceed y inches high
that Win. ASkew be paid S27' 10 for the build
ing Of q rlp.rap. This report was adopted.
Billsamountingt to SIS were ordered paid OF
account Of printing.
Superintendent Plankey, Of the Pool
House, reported the expenditures for thu
month OF January to have been $3.50 and th,
receipts $l4495.
The number OF inmates for the month wert
as follows: White males 80; white female
%; under one year Of age, white males ant
ii white females; under ten years OF age,
white males and white females; there wa!
one birth, white female, and two deaths
general condition o. everything good.
| A petition OF Walter II. Marshall ant
Others praying to have expended on tn
Robert Marshall road the local tax paid b,
the land lying on said road was granted.
The petition OF James v. Chambers ant
others asking the privilege OF working gu
their county road tax on the road leading
from the National road through their pro
perty, they travelling no other county road
was granted.
The petition Of j. j. Kahn and others 10
the opening OF county road from Steenrod'
bridge through the lands Of i. 8. Thompson
and Others, 70 the National road, at th,
mouth Of Hugh Clarks' lane. was referred L
the Committee on Roads and Bridges.
Mitchell Waddle petitioned the Board t
allow him 5000, he claiming to have beer
damaged, at least, TO the amount of 81, 200 BY
the faulty condition Of the Short Creei
bridge. which allowed tho waters to wasl
over his land. The petition was referred d
Joint committee.
Peter Welty and VIM. McAIannaway
petitioned that they be released from thu
bond OF Harry Smith, constable. They be
lieve that they are likely to suffer pecun
larry loss by remaining OH his bond, and fur
ther believing that an officer who carOlessly
and recklessly shoots on the public streets i
not safe. person to become surety for. The
petitions were accepted and the propel
orders given.
Samuel Mcpherson petitioned for the re
placing OF the goods burned by order Of DR.
HOge, they being infected with smallpox
and MISC TINT he be authorized to collect til,
tolls for January, which he thought Woult
amount TO $S5. Mcpherson Is the toll.keepe
on the Glenn's Run road who had the small
pox. His petition was referred to the Com
mittee on Poor House and Farm with powe
10 act.
On motion OF Mr.. Schultze, the following
was adopted: That the time OF holding thi
committee meetings be changed as follows
Poor House and Farm, last Monday at 10 A
NJ; Court House and Jail, last Monday at 9 P
NJ; Roads and Bridges, last Tuesday at lOA NJ.
Finance and Accounts, last Tuesday at 7:SI
IN.
One or two other unimportant resolutions
were adopted, and the Board adjourned q
1910 o'clock.