Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-04

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school tax, as per tax book %, 407 70
To amount received from clerks
and justices. ...................... 1921 55
Total school revenue. ........... 81, 500 Is
Credit bv amount of school orders 3,41O IS
By amount of school orders. .... 1886 80
By amount of commissions and
clerks hire. .................. l, 1866 II
Total amount of credits ........ 24,264 81
To balance due school revenue. 7,434 81
w. FL. S van, Trustee, DR.. to
amour of bridge revenue, per
tax book. Is, 500 16
To amount received from clerks. 1913 4S
Total bridge revenue......,....., Is, $50 GA
Credit by amount of bridge cou-
pons &c.,. ......................... 1871 Is
By amount of commissions
and clerks hire. ................... 800 As
Total credits ....................... IS, $50 60
To balance due bridge .......... 2,470 o.
W. Fl. Swan, Trustee, DIR. to
amount old warrant revenue
per Textbook ........................ Is, 500 Is
Total old warrant revenue...... Is, 592 Is
Credit by amount of county war
rants. T,52l 10
By amount of commissions and
clerks hire. .......................... 399 40
Total credits. 1871 ~
To balance due old warrants. $3.50. 7,700 SO
The trustee will be entitled to large
credits for delinquents, &c.
And now, gentlemen, cannot retire from
| the chair without thanking you, first for the
honors you have heretofore conferred upon
me, as well as the untiring, confidence you
| have placed in me as your financial agent.
In this 1 have labored earnestly to relieve
the county of its embarrassments, and ]
have the pleasure of saying to you that the
county is now able to pay all of the out
standing warrants to date, which she has
not been able to do for the last four years. So,
| bid you all happy new year, with all the
blessings of this life, with this admonition
That you ever look to the best interest OF
the county, ever placing your best men in
the positions over which you have the
power.
Very respectfully submitted,
A. T. CoTTRELL, Chairman.
On motion of Justice Conner the report OF
the chairman was adodted, subject to the
usual examination of the committee
Clerk Lewis read his report, which is al
The report of the county physician wal
read by the clerk and adopted, as follows,
To tile Honorable Chairman and Gentle
man Of the County Court Of Rn0r Co.:
This quarter, ending December 81, 1881
closes the year and brings my duties to
close as your physician to your county pris
ons and with the ending of this quarter
have the honor to report that for and dur
ing this quarter I have made (1S) eighteel
visits to your wOrk-house, and that hav
prescribed and furnished medicines to GO
twenty patients. l have also visited you
iail (l8) eighteen times and furnished med
cines to CD twenty-seyen patients. Thi
service has been actually required and dul
rendered In summing up this with pre-
l vious reports for the year, [ find that hav
, visited your prisons O8D one hundre
3 and eighty-one times, and that l hay
3 prescribed and furnished medicines (325
: three hundred and twenty-five times. Th
constitutes the actual service required fl
the year and at no time have we had LEI
Q than from two to six persons under trea
: ment. The cost of medicines furnlshe
U those prisoners amounts to near Sll
- Perhaps one-half of these medicines We
raid for at the time they were dispense
The balance is due G. w. Albers, druggis
0 The closing of this quarter finds US with !
convicts in your work house, more thai '
0 have ever had in this quarter. We have
in your jail, making in all IS persons
0 confinement. In addition to the foregoin
we have CO two inyour jail, confined the
q by reason of insanity, and will be kept he
- until YOUR commissioners of the poor as
u lum make provision for them.
g We have had no contagious, infectio
, or malignant diseases during this year. 1t
W comparative immunity from maligna
2 forms of disease, is certainly due to O
, sanitary regulations, which have been n
idly enforced, and is as nearly as possib
perfect A large per cent OF diseases
find here are diseases incident to this cia
10 of persons, and are generally acquired
exposure. Diseases of this character tn
10 bring with them to your prisons. We ha
10 had some cases of fever OF oontlnu
character which has occurred IN your pr
. ons without any known origin. Dlseas
Is incident to females have been quite prey
10 lent, and great care has been taken OF Il
class of patients to the end that they
10 restored to their friends, after leaving 20
10 work-house. in good condition.
IS In concluding this report, [ must here
Is knowledge the many obligations for the q
IN such service as rendered by your janitor
S, your Jail, and superintendent of your wol
i'll house. These gentlemen, prompted by
disposition to relieve the suffering, ha
he ever been ready to contribute to this ell
In have the honor to be, with the high
consideration, your obedient servant,
It, A. J. CAMPBELL,
l. Physician, County Prisons
/; Knoxville, Tenn, Dec. 31st, 1881.
r. AFTERNOON SESSION.
-. At the assembling in the afternoon
X election for a chairman of the court '
gone into, without any nominations. !
:, first ballot resulted, NJ. w. Haffaker 16,
o; M. King 16, E. G. Skaggs II. No electi
on Second ballot: Huffaker II, King
I'd, Skaggs 10.
Third ballot: Hufaker Is, King
FL. Skaggs Il, w. A. A. Conner L.
is. Fourth ballot: Huffsker II, King
Skaggs Is, Conner2.
his Fifth ballot: Huffaker II, King IL. Ska
II, Conner 4.
Sixth ballot: Huffaker17, King Ia, Ska
90 10, Conner 4.
Seventh ballot: Huffaker Is, King
Skaggs ID, Conner 3.
90 Eighth ballot; Huffaker, 10, King
'35 Skaggs II, Conner !, George Woods 2,
r. Merony /.
Ninth ballot: Hufaker Ii, King
90 Skaggs II, McNutt 2, Merony 1, Kearns
Tenth ballot Hufaker Is, King
90 Skaggs IA, Cottrell / Kearns 2.
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