The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-11

| lHr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Board OF
would beg leave to report that they have examined
said claims, and would respectfully recommend that
they be referred back for the consideration OF the
Board
| JoHN a. LrrHAnDT,
A r. HoLLIsTER.
| Supervisor Mcconnell of the committee
to whom was referred S. r. Porter's bill
against the county submitted minority
| report
| Supervisor Reid moved that the mineri
| ty report be received and adopted.
| By request of Supervisor Wilson action
| was deferred on Supervisor Reid's motion
| for one day
| Supervisor Zimmerman offered the fol
lowing resolution and moved its adoption
Z2esOEyed: that the clerk of this board be and is
hereby instructed to charge on the county books to
| L. F. Harson. J. l. Perkins and D. Q. Reid the sew
| Supervisor Mcconnell moved as an
amendment to the foregoing resolution
that the clerk be allowed to use his own
discretion as to the making said entries
and that he makes them upon his own re-
| sponsibilities. The yeas and nays being
called, resulted as follows:
| Yeas-Supervisers E. n. Hollister,
Osborn, Reid, Hirsch, Oakley, Gordon,
Schneider, Blomberg, Campbell, Heath,
sMcConnell aud Wray-12.
| Nays-Supervisors Liphardt, Albrecht,
Atkinson, Ritter, Burial and Little.-6
| Amendment carried.
| Supervisor Gordon moved as an amend
ment to said resolution that the clerk be
directed to enter up all items that should
| be entered on said books.
Pending the consideration of the fore
going resolution and amendments the
| Do no
| Special March term, March 9th, 1882, 8
o'clock D. m.
| Board met pursuant to adjournment.
! Present all the members except Super
visors Gordon, Lees, Wilson and Ballard
| Supervisor Taylor, chairman, presiding
Supervisor Campbell moved that Alex
ander Hayes be allowed the sum of 81 90
| for returning the Town Collectors bond of
Andalusia Township, and procuring the
collectors book in the absence of the
Supervisor of said Township. Carried.
Board adjourned until tomorrow morn
ing at 8 O'CLOCK.
SPECIAL MARCH TERM. D
MARCH 10th, 1882.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Present all the members except Super
visor Ballord.
Supervisor Taylor, chairman, presiding.
The minutes of yesterdays proceedings
were read by the clerk.
Supr. Osborn objected to the proceed
ings upon the record of the minority re-
port presented by Sup. Mcconnell, and
asked that it be expunged from the min
utes of yesterdays proceedings.
The chair ruled that the minutes had not
been approved.
Supr Little moved that Supr. 0sborn's
objection be sustained. Carried.
The minutes as thus corrected were then
approved by the board.
Supr. Gordon moved as a substitute for
Supr. Zimmerman's resolution and the
amendments thereto that the clerk be
directed to enter upon the county books
the amounts due the county from all per-
sons indebted to the county. Carried
Supr. Zimmerman moved that the report
of the majority of the committee to whom
was referred S. r. Porter's bilf against the
county be adopted.
Supr. Reid moved that the following
minority report presented by Sup. McCon-
nell be substituted for the report of the
majority of said committee
Supervisor Mcconnell, of the committee
to whom was referred s. r. Porter's bill
against the County, submitted the follow
ing minority report:
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors of
Rock island C0u2Cfy III.
GENTEEMEN: The undersigned as one of the COM
mitteNo whom the bin of Mr.. S. K. Porter was
referred by this board at the last term thereof re-
specially presents the following minority report in
the premises, to wit: He finds that the actual ex-
penses of Mr. Porter in defending the suts brought
$3.50 rs
He finds further that upon the trial of said suits
Porter
to said county for the year 1874, for the of
nirety-nine dollars and eighty cents SOL in ex
Cess of what was actually due to said county, and
that the county has had the use of said sum ever
since.
He further finds that the result arrived Mt by the
invest igating committee upon which said suits
were brought, were due to gross ineapacity
essness the part of those having such investiga
That said Investigation was carried ON in secret
and without an opportunity the part of Mr. Por-
ter to be heard in his defense, but the report
thereof was published to this board and the public
without such opportunity being first given, but on
the contrary the right of Mr. Porter to be heard be-
fore said committee was expressly refused, after
having been demanded by him through his attor- |
neys.
lie further finds, that had Mr. Porters request to !
be heard in his own behalf been granted that the |
errors committed by said committee would not !
have been mate, and that such refusal viola
ton of the first principle of justice and right and of
every known precedent in such cases. That the |
persons having such investigation in charge were |
the agents OF this board for such purpose and their
acts are the acts of the county and whatever
made or wrong injury inflicted by the result of
such investigation, was the act of said comfy, for
which it is in honor bound to make willing repara-
ton to the extent of such injury.
He further inds that after said report of said /
committee was published and Mr.. Porter had been |
found "guilty1hby them without hearing Mr. Por- |
ter applied to said committee and to the attorneys
representing said county, for the purpose of exam
lining the abstracts and figures of said committee or
for copy thereof at his expense, for the pur-
pose of examining them in connection with his own
accounts, and that the same was refused to him
That he afterwards applied to this board In open
session to have such statements or ahstraets
fled with said eamaittee's report with the
clerk OF this Board, that he be allowed to have
copy thereof at his expense. which was refused
him upon the statement by those having said state
ments in charge THAT to do would be giving the
county s case away
He further finds that Mr.. Porter had stated at all
times and under all circumstances sstat he was per-
fectly willing that his accounts should be investi-
pied and that i be owed Rock Island county any
hing he wanted 70 pay il, and il the county owed
him he wanted it. y
That the application on his part for said abstracts
statements were solely for the purpose of aiding
nm IN the examination of his amounts ascertain
he accuracy OF said report and in good faith to paw
t, II he found himself to be in arrears.
He further finds that If such abstracts or state
nents had been submitted to Mr.. Rnrter, or he
lad been allowed eppE thereof that the gross
rrpEs In ss9d report would have been very soon dis
ogered and said suits not have been brought That
ueb refusal on the part OF this Board well as the
efusai to allow him hearing before said report
Fas published, was wrong and error on the part of