Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-06
Quarterly Court.

AAN lOu1Lk 4OdAtOAAy oCc1AOA "
the County Court assembled at the
Court house Monday, Judge @. w.
Tyler presiding and q full bench of
magistrates in attendance. -
The usual routine business was
transacted, and the average amount
of appropriation made.
Mr.. Ed. G. Munford was elected
notary public, in the place of John
w. Faxon, resigned. His oppo-
nents for the office were Messrs. F.
G. Gilbert and Alex. Davidson. All
three are very excellent young men
and the Court could not have gone
wrong in electing either of them.
j. j. West, Esq, was unanimously
elected public administrator. Mr..
w. H. Wright was elected constable
for the 18th district.
$500 was appropriated to repair
Moseley's fill on the Paradise Hill
pike.
Esquires Brewer, Ransdle and
Wilson, were elected Poor house
commissioners.
J. ID. Robbins was elected Cont
missioner OF the 18th road district.
The matter of dividing the coun-
| ty into new school districts, was de-
ferred to the January term, 1884.
The Jury OF View on the Mobley
road, iii the 18th district, reported
| in favor of closing the road through
Ben Mobley's farm, and opening a
new one. III
The financial report of the County
Judge showed:
Bal on hand July liz, 1888 for revenue
purposes 9lo ~
Bal for railroad purposes. SO05 33
Bal for court house purposes ......... l,e52 80
The totalamount of disbursements
during the past six months were
$37, 243.64. Out of this total amount,
disbursements were made for the
following special purposes +:
Bonds taken O62 %
Judgment against court house ......... 600 50
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REPORT OF JAIL COMMISSIONERS.
To tie Quarterly Court Of Mont
gODle,y County We, the Jail conn
missioners, elected at the April
term OF the Court 10 serve for the
year 1883, beg leave To submit the
following report
We took charge OF the County
Jail on the 10Th day of April, and
found therein 81 prisoners, of whom
II were lunatics. OF these lunatics,
4 have been sent to the Asylum at
different times were sent to the
Poor House were discharged and
| is now in Jail. One lunatic, Jesse
Sykes, was sent to Jail in August,
and died soon after. Admission to
the Asylum had been obtained for
him, but he was too sick to be
moved when the notice came.
Such of the prisoners as the COM
missiOners were authorized to work
have been made to work whenever
there was a sufficient number to
justify employing a guard, some
liIl6S Oh the SLFoetS Vi CldEkSVlIl0
and for about 2 weeks on the public
roads. Three of the prisoners while
engaged by the city escaped from
the guard and have not been re-
captured.
Under the law as it now is, the
Commissioners bear all the expense
of boarding and taking care of all
the prisoners, State and County, and
also of paying the salary of the Jail
Superintendent. The State pays to
the Commissioners 40 cents day
for all State prisoners confined in
Jail, but no turkeys fees.
When taking charge of the Jail
we employed George r. Harris, the
Sheriff, as Superintendent, fixing
his salary at $50 per month in lieu
of all other compensation. We
found on hand furniture, bedding,
&C., which he had purchased,
amounting in value to $l68.90, for
which we paid him.
Not including this item the eX-
pense to tine County of the Jail for
six months, from April 18th to
October 1st has been as follows: -