The daily gazette., 1883-03-01
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The Levy Court and Poor Trustees ID
eussing a Bili Providing for its Sale.

The Levy Court and Poor Trustees Dis
eussing Biii Providing for its Sale.
A Joint meeting of the Levy Court and
Trustees Of the Poor was held in the Levy
Court Ispnm yesterday afternoon, for the
purpose 81 eopkidering the Joint bill en-
titled "ali net providing for the funding &
toe loatiHa debt ofthe Trusteea Of the foor
fNew Castle county 'Nand authorizing fhe
horf0wine Df SDn0, 600 20 paw fnr tho new
buildings, etc. The business was opened
| by motion that the attorney Of the Trus-
tees, Walter Cummins, ESQ, should read
the bill prepared by him. When the bin
had been read Col Febiger moved, and il
was 50 decided, to take up by sectionss Y
:. Section was amended SO as to give B per
cent. instead of on the money borro wed
for the funding OF the debt. a5
Section 2 provides the manner In which
the money shall be expended and was
amended SO as to read, "the moneys shall
be In the hands of the county treasurer as q
separate fund, 10 be by him applied only
for the purposes mentioned"
Section 8 was adopted without change.
When section was reached trouble began.
That section provides that the Almshouse
property shall be given into the hands Of
i've men apPoiated as trustees 10 sell and
give deeds for the old property.
The discussion was entered into BY Messrs.
Febiger, Ray, Williams, BradIerd, Silver
and others. Senator Ray held that the five
trustees should consist OF members Of the
Trustees Of the Poor and Levy Court, and
Col. FebiEer arggsd that they should be
appointed from outside the two bodies.
After half an hour the trustees retired 10
another room and caucussed upon the names
TO be presented, It having been decided, BY
vote, that the five trustees should not be
members of either of the two bodies. On
their return they named Henry G. Banning,
William q. Lodge, Victor DUPONT, William
r. Lodge and James Hassinger. The Levy
Court named as Its committee q. Hill Brin-
ton, Henry c. Banning, Joseph l.. Carpen-
ter, Jr., Z. 7. Bellah and William p.
Lodge.
Balloting then began and resulted in the
choice of the following gentlemen Henry
c. Banning, E. 7. Bellah, William G. Lodge,
Victor DUPONT and Joseph L. Carpenter, Jr.,
as the Trustees.
Mr.. Bradford Of the Trustees OF the Poor
moved that a committee of three be ap-
pointed 70 wait on the gentlemen elected In
order 70 ascertain IL they viii serve, and In
case of their refusal, to appoint Others In
their place. The motion was carried and
the chair appointed Thomas Bird, James II.
Ray and Samuel silver as the committee.
The time for disposing of the property
was, ON motion of Mr.. Bradford, made Ave
years.
Mr.. Ray moved to amend by making It
three years.
Mr. Bradford stated that In all probability
it would be two years more before the
property would be vacated and that il would
seriously lessen the price Of the property II
IL had TO be sold In one year, and he there
fore hoped Mr.. Ray would not insist on his
amendment.
Mr.. Ray Withdrawing his amendment the
time was ixed at five years.
Mr.. Williams offered q supplementary
amendment defining the uses to which the
money obtained by the sale should be put.
The particular point was that II should be
employed in paying for the new buildings
being erected, and after that TO the payment
of the amount borrowed or as much thereof
as could be-. The amendment was adopted.
Sections 5 and 9, defining the course TO be
pursued BY the trustees, were adopted with
out change.
The bill was then adopted as a whole and
handed to Walter Cummins, ESQ.,, 10 be re-
| copied with the amendments.
The Levy Court then adjourned until
| Tuesday morning next at 10 O'Clock.