The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-18
SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS
SPECIAL DECEMBER TERN, A, D. 1884.
(Offical ReDort)
Crhursdays proceedings concluded)


('rhursday's proceedings coneluded)
Supervisor McEniry NOV ed that the
bills OF the several oyerseers of the poor
referred back to the board be laid over
until the next term. Supervisor Martin
moved as substitute that said bills ne
allowed. The yeas and nays being called
resulted as follows:
4eas-Supervisors Aster, Barton. Bow
man. Campbell, Clarke, Fisk. Hawthorne,
Heath, HoTister, Martin, Schneider,
SchOonmaker and Titterington-13.
Nays-Supervisors Burial, Cederberg,
Fitzgerald, McEniry, Pearsall, Trumbull
and Weatherhead-7; absent, Ryder,
Swanson and Goodlow; carried
The committee on abatements submit
ted the following report, which on motion
was received and adopted
| Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of the Board of sn-
pervisors:
Your committee to whom was referred
| the ahatements on the following petitions
would submit the following report;
In the matter of the petition of Peter
Rueth and Sebastian Myer would recom>
mend the prayer of the petition be grant,
cd abating the amount of 81 80, being the
amount Of tax on land assessed in error
and that amount be refunded and the
clerk issue an order for same.
In the matter of petitions of the Rock
Island Gas Company and Moline Gas and
Coke Company and the Moline & Rock
Island Street Railway Company we refer
back to the board for its action.
L. S. PEARsALI.,
| M. SHOEMAKER,
| THos. CAMPBELL,
n H. CEDERBERG,
ARTHUR BURIAL,
Committee.
Supervisor Bowman moved that the
petitions for abatements referred back to
the board be recommitted to the commits
tee; carried
Supervisor Heath moved that the fol-
lowing bills which were referred back tC
the board by the committee on fees and
salaries be allowed.
J. @. Adams, 81 35; Ellsworth Mapes
$14.15; B. j. McCabe, 81; John Dickson
IS 95; J. d. Latferty. $3.50. Carried anC
bills allowed.
Supervisor Bowman moved that the
remainder of the bills referred back tO
the board by the committee on fees anJ
l salaries be rejected; carried.
Supervisor Fisk moved that the cierk
be instructed 10 notify the Overseer OF the
r poor If Rock Island and Moline Of any
q action taken by the board instrucung then
as TO their duties; earned
Supervisor Heath moved that the mat
Y ter of adding to the Sm0kestack at th'
9 poor farm to increase the draught be re
ferred to the committee on poor fam
with power 10 act; carried.
The official bond Of john E. Fleming
as county collector, was, on motion, ap
proved by the board.
Supervisor Martin moved that the bont
of the steward of the psor farm be in tn
penal sum of $1,000; carried.
On motion of Supervisor Barton tn
official bond of James Robertson, stewar
of the poor farm, was approved by th
board
Supervisor Bowman moved that Set
R. Ruffum and Alexander Hayes be ap
pointed justices of tie peace IN and io
the township of Andalusia carried.
Supervisor Barton moved that tn
matter of purchasing a heater for th
boiler at the Jail building be referred
the committee on Jail and Jail account
with power to act; carried.
The clerk laid before the board the 70
lowing petition of M. M. Corbett, J. n
Beardsley and T. j. Kenworthy. upo
which action was postponed for the pre-
ent
Sr. Chairman and Gentlemen Of the Board of S
pervisors
Conference.-The undersigned attorney
in the case of the People VS. A. j. Hill @
charge of assault with a deadly weapo
with intent to murder, and tried at Il
September term of the circuit court
said county and state, would respectful
represent that the investigation OF sa
case and expense thereof was borne by Il
family of said Hill and the undersigned
- extending over time from the 30th ia
of MAY to the Both day of Septembe
1884, and involving a money expense
said family being wife and five childrel
of about Sl20. ard to attorneys an c.
pense of time and money of about So
Said Hill on the trial was adjudged
sane at the time of the commission of t
crime charged, and sent to the hospit
for the insane at Jacksonville, H.. whe
he is now detained, and by the superb
tendent thereof his recovery on Dec.
inst, was reported doubtful.
The family Is unable to bear these
penses, being in debt for more than |
amount of their property and small hor
IN which they live, which is cucumber
for more than it is worth.
We therefore would ask in their beh
and that OF our own the following allo'
ance which we believe to be just al
equitable, to wit Expense above of ia
ilv, St20; j. NJ. BeardSley, $25; J.
Kenworthy, S25; NJ. NJ. C0rbett, %.
$195.
NJ NJ. CoRBETT,
- J. M. BEARDsLEY,
]. r. KENwORTHY,
Attorneys for H