Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-05-30
Board or Supervisors.
toFFICIAIl

Tucson, A. T., May 2lst, 1855.
 The Board met at 10 o'clock n. m May 2lst, in special session as per notice of minutes of session held May 18th, 1885.
 Present-J. $. Mansfield, Chairman, Geo. W. Teitsworth member. ]. O. Ham dy member, Chas. k. Drake Dept. ex. officio Clerk
 Absent-W. B. Horton ex-ofiicio Clerk.
 The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
 On motion the Clerk was instructed to notify the Board of Pinal county of the wounded man that was shot at the Mammoth mine Tn that county and ask them to pay the expense of keeping him in the hospital, as he rightly belongs to that county.
 Report of Geo. w. Teitsworth in re- gard to the team of r. II. Norton, ,recom- mending that the $325 in warrants on the Road Fund be paid for the same, was read and entered on file. On motion a warrant was ordered drawn on the Road Fund for sufficient to realize s26O to be paid for said team.
 Communication of J. McC. Elliott, Road Overseer, in regard to finger boards at the forks of permanent roads etc, etc, was read and ordered on file. On motion the Road Oyerseer was in- strlcted to obtain such finger boards as are necessary at the lowest rates.
 On motion the Board resolved itself into a committee of the whole to consid- CT the report of the committee appointed to estimate cost of certain roads.
 Board resumed open sessIon. Communication of Probate and Coun- ty Judges, asking that a door be cut between the rooms of the office of Pro bate Judge and the Clerk of the District Court was read and ordered on file. It appearing that such change would be beneficial and that door could be made without Impairing the wall, on motion the clerk was ordered to have the alter Btion made by the inviting of bids for same.
 On motion Geo. w. Teitsworth was appointed committee of one to see the Superintendent of the Peerless mining company and other mining companies, with view of obtaining such hep Rs he may be able to get m assisting to build the road over the mountain from Logan.
 Judgment of insanity by Probate Judge j. $. Wood, of Geo. Bennett was read and ordered on file.
 On motion the Chairman was author lzed tO appoint a man to take George Bennett to the insane asylum at Stock ton, at as early a date as practicable, and deliver him into the custody of Messrs. Langdon and Clark, the keepers of the insane for Arizona.
 Communication of ChAs. Hill in re- gard to repairs on county jail was read and ordered on file.
 On motion the Clerk was instructed 10 l have the wall below the gate in jail yard repaired securely by stone and | iron and to have the same done by ill., viting bids.
 Communication of county officers ask ing that they be paId their salaries | instead of quarterly, as pro- vided hy salary bill, was read and or dered on file. On motion ordered that the condi- tions of the salary bill be observed by | this Board ss regards the payment of | the salaries of county officers.
 Communication of D. J. Cummins, of | asking that certificate of cleo tion as justice of the pescebe issued to hIm was read and ordered on file.
 On motion the Clerk was instructed | to write to Mir. Cummins aud inform him that be would be appointed a jus tice of the peace at Nogales, if he would present a petition from the citizens of that Flace asking that he be SO ap- pointed.
 On motion 1t was ordered that DO &C., ton be taken in the matter of employ ing an expert accountant for examining into the county finances until some fu- ture meeting.
 On motion the bill of l.. Willard for transporting Board over county road was audItsi on general fund for S2.j0.
 On motion the Board adjourned tO meet on Monday, June lst, 1885, at To o'clock a. m., to canvass the returns of special cleo non and other matters of importance which may appear for con- ,iderRtiOn.
 !. s. MANSFIELD, Chairman. ATTEST: W.B. HORTON, Tx Oiiicio Clerk. Per CHAs. R. DRAKE, dept. Ex OlIicio Clerk.