The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-03
is THE ORDER LEGAL?
4 yrxED QUESTION IS RAISED
Again BY ths Top nil company--rhe Con.
s,i.utlonality of Auditor sIIllcr's suppis-
meotaI Asaossmsat order Disputed
by n Promlaen. Attorney.

mental AsGossmsat Order Disputed
by Promlaent Attorney.
The famous supplemental assessment
order Of Auditor Alillers bids fair to-
achieve further notCriety. The following
petition, which explains itself was pre-:
sented to the Board Of County Commits
sioners tits meeting yesterday morning:
M he Honorable Board Of Commissioner 81
Me County Of Ohio, Nateg Bea Ei'giRia:
The petition Of tho Wheeling Iron and
Nail Company respectfully shows:
THAT your petitioner isa corporation Of
this State, doing business and having its
nrincipal office in Ohio county; that It Is
agareiyed by an entry on the personal
p'rToperLy book OF the city district OF said
county for the year 1884, whereby there Is
assessed 10 II for purposes Of taxation, the
sum OF Sl22, 8i0 as the actual value OF the
capital employed or invested by II
in its trade or business, instead
Of the sum Of SS2,840. The last men
toned sum was the actual value OF the
capitalBo employed or invested by your
petitioner, ascertained and fixed in accor-
dance with the provisions OF the statutes
Of this State and that amount alone was
properly asseSsable to your petitioner as
| The value OF such capital. Your petitioner
held on the Ist day OF January, 1884, GER
tain manufactured articles and products OF
mechanical skill and labor produced by
your petitioner in this State during the
wear proceeding the LIST day OF January,
| 1884, and remaining unsold on the LIST day
OF January, 1884, in the hands OF your
petitioner, the producer thereof, the value
81 which articles and products was $780,
tO00. The last mentioned articles and pro.
ducts were not listed or returned
by your petitioner for assessment
and under the law should not have been
listed, returned or assessed, but the asses
sor for the city district aforesaid arbitra-
rily listed and returned said last men
TONED articles and products and placed
the same upon the said personal property
book at valuation OF SOC, 900, thereby in
creasing the assessment OF the capital en-
Iployed by your petitioner as stated, upon
said book 70 $l22,G40. The taxes upon
the said amount Of 500, 900 are charged to
your petitionerandhavebeen placed in the
hands OF the Sheriff OF Ohio county for
collection, but such taxes have not yet
been paid BY your petitioner.
Your petitioner prays therefore to be re-
llieyed by the order OF your honorable
Board from the payment OF so much OF the
taxes assessed againstit as were assessed
upon the said articles and products at the
said valuation Of $4,000, aud your petit
toner, as in duty bound, willeverpray, etc
WHEELING IRoS & NAIL Co.,
by W. P. HUBBARD,
Its attorney.
The Board hardly knew what to dc
with the paper, but finally made 1t the
special order for the nextregular meeting.
considerable time was wasted in arriving
at this decision, and there was quite q
wrangle over its disposal, several wanting
TO send it to the Finance Committee,
which was vigorously fought down. MIR
Hubbard will be allowed to address the
Board at the next meeting.
TuEBoARD or COMMISSIONERS.
A Long Session Yesterday-rhe Old Com.
m1ttee Kick.
The regular February meeting Of the
Board OF County Commissioners was held
at the Court House yesterday, and tire
some session it was. The Board did not
finally adjourn until 8 o'clock in the after
noon, having wasted fully five hours in
senseless talk. The present Board has the
miufortune TO have among its mem
beers soms who feel it to be their
bounden duty to talk at least six times on
almost every measure or report that comes
up. They use big words, which they mis-
pronounce and probably do northumberland
themeaningof and manage to cause theses
sions to last about three times as long as
they ought to. 1t Is amusing and at the
same time almost shameful, the manner
in which they daily along. President
/! Woods presided yesterday, and all the
members were present. The minutes
were read and approved and the monthly
reports OF the Pari9us committees taken
up in the following orders
Bills to the amount OF $030.SS were pre-
aented by the Committee on Court House
and Jail and ordered paid, and OH recon-
mendation the Board ordered that q coun-
ter be placed in Clerk slitehell's Office.
TUE rooR HOUSE,.
The Committee on Poor House and
Farm, presented its annual inventory Of
the furniture and supplies now in the
Poor House, but gave no estimate OF their
value, which was received and eled, This
committee also presented bills for the fol-
lowing amounts out Of the various funds:
Poor House and Farm, $52l.2l; conhn'
gent poor fund, $2,537.4G. These were
ordered paid. The total number OF in
mates for the month OF January was 81,
classified as follows: White males, 55;
white females, 81; celored females, l;
under one year OF age, white males, 81
white females, 8; over one and under ten
years OF age, white males, 10; white
females, 5; deaths, white males, q.
females, /. The bill Of A. ]. Sweeney 4
Son for $225 for putting in y new pump
was ordered paid when the same was
found 10 be In q satisfactory working con.
dition.
The Committee on Finance reported
that ex.Sherif Brown had returned coun.
~ orders paid by him amounting to $l4,:
SEQ o.; interest on same, 500 o.; Jurors
certificates, 81, 42S 90, and road orders to
the aJ1ount OF $3.50 80. NIL OF which had