Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ANSWER ITS CHARGES.

Reports from the Various county
Officers aud G,amittees-The County s
Beneficiaries.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners was held
yesterday at the court house with Hon.
r. y. Walker, Chairman, presiding and
Comm -sioners Lawton, Casey, Estill and
Dorsett present.
The reports of the County Treasurer and
Jaier and the officers in charge Of the
different departments Of the convict camp
during the month of April were received
as information.
The applications OF Mary e. Russell,
Mary DeLarge and Jane Dayids for cOun-
ty aid We're granted. The application Of
Mary Heavenly for county aid was re-
ferred 10 Commissioner Estill; that of
VIM. Horton, colored, was referred to Rev.
A Harris.
The application Of l.. L. Hoover and
] John Cuicavich for license to retail liquor
were referred to Chairman Walker with
power to act.
The resignation of Andrew Goebel as
chief of the chan-gang guard was
accepted, to take effect June !.
Commissioners Estil and D0rsett, the
committee to which was referred the
resolution adopted by the Commissioners
/ Of Drainage with reference to the prepare
ton OF a tOpographical map Of the county,
with the view of locating the taxable
/ property, as well as showing all the water
courses, swamps, roads and bridges, and
the property lines and the names of the
! owners Of land, recommended the appoint
ment of a committee to be charged with
I the details OF the work, and that said
/ committee be authorized to organize the
1 necessary force to begin the actual
survey for the proposed map at once. II
was estimated that the survey can be
/ completed in about three years, at cost
/ OF $1,000 per annum.
The report OF the committee was adopt
4 ed, and Commissioners Esill, Lawton
and Dorsett appointed to take charge Of
4 the map.
The application of Isaac Beckett, asking
for an appropriation to pay clerk hire in
/ preparing the list of taxable property,
was referred to Commissioners D0rsett
and Estili, with power to act.
The communication of Messrs. Palmer
Bros. in relation to scales and weights for
county purposes was referred II Commits.
sioners LawtOn and DOrsett, with power
to act.
In the matter Of opening the old Mill
tary road, presented to the board by Road
Commissioner Bourquin, it was ordered
that the Commissioner be requested to
obtain all the information possible as to
the status Of the road as a public high
way, and to present the same, with such
other evidence as he may have upon the
I subject, to the board.
The following resolutions, after being
! adopted, We're referred to Commissioners
1 Dorsett and Estill as a committee:
Resoi0ed, That with a view Of enhancing
/ the value Of lands in this county by rendering
! them more accessible and to the securing to
| its cit Gems their rights in this regard. this
! hoard take immediate steps to ascertain,
/ first, what roads originally dedicated to the
/ public are now closed; second. what stems
! -hould be token to have such roads reOpened;
/ third, whether or not the necessities of the
/ pubic require that additional roads or
/ bridges should be opened and the location of
! such.
The following resolution was referred
to Commissioners Dnrsett and Walker for
examination and report:
ResoJged. That inasmueh as the number of
/ henei iaries of the county Is rapidly increas-
ing, necessitating the annual expenditure of a
large sum OF money towards their mainte-
nance that this board investigat at once the
matter to the wsest manner OF using the
fupds thus appropriated; that careful IN
quiry be made into the praeticahilty of or
ganizing "a home or farm for the poor, similar
to those maintained in other counties.
The general presentment Of the grand
j
term, 1885, which was referred to Com
missioners Lawton ard Estill, was BROUGHT
before the meeting by the report of the
/ committee, which was as follows:
J our committee to which was referred the
i preseutment Of the grand jury + the Superior
/ COu l. March term, 1888, in which that DO v
| c He'd the attention IF His Honor the Judge
of the Superior Court to alleged neglect Of
! the Board Of County Commissioners in he
matter of building q new court house aud
new jail, respectfully submit the following
/ statement:
The presentment anirms that the County
! CommissiO ers ha etreated the recommended
tions of the several grand iures with con
tempt. If the late gr md jury htd taken the
| trouble 10 read the proceedings of the April
| meeting of the Board of County Commission
ers they would have found their complaints
of neglect to give heed to their recommends
tioBs fully answered by a report Of "A commit
tee appointed examine the prcsentment of
the grat jury of the December term.
The presentment Of the last grand jury
states that the court house is inadequate
and unit for the purposes for which IL il
used and that the jail IS .another aud brill
liant illustration" OF the neglect Of the Board
of County Commissioners TO comply with the
recommendations Of the grand juries OF the
county. The 'cument also asserts that If
the hoard ma managed tn affairs according
to cuisines method adopted and properly
brought before the legislature the county
would now have new court house and new
jail.
The efforts Of the Board of County Com
mission RS 10 have new court house and a
/ new jail built are well known that it ID
dih nit TO comprehend how body OF intei-
gent cllizens, su h ae those whose names are
signed TO the report of the Grand jury for the
NJ areh term, could be ignorant of the facts
relative to matters OF such great public inn
u0rtance.
Three years since the board had a bill pre-
pared ana presented TO the q neral Sc NJ
bly,, giving them the authority to issue bonds
by which TO raise the funds necessary TO build