Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-05
Afternoon Session.

On reassembhng Mr.. DclDrugge, from
the committee appointed to investigate the
advisability of paying the Overseer8 OF the
p Jor in accordance with tho ac,5 OF 1901,
reported as follows:
That in lieu of paying them III accord.
ance with the above named acts, aspeclted
sum bs named, as compliance with theRcts
would probably cause sn abuse thereof.
Your committee would therefore recon-
u end that the city members Of the Board,
as Overseers of the Poor, be paid for the
six months ending Dec 81, 1883, the sum
of 800, and that the country members,
for like services during the last six months,
be paid the sum of $7j, and for each sue.
caeding six months the like sum OF 800
be paid to city members, and $75 10 coun-
try members.
This report provoked
4 LIVELY And EXTENDED DEBATE,
Mr.. Woods taking the ground that an III.
crease in compensation during a term OF
office was in conflict with the Constitution,
while Messrs Boring, Delbrugge, Picket,
S,oker, and others advocated the adoption
of the report of the committee Mr. Peter
sou made the point that the constitutional
provision did not apply to the Board in
am wav, but was only designed to apply TO
officials elacted or appointed a, fixed
salary. He claimed the Board could fix
any salary it pleased so long as the sum
did not exceed $3.50 per day. Finally
the question was taken on the adoption OF
the report and it was adopted ayes 7, noes
2, as follows: Ayes, Messrs Boring Del
bruggc, Peterson, Picket, Prince, Sroker,
and Stem; noes, Messrs, Maxwell and
WooGs-2.
CARE or PRISONERS ~ JAIL
The clerk read the following:
AT meeting OF the Board of Commis
sioners OF Ohio county, held Dec. 30, the
following resolution was adopted
Resolved That the opinion OF h NJ
Russell, ESQ be requested as to whether
the following articles, or any o. them, fur
nisbsd to the county Jail and to prisoners
confined therein, should be paid for ont OF
the county tresmry: Light, fuel, wearing
apparel for prisoners bedding for prison.
ers, utensils for cooking and serving food
brooms, scrub brushes, soap, etc,
In reply, the following was submitted:
IT, tn, BoaH Of Commissioners Of
Ohiu CUURtg:
GFyTLEuEy Tha code OF West Virginia
Chap 80, Sec. IA. requires that you st the
expense OF the coInty shall provide. @
suitable court house and jail, together
with suitable offices foc the clerks OF the
Circuit and County Courts, aad shail keep
them in constant and Gd,qls.c repair, aud
supplied with the necessary furniture,
books, stationery, fuel and
Such OTHER THINGS
"a shall he necessary.
Chap IL, Sec 10, Of the Code requires
the iallor to have the apartments OF the
Jail whitewashsd aired, aud keep clean, to
furnish every prisoner With food, and with
bed and bedding
Chap. l37, Sec - the Code provides
that the jsiler shall receive ifty cents daily
for keeping and supporting parsou con
fined in Jail and tha; the actual amount
of fuel used by the aiIar in heating the
iail shall be repaid him by the County
CoHrt. Under these provisions my opinion
is that the County Court should pay the
taller for the fael consumed in haa'i0g The
Jail but that there is
80 AUTHORITY or LAW
for the County Court, or Board Of Com.
missioncrs to pay, in the first instance, nor
to reimburse the taller CT Sheriff what he
may par, for weaTIug apparel for prison
era. for bedding for them, for utensils used
in cooking or serving TODD nor for utensils
or other things used By the jNiler in keep
ing the all clean, such as brooms, scrub.
brushes soap, &c.
AS TO the matter Of light think it
may be fairly said TO come within the 9th.
er thiuga which the County Court should
provide according to chapter SO, section
ii, aud that the Jail should be lighted
at the expense OF the county jus. as the
Court House is. 1t cannot, however, be
said that there is any provision OF the