The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-12
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The County Engineers Report of the
Drainage Gangs for Last Month.

Drainage Gangs for Last Month.
Tie Board of County Commissioners met
in regular session yesterday, with Commits
sioners Walker, Estill and Dorsett present
Messrs. NJ. j. Solomons, r. D. LaRoche
and M. j. Desvergers, recently elected
county assessors, were duly qualified for the
office
Commissioner Walker was authorized to
procure bo- kcase and set of drawers for
the City Court Clerks office, as recon-
mended by the City Court grand jury, at a
cost not to exceed $50
The petition of Mrs. A McClesky regard
ing the rent of a portion of the land occu-
pied Tor a chain-gang camp was referred to
special committee with power to act.
Petitions for relief from double tax, for
county aid, and Tor liquor licenses, to their
appropriate committees.
The resolutions passed by the Board of
Education on March II last, regarding an
increase OF appropriations for the year 1888
were read, and Clerk Dillon was directed to
forward copy of same to the Superior
Court grand jury at the present term of the
court. Incidentally it is learned that the
commissioners will also go before the grand
jury on this question.
The monthly reports of the various de-
pattdle IS were received for information.
Probably the most interesting, as it deals
with the drainage work of the chain gang
is the report of the County Engineer, from
which tue following extracts are given:
"Hessers chain-gang sums up l., liz work
days, which were disposed of as follows:
lao days work in camp; $50 days work
cleaning out the Harmon canal of washes
and distractions formed after work was
passed by, and opening up several impor-
Iant drains into this canal from adjoining
low lands; 13 days work consumed moving
from the Dixon place to present camp: "A
days water carriers and So days lost from
sickness. The Harmon canal has been left
in very nice order, all bridges nicely built,
literal drains properly opened, and it is
dong It's work very satisfactorily. Water
is bagglng nowhere in its entire length.
Five hundred and ten work days con-
suned in the Vale Royal canal. The trunk
gates at the mouth of this proposed canal
at the river bank are in very bad condition
The Central railroad has agreed to furnish
two good trunks at this point, and the
county to give the labor necessary to put
them down. As yet, nothing in this matter
has been done, and in the meantime the Sa-
vannah river water Gibbs and flows through
these trunks as though they were not there,
which delays immensely the work in the
canal The division superintendent, Will
lam Hege, has been absent much of the
time recently, seeing TO washouts on his
line OF ROAD, Wnlch, perhaps, accounts for
the delay in this work The Central rail
road has also agreed to widen their open
ings under the tracks that cross the line of
our canal
"Shuman's gang sums up 1,S39 work days:
1875 days work Of white men, AL of negro
men and 273 negro women. This number
Of days work is accounted for as follows:
Camp work, 306 days; garden work, "a
days, and Backwater canal, 666; making
fence around poor farm, 70; carpenters
work about camp, Al; Charleston aud Sa-
road 5; cutting line for engineer through
swamp at camp, 81; lost by sickness, 1872
days"
Bills to the amount of $1O,S26 95 were
audited and passed for payment, after
which the board adjourned