The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-06-07


| PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTY COMMISSION
ERs.-The Commissioners were in session on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, being chiefly
occupied in examining accounts preparatory to
closing the levy.
| The Clerk was instructed to request the tx
amiuers on the Hartford station road to amend
their report by making some change in the To-
cation of the road near Bush.
| The Treasurer was instructed to pay 4. b.
McClung SIS for opening the Gilbert Hill road.
| The following petitions were received and
filed
From David Hanway aud Others for bridge
over Winters Run, on the public road leading
from High Point to Fallston. From John
Lynch and others, first district, for a new road
In the Forest near Hartford Furnace. From
Robert Seneca and others, sixth district, to
pension Rebecca Robinson. From John Bolts
and Others, second district, to pension Betsy
| Courtney. From James X. Smith and others,
fifth district, to pension Ann Forwood.
The following bids were received for opening
the Joppa road:
Lehman & Hurley, 500; Thomas IL. Lynch,
$2l5. The contract was awarded to the latter.
Bids were received as follows for county coal !:
John e. Rouse, No. 3 coal, 81. 55; No. 8, So 50
delivered ut Court House and Jail; or S5.O5
for No. and IS. 80 for No. 3, at NJ. c. Railroad,
Bel Air.
| Edward Ferry, Ne. 2, S5.l5; No. 3, S.. 40, at
depot, Bel Air, or S5.45 for No. and S. 70 for
No. j. delivered at the Court House and Jail
The contract was awarded to Mr.. Ferry.
The Treasurer was instructed to pay John A.
Boyer 800 on account of opening Line Bridge
road.
The School Commissioners applied for levy
of Is cents on the 500 to run the schools. The
| Commissioners reconsidered their former action
and granted II cents on the 800 for running
the schools and cents on the 800 to build
three new school houses.
Pensions were granted, as follows:
Catharine HOFFMAN, LIST district, $50; Betsy
Courtney, I'd district 500; Charles and Samuel
Fox, I'd district, $50 each Rebecca Rob-
inson, 9th district, $50; Edward Rice, Sd dis.
trict. SIS; Hannah Bradford, Sd district, $50 !;
Leonard Ady, Sd district S25 Luther Thiths,
4th district, $40: VIM. King, 4th district, $50
James II. Blaney, 4th district, $50; Samuel
Bell, 4lh district, $50; James W. smothers, 5th
| district, SIS; James Duncan, 9Th district S25:
Ann Forwood 9th district, $50.
| The following named amounts were appro-
| priated for pubic roads;
lst, district, 5000; I'd, $1,000; Sd, $1,000 :;
18th, $4,000 9Th, 5000.
Additional petitions, numerously signed,
were handed in to the Commissioners asking
for the establishment of public landing at
Eagle Point, Bush river, and public road lead
ing thereto. Messrs. Hayward Il Bartlett, the
owners of Eagle Point and through whose lands
the proposed road would run, were represented
by MIR. John f. semmes, of Baltimore, and Col.
Herman stump. MIR. Geo. l.. VanBbber APP
pcared for the petitioners, 400 in number.
Counsel for Hayward " Bartlett asked that the
appointment of examiners might be deferred
for week, in order 10 give their clients time
in which to make proposition that, they
thought, would he acceptable to all parties in
terestcd. Mr.. VanBlbber argued that they had
had at least ninety days in which to prepare
statement and that no delay ought to be grant
| cd.
The Commissioners appointed E. d. Ii. Pue,
VIM. Webster and Thomas E. Cathcart as ex-
aminers on the proposed new landing and road.
The board will meet again June nth.