Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27


Booth, deceafed, In NV Castls hundred,
was reduced from &2i, 600 to $500.
W. U. Spruance, u q, represented the as-
tate, of which he is trustee. He asked the
reduction on the ground OF the farm bsing
much run down, the buildings aud fences
In ruins or In need OF extensive repairs.
He also claimed that the farm was smaller
than 1t was assessed for. There was a long
discussion and In the aye and nay vote by
which the reduction was made only Jordan
aud Mccall voted no. Resolutions were
then offered transferring the property 10
Br. sprua CO as trustee ana correcting the
MISTAKE OF a former assessor.
A farm OF 800 acres IN ST. Georges hun
dred ,lssessed al fl6, 192. so, gaa transferred
from the estate OF Cnatlg9E q. Polk to Charles
u. Polk; u farm of 24i acres tn vt Georges
hundred, assessed 1T 3l6, 1890, was tralls-
ferred from the estate OF Uhsrlss Il. Polk TO
Mrs. Sarah H. Polk As faet OF lot OF East
Eleventh street, between Spruce and Kirk
wood, belonging to L. P. Grub d Son and
assessed al 5l5 foot, was stricken fron
the assessment list.
Il was 1850 O'Clock when Clerk Osborne
hagan to read the petitions Of nearly 1000
citizens collected by EVERY EVENING asking
fora reduction In the allowances for meals OF
prisoners at tine New Castle jail from 30 to
20 cents day. He read ths petition and
about 30 names before tho time 10 adjourn
arrived, while the members OF the court
listened intently for those personally known
TO them. Some OF thcge read wanted the
allowance reduced to 10 or 10 cents one
wanted the allowance reduced for the
coming year instead of the past. and
third recommended that the prisoners be
fed on bread and water.
The committee nas been In corret pond
ence with the authorities Of many counties.
other than those communicated with by
IA fk.nk fNf
prisoners food runs about the same as In
those counties published by EVERY EvEsIaa.
rho committee will probably recommend
that the reduction asked for by the cit.zsns
OF the county be made.
BEFORE adjournment Charles A, Bryan
was put on the assessment list for Pcncader
hundred, Jacob q. Rhoads, voucher.
MR.. LoBDELL CALLED ON.
AT this afternoons session Mr.. Wier
offered the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, Mr.. George g Iobdell of this
county has publicly asserted that certain road
mending has been done AT a cost 70 the county,
in one case Of 500 which uld or ehonld have
been done for 500 and in another cgse whore
tho cost 10 the county was SCI that should not
have cost moro than %; now, thereto o, be IL
Rrno nd That the slid George g. Lobdell be
and is hereby summoned 10 HppcHr before this
court and 70 state In plain terms whether this
body or any member thereof has been so dor O
lie funds.
The resolution was adopted and copy
ordered to be sent to Mr.. Iobdell.
After the resolution had been passe |
and the small sensation which its
introduction made, had subsidized, John
Collins. colored, applied to be put on the
assessment liat.
Collins had wild look and elaine!
| that he recently moved from Mill Creek
hundred. Es answered. the questions
| put TO him in such IN insane manner
that intimations that he was not in full
| possession of his mental powers forced
themselves on those present. Lemuel
Graves, the Republican assessor OF Mill
Greek hundred, attempted TO account for
the man without being aaked to do SO,
and was promptly and somewhat
bruequeiy asked to take his scat by
Measrs. Roberts and Ehellcross. The
ooloEed man was told TO depart as he was
not thought qualified to be put on the
assessment list.
Clerk Osborne then resumed the sead
ing of the petitions collected by EVERY
EVENING, asking for ths reduction OF the
allowance TO the sheriff for prisoners
food from 80 osuts to 20 oents per day.
l Azkk- SDOuEh0 VIII ElOL lcth 6fGAI
He read all Of those on the small petit.
tions, bat only the first three or four,
or one here and there on the long one5
1t was after o'clook when he con,
cluded. Enough had been read to show
the levy court that majority of the
most prominent and public spirited Giti
zeas and property owners OF the county
was asking for this reduction OF taxation
The members of the court listened quietlj
as the long list of names was read, ant
occasionally member took one Of the
petitions received from his own hundred
and carefully scanned the signatures.
When the name OF John u. v, Plat
was read among many others from New
Castle. Mr. Wier stated that Mr.. Plat
had asked him to say that he had signed
the petition under missppreheusion
He did not propose to ask for reduction
on the present sheriff.
CLERK Osborne stated that he could NOT
read certain signature, and Mr.. Wier
suggested that ii must be that of Mug.
wump.
During the reading of the last Of the
names, Sheriff Allen came to the door
of the court room and quietly handed
Mr.. Wier package of papers. MIR. Wiel
handed them TO the clerk, who, after he
had finished reading the names OF petit
TONERS for reduction, turned to them.
They were the counter petitions, about
which some vague things have been
heard, asking the levy court not TO re.
duoe the allowance for feeding prisoners
until after the term Of the present sheriff
had expired. There were Rlso letters on
the same subject. Clerk Osborne started
TO read one. He got as far Ms George o.
Rothwell, Levy Court Commissioner TO,
Blackbird Hundred; Dear SIR wher
some one said that Thomas Holoomb
Esq, had come important business to
bring before the court, aud further read
ing was postponed.
AIR. Holcomb represented William
jerks Fell and asked that tine assessment
on q tract OF so acres of land in Chris
tlana hundred, near Newport, be reduced
II was assessed for "a, 500 in 1885 and
SIS, 800 at present. The cause OF th;
great enhancement Of value was that MIR
Fell had concluded to build town OF
the tract, and some time had plotted il
into lots. This project had been sban
doned after three lots had been sold, fol
which MIR. Fell had received no money
and gave no deed. The assessment ha(
been made on each separate lot and tool
up II pages on the assessment book
there being 1000 lots.
Mr.. Everson, the Assessor, said that h
had assessed the land as farm last year
but the court directed him to assess tn
land by plots. Mr.. Fell had told hin
that he had abandoned the projeote,
town and was going to use the land TO
farm purposes again.
The assessment was reduced, by an az
and nay vote of to 8, to $4,GT on tn
tract as farm.
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