Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-07
THE SUPERVISORS.
THEY EXPERIENCE SOME ANNOYANCE
FROM VISITORS.
1t was Finance Day, but Various Persons
Had Little Matters" They Wished
to Have Acted On.

TO have Acted On.
When the Supervisors met yesterday it
was to examine bills against the county.
but the Board had some difficulty in get
ting at its work.
District Attorney Bruner gave an oral
opinion to the Board to the effect that the
changes made in the boundaries of road
districts and election precincts would be
required to be published in the nature of
an ordinance.
When Clerk Hamilton read the minutes
of the proceedings of the preceding day it
appeared therefrom that Supervisor Greer
had made an eloquent speech.
Mr.. Greer moved that the minutes be
corrected in that particular, as he was not
in the babit of dong anything of the kind.
The correction was ordered in accordance
with Mr.. Greer's modest request.
A. P. Catlin appeared before the Board
and presented a petition, signed by certain
property-owners of Folsom, for the closing
so as to allow the Natoma Water Company
to construct its canal and maintain rail
road track along the same through por-
ton of the city.
The petition was referred to the Commit
tee on Roads and Bridges for investigation.
1t reads as follows:
The Honorable Board of Supervisors
MEN: We, the undersigned residents and tax
payers of the town of Folsom, respectfully re-
quest OF your honorable Board that you grant
to the Folsom Water Power Company the right
TO close the following streets and alleys in the
town of Folsom bordering exclusively on the
property of said company, to wit that portion
of Stafford, Mill, Marshall, Coloma, Bridge and
Scott streets, lying and extending westerly
from the westerly side of blocks l, 2, 3, 4, aud
6. and also the alleys in said blocks, as petit
toned for by said company, for the purpose of
utilizing the water power from the canal-and
that you also grant to said company the right OF
way for said canal, with the right to maintain
railroad on the banks thereof, in and upon and
across the before-mentionedp portions of Stafford,
Mill, Marshall, Coloma, Bridge, Scott and River
streets and the alleys in the aforementioned
blocks-and along Leidesdorff. Reading and the
street at the westerly side of the Sacramento
Valley Railroad, and also along Forrest street TO
the easterly boundary of the town of Folsom.
District Attorney Bruner informed the
Board that in his opinion the demand of
Mr.. Hook for a rebate on his assessment of
last year on an unfinished house on H
street, near Twenty-fifth would be proper
one, if the facts were found to be as alleged.
1t appeared that the house was not finished
and ready for occupancy on the 1st day of
March, but when visited some days subse-
quently by the Assessors deputy it was
practically completed, and hence the assess
ment was made.
Mr.. Tebbets asked the District Attorney
if, in such case the unfinished building of
the California State Bank would be assess
able at this time.
Mr.. Bruner replied that he did not think
it would be assessable in its present shape.
Mr.. Bates-"Then a man can build
twenty houses and leave them unfinished
until after the 1st of March, and thus save
years taxes?"
Mr.. Bruner-"Well, we do know that
capitalists send monev out of the county
before the 1st of March and bring it back
again after that date"
Mr.. Tebbetts-"Yes, and 1 know of a
bank having gone to the State Treasury be-
fore the 1st of March and got 100000 in
greenbacks for that much coin."
No action was taken in the matter, as
the Board was desirous of getting down to
the business of the day-the examination
and auditing of demands against the
county.
The members had examined barely half
dozen bills, when Adolph Heilbron, Philip
Herzog, F. w. Biewener. ]. Aukener and
others, representing the Butchers Associa-
ton, appeared before the Board in refer
ence to the matter of the payment of IL
censes by butchers.
Mr.. Heilbron explained the situation to
the Board. He said that in 1860 an attempt
was made to collect license from the butch
ers, and case was tried before Judge Clark,
in which Green & Trainor were the con-
testants. The Court decided in favor of the
butchers. In 1884 the Supervisors passed
license ordinance so worded that the Lii
cense Collector claimed that it required him
to collect license of the butchers. For
thirty years they had not been required to
pay license for selling meat killed by them
and he thought it contrary to the spirit of
the law that they should be compelled to
do so.
License Collector Dolan explained his
action in the premises. He said he had
not collected butchers licenses because his
predecessors had not done so, but the last
two Grand Juries had made so much fuss
over the matter that he consulted the Dis
trict Attorney. This official informed him
that the law required the collection of such
licenses, and recently he had followed that
instruction. Other business men COM
planned because the butchers had been ex-
empteG from the operation of the license
law, and there was a constant "kick" about
it. He simply desired to do his duty in the
matter-it made no difference to him, one
way or the other.
After some further discussion Supervisor
Greer moved that the matter be referred to
the Judiciary Committee of the Board for
inquiry. So ordered.
And again the Board made an effort to
get down to its finance work.
Then Justice G. w. Baker, Secretary of
the Improvement Association, slipped in
and asked the Board what it had con-
cluded TO do in the matter of the promised
resumption of the small monthly stipend
(which had been cut off some months ago.
for the maintenance of the Permanent Ex-
hibit building at the railroad depot.
Without giving President Ross an op-
portunity to exercise his prerogative in ex-
planning to Mr.. Baker that it was finance
day, etc., some of the members spoke up
rather sharply and told the gentleman
that they had no time then to consider the
matter, but to come again.
Mr.. Baker said he knew it was finance
dav, and this was a question of finance,
hence he had purposely chosen that time
to present the matter.
1t was suggested that he make out bill
for the sum desired and present it another
day, and that it would bring on some &C
ton, one way or the other.
Mr.. Baker withdrew, and each member
of the Board took up handful of bills and
proceeded to examine them, when vener-
able-looking gentleman from the country
shuffied up to the railing and said he had
a little matter to bring to the attention OF
the Board.
Mr.. Bates looked as if he was about to
explode, and the hands of the other mem
bers involuntarily grasped the inkstands
on their desks. But the visitors gray
hairs saved him from the fury of the
threatened storm. The situation was ex-
planned to him and he withdrew with an
apology.
1t was then time for lunch, and the
Board took its usual recess.
At the afternoon session there were no
'little matters laid before them, and the
Supervisors managed to get time to 60
through large piles of bills.
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