Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-09-30
County Court Proceed
ingS.
August Term, 1909
NAuSuEl 4VIuII -cVU.J
State of West Virginia, Jefferson county, set :
In the County Court, August Term, 1890,
(Continued from last week.l

Continued from last week)
In the matter of the petition of g j.. Williams
and others. to open public road from the
Warm Spring public road at a point on the
lands of Miss Nancy McGarry to the intersec-
tfon with the Sany Ridge road. notice having
been duly given as required by law to Miss
Nancy McGarry and to james W. McGarry the
proprietOrs and tenants of the land sought to
be taken, and they having been fully heard, the
Court doth decide to undertake the proposed
work on behalf of the County; and the said
Nancy McGarry and James w. McGarry refus-
ing to accept the compensation awarded them
by the viewers. aud offered them by the Court
for the land taken and the damages sustained
1t is ordered that proceedings be instituted and
prosecuted in the corporate name of this Court
In the Circuit Court of this County, pursuant
to the 49nd Chapter of the Code to ascertain
what will be just compensation to the said
parties for the proposed land to be taken.
Report OF William Beall S. Howell Brown
and Robert Chew, viewers heretofore appoint
ed in relation to the public road from Jos. H.
Wageley's shop to Bakers mill, having been re-
turned to this Court and filed, it is ordered
that the said report be received and approved,
and 1t is ordered further that the Road Sur
veyors OF Middlcway Road District proceed to
have the bridge across the dam built as recon-
mended in the report of viewers. and that the
costs attending the same be paid out of the
road fund of the AEiddleway Road district.
Inc Conrt this day appoints DR.. w. +. Lip
pitt, Dr. H. NJ. Marshall and DR.. b. B. Ransom
who together with the President of this Court
and the Prosecuting Attorney, to constitute.
the County Board of Health; the said Lippitt
to be President of the Board at salary of
twenty-five dollars (S25.OO) per annum
The Court accepts the bid of Julius c. Holmes
to fix the cupola of the Courthouse. per spec
ifcations this day presented to the Court for
the sum of thiIty-two dollars and fifty cents
(SS2.5O), and the sum of three dollars So OO)
for liking sash. weights aud cords in one win
dow in the Courthouse.
Ordered, that Thomas D. Moore act as Agent
In purchasing OOnl fnr (NOrtrt-
House.
Petition of Charles IT, Knott and others to
alter or change the public road from leagues
run to Shcpherdstown. The report of viewers
heretofore appointed having been returned this
Court, and said report being adverse to the
opening or changing of said road at the re-
quest OF ii. w. Blunt and others the further
consideration of this case is postponed until
the next regular term of this Court
This day came c. P. Wilson and 46 others
all cltlzehs ana inhabitants of jefferson Coun-
~ and near Summit Point in said County, and
filed their petition in writing asking that tIis
Court, for certain reasons set ont in soid no.
dtion to revoke and annul the license here
tofOre granted by order and permission of this
Court to John ID. Hart to sell spirituous liuuors
at Summit Point in jefferson County " Va
in certain house named in said license II is
thereupOn ordered that the petition he filed
and that notice be served at once upon the said
John D. Hart to appear before this Court on
Friday. august Sth. 1890. at 10 o'clock MT tho
Court House in Charlestown. at which time he
and the said petitioners will be heard upon the
matter of the proposed revocation. that day
being agree upon ny the said petitioners and
the said John D. Hart, who are now present in
open Court.
Friday. August sth, 1890
On petition of C. P. Wilson and others this
day presented to the Court. asking that the
license to retail spirituous liquors to John D.
Hart at Summit Point. in this County, be re-
voked. the Court having heard the testimony
produced and the argument of counsel is man
imoEs in the opinion that said petition be re-
fused.
Petition of John I. Hooff and others citizens
OF this County. to be relieved of taxes on ac-
eount Of destruction of crops by haiIstorms,
this day rejected and refused by the Court.
A CoPy-Tesie.
GERARD d. MOORE.
Clerk of said Court.