Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-23

hundred made the following report:
Amount received from all sources,
80, 1882; amount expended as per
vouchers, So, l62.s2, leaving no balance,
balance due the commissioners from
Goael Riding, collector of road taxes, is
TSOS.20; road commissioners have given
their notes as follows: December 7th,
1883, to S. p. Roberts, payable two
years after date, $3.50; No. /, Novembe
18th, 1890, due November 10th, 1891
$3.50; No. 2, November 10th, 1899,
$3.50; No. 3, November 10th, 1893, $3.50
Interest on each of last three notes to
begin April list, 1891. The report was
adopted On motion the court ad-
1ourned until Tuesday morning, at
10 o'clock.
/ Alta meeting of levy court Tuesday morn
ing George II. Simmons was appointed
overseer of the prisoners while at work
breaking stone at New Castle Jail. Mr..
Simmons salary. is $50 per month, to COM
mence April 10Th.
The bill of Parliamentary Peter A. Horty,
Sl06.70, was passed.
The following communication was re-
ceived from Charles II. McWhorter, clerk
of the orphans court.
| The Honorable the Lepp Court OF Esip Cutie
| County. / deem Il my duty to report the con-
| ditton Of some Of the records in my office and
suggest shat your honorable body tlke such
| steps in re alton to them as you may deem
| necessary. First, several of the early volumes
| OF the records of the court Of chancery have
become tiIne-worn and dilapidated so that it Is
necessary TO have them repaired and rebound
| In order to preserve them Second; there IL o
| general index, either direct or indirect to the
chancery records; The eonsequen of
convenience and uncertainty on the part
! OF the attorneys in making examinations
or searches OF titles, this Is q singular omis-
M hnf Pant 500.
have such indexes, am of the opinion that
New Castle county also had them up TO TIL.
time oil the last war with England, when 1t be-
came necessary to remove all of our records to
Pennsylvania for sal city, where some of them
were lost: third, the Orphans Court Indexes
are 30 badly mutilated that before the meeting
OF another Legislature many OF the pages will
De utterly destroyed and lost.
IN submitting this report to your honorable
body, permit me to add tina Ihaye neen res
peltedly urged by m ny OF the attorneys Of
New Castle county bar to lay thi matter before
the present General Assembly and ask for
authority 10 do the work aboye mentioned but
have declined 10 do so, believing that a. inc
expense must ba born New astle county
sch l. action properly belongs to your honorable
Dody ana Una have dt charged my duty in
bring the matter to your notice.
Respectfully submitted,
CHAELEs IT. Mo HoRrER,
Cork orphans court
The communication was referred to the
building committee The members of the
committee, escorted by f. q. Bradford.
Esq, visited the clerks office and ex-
amined the condition of the records. II
was arranged that Clerk McWhorter ascer-
tain the cost of the proposed rebinding.
No business was transacted by the mem
bers of the levy court Tuesday afternoon
other than committee work. The auditing
committee discovered the following among
the bunch of bills presented for payment:
STAFFORD, DEL, March IL, 1891.
New Castle County to
james II. Boyce, Dr.
To experimenting and collecting OF fines
anu iorteltures. ........................S so |
Cancelling orders. ...........,............. so |
500 |
None of the members could understand |
the meaning of the document or on what
authority it was presented to the court 1t
had been handed to Clerk of the Peace
Biggs three weeks ago. 1t was found on
looking over the records that such bills
had always been allowed to ex-State audi
tors. Ex-Deputy Clerk A. G Osborne gave
similar explanation adding that it was
Tor auditing the accounts of magistrates
and constables in this county.