The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-13
WORK For TIE COUNTY.
The COMMISSIONERS DONTF FAVOR
LIQUOR Lie JRsBs.

No License Granted for Two Years
and They srs Against a Precedent.
The Couaty Engineers Report - a
Petition from the Citizsns' Sanitary
| Association - Some Orders Issued
for Additional Drainage Facilities,
The new board Of county commissioners
promises to be as strongly opposed to grant
| ing liquor licenses as was the old one No
| license has been granted to sell liquor in the
county outside the city limits within two
years, aud to all appearances refusals will
| continue.
The petition of Bailey Carpenter TO sell
liquor on the bluff, near the Ogeeobee river,
was considered by the commissioners In
their regular session yesterday afternoon.
Along with it came a protest from Ralph
Elliott, who stated that the community was
opposed to the granting of the license, and
Furthermore, that Carpenter had been SELL
ing liquor illegally for more than year.
The law requires that five of the ten
signers of petition for license shall be free
holders. Bailey claimed that oil of the
signers Of his petition were such, but the
minds OF the commissioners were not salts
fed, aud they refused to consider 1t further
until it could be positively determined
as TO whether the law had been complied
with in regard to the number OF freeholders
signing it, end also If there was q church or
school house within three miles of the place.
LICENSE REFUSED OUTRIGHT.
Another petition was presented by John
Cincairtcle asking for q license TO sell liquor
five miles frola the city on the Augusta
road.
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three miles Of the placer some one asked.
Yes, half dozen or So" replied Clerk
Dillon.
"Then that settles the matter" said the
commissioners, and they refused the license.
A petition for new road TO connect ths
Louisville and Pine Barren roads,
is be thirty feet wide and TO be
declared a public road, was presented by
the property owners through whose land
the road was to run, apd was referred as Is
customary, to the three road commissioners
living nearest to tho locality.
THE ENGIEEER's REPORT.
Maj Blandfords report for the week was
submitted, and stated among other things
that the causeway and approaches
on the Buckhalter road across the
Buckhalter swamp had been finished
and that the force of twenty-five
convicts is now employed on the Mont
gomery cross-road. This road, he states,
has been repaired from q potns near the
Meridian road TO a point 500 feet beyond
the Pile Trunk bridge. He also stated that
efforts were being made TO recapture the
rec nifty escaped convicts.
An application for an increase of salary
from $50 to 5000 per annum was made by
the county pastor, Rev. Crawford Hey
ward, who breaches to the convicts and the
county poor, he stating that he would keep
bI1 nd oie-
sioners were of the opiQion that 800 was
enough for his services, and referred his
appeal to the committee on budget.
The request of the Citizens Sanitary AS
ISOLATION that the county sanitary inspector,
who WAS also the Inspector of the assoeias
ton. be continued in office AID paid q sai-
airy Of 81 900 per year, was referred TO the
committee on budget.
THE DRAINAGE COMMITTEES REPORTS.
The report made by the drainage COM
mittee stated that force of hands had
been put TO work on the Casey canal and
were now cleaning it out. 1t was recon-
mended that a new oauel be constructed
through the CuYler swamp for the purpose of
draining that land. The report was adopted
and the following order passed:
That the committee on drainage be author
lied to have constructed, according 10 plans
and specifications prepared by the county
1871, canal dbbut rect III
length from the DeReuue canal, where it
crosses the Waters road to O point in q south
eAsteriy direction, where it will discharge into
the new Casey canal in Sackville.
The committee was also empowered to &C.
quire for the county the necessary right of
way for the canal, and also 10 construct
that portion of the new Casey canal as pro-
jected from where its line crosses the pres
ent Casey canal TO the poiat OF discharge OF
the new DeRenne canal, distance of 1900
feet