The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-04-04
THE COUNIYS BOARD
Met Yesterday and Did Consider
able Routine Business.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL PASSES,
Giving $i22,sOO for tho Next Fiscal
Year-Tho Case Against Squire
Manion DismIsscd-oGi Elect
od-Tho Cumberland Road ordi.
nance Considered.

The board OF county commissioners
met yesterday in regular monthly sea-
sion, and transacted considerable rou-
tine business. Both morning and alter
noon sessions were held, President T.
B. Dobbins in the chair.
The report of the finance committee
OF the board included bills amounting
to SSl7 05. County orders to the amount
Of 1857 56 08 had been returned by e&-
Sheriff Steenrod,
The committee on poor house and
farm reported bills amounting to
$3.50 40. The report also states that
the number OF inmates at the poor
house is seventy.
The court house and Jail committee
reported the contract for metal CELL
ing in the prosecuting attorneys office,
had been let to Caldwell & Peterson,
and recommended that telephone be
put in the same office. The rules as re-
ported to the committee by the sheriff
Tor the government OF the county jail
were approved and passed by the board.
This committee was given power to
purchase new mattresses and hunks for
the Jail.
The committee on roads and bridges
reported bills aggregatiug 81 ,620,9S.
Tho clerk OF the board reported the
following balances in the road fund:
Liberty, $73S6l; Richland, S202.40;
Richie, SiS5.s2; Triadelphia, Sl,209,37,
The bond OF supervisor OF roads, j.
L. Farrell, OF Triadelphia; and OF JUS
iice OF peace j.. A. Duning, OF Union,
were examined and approved.
Licenses were granted Us follows:
Charles Seibut, Wheeling Park Asso-
citation, William SIamm, John Do!an
and Amelia Walters.
The board then proceeded to select
two county engineers. A resolution
from the Republican side declaring
Messrs. A. S, Bell and James Gilchrist
elected was offered, but was met with
an amendment from the opposition
that the names OF W. @. Smith and Q.
@. Smith be substituted. On party
vote the two Republican nominees were
elected.
The first business to como up for the
attention OF tho board at the afternoon
session was the case OF Miss Maggie
Wharton versus William Manion, who
isa South Side justice OF the peace. She
alleges she had been uujustly compelled
to pay 81 20 to the justice. Prescott
ing Attorney Howard represented the
people and Sam o. Boyce the defend
ant. After over an hour had been con-
sumed in the examination OF witnesses,
a motion to dismiss the case was unani-
mously passed.
Tho committee on finance, having
in charge the fixing OF appropria.
tions for the fiscal year, reported
IN ordinance appropriating amounts
aggregating Sl22, 800 to the various de.
partments, as published in tho lNTELLE-
GENcER few days ago, with the eXcop-
ton that 1916 was taken from tho
contingent fund and put into the
bridge contingent fund. Tho ordinance
went to its second and third readings
and was then passed.
Thomas &. Bennett was unanimously
elected constable to fill the vacancy in
Washington district.
Permission was given to j. =. Hand
Ian to apply for a certificate Tor the
practice OF law in Ohio county.
A resolution introduced by Mr.. Max
we'll, providing for advertisements in
the daily press, for work on the roads,
was carried.
The board went into session as n COM
mittee OF the whole to consider the ordl-
nance governing tho Cumberland road.
The ordinance provides for two divis-
ions, No. from the eastern limit Of the
city eight miles out, No. from the limit
OF No. to the Pennsylvania state line.
A superintendent for each division is
provided for. The Fulton and Leather
wood toll gates are TO be abandoned.
The gates will now be located at the
top OF Fulton hill, Stackyard hollow,
Elm Grove, Rooney's Point. The ordi-
nance provides for the control OF the
road by the committee on roads and
bridges. Tho road shall be siXty:six
feet wide, and where it has become less
by enctoachmeuts, houses and fences
shall be moved back. Tho revenues
from the road arc to be deposited in a
bank to be named by the board, and
shall be expended under the supervision
OF the committee on roads and bridges.
Orders are to be drawn by the presi-
dent and secretary OF the board.
A resolution that road tax BIO assessed
In Fulton wai passed.
The board adjourned at 4:S0 p. m. I'm.
til Thursday morning at 10 o'clock.