The record-union., 1893-09-26
COUNTY MATTERS.
Business Transacted by the Super
visors Yesterday.
Delegates to be Appointed to County
Road Copvention-The Twelfth.
Street TrestIe.

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visors A. B. Bryant, the contractor for
repairing the public road between Gait
and New Hope, filed his bond as such In
the sum of $500. The contract with Mr..
Bryant was then approved.
A petition was received from residents
near the Costumes to have certain re-
pairs made to the road running by the
Vermilyea place. It was represented
that the heavy rains of last winter had
left the road in very bad condition.
After some discussion the Road Com
missioner from that district was author
lied to have the necessary repairs made.
COUNTY VS.. CITY.
When Sheriff O'NeiPs bill for feeding
and clothing prisoners was taken up its
figures startled Supervisor Todd.
The demand was for $3.50, and Mr..
Todd declared that the county should not
be made to foot the bill, as fully one-hali
the expense was incurred by city prison
ers.
The board decided to present claim to
the City Trustees for one-half the eX-
pense for food and clothing supplied to
prisoners in the County Jail.
This demand will probably be met by
the declaration that the city is a part OF
the county; that it pays its pro-rata for
The support of all county institutions,
and that the prisoners, when convicted,
are county prisoners just as much as II
they had been sentenced at Gait or Fol-
som, or any other town.
COUNTY ROAD CONVENTION.
J. o. Coleman, Sparrow Smith, Daniel
Flint and w. ID. Lawton appeared before
the board on behalf OF the Good Roads
Association. Mr.. Coleman read an ad-
dress to the board requesting that body
to take action regarding the calling of a
county convention to be held on October
18th in this city. The communication
was as follows:
SACRAMENTO, Sept. %, 1893.
TO the Honorable the Board Of Super
VlSOrS Of Sacramento COURty-GENTLE-
MEN: The recent State Road Convention,
which your honorable board had the
honor in large part to originate and pro-
mote, resulted III a spirit of inquiry and
research into economic and local road
construction most beneficial to the COM
munity. The evidence that in the APP
preaching winter there is to be a great
deal of worthy distress and strong APP
peals to the charities of the people have
combined with the spirit of the Road
Convention TO move a large number of
citizens to consider if il may not be posi-
bile to secure for Sacramento County the
circulation Of a considerable sum of
money that may be utilized to give en-
ployment to the worthy unemployed of
our own county, give the people as re-
suit desired permanent road improve
ment, and at the same time tend to reduce
taxation upon agricultural interests, and
likewise promote business and industrial
interests in the city and the towns of the
county. To that end it has been deemed
wise to take into consultation represent
ative citizens of the county and the city
in a convention to be held at the Art Gal
lery at l p. NJ. on Tuesday, the 18th of
October. The undersigned have been
created a committee to ask your honOra-
bic body to name from the several town
ships of the county 125 thoughtful repre-
sentative citizens of known probity and
public spirit, to serve as delegates in such
convention of counsel. The City Trustees
will likewise be asked to name 100 citi-
zens of like character in the city to repre-
sent city interests in such convention.
We now most respectfully prefer that re-
quest that ample time may be had to no
tify the selected delegates and to fill the
places of such as may reply that other
duties will prevent their attendance. We
beg leave to add that the members OF your
honorable board are hereby asked to sit
in and act with such convention and
similar request will be made of the City
Trustees. DANIEL FLINT,
J. o. COLEMAN,
w. d. LAwToN,
SPARROW SMITH,
Committee.
Supervisor Todd moved that, in COM
pliance with the request, each member of
the board name twenty-five citizens out
side the city, and that the same be asked
TO attend the convention as delegates, and
it was so ordered.
Sparrow Smith said it would be very
agreeable to the promoters OF the conven-
ton to baVe all the members OF the Board
of Supervisors included in the list of del
egates.
LICENSE REDUCTION REFUSED.
James a. Browne, proprietor of the
Theater Comique, appeared before the
board and asked that his county license
be reduced from $40 per month. He said
he could show that the receipts from his
show business seldom reached SO per
night, generally being from So to So. He
said be could not keep open and pay any
such license.
Supervisor Curtis said the board could
not make fish of one and flesh of another,
and in his opinion should adhere to the
ground heretofore taken. On his motion
the application was rejected.
TWELFTH STREET GRADE.
Supervisor Curtis addressed the board
in reference to the proposed 1880 feet Of
trestle and !, 100 feet of grading to be con-
structed at the approach to the Twelfth
street grade beyond the north levee. He
said it should be regarded as matter of
urgency and disposed of at once. He
therefore moved that the plans and speci-
Iications submitted by County Surveyor
Winn be adopted and bids asked for
The motion was adopted
THE ARNo ROAD.
Supervisor Jenkins called up the mat
ter of the improvement of the road from
McConnelPs to Arno. which road was in
spected last week by the members of the
board. He thought the County Surveyor
should visit the locality and report to the
board the most feasible route for the new
road to take.
Amotion to that effect was carried.