Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-04
CUMBERLAND ROAD.
NEW ORDINANCE PREPARED BY THE BOARD
OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
An Important Session Held Yesterday, at Which
Considerable Important Business Was
TranSaCtsd-PrOcesdingS
in Detail.


met IN regular monthly session yester-
day morning. The meeting was a pro-
tracted one, and the body adjourned
until Thursday morning, without finish
ing the work before it. All the mem
bers were present.
The Finance Committee reported bills
amounting to SS17.64. The committee
also reported county orders returned by
Sheriff Steenrod to the amount of $780,
ESQ. &C. The Committee on Court House
and Jail reported that the contract for
putting metal ceiling in the office Of
Prosecuting Attorney Howard was let
TO Caldwell & Peterson. The committee
also recommended that telephone be
placed in Mr.. Towards Office. The
committee asked for authority to pur-
chase new mattresses, hunks and toilet
articles for the jail, which the Board
granted. A series of rules for the gov
eminent of the jail occupants and gen.
eral conduct of the institution, which
were prepared by Sheriff Franzheim,
and adopted by the Board.
The appropriation bill, heretofore
printed in the REGISTER, was taken up
and passed.
The Committee on Roads and Bridges
reported bills to the amount Of 81, 629.9s.
The Poor House and Farm Committee
reported bills aRgregating S450.49. The
report showed 70 inmates OF the poor
house during the past month, OF which
40 were white males, Is white females,
one colored male and two colored fe-
males. The employment Of Emma Da-
Wis as a nurse at the Infrmary was au-
thorized.
Clerk Moffat reported the following
road fund balances in the various dis
trictS: Liberty, S73s.61; Richland,
s2O2. 40; Richie, S135.S2; Triadelphia,
81, 299.37.
The bonds Of ]. E. Farrell for Super
visor of Roads for precinct No. Of
Triadelphia, and J. A. Dunning as JUS
tice of the Peace of Union District, were
received and approved.
License was granted to Chas. Seibert,
VIM. Stamm, John Dolan, the Wheel
ing Park Association, and Mrs. Amelia
Walters. The applications from the
towns of Fulton and Elm Grove were
acted upon favorably. A resolution
was adopted, changing the sale OF the
old Court House property from John a.
Howard to Murray Bros. A resolution
declaring A. S. Bell and James Gilchrist
County Engineers, was passed, after de-
feating an amendment offered by
Democratic member, TO substitute the
names of w. c. and c. c. Smith.
The complaint of Mary A. Wharton,
against Justice Manion, OF Webster dis
trict, was taken up, and S. O. Boyce,
Esq. representing Justice Manion, made
statement of the case for his client.
The matter was under consideration
when the Board took a recess
until the afternoon. Complainant al
leges that Justice Manion secured 81. 30
from her illegally. Mr.. Manon proved
conclusively that he demanded security
for the costs, Mrs. Wharton being a
nonresident; that the case was decided
against her, and that she was really
still indebted to him for the costs. The
complaint was dismissed.
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Washington district.
The Board then resolved itself into a
committee Of the whole for considera-
ton of the Cumberland Road ordi-
nance. This occupied the remainder Of
the afternoon. Several important
changes were made. The ordinance, if
adopted Thursday, will divide the road
into two districts, each eight miles long,
with a superintendent at a salary
OF S1.5O per day, for each dis
trict From the passage or the
ordinance, the road will be under the
control of the Roads and Bridges Com
mittee, who will deposit In some bank
designated by the Board all the reve-
nues derived from the road, and the ex-
penditures will be under the direction
of said committee.
The most important changes made
will be the location of the toll houses.
No. will remain on the top of Wheel
ing hill, and toll-keepers' salary will be
one-half the receipts, as heretofore.
No. will be changed from its present
location at Leatherwood to point at
or near Stackyard Hollow. The Board
will probably erect building at
that point, and in addition fix the sal
airy at $50 per month. No. and No.
will remain at Elm Grove and Roney's
Point respectively, with salary at
each toll house of SIS per month.
The width of the road, as established
by the ordinance, will be &C feet, and
the committee on Roads and Bridges
will be given authority to remove any
fences encroaching upon the road. AT
the meeting of the Board on Thursday,
it is probable that the toll-keepers will
be elected.