The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-02-06

An ordinance transferring amounts
to various accounts was passed withou.
opposition.
An ordinance was presented proyid-
ing that the clerk shall ascertain wha.
orders on tho general school fund are
outstanding. No orders shall be audited
until outstanding orders are paid.
Hereafter all accounts shall be audited
In the order they are received. Orders
shall not DO passed exceeding the
amount on hand. No claims OF Justices
are to be audited unless presented on
the regular printed form. Tho ordi-
nance shall go into effect on its passage.
Mr.. SlcGregor explained that Justices
4 have not been turning over money but
have balanced the amounts they held
by school orders. Tho ordinance was
adopted by unanimous vote.
Secretary n. D. Bakor, OF the state
board OF health, notified the board that
the local board OF health's terms will
expire in July, and requesting new
nominees. The old nominees were
again named, as follows: Drs. Jobes
and Petrie and @. S. Terrill.
Michael Clark asked for an allowance
OF S37 for stone used. It was said be-.
fore the board that tho stone was not OF
the proper quality, so the board voted
not to allow tho claim.
Residents OF Richlaud district asked
for a new road. The petition was re-
ferred TO tho road and bridge commit
tee.
Residents on tho old Elm Grove and
BoCgs Hill road asked for Improvement
on that road. On motion OF DR.. Bates
tho petition was referred to the com.
mittee on roads and bridges.
a petition was presented from rssi.
dents on the Wheeling and Elm Grove
road asking for a sidewalk from tho
Fairmont pike up, about 1900 feet; re-
ferred to the road and bridge committee
for report.
Triadelphia residents asked for re-.
view oil survey for q road from sWicd-
man's to Valley Grove. The petition
was granted.
Mr.. Maxwell presented a resolution
naming the road from the foot oil Deck's
/ hill to Potomac the Long Run to Poto.
mac road, and authorizing the right OF
way to be procured.
FOR FREE TOLL.
DR.. Bates then presented his resolu-
ton abolishing toll on the county
roads. In explanation he said the rcso.
luton provides it shall not 60 into effect
until tho terms Of office OF tho present
road officers expire, April, 1895. The
resolution was a. follows:
WHEREAS Tho system Of lowing tolls
upon the people Tor use OF the public
highways is still maintained in tho
county Of Ohio, while elsewhere in the
world It has been long since abandoned
as relic OF a past age and no longer
consistent with the spirit and progress
OF the times, and =
WHEREAS, The system has borne with
undue and unnecessary severity upon n
comparatively small proportion Of the
people, while the whole community
profits thereby, DO 1t
sRe;0leSd, That on and after tho first
day Of April, 1896, the lowing Of tolls
DO abolished and collection OF same be
discontinued upon all the public roads
oil Ohio county and said roads DO open
I! to travel free Of toll. :
A petition signed by a. A, Franz.
helm, George Z. Stitel, FL. Hcarne and
seyenty-liye or q, hundred Others was
read, in which the petitioners ask that
tho action contemplated By the Bates
i resolution DO taken by the board.
Mr.. McGregor said he had heard OF
the movement and had !,
THOUGHT IT a JOKE
OF his genial friend from Richland dis.
trics. Regarding tho petition no said
it reminded him OF the man who had
signed a petition to hang himself At
(. this point he was interrupted by! DR..
Bates, and after a good iumored by
play he:praceedei. Mr.. McGreyor said
the places where tolls arc CHARGED arc
those where good roads prevail. Ohio
iraunsy. he said, is tho only county in