The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-13
TO LEVY ON THE ROAD.
An Execution Against The Vernon Shell
Road Go. in The SheTiffS Hands.

Road Go. in The SheIill'S Hands.
The Company Refused to Pay a Bill for
Drainage and Claimed Damages to
the Property-A Myers Committee
Appears TO See if the Rush and Dis
order in the Court House Could Not be
stopped-The Commissioners Have
no Power Over the Tax Collectors
! once.
The county commissioners held their
December meeting yesterday. Messrs.
| Dale. Chaplin and Kehoe being present.
/ The first matter discussed was the bill
| Of the county against the Vernon shell
road amounting to S52s. 40 for the services
Of the county hands in cleaning out the
drains and bitches along that road. The
payment of the claim was refused about
/ two months ago. on the ground that the
road had been badly damaged by the coun-
/ ty forces. and a suit for 5000 damages was
/ entered by d. b. Lester. Esq, president
of the company.
The commissioners refused to consider
the suit. in the form in which it was pre-
scented, and the county's bill against the
company was referred to County Attor-
ney J. r. Saussy for the purpose of draw
ing up an execution against the property.
The commissioners signed the execution
yesterday and it will be placed in the
hands of the sheriff to levy on the proper
ty. This will bring the matter to an issue
and the owners Of the road will no doubt
! contest the claim in the courts, as well as
push their claim for damages on the
ground that their road has been narrowed
by the cutting Of large bitches, and that
their newly planted trees have been dam
aged by too much digging and cutting
| around the roots.
committee representing Mr.. Herman
Myers, composed of Messrs. W. p. Oft,
Harry Willink and John Powers. appeared
before the board TO see if some action could
not be taken to relieve the pressure. and
obviate the turmoil and disorder in the
payment of taxes at the court house.
When asked the object of the visit of the
| committee, Mr.. Willink said to Chairman
Dale:
Mr.. Myers asked us to come here, I
think it was on a suggestion of yours"
THE suggestion on my part" Mr.. Dale
.
proceedings which go on here every morn
ing are outrageous, and we are ready to
do anything in our power to put stop to
| them. There ought to be a remedy for II,
and there would be If we could get Capt
McGowan to consent to adopt it, My idea
| is that clerks should be employed to look
| up each mans name on the books and pre-
pare the receipts, and then Capt. Meow
an would have nothing TO do but take in
the money and hand out the receipts. Each
side could have a representative in the
| office and the rush and crowd would be
avoided The way things go on now is
| certainly an Internal outrage"
Mr.. Dale asked Mr.. Saussy IL the COM
missioners could do anything with regard
to the matter.
Capt. MCGOWAN is a state and county
officer" he replied. HE is under bond,
and the county commissioners have no
control over his Office"
Chairman Dale then told the commit
| tee that the commissioners could take
no official action in the matter, but if
| the board could do anything to facilitate
| the payment of taxes IT would do so gladly.
The matter was discussed at length,
| and it was suggested that a committee
| from both factions see Capt. MCGOWAN
and try to arrange some plan by which
the difficulties and disturbance could be
/ obviated.
Prophet Hayward, the county's preacher
/ at the chain-gang camps. put in an APP
/ plication for financial aid to enable him
| to attend the conference of his church
| at Blackshear. He wrote an interesting
| communication to the board, stating that
| he needed the money, and that he always
| gave the commissioners a good name
wherever he went. He invoked the bless
| ings of the Almighty on their delibera-
lions, and said he hoped his petition would
| be favorably received. The commissioners
decided to give him $50 to pay his expenses
to the conference. Heywards salary as
preacher at the chain-gang camps is the
muniticent sum of $50 per year
In his monthly report Mai Blandford
| called attention to the fact of the reduced
| forces at the convict camps, the daily
| average being 267 less for November than
| for October. Owing to this depletion of
the gang the cost of guarding was cents
per capita per day greater.
As the weather has been rather favora-
BILE the drainage work has made good
progress. Camp No was moved Dec l
to Sackville by order of the drainage
committee, and consolidated with No 8 on
| the new canal there.
There are now 119 prisoners in all the
| camps, six of whom are on the sick list
The able for duty consists of 81 men. six
| of whom are white, ten boys and twelve
women. By the consolidation of camps
| Nos. and g. with the present small num-
| Der of convicts, there is a saving of about
| 1920 a month in the expenses of keeping
| the prisoners.
The contracts for county supplies for
the next three months were awarded az
J follows: James NJ. Dixon & Co, provis
! ions; c. H. Dixon, coal; William Fl. Con-
| nerat, wood, and NJ. S. Gardner beef
The petition of Laura Ramsay colored.
Tor county aid was referred to the COM
mlttee on county poor, with power to act.