The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-05-18

1t is needless to say that the plan has proved
eminently satisfactory. At the present time
it is understood that all bids shall run for
four months, making a renewal necessary
three times in a year instead of four, thereby
lessening the labors of the secretary to our
board,
We would further call the attention of your
honorable body to the fact that despite the
expense we have gone to in fitting up addi-
tional cells for the accommodation of the
pauper insane of the county at the solicita
tIon and orders of the secretary to the
Lunacy Commission of the State, and the
secretary to the Local Board of Health. The
parties whom it was prepared to accommo-
date are still confined in the county Jail and
to have them admitted into the asylum, they
should be committed by the proper authori-
ties thereupon, We will be ready to receive
them. The building of the insane asylum on
the part of the tax payers Of Cecil county, to
accommodate the pauper insane of the
county. in our judgment, was an Herculean
undertaking. but now that we have it, efforts
should be made to make it self sustaining
The like has been done in other quarters and
why not have it done here. But to arrive at
that end it will entail an additional outlay
from the county until the services can bel
brought to that point, wherein it will cease to
be sourse of expense to the tax payers
but in addition would bring in revenue to
assist in running the aims house and farm, in
the shape of labor OF inmates, and resources
from board of those who are able to pay.
As an illustration of our efforts in that
direction, when the present board took
charge of the service, the highest amount Of
monthly receipts derived from the asylum
was SIT. Since then the highest amount
received any one month has been l49. At
the present time we are deriving S39 per
month from the Board of Inmates
All of which is respectfully submitted.
L. n. CRAWFORD, NJ. d, President
W. T. HAMMOND, Secretary,
JAMES II. MAXWELL
The Trustees of the Poor and Insane pre-
sented a petition asking for the sum of $4,000
for the maintenance of the aims house and
insane asylum for the year beginning July |,
1885 Ordered that same be appropriated.
WEDNESDAY.
The bond of George NJ. Campbell, the
standard keeper, with the following sureties
James Z. Dean and Il. B. Frazer, was ap-
proved.
Petition of Robert j. Crow and Others
praying the opening of ii new road from
Jackson school to the residence Of George
W. Devinne in the Fourth District, was pre-
sented, and the following examiners ap-
pointed: Joseph Miller, Edward Taylor. Chas.
H. Smith.
The following cOnstables were appointed
by the board: First district. Thomas Benson
Horace NJ. Eaton; Second, George Il. Car
prntcr; Third and Fourth, Thomas L. Lee
Fifth, George I. Murray: Sixth, Benjamin
Briscoe; Eighth, J. II. McGuigan.
The following bridge tenders were ap-
pointed: Scotchman and Bohemia, John Z.
shelton; Chesapeake City, James Allen.
The following vaccine physicians were
appointed First district, j. H. Hardcastle;
Second, J. V. Wallace; Third, Howard Brat
ton; Fourth james Whitaker; Fifth, p. b.
Housekeeper; Sixth, William Turner, H. II.
'FolHtTS: SeN'hlu, y. u. flSIcr: ElSntn, D.
7. Roman; Ninth, j. B. Slicer, David Rich
ards.
300 REwARI.
Austin l.. Crothers. States attorney, and
others appeared before the board, asking
that IA reward he offered for the apprehen-
sion of ARIZONA Bob" on the charge Of
numbering Franklin W. Knapp in Elkton in
July, 1894, and it was ordered that reward
of $500 be and is hereby offered for his
arrest.