The Charlotte Democrat., 1895-06-07

School tax on 500, levied by the Legis-
| lature 1S
Total AZ
| County taxes general purposes, on 500.
levied by commissioners 20
County taxes, special purposes, on $1O9,
levied by commissioners %
County taxes, convict purposes, on 500.
levied by commissioners 18
| County taxes, rosd purposes, on 500,
| levied by commissioners OF
Total 81
Poll tax, school purposes 81 541<
| Poll tax pensions 10
Pol! tax, poor s51z
Total poll Sc 90
And on all other subjects liable to tax
alton, the same taxes as are levied by the
State. except the merchants license tax,
under section 21 of the revenue act of
1895.
The levy of seven cents for road pur
poses does not apply to Berryhill and
Providence townships. The trustees of
those townships recommended levy of
fifteen cents on the 800 worth of prop
erty in their respective townships, which
was granted.
sTAND-PIPE ORDERED MOVED.
The following order was passed by
the board Tuesday, copy of which
was served on DR.. R. J. Brevard, presi.
dent Of the Charlotte City Water Works
Company:
Whereas, 1t has been determined to
erect a new court house for the county
of Mecklenburg; and
"Whereas, 1t appears to this board to
be tho wish of the people of the county
that said building should be erected upon
the site of the present court house; and
Whereas, It will be necessary for
the accommodation of the business of
the county that the proposed building
shall occupy nearly all of the piece Of
land known as the court house lot;' and
Whereas, On September 9Th, 1881, q
license was granted to the Charlotte City
Water Works Company to erect its
stand.pipe upon the said lot. which
license this board is advised by its coun
sci s revocable; and
"Whereas, Said board is of the opin-
ion that the public interests demand that
the said license should be now revoked
in order that the public interests and
convenience may be subserved by the
erection of new court house upon the
lot bought by the county for that pur.
pose; now, therefore,
cit is resolved, That the said license
granted as aforesaid to the Charlotte
City Water Works Company be, and the
same is hereby, revoked, and it is Or
dered that copy of this resolution be
Immediately transmitted by the clerk of
this board to the president of the said
Charlotte City Wa'er Works Company.
"It is further ordered that the said
company be allowed thirty (30) days
within which to remove the said stand
pipe from the said lot, said period of
thirty days being deemed by this board
reasonable time within which said re.
moval may be made. It is ordered,
however, that the clerk of the board,
when transmitting copy of this reso>
luton, notify the president of the said
company that if his corporation, the
licensee, considers the time fixed as un
reasonably short and desires a longer
time, this board will, upon application
of the company, agree to any reasonable
extension if application therefor shall be
made in writing to the chairman of the
board in reply to said notice, this board
desiring to express it's willingness to
grant any reasonable indulgence in this
particular if the co npany shall express
its intention of removing the stand pipe,
80 as to put the county to no further
cost and disencumber it's property so that
the county may use the lot for the above
mentioned purpose"
The Water Works Company will
stand the county q law suit on the re-
moval question and has retained the
services of Messrs. Jones 4 Tillett and F.
|. Osborne to fight the case for it. The
county will be represented by Messrs.
Burwell, Walker & Cansler. Each side
thinks it has strong case.
John r. Erwin was elected member
of the county finance committee in place
of Thomas Grier, resigned.
Five hundred cubic yards of stone
we're ordered to be placed on the States
Vile road for repair purposes.
The board ordered that sufficient stone
be placed on the Dowd road to macada-
mize that road from the end Of the pres.
ent macadam to Joseph Sloan's mill at
the fork of the road.
The following school committeeman
were appointed for the various school
districts of the county:
No. Nv. M. Ross, Jas. A. Blakeny,
w. M. Ardrey.
No. 2-W. M. Matthews, II. @. Alex.
andey, s. r. Gr,er.
No. 3-T.J Orr, c. A. Mclaughlin,
W. @. Stokes.
No. Al. G. L. Rea, J. B Coffey, W.
B. Williamson.
No. 5-A. P. Nisbet, T. N. Pyron, A.
B. Hood.
No. &c. W. Davis, Walter Ashcraft
e. e. Starnes.
No. II. E. Lemmond, J. P. Flow, J.
d. Helms.
No. 81. 81. Barnett, J. T. Downs. J
M. Niven.
No. 81. NJ. fitzpatrick, J. L. Cald
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