Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-03
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The Business Transacted at Yesterday
Regular Meeting.
A Resolution offered by Mr.. Irwin
Unanimously Adopted, Asking
the Secretary Of the Navy to
Name a New Gunboat After This
City.

The Board Of County Commissioners
met in regular session yesterday morn
ing, all the members being present
The business transacted was of a strict
ly routine nature, with the exception Of
the resolution offered by Commissioner
Irwin, looking to the naming of one of
the government gunboats after this
city. This resolution appears in full
later on.
Committee bills were ordered paid as
follows:
Finance $3.50. ,..;..:.... ...........S ~ -
Court House and Jail ............... 30 -
Poor House and Farm
Contingent poor fund.-. LIS 90 l,73O 4S
Total ......... ......... ..........S5 261 81
The Sheriff returned county orders
paid by him to the amount of $13 ,116.66.
The superintendent of the Infrmary
reported a total of 123 inmates, as fol-
lows: White males, 50; white females,
Is; colored males, l. cOloTed females, 8.
There was one birth and two deaths at
the institution during the month.
Bonds of road supervisors were ap-
proved as follows: George w. Heryey,
No. 10 Richland; John c. Biggs. No. IS
Liberty; J. II. Biggs, No. 1 Liberty; J.
w. Hine, No. II Richland
The bonds of Jerry Westlake, con-
stable of Philadelphia district, and of J.
c. Games, toll-collector for the Wheel
ing. West Liberty and Bethany pike,
were also approved.
The report of Clerk Moffat showed the
following district road balances:
Triadelphia ......... ......... 1916 IS
Lhberty ......... ......... .............. 263 il
Richlahu ''.'........ ......... ......... 81 20
The Committee on Roads and Bridges
was instructed to close the Long Run
and Potomac road through the lands of
Scott Nuzum and Joseph Rodgers, as
far as the new road is opened, and to
have the necessary legal notices pre-
pared.
The report of the special poor COM
mittee was received and filed.
A new docket was ordered issued to
Justice Ankle.
The bids for medical attendance and
medicine for the prisoners in the coun-
ty Jail were opened, they being two in
number, DR.. w. P. McGrail, sos, and
DR.. J. R. Manley, SIS. The contract
was awarded to DR.. McGrail. there be-
ing some little doubt about the mean
ing of DR.. Manley's tender.
The following was offered by Mr.. r.
win and passed unanimously:
Whereas, There are a number of
gunboats authorized and now being
constructed under an act of Congress.
for which names have not been selected
by the Secretary of the Navy; and
Whereas, 1t is eminently appropri-
ate and desirable that one of them
should be given the name of the city of
Wheeling, one of the very oldest com
muniues west of the Alleghenies. the
scene of two revolutionary battles. the
home of Elizabeth Zane that heroic
girl who brought the powder for the re-
lief of Fort Henry from her brothers
house, under the fire of a savage enc
my, and the place made ever memoir
able by the recklessly daring leap of
Major Samuel McCulloch; therefore
be il
Resolved, That the Secretary Of the
Navy be and is hereby most earnestly
requested to name one of the new gun
boats Wheeling, in honor of our city. so.
renowned in Revolutionary annals.
Resolved That the Senators of the
United States from West Virginia. the
delegates in Congress from our State.
and the Hon. William l.. Wilson. Post
master General of the United States. be
and they are hereby requested to lend
their aid TO the accomplishment of the
matter stated in the preceding resolu-
ton
Resolved. That the President of this
Board shall transmit certified copies of
the foregoing preamble and these reso-
lutions 10 the Secretary of the Navy.
and the officials named in the last pre-
ceding resolution"