Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
OF COUNTY CONCERN
Omciai Pi Oceedlngs of the Rock Island
County Board of Supervisors.

Omciai Pi Oceedlngs of the Rock Islans
County Board of Supervisors.
Pursuant to law the board o
supervisors in and for the county o
Rock Island and state of Illinois
convened in the supervisors room il
the city of Rock Island in the county
of Rock Island and state Of Ulinoi:
on the second Tuesday, being the
sth day of September. A. ID. 1896. A
members present. Supervisor Carey
chairman, presiding. Minutes Of
the last days proceedings of tn,
special August term were read a {
approved.
Supervisor Thornton presented .
petition from 20 citizens OF tn,
county that the board OF supervisors
take action toward assisting George
&. Griffin to secure cork leg, aoc
moved it's adoption. Carried. Su
pnrvisor Quayle moved that the mat
ter be left with Supervisor Thornton
with power to act. Carried.
The clerk read the following from
the collector of Moline:
To the Honorable Board OF Su
pervisOrs of Rock Island County
Illinois:
|. the undersigned, do hereby mos,
respectfully petition your honorabl,
body to allow me $9l.2S as compen
sation for collecting the delinquent
personal taxes in Moline township
after return day. would not have
petitioned your honorable body fol
this, but as / found myself shor,
said amount in settling up with the
proper officers. and | fully believe
that said shortage is due to mistake.
in the footings of the tax book
wherein found some mistakes Will
making out the delinquent book.
consider that / am FULLY entitled t,
have the amount refunded.
Contrary to custom, l had to d,
double work for the usual compen
sation, and if, beside, l shall b. com
PEELED to stand this loss, think it i
my right to ask to have the tax bool
footed up by an expert in order t.
lind the true cause for the shortage
Praying this, my petition, b,
granted, 1 am very respectful,
yours, ROBERT MALCOLM.
Supervisor Schoonmaker move,
that the prayer in the petition be no
granted. Carried.
Supervisor Ford moved that tn
poor master of Moline be instructe
to take boy by the name of Eng
man to the county inlirmary, an
that the steward Re directed to get
place for him with some respectful l
family. Carried.
Supervisor Ninton moved that tn
clerk be instructed to issue an orde
on the county treasury payable t
William McEniry for the 5000 here
tofore appropriated for the laying c
the corner stone of the Insane no spi
tai at Watertown. Carried.
| Supervisor Swank offered the 70
lowing resolution, aud moved it
adoption.
Resolved, That all sums of none
collected by the county of Rock Is
and in the year 1896 and thereafter
from the owners and operators {
of ferries" for ferry license acr0s
Rock river. in said county. shall b,
and is hereby appropriated to til
improvement of public highways
leading to and from said ferries, an
it is hereby ordered that the count
clerk shall issue orders on the count
treasurer for such sums so collecte
payable to the commissioners {
highways in the towns wherein sal
license fee is collected, and ferr
landing situated to be by them e,
pended as aforesaid and for no othe
purpose.
Dated this sth day OF September
1896. Carried.
The committee on roads an
bridges submitted the following r,
port. which upon motion was re
ceived and adopted:
DRURr TOWNSHIP, Rock Islam
County. Ill. July is. 9G.-Th
road and bridge committee Of th
Rock Island board of supervisor
met at the office OF the town clerk {
Drury township July Is at 2 p. IL
to advertise for the erection of tw
bridges across Copperas creek i
said township. the first bridge to b
located on the highway near the res
idence Of Joseph Hampton. The d
mansions OF same to be as follow.
90 OF 65 feet long. 10 feet wide wit
a 16-soot apron on south end. and
20-foot apron on the north end. fou
stee, cylinders Is feet long and
feet in diameter, an oak piling i
each to-AIs Is inches in diameter
The second bridge tn he located nea
the residence OF q. W. Workman d
mansions OF same to be 80 feet long
floor ii feet wide with apron at eac
end 90 feet long. with four steel Cyl
inders l6 feet long and 80 inches i
diameter. The floors Of esch bridg