Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-08-12
Meeting of County Board of Supervisors.

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Peery, J. H. Greever and w. L. G. Burke
was teld These gentlemen constituted
the former board and Were reelected d
the Spring election.
The board organized by the election o
]. Ed. Peery, president.
The annual report of John F. Litz, SUI
perintendent of the county farm, was pre-
sented and adopted. 1t made a favorable
showing for the management and reported
the following property now on the farm
q 2-year-old steers, 2-year-old heifers, 6
yearling steers, yearling heifer, ~ milch
cows, bull, one evoke ofoxen, eight calves
As ewes, buck, 6 eve lambs, 8 mules,
horse, yearling colt, mule colt, SO hogs
The stock sold during the fiscal year end.
ing the lst of July amounted to $9s4.63,
which was turned into the treasury. The
agricultural products made on farm during
the last fiscal year were as follows: 19
stacks of hay, 800 dozen oats, 1sS bushels
threshed oats, 100 dozen rye, IS bushels
threshed rye, ITO bushels potatoes, s bush
els beans, 5000 lbs of pork, 1900 bushels
of corn and rick of straw.
1t was ascertained that the cost to the
county of keeping paupers outside the
county poor house during the fiscal year
was as follows:
Clear Fork district. 1882. Al
Jeffersonville district. ............... 444.06
Maiden Spring district....... $500. 1925
The board then audited all the outstand-
ing claims against the county and fixed the
salaries of the county officers for the next
two years.
Drs. Gillespie & Hall were awarded the
contract for medical services to paupers on
county farm for two years.
The following order was entered:
Ordered that the general county levy
for the yeaI 1897 (which ends financially
July lst. 1S9S) be fixed at the rate of fifty
cents on each Sl00 worth of property,
l6S cents of which is for support of the
poor, that fifty cents be levied on each
tithable for public free school purposes,
ten cents on each 500 worth of taxable
property for free school purposes, ten cents
on each S100 worth of taxable property
for district school purposes, and thirty
cents on each 500 worth of taxable prop
erty for the working and permanent i'm
provement of the public roads of the
county"
This makes the entire county levy 81 on
each 500 worth of property.
D. w. Lynch, G. A. Black and Patton
J. Brown were appointed committee to
examine the court house and see what re-
pairs are necessary TO be done to the court
house, fence &c.
The following order was also entered:
"Ordered that the clerk of the board Of
supervisors notify Chapman &, Gillespie
and Henry & Graham that the law offices
now occupied by them are the property of
Tazewell county, and that they must va
cate the said Offices and turn the same
over to Tazewell county by the 10th day of
September, 1897"
1t was also ordered that the clerk of the
board notify the town council to remove
the hose house now on the court green.
These orders are made with the con.
temptation of having all buildings removed
from the court green except such as are
necessary for county purposes. 1t is made
in pursuance of decision of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia in county
of Allegheny vs.. Parrish, rendered October
lst, 1896 and reported in 99d Va. reports.