The record-union., 1897-12-12
HAD A VERY BUSY SESSION.
SEVERAL MATTERS UP BEFORE
THE SUPERVISORS.
Pay of Surveyors Assistants Re-
duced-Action on Road and
Bridge Matters.

All the members of the Board Of Su-
pervisors were present at yesterdays
session, and they had no time to waste,
Tor there was lots of business on hand.
District Attorney Ryan was present
and read the law in regard to the is
suance of bonds. He said the procla
nation calling for the Folsom road
election called for twenty-year bonds,
and also that the board might provide
for their payment in ten years. 1t would
now be necessary for the board to
provide by an ordinance for the pay
ment Of the bonds. He thought it
would be well to provide for a tax of
/ cent for the first ten years, and 3
cents for the next ten years, the sur
plus, if any, to be applied to the pay
ment Of the bonds.
Supervisor Morrison said he under
stood the bonds could be sold in open
board, each bidder making his open bid.
He believed that the board, by selling
in open board TO the highest bidder
would realize the highest price for
them. He thought, too, that all pri-
vate parties bidding should be re-
Quired to put up bonds to take them
1t was decided that the District At
torney should prepare the ordinance
and the board would meet on the 20th
to consider it.
FIXING A LEVEE ROAD.
A. A. Merkeley appeared before the
board in reference to the road on the
levee between Y street and Sutterville,
which has a number of holes in it that
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could be done for S25 from Flint's place
up. AS the road is much used in
winter by the river residents it should
be fixed, if possible, before the river
rises.
supervisor Curtis was authorized to
expend $50 on that portion of the road
GRAND ISLAND ROAD.
I. G.. Hall asked the board for au-
1hority to open the road across Grand
Island that was some time ago declared
a public highway. The crops are off
the ground now, he said, and it can be
opened at less expense now than at any
other time.
He was authorized to open the road
as Road Commissioner of that road dis
trict.
SURVEYORS WORK.
board in relation to several bills,
amounting to S2S1 80, incurred under
his direction.
Chairman Jenkins said it was the
District Attorneys opinion that the
County Surveyor had no authority to
employ assistance on his work without
direction of the board. as he is now
receiving a stated salary.
Mr. Boyd asked if the board wished
to hamper his office by directing him to
investigate work that is being done
for the county and then telling him
that he cannot employ the necessary
assistance to do the work He did not
think it was fair to his office to hold
bills presented for six months, when
they could have been either accepted
or rejected at the first meeting. He
employed three men who understand
his work and can do it economically
for him. These men are employed on
the county work only about half the
time. The assistant in his office
puts in bills only for field work done,
and the work done in his office was
paid for out of his own pocket. There
are many thousands of dollars of coun-
ty work constantly under way, and one
man cannot attend to it all at once.
Supervisor Morrison said that when
the board directs the Surveyor to at
tend TO certain work, he thought that
direction carried with it the authority
10 employ the necessary labor to do the
work. Besides his salary, he is enti-
tied to his necessary expenses and
transportation for work done in the
field He read the law on the subject.
Supervisor Mclaughlin said he would
never vote to pay 50 a day for man
to carry a chain, and Mr.. Boyd said
he had never put in a bill for 50 day
for a chairman.
LIVE OAK BRIDGE.
The Chairman asked what the board
wished to do with the demand for ex-
ira work on the Live Oak bridge, which
he knew nothing about. The other
members said they had received tele-
phone message from the foreman in
charge in Of the work on the bridge,
saying that one Of the piers was in
bad condition and getting worse, and
that he did not wish TO go on with
the work until it was fixed. He wanted
them to come out and look at it. and
explained that it would necessitate an
expenditure of S310, and they had told
him TO go on and do the necessary
work, as they would be unable to come
out.
THE SURVEYOR AGAIN.
At the afternoon session Supervisor
Mclaughlin moved that County Sur
veyor Boyd be allowed two assistants,
when the work Of his Office demands it,
one to receive SO and the other 81 30
per day, the Surveyor TO report month
ly to the board the amount and charac-
ter Of the work done.
The motion was carried. and Nc
Iaughlin then moved that all demands
on file by the Surveyor for 50 per day
for an assistant engineer be reduced
to So.
Surveyor Boyd said that would mean
that he would have to pay the balance
nut of his own pocket.
Supervisor Morrison referred to some
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