The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-24

Proceedings Of the Board Of Audit and
Finance Yesferd~y Aiternoon-RePeEt Of
the Artesian Wen Committee

Proceedings Of the Boar OF Audit ana
Finance Yesterday Aiiernoon-R~Pers Of
the Artesian Well Committee
The board of audit ard finance met in
regular session yesterday afternoon at
$50 O'Clock. the member in attendance
being Messrs. H. c.. Mcqueen. II. A De-
Cover and John II. Weber. Absent.
Chairman W. H. Chadbourn and Mr.. c..
W. Yates.
In the absence OF the chairman. Mr..
pore.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved
The clerk of the board made his re-
port of mis- examination OF the books of
the city treasurer and tax collector. for
the month of November, showing: Cash
on hand November 1st. sl3. 9s.3s: receipts
for the month of November. / e.oss-30:
disbursements in November, S,1.5-oS;
balance TO December account. SIS, 3ol--1.
Communications were received from
the board of aldermen stating that they
had elected d. 3. Sutton, Esq. city at
torney, that they had appropriated 500
to pay the city's part of the repairs to
the city hospital. Action on the appropri-
alton for the hospital was deferred.
The clerk read the following report of
the committee appointed by the board of
audit and nance and the board of alder
men with reference to the boring of an
artesian well by the city:
Wilmington, n. c.. November q, '97.
To the Board of Audit and Finance:
The committee to whom was referred
the contract for an artesian well. desire
to make the following report: We APP
pointed a meeting with the committee
from the board of aldermen and invited
the Clarendon Waterworks Company TO
confer with US. Messrs. Divine, kiddeT
and Robertson, representing the water
works mpan came to the meeting and
informed US that their company had
made a CONTRACT for an artesian We'll of
Finch diameter and proposed to get a
supply of good water as soon as possible.
They very frankly stated that they
would furnish drinking water in various
parts Of the city-as many as II faucets
and sI2, places for watering stock-free
Of cost 10 the city. Having no doubt
that the waterworks company will do
what their representatives expressed
themselves as willing to do. we recon-
mend that the board of aldermen take
the necessary Stepe to get a written
agreement, covering the above, from the
reasonable time to carry out the agree
| ment. and tina the city authorities do
nothing towards boring a well.
d. l.. GORE.
C. w. YATES.
H. c.. MCQUEEN.
g. T. KEITH,
| On motion the above report was adept
ed and the resolution sent over ~ The
board of aldermen appropriating $1,000 to
have on artesian Well bored, was laid
upon the table.
Bills were audited and approved as fol-
| lows: For current = expenses, s., 264. %
quarantine expenses, 5000; coupons,
| $3.50.
Among the bills approved were the fol-
| lowing: Bill of the law firm of Ricaud
& Bryan for S1W for legal services in Sc
| curing the dismissal of the suit of Mrs.
| H. Kure, by being struck by the tongue
| for the alleged killing of her husband, II.
H. Kure, by being struck byt he tongue
of a steam fire engine; bill of Messrs.
| Ricaud & Bryan for securing the dismis-
| sal of the case of Highsmith VS. the city
of Wilmington, for 5000 for false arrest:
bills for S26 to pay the expenses of Chief
! W.. r. Joyner, and 5000 to pay the ex-
penses Of Assistant Chief H. 2. Haney.
| OF the Atlanta fire department, both
OF whom came here to consult and assist
in organizing W~ilmington's paid fire de-
| partment, and the bin of J. o. Brown for
$3.50 for repairing tbs truck of Hook
and Ladder Company No. /.
The board adjourned subject to the call
| of the chairman.