The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

of road precinct No. - in Hannah
district. qualified and gave bond.
John T. Greer surveyor road pre-
cinct No. 3, Cooper district. quail
| fed and gave bond.
A. Livingston surveyor of road
precinct No. B. Arbuckle district,
qualified and gave bond
E. H. Burdett appointed and
qualified as deputy for F. p Miller,
Assessor second assessment district
Duplicate orders ordered issued
to S. A. McMillin and DR.. T. J.
Parsons.
Upon petition. ordered that the
Alternate Road Law Of 1881. as
amended by chapter 80. Acts Of
1887, be submitted to vote at next
ensuing election for ratification or
rejection. in the districts Of etra-
ham and Waggener.
IL A. Meek appointed commit
tee of the Court to advertise and
sell to the lowest bidder. dirt fill TO
take the place of the bridge re-
Gently destroyed by flood over
small stream near Ben Duncan s in
Lewis district the fill to be made
over tiling purchased by Court.
Morgan Greenlee. Oyerseer Poor
Cologne district resigned and NJ.
O. Burdett appointed to fill vacan-
cy.
@. Z Reynolds appointed admin
istrator of Eliza Chapman, deceas-
ed, and gave bond
Report of Clerk as to appoint
ment of Fiduciaries IN vacation of
the Court confirmed.
Settlements of Geo Pofenbarger
excutor Geo. 3. w. Fowler. deceas-
ed; w. n. BelIer. executor Francis
Tinckel, deceased Sarah 2. Long.
executor of VIM. A. Long, deceas-
ed; and a. A. Somerville commit
tee for Mary Someryille made be-
for Commissioners of Accounts.
filed and confirmed
g. @. Bowyer and Rankin Wiley
executors of the lastwiIl aud testa-
mentof @. g. Miller, deceased.
gave bond as such
Upon petition of a number of the
citizens of the county praying that
the order made by the Court at the
january term thereof 1898, relating
TO an additional days work on the
roads in the districts of Union;
Cologne, Robinson, Waggener,
Graham and Lewis be set aside. It
is therefore ordered by the Court
that said order be set aside and
held for nanght. And it is further
ordered that any person now re-
quired to perform the two days
work on the roads as required by
law, may commute therefor by pay,
ing the Surveyor of his road pre-
cinct the sum of seventy-fye cents
per day for the said two days work
SO required to be performed.
It appearing to the Court in the
matter relating to the construction
and Keeping in repair the roads and
bridges in the districts of Union,
Cologne, Graham, Waggener, Rob
inson and Lewis, that necessity
exists for reducing the expendi-
lures out of the road funds of said
districts, itis therefore ordered that
the road surveyors Of each precinct
in said districts be and are hereby
instructed and directed to keep in
repair the said roads and bridges
with the labor and money at their
disposal as such road surveyors,
and in no event. unless expressly
authorized by the County Court.
shall the said Surveyors spend on
said roads to exceed the sum of two
dollars per mile in any year. And
it is ordered that copies Of this or
der be served ON each Surveyor of
road5 In the districts aforesaid
In the matter relating to the
construction and keeping in repair
the roads and bridges in the dis
.tricts of Arbuckle, Clendenin and
Hannan, which said districts have
adopted and have now in force the
Alternate Road Law Of 1881, as
amended by the Acts of 1887, and
it appearing to the Court that all
of the bids for the construction
and keeping in repair the roadsH
and bridges in said districts have
been rejected and it further APP
pearing that necessity exists for
reducing and limiting the expendi-
lures out Of the road funds Of said
districts, It Is therefore ordered