The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-11
Respectfully.
VIM. D.

orable body.
Respectfully.
VIM. D. MCMILLAN,
Superintendent.
Two other communications from DR..
Mcmillan, dated the 18th and 17th of
last month, and which were in regard
to notifying the commissioners that the
board of health a ordered vaccine
points, were read.
Three bills from H. NJ. Alexander &
Co., for vaccine points, were referred
to the auditing committee. The first
bill was for $500, fifty packages of
points; the second for $25.02 for All
points; the third for 500, for 1867
points.
/ Mr.. N. G. Parker, representing the
Sneed Furniture Company, asked about
a balance due by the county to his
house for the purchase of furniture for
the hospital, and which he was told
the city would pay, but which The city
had refused to do. He was informed
that his bill would be attended to.
"a resolution was passed authorizing
the county attorney to proceed in sell
ing a piece of land to Robert w. Nixon,
colored, which and was sold by the
county in 1884 for taxes. Nixon offered
500. so for the land, extctly what the
taxes since the sale has amounted to,
and aGbout what Mr.. Bellamy said it
was worth.
The following resolution was offered
and adopted:
1T is ordered by the board that from
and after this date no bills or accounts
will foe paid by the county by reason of
any custom or usage heretofore adopt
ed and reocgized by former boards of
commissioners of this county, excepting
and only such bills as the county may
be legally liable for"
Colonel John D. Taylor, clerk of the
superior court, reported that he had
collected $25 from the Fishblate Cloth
ing Company, for school tax, and Reg
lister of Deeds Norwood reported that
he had turned over to the treasurer
$22. 80, the county's share for the issu-
ing, by him, of twenty-nine marriage
licenses during the past month.
The board refused to grant a request
of Captain Thos. C James to exempt a
house on the southeast orner of Third
and Grae streets from taxation, on ac-
count of being used for school pur-
poses.
On application of D. A. Teachey, col
ored, to bury the pauped dead, was re-
jected, as the position has already an
occupant.
Mr.. Geo. HOnnet vas granted the
contract for attending to the clock, at
$40 per year, and the Carolina Ice Com
pany was granted the contract for sup
plying the county with ice, in quanti-
ties to suit, at 20 cents per hundred
pounds for the ice used at the hospital
and 40 cents per hundred for ice used
at the court house.
On motion, the three resolutions, pre-
sented separately. were adopted:
1T is ordered by the board that coun-
ty attorney, Marsden Bellamy, be and
he is hereby directed, unless all taxes
are paid before March, Is, 1898, to in
stitute legal proceedings for the recov-
cry of the property located at the
northwest Intersection of Market and
Second streets, in the city of Whining
ton, N. c., or for the collection of the
past due taxes thereon no county or
state taxes having been paid on said
property for about twenty years"
TT is ordered by the board that coun-
ty attorney, Marsden Bethany, be and
is hereby directed to institute legal
proceedings for the ecovery of all
property in h county of New Han
over which has been sold for taxes
since the year 1885, n for which the
county holds certificates or deeds, un-
less said taxes are paid on or before
the LIST day of April, A. D. 1898. The
compensation of the county attorney
and other county officials to be paid
only out of the collections made on
property V in each particular
case; in an amount to be determined
by the board of county commission
erS."
THE chairman of the board is re-
Quested to urge upon the Oh
commerce. produce exchange n Other
commercial bodies in the city of viii
mingtOn the necessity of publishing In
the different manufacturers records
published in the different states tina
upon proper appreciation of persons Oh
r corporations desiring to embark in ths
business of manufacturing in the city
of Wilmington, that they viii be ex'
, empt for the period of ten years r
ldAdtIOl, dS pISSS1I bCo ny OH - ~ 1AN
legislature, the said act having beer
ratified by the unanimous endorsement
of the qualified voters of the city o
Wilmington, and to further reques
the said commercial bodies to TAX
such other action in reference thereto
as in their opinion may be most con
ducive to the introduction of new en-
terprises in our city"
| "A bill of James Lane, colored, 70
$1,000 for painting done at the city hoe
= pital was ordered paid.
A set of rules for the governing o
| the inmates at the county house, whic1
. were drafted by DR.. Mcmillan, wer
!, read.
For the March term of the circui
court the following jurors were drawn
, /. f. Higgins, c. II. Gilbert, c. L. Al