The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09

Commissioner Met Yesterday Afters
noon and made the Tax Levitt was
the Regular Monthly Meeting and
Other Business Was Transacted-An~
other session this Afternoon.
The regular monthly meeting of the
hoard of county commissioners was
held yesterday afternoon, commencing
at 2:30 o'clock, with all the members in
attendance = Commissioners Moore,
chairman, Holmes, McEachern, Barry
and Alexander.
TAX LEVY MADE.
The most important action Of he
meeting was the levying of the personal
and real estate tax, as follows:
Genera expense, 1875 cents; military,
rs cents; hospital, 4 cents; roads n
bridges, 10 cents; bonded debt, 3 4-S
cents. This makes a tax Of 50 cents on
the 500.
The poll tax was fixed at s1.56.
So now the state and county tax is
as follows:
Real Estate-County, 50 cents; state,
43 cents. Total, 50 cents.
PolI-County, s1.56; state, s1.29. To
tai, S2.85.
REPORTS OF OFFICIALS.
Register of Deeds Biddle reported
that during the past month there were
issued twenty marriage licenses and
that $19 had been turned over to the
county as it's share of the fees.
The superintendent of health, DR.. w.
d. Mcmillan, filed the following report:
During the month Of May we have
treated 116 patients in this office and
made SO visits to "A patients at their
homes.
9TH Jail is in better sanitary condi-
ton than ever before and except for
the system of plumbing would be
good.
1.-The county home is clean and we'll
kept, and the inmates are comfortable
and we'll fed.
There has been no acute sickness in
the Jail or home"
Colonel John D. Taylor, clerk Of the
superior court, reported that during the
month of May he collected SO jury tax
from the suit of Greer VS.. Greer, and
$50 school, tax, $25 incorporation fee
each from the Delgado Mills and the
Silver Stream Distilling Company.
LIQUOR LICENSES.
An application was received from
Mr.. George Campbell, proprietor of
Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville Beach,
ry. The license was granted, but with
the understanding that under no cir
cumstances will the license be trans
ferred to Wilmington township.
The license of J. M. Martin was trans
ferred from a business No. LOG North
Water street to a business on Wrights-
vile Beach.
PEST HOUSE SITE.
Chairman Moore, of the committee
appointed to confer with the sanitary
committee of the board of aldermen
and the superintendent of health in re-
gard to the establishment of a pest
house, reported that the county a
carried out it's part of the proposition
a site being donated for the erection
of the pest house. The site, as has be-
fore been noted in these columns, con-
sists Of four acres Of land of the old
fair ground, being part of the county
home tract.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
One allowance was made under the
head of out door poor.
A petition was granted I. P. Quinn to
have a special survey made by w. M.
Hansley of lands in Cape Fear town
ship.
Joseph Smith was exempted from
the payment of poll tax on account of
physical disability.
Hereafter, on motion of Commission
er McEachern, it was decided that all
applicants for exemption of poll tax
on account of physical disability will
have to be examined as to their dis
ability by DR.. w. D. Mcmillan, SUPER
intedent of health.
Other matters came up for considera-
ton, but were. deferred until an ad-
journed meeting this afternoon at 2:3O
O'Clock.