The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-04

including the rule requiring the presld-
Ing. officer to give the casting vote
which. while contained in CushIng's
Manual, Is made part OF the rules Of
the board. would make the recurrence
OF dead-locks and the consequent stop
ping OF public business On impossible
ity. y;
Paragraph 243. Cushing's Manual.
says: "Of course, It Is Understood that
n deliberate assembly would have the
same power to regulate the speakers
vote Us to make any other rule. This,
however. must always be subject to the
organic law by which the assembly Is
constituted" The act Of the legislature
creating the board does not restrict the
right of the board to make rules regu-
lating the speakers vote. and. as
shown above. the board has undertaken
to regulate the vote of the presiding
a member, and then In case of a tie re-
.quirlng him to give the casting vote,
and thus break the tie.
In the case of Whitney ct al, VS.. the
Common Council, OF the Village OF Hud-
son ct al. 50 Mich, Rep. 1S9 decided In
1883, cited In l Beach on Public Corpor-
atoms. Note /. Section 292. tpage 29S).
and which involved the collection of
taxes to pay for municipal improves
ments. 1t was held:
1.-THE charter of q village whose
common council Ia composed Of the
president and six trustees, and which
provides that In proceedings Of the
council each member present shall have
one vote. and when there shall be q
tie. the president shall give the casting
vote. makes the president voter upon
every question. and In the case of tie
he has an additional vote"
With reference to the signing Of the
minutes Of meeting, and an effort to
prevent the same: @
Rule 8. Section /. of the board. says:
'"The minutes shall be read ut each
meeting, and corrected, II necessary;
shall be signed by the president and
attested by the clerk.
II in a given case the presiding officer
having once voted as q member, gave
the casting vote, and the five members
on the minority side sought to prevent
the signing of the minutes, the only
proper motoin. according to Rule g..
would be to correrct the minutes. 1t
would require affirmative action TO cor
rect. On motion to correct. IL ten
members were present. and the result
was a tie, the motion to correct would
be lost.
Paragraph ESQ. page 149, Cushlng's
Manual, says: when a question has
been once put to delibcrative assem-
bly, and decided. whether In the afllrma-
tive or negative, that decision Is the
Judgment Of the assembly, and cannot
be again brought into question"
AS result the minutes as read would
be signed by the president and attestcd
by he clerk.
Liquor licenses were granted to the
Mozart Park Association, William Fet-
ta, c. Rudlcr. Robert jenkins, &c. =.
Hartlleb. Joseph Herden and August
Pestlnger. The application of Sam
Miller. on the National road, near the
state line, was rejected. by 4 vote of
six to four.
j The committee that examined the
county jail reported and the report was
referred to the committee on court
house and jail for consideration.
/. w. c. Keller resigned as supervisor of
road precinct No. IA. In Richland dis
trict. William Linton was appointed to
fill the vacancy.
A communication from the Florence
Crittenden Rescue Home, asking the
county to furnish 1t with medicine ana
that the county, physician attend the
sick inmates. was received. A COM
mittee was appointed to learn the cos.
OF the medicines. and whether the
county physician would assume these
additional duties. Messrs. Tyson.
Stahnke and Fritz were appointed on
the committee.
Mr.. Hare moved that the president
be authorized to vote the stock held by
the county in the Ohio River Railroad
Company, which meeting Is to be held
In May. The motion prevailed.
Bonds of G. S. Biggs, superintendent
Of free schools: James a. Birkett. sup
erintendent Of the county iniirmary;
John kiGer superintendent OF the sec
ond division of the Cumberland road;
William Downs. toll collector on the
Wheeling and Fairmont pike. were APP
proved On the Birkett, KiGer and
Downs bonds there We're objections
from the coalition five" but the chair
decided the bonds had been approved.
The Central District Telephone Com
pany applied for permission to run
its wires into the county building via
an underground conduit. The permis-
sion was granted.
Mr.. Moore's motion that the road
superintendent be notified by the COM
they must enforce the law requiring
two days work annually on the roads
or 81 in lieu thereof. was passed. This
law has been dead-lettcr for several
years. 1t means scvera! thousand dol
lars of additional revenue for the
county.
All OF the ten members OF the board
were present ut the afternoon session.
The report of Mr.. Moore. committee on
poor. for the past three months, was
approved. MessrS. Hare and Bowman
were appointed for the ensuing three
months.
The annual appropriation ordinance
was taken up. 1t was as follows:
APPROPRIATIONS.
Court house and jail...................s9 5000
Poor house and farm.................. 10000
Contingent poor fund.................. 1850
Assessments ...."...........,......... $500
Births, deaths. marriages. ............ 200
Court expense. .......................... 1900
Deaf, dumb and blind. 81
lnQucStS ....-..................... 10
Insurance ....................... $50
Interest Il, 500
Law library OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. GOO
Local board Of health. 100
Lunacy Observation-Disclosures. 200
lilsdemeanors ........................... 1905
Per diem Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Printing and binding .................. 1.GO)
SherIN's commissions. ................. COCO
Sinking fund so bonds. .............. $50
Sinking fund.- 1870 bonds.............. 1900
Stationery .......................... 2Nl
Taxes, delinquent. ..................... 1000