The Florida star., 1901-04-05
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING

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Session This Week.
The board of county commissioners
met in Titusville Monday, April 1,
pursuant TO adjournment; members
present: ]. r. Walker, chairman; ]. Mem
del, w. Fl. Sharpe, R. A. Conkling and
]. N. Waller; A. A. Stewart, clerk, and
j. p. Brown, sheriff.
The following business was transacted:
The minutes of last regular meeting
were read and confirmed.
II was ordered that the publishing of
the delinquent tax list for 1900 be award
ed to THE FLORIDA STAR.
A permit was granted to F. Fisher to
capture a manatee or sea cow for purely
scientific purposes.
Receipts received from ]. w. White,
secretary of the Florida County Commis-
sioners' association. for their dues as
members of this association for the year
1901, which were paid by the individual
members of the board.
The bond of B. X. Wilson, as justice of
the peace for the Second district, to the
amount of $500, was examined and APP
proved.
To the Honorable Board of County Commis-
'sioners of Brevard County:
Your commissioner, appointed by your
honorable body at your session in Febru-
airy, to participate in the deliberations at
a convention TO be held in Jacksonville,
missioners of the various counties Of the
state, begs leave to report as follows:
That the state was well represented by
a good attendance of commissioners and
the following business was transacted.
They constituted themselves into a
permanent body by adopting a constitu-
ton, bylaws and electing officers. The
officers consist of president, secretary
and treasurer, and board of executive
committee, composed of five members.
Road building and poor farms were
thoroughly discussed, of which your
commissioner gave you oral conclusions,
as nothing permanent in that line could
be accomplished.
The convention, through their execu-
tive committee, will make the following
recommendations and have a competent
force of lawyers. members of the coming
legislature, to have acts passed to cover
the following points:
l. That all lands sold for taxes should
be redeemed at the county court house
where such lands are situated, and the
interest to go into the treasury of the
county.
2. That all counties should be taxed
certain amount for state expenses, in
stead of levying millage as at present.
8. That the county commissioners
should have fuller control over the coun-
ty convicts.
4. That the tax assessor should have
an assistant in each commissioner dis
trict
To the latter proposition your commits
sioner earnestly objected, as it creates a
set of new officers to be paid by the
county.
Each county to become a member of
this association is to pay an amount Of 81
by April lst of each year.
The officers to serve two years without
pay.
All of which is respectfully submitted
to your honorable body by your commits
sioner. j. MENDEL,
Commissioner.
The report of G. T. McCarty, to com
plete the purchase of land in Dade coun-
ty for securing the material for road
building in Brevard county, was received.
He having procured full and complete
title to the same the committee asked to
be discharged, which was accordingly
done.
The proposition of j. Andrews to de-
liver shell f. o. b. on any of the sidings
of the F. Z. G. railway within distance
of 20 miles of Fl. Pierce, for road pur-
poses in the Fifth district, at a price of
81 per cubic yard, was rejected, the price
being too much IN excess OF former pur-
chases of similar materials.
Ordered that the chairman of this
board, j. r. Walker, is hereby author
lied to arrange with Mr.. Golf, superin-
tendent F. Z. G. railway, for the con-
struction of a suitable siding to facilitate
the loading of cars in the lot recently
mn rchaSaA in Dada t.ountv for rock for