The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-26
The Highest Bidder Has Al
ready Declined Them.
He WANTS EN- VOTED ON
The Next Highest is Now Investigat.
ing Their Validity.
QUESTIONS AS TO NECESSARY EXPENSES
Chairman Green, of the Board Of County Com.
missoners, Says Separate Quarters Have
Been Prepared in the County Jail
For Female Prisoners,

been prepared IN the County Jail
For Female Prisoners.
The county is just now having trou-
bic in disposing of it's $4,000 of Fund.
ing per cent 30-year bonds.
On June 1st, when bids were opened
1t was found that FEEDER Hoffman and
Company, of Cincinnati, We're the high
est bidders, their bid being SIS 100.
Inc bonds were awarded to them
ana they asked the usual time To in.
Vestigate the validity Of the bonds. The
time was given. A few days ago thew
announced that as the bonds were no,
authorized and issued by vote of the
people they preferred not to take them
NOW 1t is up to the next highest bid
ders-F. M. Stafford & Co., Chattanooga.
Tenn., who bid $15,7S5.50 They have
peen notified and are now investigating
the validity of the bonds They. like
the county officials and local author-
Ties who have looked into the question.
think no election is necessary, an act
OF the Legislature being sufficient. pro-
Nlded-and it is on this rprovided" that
they are halting-provided the debt
which these bonds are to pay off was in
CURED in necessary expenses
mis- necessary expense feature is
requisite to the validity of the bonds.
under decision of our Supreme Court.
ana in that decision necessary ex-
penseS' are defined
The floating debt, which these bonds
are to pay off. was incurred in 1895 and
since that time the county has been
paying per cent on it, the money to
pay 1T off having been borrowed from
local banks If the proposed bonds can
be Heated the county will save in inter
est ABOUT $40 year, or $4,000 in the
thirty years they are to rum In addi-
ton to this there is a premium of 81,
1850. making total gain to the coun-
ty of about $4,000.
The county authorities express no
doubt of their ability to fully satisfy
the bidders for the bonds of their vail
dity on the necessary expense ques-
ton. If however, the bonds should not
be held valid, an act authorizing such
an issue of bonds as is desired will be
passed at the next Legislature.
The News and Observer is mistaken
in saying no separate quarters have
been provided for female prisoners in
the county JAIL" said Chairman Green,
of the board of county commissioners
yesterday. Separate quarters have
been provided and just in the manner
suggested in the article in this morn
ings paper: new residence for the
iaior has been built in the Jail yard.
and the part of the Jail SO long occu-
pied by him-two rooms, one upstairs
and one down stairs-wil hereafter be
used for female prisoners. At present
we nave none such, and consequently
the Jailor has never been required to va.
cate the rooms. But should we have a
woman committed to prison. the jailor
and his family would at once move into
the new house built for them and the
prisoner be placed in the new quarters
1T is also true" continued Mr.. Green,
that the new quarters have not been
fitted up with steel cells, as the other
part of the Jail is. But there has been
some question as to whether or not
such cells are necessary for women, and
IL so, whether only one room should
be fitted with steel cells or both There
is much to be said and both sides. and
the board has never decided the ques-
ton
The delay in deciding it has proba
bly, been largely due to the cost of steel
cells and the scarcity of money in the
county treasury. To fit up both rooms
will cost $1,700 and we have not the
money to spare. The floods have wash
ed away costly bridges and the stamp
ing out of small pox has been expensive.
We are in no position now to spend any
more than We are compelled to, and for
the present we think we can get along
without buying steel cells for the wo-
mans department of the jail
nave had nice question of taxa
tion presented to me for decision" said
Clerk Brown. of the Corporation Com
mission yesterday. 1T is as to the Civ
ing In of cotton for taxation. Here is
letter from gentleman in an eastern
town. He has $50 bales that he has
been holding, and for safety he took
1T from his farm and stored it in
warehouse. He listed it for State and
county tax, but not for municipal tax
in the town in which he lives, because
the cotton is not in that town. The
town authorities, however, insist that
it ought to be listed there, and the
question is referred to the Commission
Tor decision.
Another question touching the same
Kind of property comes from Cleveland
county. There is a cotton mill located
just over the line in CASTOR: just over
the line In Cleveland is the office build
ing. OF course it is clear as to where
each or these buildings and their con-
tents ought to be listed for taxes. But
on the CASTOR side, in warehouse,
there is large quantity of cotton sror-
ed for use in the mill; where ought it
to be listed, in Castor where the mill
is situated, or in Cleveland where theI
office of the company is?
The Commission will decide these
questions at its next meeting"
Rev. A. B. Crumpler has been holding
tent meeting near Center, this county