The evening Republican., 1902-05-06
Meeting OF The Levy Court.

meeting VI luS Levy WHITE af
| An effort is 10 be made by the Eevy
Court, to COMPEL the persona .whn
have not payed their subscription
for the construction Of Washingto ~
street bridge, to pay whatever
amount they promised. The Court
rccentIv communicated with these
persons notifying them that their
subs criptlons are yet unpaid. AT the
meeting Of the Court this morning.;
number of answers from the commupl
cation were read. S. Parker PostleS
| enclosed check for 500 which wa
theamounthe promised. The crescen'
Lamb and Improvement Company
stated that it refused to admit any
liability as the agreement was the
bridge should be completed in one
year which was NOT done. The Com.
pany's subscription was $4,000.
W. B, Culbert whose subscription
was $50 stated that the agreemen,
under which he wss to pay the above
amount was not carried out and
therefore he was not liable. He claim
ed the bridge was to be built to e.
st. a!ght up Washington street.
President Willitts stated tina,
from what lie could learn there had
been no special agreement and he
thought some action shoud d be taken
On motion OF Mr.. Ewart, the two
Communications were referred to the
Courts Attorney though tho finance
Committee.
The bill of George w. Duncan
was brought before the attention of
the court in the shape of the follow
ing communication which was ad-
dressed to Mr.. Ewart, who is chair
man of the special committee in
charge Of the bills:
S. Frank Ewart, Dear Sir:-I have,
considered this matter over very
closely and the only thing I can
make out of it is that the Levy
Court owes me $3.50. That is the
size of it in a nut shell. Now have
offered to give the Levy Cour,
enough dirt to repair the Sluoe Road
for the term of four years from the
4th of last. June. According to con,
tract for dirt for Silver Run road II
will take $3.50 worth of dirt to fill
in the Sluice Road at present. If
you wait a month or two longer l.
will take as much more. The Levy
Court will do just as they please
about this butt think it Is fair
proposition and they can't expect
me to do any more. All they have
to do now is pay the bill or keep
off the grass. 1t has cost mo
twenty trips to Wilmington.
Yours truly,
Geo. W. Duncan.
The matter was held over unit
this afternoon when some action
will be taken.
The Trustees Of the Poor will hol d
a meeting in the Levy Court room on
Thursday. A communication was
read from the Trustees this mornIng
inviting members Of the Levy Court
to attend the meeting. The invita-.
ton was accepted.
There was some discussion over the
bills Of the New Castle County Jail
Commissioners and the jail physician.
They wereappointcd for one year and
their terms expired on April lst. The
salary Of the physician was $500 and
The jai! commissioners SIS each, per
year,
The question arose as to whether
they should receive salary from the
time that the prisoners were rcmov.
fr0mthe !a!. to the wOrkhoGse. last
November until April lst. as they
then had nc duties to perform Mr..
Mezginson was appoinlel a commit.
tee ofone to see if a reduction could
he made IN the bills.
The stateme1,o OF the county fnan,
ces ior April was submitted BY
Comptroller Kelley. 1t should be q
balance of $53, ,245 S..
Mr. Chandler chairman of the
bridge committee reported favor
ably on the matter of awarding a
new contract to Foulk G. Son for re-
planking Washington street bridge.
The contractor had claimed that
they coull not not do the work for
the contract price, on acc0untof the
change in the hours Of the work.
men. The contractors wanted an
increase Of II per cent. Mr.. Chand-
ler SAID il would cost about $3.50. An
o}.ni0n was read from the courts at
turncys. He said the court had no
authority to give out the contract
without getting new proposals. The
committee was Instructed advertise.
for bids. The committee was also
to get bids for furnish
ing rails for Market street bridge.
Bret Halte d ad.
London, May 6.-Bret Hart.. tho