The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-10
TO FIX THE BUDGET
COMMITTEE OF COUNTY COMMITS
SIONERs NAMED BY CHAIRMAN.
WHAT SHALL COUNTY SPEND?
is THE QUESTION THE COMMITTEE
Is TO ANSWER.

commissioners Moore, WylIy and
Vetsburg to Determi ne-ResuIts Of
Their DeIfberatiOn to he Reported
Back to the Board-LittIe Probn-
biIfty There viii he n Material
Decrease in the Amount Of the
County's Expenditures Public
Road to Montgomery Established
by the Board-NO Extras for Tax
Collector Thomson.
BY the appointment of committee
at their meeting yesterday afternoon
the County Commissioners began
the preparation of the county budget
for 1902. The Committee on Budget
consists of Commissioners Moore,
Wylly and Vetsburg.
A meeting of the committee will be
held i'm the course of A week or two
to consider questions relating to the
necessary expenditures of the county
for the coming year The committee
will decide just how much should be
allowed each department and its re-
port will then be referred to meet
ing of the board.
There is little reason to believe there
will be any perceptible decrease in the
amount of the expenditures as COM
pared with last year. On the contrary,
it is probable there will be some in
crease, as there are many works OF
needed public Improvement for which
money will have to be appropriated and
a constantly increasing list of calls
upon the county's bounty that must
be answered If there is to be any de-
crease in the tax rate it will come from
the increase in tax returns; there is no
reasonable hope that the expenses Will
be materially lessened. though. OF
course, the committee and all the mem
hers of the board will do everything
possible to accomplish this end.
The commissioners granted petit
ton for the establishment of public
read to Montgomery. The road VIII
start from Haner's bridge and VIII be
about mile and a half in length and
forty feet in width. The right of way
for the road was donated to the county
by the property owners through whose
lands the road will pass. force OF
men will be put on the work as soon
as circumstances permit.
The committee on Court House re-
ported unfavOrably on the appIcatlon
of Tax Collector Thomas +. Thomson,
for extra compensation for services
rendered in the registration of voters,
and the report was adopted. AS mat
tiers now stand the registration of Vot-
ers, for which the tax collector is sup
posed to receive compensation, is the
occasion of annual and regular ex-
pense to him. The fees allowed him
by law are not sufficient to pay the
salary of the clerk assigned to regis
tration work.
The board received a letter from
Judge Henry McAlpin. referring to a
letter from Mr.. w. NJ. Johnson Of
Mercer University. Mr.. johnson seems
to be one of those selected to represent
his college in a champion debate, and
he was anxious to secure some tenn
perance statistics from Chatham
county. He wanted to know how the
dispensary was succeeding. if there
was such an institution in Chatham.
how the last election for prohibition
resulted and how such an election
would be likely TO result if il were held
at this time. With some good humored
comments She letter was referred back
to the ordinary.
Commissioner Moore moved that a
committee be appointed to prepare res
olutions upon the death of the late
Judge Robert Faligant. and the mo-
ton was carried without dissent. The
committee to prepare the resolutions
will he named by the chairman at his
leisure.