The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-12
GRAND JURORS BUSY
COMMITTEES AT WORK GETTING
THEIR REPORTS READY.
NO EXPERTS AT THIS TERM.
GRAND JURY MAY MEET TO-MOR-
ROW AFTERNOON.

Interesting Developments Expected
in Case Against Commissioners
Now Pending in City Court-COun-
~ VIII Try 10 Prove That Mem
bers of County Offices Committee
wished to Go Away, and So EN-
pIoyed the Experts-Grand Jurors
Now Examining books in County
Offices.
The committees of the December
term grand jury are, preparing their
reports to be incorporated in the
general presentment of that body
which will be returned in about
ten days. During the coming week
all of the county Offices, schools the
Jail and changing and county farm,
the public roads of the county and
the records Of all of the magistrates
will be subjected to examination with
q view to making recommendations
looking to their betterment.
The December term grand jurors did
not employ experts to examine the
books of the county. The committee
delegated to the work of inspecting the
county offices, comprised Of Messrs.
w. w. Williamson, John D. Carswell,
Frank G. Bell, Reuben L. Rockwell
and William n. Nichols, has been en-
gagged in the work and has almost COM
pleted it's labors. owing to the fact
that the experts examined. the records
up to December 1, there is little over
20 tO
look over.
VIII Finish This Week.
So far, they grand jurors have
found them in excellent condition, and
there is little doubt that their report
will be in all respects favorable.
Whether they will recommend the en-
ployment of experts at intervals, is
not known, though it is rumored that
such a recommendation will be made.
The committee will continue their
work in the county treasurer's office,
the sherif1's Office, the tax receivers
Office the office of the tax collector
and the Commissioners Court, and it
is probable that they will have fin
ished at the end of the week.
The employment of experts by the
last grand jury caused quite a stir,
and ii is said that when the case
which was instituted by them for the
collection of their bill against the COM
missioners comes up in the City Court
next month there will be some very
interesting developments. Among 9TH
er things it will be alleged that two
of the three gentlemen composing the
committee appointed to examine the
books by the grand jurors, were, at
the time they were appointed, about
to take a trip, and were for that rea-
son induced in no small measure to
employ experts to do the work with
which they were charged by law
What Judge Barrow will have to
say relative to the matter in his re-
marks to the grand jury is problem
atical, but it is known that he has
frequently said that the statute is ex-
plicit on the subject and that the
commissioners are legally bound to
pay the debt incurred by the grand
jury, at the courts suggestion.
Meeting on Friday.
There will probably be a meeting of
the grand jury tomorrow. 1t sits upon
its own adjournment, but is subject to
the call of the court. One of the MEM
bers of the grand jury said yesterday
that it is probable that there will be
a meeting, as there are several mat
ltlS NIlNU AllLtltll ilitillDtIS VI Tic
several committees desired light and
direction on. 1t is not probable, how
even that the general presentments of
the body will be prepared until few
days before the end of the term, which
is now less than two weeks distant
The Committee on Roads and
Bridges, which is one of the most inn
portant of the body, and whose work is
more general and more. onerous, prob
ably, than that hf any of the other
committees, because of the large
amount of territory which has to be
traversed in order to cover the field
thoroughly is composed of Messrs.
Daniel r. Thomas, chairman, who is
likewise foreman of the body. Abram
w Harmon and William H. Connerat.
Will Recommend Changes.
This committee examines all of the
roads of the county, reports upon their
condition and often recommend changes
and addition, which recommendations
are always respected by the County
Commissioners. 1t is understood that
they will recommend the proper grad
ing of the cut on Thea Ogeechee road
where the Seaboard Air Line crosses
This is, in it's present condition, a
dangerous place. 1t was at this cross
ing that Miss Rushing and Mr.. Saun-
ders were killed only a few days ago.
There will be meeting of the Com