The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-01-08
PROCEEDINGS OF
COUNTY COURT.
New Court House Discussed and
Much Action Taken 10 regard
Thereto.
ESQ. SANDERS Tries TO
REDUCE APPROPRIATION.
Other Work of Road Com
missioners for the Year Elec.e ed
DR.. VOORHEES, Reelected jail
Physician.

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II At tuesday afternoons session of ah,
Quarterly Court report was read from
the new court house committee on the
progress of the work done toward the
erection Of new court house. ESQ. j
A. Sanders moved that the report bt
submitted to the County Attorney with
instructions to him to report to the
Court his opinion as to the legality OF the
committee. The point was made that a
certain section of the code provided that
such a committee should consist of not
less than three nor more than five mem.
bers, while the committee appointed
consists of seven members. The county
attorney 10 written opinion Tuesday
held that the committee was a legal
one, and that the fact that it consisted
Of seven members instead of five did not
invalidate it. Mr.. Greenlaw, however,
stated that under the code, which he
quoted, a committee of seven could not
remove the court house from Its location
on the square. The report was received
and ordered spread on the minutes.
| Considerable discussion followed in re-
gard to the new building. ESQ. Sanders
offered a motion that the appropriation
for a new court house be cut from
100000 to $4,000. but was ruled out
of order. The court then decided to
elect court house committee, and the
committee appointed by Judge Gordon
was elected unanimously. A motion
by Esq. Frank III. Smith was adopted,
instructing the committee to make the
new building fire proof as near as
possible and not to spend too much
money on heavy fire. proof vaults. The
court ALEC passed resolution that the |
new court house be located on The |
public square.
Road Commissioners.
The court at Monday afternoons ses-
sion elected the following road commits
sioners for the ensuing year:
Dist. Commissioners.
/. r. 3. Mcknight.
2. ] Fl. Kennedy.
3. Harris Liggett.
4. P. M. Wilkes.
5. w N Murphy.
6. w. II. Cochran.
7. j. Fl Morgan.
8. Sam j. Thomas.
8. ThomasJ Shaw.
10. G. N. McKennon, Jr.
IL. Dave Brown.
IL. w. A. irwin
ID. f A. Orr.
IA w.. j. Kipzer.
Is J.J. Pogue.
16. }. T. Patton. {
II. T G. Harris
49, r. e. Mullins. II
10 l.. h Fitzgerald. I
90 @. M. Fraser.
81. J.R Steel. t
%. j. A. Sanders. t
%. w. d. Stephenson.
"a. l.. s. Lamar.
%. A. A. Moore. I
Memorial resolutions on the death Of &
he late Benz. s. Thomas. member of d
be court at the time of his death, were b
BAD and ordered spread on separate a
memorial page of the minutes and pub I
shed in the papers. a
DR.. j. l. VOORHEES, was elected Jail s.
ots of 80 to 10. n
Messrs. J. E. Littlefeld, Jim Thomas
1d A. j. Nichols we're elected notaries
lbic. =,
The bridge over Duck River at Kettle ~ =.
ills was reported completed, and the =,
,urt ordered the erection of approaches ~
tuc SdHuc. lho DituSO oNOi OooACy co
reek was also reported complete. N
w. J. fowler was elected to succeed Nc
orter Erwin, resigned, as revenue p,
90
The report of the Board of Revenue ="
IS then read to the court by Chairman ~.
B Turner. The report was received ss
d ordered spread on the minutes. In his w. w.
port Mr.. Turner reported that Judge ~,
)rdon was somewhat behind in the A.,
epiug OF the books in his Office on &C -
unit of the heavy work required of him. i
Judge Gordon spoke of the heavy a.
,rical work he had to do, and said it 90.
% impossible for him to do it all alone. e.
4 that he had been employing assis s s'
ice, but paying for the same out of rec
own pocket. He asked the court to 80 80
'e him an assistant for ten daye in ,Hs
III month, at 81 so per day. He said '-
code allowed it and that in the four
ger counties Of the state the County sor
dye was allowed $500 a year for I'M
rical assistance On motion it WAS ia
ordered that Judge Gordon !
a llowed SI6 rar month for clerk hire STE