The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-08
Commissioners Meeting.

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sioners met on June A, 1906.
Present r. J. Gordon, chairman,
]. A. Nesbitt, member, c. l..
Horsey, Dist. Attorney and
Eugene Goodrich, Clerk. The
minutes of the netting of May
7th were read and approved.
The Monthly reports of all
county officers were read and
duly approved and signed by
chairman R. ]. Gordon. The
bill of ]. B. Renshaw, laid over
from May meeting allowed for
$4,000.
Salary bills allowed as per claim
register. General claims as pei
the register were allowed. A
bill of J. J. Monahan was order
ed returned for termination. A
bill of A. Murphy was ordered
returned for proper termination.
A bill of j. j. Monahan for Con
stable Fees was rejected. A bill
of Alex Deadbeat was rejected,
A Bill of Ernest Keats was dis
allowed. This was for bringing
a prisoner that was brought by
another party from Caliente, and
which was paid several months
ago by that party.
Bills of j. Shier for $50. Mrs
X. Culverwell for $1,000. w. p.
Murray for $1,000 were allowed
oyer the objection of Dist. At
torney, C. L. Horsey, under
Section l, page IS, Statutes of
1908, regarding regulations OF
contagious diseases. Mr.. Horsey
claiming that said bills were in
violation of statutes and res
olution as adopted by the Board
in Month Of May.
Mr.. John Shier, appeared be-
fore the Board on INDECENT mat
tiers.
The Board then ordered when
it appears that patients ara
able to pay for their own
medical attendance or food or
medicine the Board is legally
unauthorized to make any
for same as appears in Sec. 2 of
an act to provide for spread of
any contagious diseased, page IS,
Statutes of 1903.
A petition from Las Vegas was
presented asking for the appoint
ment of H. M. Lillis, of Las Vegas
as justice of the Peace for said
Las Vegas township, and it APP
pearing to the Board, that after
the first Mon lay in January, 1905
Jacob Ralph, has been holding
over as Justice of the Peace de-
facto, said H. M. Lillis is hereby
appointed blythe board of County
Commissioners, Justice of the
Peace in and for Las Vegas
townshipsto act and serve until
his successor is duly elected and
qualified. Said successor to be
elected at the next general
elect 'on. H. M. Lillis to qualify
with a bond in the sum of $1,000
100.
Jacob Ralph presented a new
bond of 100000, but no action
was taken on the same by the
Board.
A bill of $1,000 for making
bridge, presented by John New
man, was allowed on the General
County Fund.
The tax matter of certain
property in Delamar, bought
from Mrs E. Culverwell, by Sid
Alvord, it was ordered that Sid
Alvord be allowed to pay the
1905 tax of said property to-
gether with the penalty and adj
vertising fee of same.
Ordered that all articles of in
corporation be recorded in the
proper book, for sum of $75.O
No transfers to various funds
were necessary.
A bill Of. SAG. 00of ]. A. Denton
for fares of witnesses on part of
the State in criminal cases, was
cut to $1.00. This being done in
compliance with the Statutes in
such cases.
A bill Of Delamar, Stage Co.
for fares Of State witness, for
sum of $1,000 was disallowed as
being direct conflict with
statutes in such cases.
The Esmeralda county grand
Jury recommends that the CON-