The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-01-24
COUNTY, COURT DElVES INTO
THE WORK HOUSE QUESTION
Continued from First Page.

Commission of the Sixth district b
reclamation. Frank Lovett, Sam WI
iams, r. N. Glenn, and Eugene Nora
were nominated as candidates 70
Road Commissioners Of the Thirl
district; Mr. Lovett was elected on tn
third ballot. The question of tn,
payment of the road overseers at tn,
rate Of $500 a day was discussed
but 1t was ruled that the QuarterI!
Court had nothing at all to do will
the matter.
ESQ. Hayes moved that DR.. j. L
VOORHEES, be allowed the sum of $50
for holding the post norton examina
ton over the remains Of Bette Mar
tin, colored, and for having an expert
examination made of her skull, and
the amount was allowed. Several
miscellaneous accounts were allowed
Messrs. A. j. Nichols and ]. H. Ken.
nedy were elected notaries public.
The matter of fixing the salary of
the County Tax Assessor then came
up. The law provides that the Quar-
terly Court shall fix at either the Jan
nary or the April term the amount to
be allowed for assessing each poll,
each piece of realty and each personal
assessment, but some of the magis-
trates evidently did not understand
this. Esq. Ballanfant moved that the
assessor be allowed $3.50 per year.
Esq Denton did not think this amount
sufficient, and said the amount should
be $4,000 Some member OF the court
moved that Esq. Ballanfant be elected
county assessor and required to make
the assessment at the $3.50 a year,
and the motion was Immediately car
ried, but Esq. Ballanfant was not on
the lookout for job. committee,
composed of Esqs. j. B. Lowell, j. B.
Brooks, w. E. Ballanfant, F. M Rick
etts and ]. c. Taylor, was appointed
to Investigate the matter and fix
the assessors salary. 1t was later
moved and carried that when coure
adjourned the adjournment should be
till the first Monday in February, at
which time this committee should re-
port, and other business of the court
disposed Of
The report of the committee appoint
ed to investigate whether the prison
ers at the county work house are being
allowed proper credit for the time they
put in; whether the work house is
located where the tx payers are be-
Ing benefited all In like reasonable !
and whether the work house
should not be centrally located and
The work of the prisoners confined to
he leading thoroughfares, brought on
/ warm discussion. The report stated
hat the prisoners were being allowed
,redit in accordance with the law;
hat the work house is not located
10 as to benefit all tax payers alike,
,ut that the road on which they are
It present at work has been laid and
IAN be completed in few months, this
work should be finished; that the
lands should be worked on more i'm
,ortant thoroughfares, and in accord
nee with the general development
md needs of the different sections of
he county.
A motion to receive and concur In
he report brought Esq. Hayes to his
eet. He exhibited map showing
hat three-fourths of the road work
lone by the county hands was in the
or Santa Fe neighborhood
( the county, the Theta pike, leading
ut to the neighborhood from Colum-
ia, being included in that estimated.
$50. Hayes said the people of that
should build monu-
lent as high as the court house to
Telse Woolard, That he deserved 1t,
DR. he had done more for that section
{ the county than any one man had
ccomplished for any other point In
he county's boundaries. He said he
Id not blame Mr.. woodland. That
here were plenty of other men who
-ould do the same thing If they had
chance and sense enough. That
Ir. Woodland had managed to get all
he road work by the work house and
,me $1,000 to $4,000 a year placed
his district He said the object OF
lis was to improve that section OF
lie county and to build an outlet for
lat section Of the county towards
and Nashville. 4 have no
re to grind; no road to build" Mr..
ayes said, but do protest against
lie money Of the taxpayers being ex-
,~Aad In thfa martial and unjust