The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-02
SOMETHING ABOUT
SOLDIERS MEMORIALS
Can Wayne County Build a
Soldiers Memorial Hall in
HOnesdale, or Improve
and Maintain the Sol
dierS' Monument?


to erect, finish and maintain a suitable
soldiers monument or Soldiers Memh-
rial Hall in Wilkes Barre, under which
it would appear that ii any addition or
repairs are required by our monument
in Central Park, upon the petition OF
fifty citizens uf Wayne, and the approval
of two successive grand iuries, such inn
provements would properly become a
charge upon rhc county. Indeed, it is
not entirely clear that under similar
petition, findings, and approval, the
county might not be warranted in build
ing memorial hall in llonesdale, the
present monument having been entirely
work of voluntary subscription and
personal enterprise, and in no sense hHv-
ing been under county control.
The opinion of the counsel, addressed
to the Commissioners, is as follows:
"ln compliance with your request for
information as to your duty relative to
the resolutions of the several grand juries
during the past year directing you to
erect soldiers monument i'll the county
of Luzerne, | advise you as follows:
County Commissioners cannot erect
monument or public building unless the
authority to do so be granted by some
act of assembly. An act OF assembly
relative to the erection of soldiers mon
uments, approved May II, 1901, L. L.,
1874, amending the act approved May -,
1895, reads as follows:
THAT upon the petition OF at least
fifty of the citizens OF the county to the
Court of Quarter Sessions of any county
in this Commonwealth, for the erection
or completion of a monument III mem
orv of the soldiers and sailors of the late
war. or to pay debts heretofore con-
tracted for and about the erection and
construction of such monument, 1t
shall be the duty OF said court to lay
said petition before the grand jury; and
il approved by two successive grand
iuries and said court, the county COM
missioners shall be authorized to pay
anv and all debts heretofore contracted
for and about the erection and construc-
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