The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-10
COUNTY CONVICTS
WILL Be LEASED
Number insufficient To Com.
pete With Free Labor

The retiring board of county com.
missioners met on Monday to wint
up certain unfinished matters of bus.
mess, among which was the approval
OF the bonds of County Treasurer Ed
monson, Bond Trustee F. d. Wattles
and Supervisor of Registration Peter.
mann. The old board also granted a
pauper pension of $40 per month tu
John w. Camp of Welaka on petition
of tax payers of that town.
The new board met on Tuesday
morning, when on motion of Commits
sloner Perry, c. A. Alvers was re-
elected chairman of the board.
Mr.. Curry, the new Palatka men,
ber, got busy the first thing by get
ting motion through requiring the
county board of bond trustees to pre-
sent an itemized statement of all
funds to the county commissioners at
the February meeting
The delinquent tax list for the COM
ing year was given to the Times Her
aid.
The Zachary Lumber Company of
Pomona was ordered served with no.
tlce to repair the road leading from
Pomona to Welaka, and that in event
OF failure to comply proceedings would
be commenced under the statute.
The pay of the secretary of the
board of bond trustees was reduced
from $25 to $40 per month.
Addresses on road construction and
maintenance were made by F. ]. Ii.
Won Engelken, W. C. Norton, H. T.
Mann, and J. E. Lucas.
Howell A. Davis presented the pc
tition of c. A. Dupont, H. A. Davis,
F. j. H. Won Engleken and T. R. BYRD
for a franchise to construct a street
railway from Palatka, across the
bridge, to Hastings. This was refer
red to committee composed of Com.
Curry, Perry and Hancock.
On motion of Com. Curry, seconded
by Com. Hancock, the county treasur-
er was requested to confer with all
banks in Palatka to ascertain which
one will handle the county funds to
best advantage. Com. Perry voted
against this motion.
The clerk was authorized to adver-
tise for bids for opening up a county
road from Mariners Lake to James
Guthrie's place.
w. A. Williams, j. ]. Green and ID.
7. Hancock were appointed commit
tee to draw plans and specifications
for a bridge and fill across Etoniah
creek on the Palatka and Bannerville
road.
The matter of devising ways and
means for building and maintaining
public roads in the county will be ta-
ken up at the February meeting of the
board.
The question of using the county
convicts on the public roads was
threshed over, but the board decided
that for the coming year at least it
would continue to lease these convicts
as formerly, as the reports show that
the number has been insufficient to
warrant the expense of housing and
caring for them on the road; that it
would cost the county more than free
labor.
The Crescent City road from "A P.
DeWolf's place to Como was ordered
opened up 20 feet wide provided the
same could be done for $780, Also,
the road from Bostwick to the Clay
county line, was appropriated the
same amount.
The commissioners met as a Flora
home Drainage board on Tuesday and
county surveyor Randall
Wells to make survey and furnish all
necessary data to Maj. Wright, late
State Drainage Engineer,who has been
retained as chief advisor in the above
drainage district.