The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-12-12
COMMISSIONER PROCEEDINGS
Board Grants Bell Telephone Co.
Franchise Limiting 1t To Rights
Asked For In Advertisement

the Board of County Commissioners
was held Monday. December z.
Present Commissioners Otis Fulton.
Alex Fraser and Edgar Sadler, the
Clerk and the District Attorney.
The following business was trans
acted.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
The Board and the Auditor count
ed the money in the Treasury and re-
ported that the sum agreed with the
Auditors balances.
On motion the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
Whereas, during the present year
a great deal of work has been re-
quired to be done on the county
roads, and.
Whereas, the Board is authorized
by Section 1910 of the Revised Stat
utes to transfer money from one
County fund to another, it is here
by ordered that $500 be transferred
from the General Fund to the Gen
eral Road Fund of the County, to be
paid at such time and in such man.
ner as the Board may hereafter d.
rect.
A petition was received from tax
payers asking the Board to allow
Mrs. NJ. Boitano, an INDECENT person,
a monthly allowance. On motion an
allowance of $25 was allowed.
The several County officers re.
ports yer read, examined, approved
and ordered placed on file.
j. p. Raine and Miles McKinnon,
the committee heretofore appointed
to report and examine the road
built by c. II. Rand on contract re-
ported as follows: We, the under
signed. do certify that we have ex-
amined the work done on the Green
Spring road and find that it is fin
ished and performed in accordance
with the specifications, we having
measured the same, and recommend
that it be accepted.
On motion the foregoing report
was unanimously accepted.
The Board having met pursuant
TO adjournment, and the petition or
application of the Bell Telephone
Company of Nevada for a franchise
to operate a telephone line in Eureka
County coming on to be heard, and
il appearing to the Board that said
application and notice of hearing
thereof had been published as pro-
! vide9 by law and that no objections
to the granting of such franchise
were filed or presented TO said Board,
and the Board having heard said APP
plication and fully considered all
the facts therein and in relation
thereto. and it appearing that the
same are true; and it further APP
pearing that said applicant has ex-
ecuted and filed herein the bond, af-
idavit of publication and agreement
as required by law. and that said APP
plicant has complied with all the
terms and provisions of an Act en-
titled, IAN Act Concerning the
Granting of Franchises, etc." APP
proved March %, 1909; now, there
fore, it is ordered that the said Bell
Telephone Company of Nevada be,
and it is hereby granted the fran
chise, right and privilege to con-
struct. install, operate and maintain
telephone and telegraph lines in and
through said County of Eureka as
more fully appears from said appli-
cation, plat and franchise on file
herein.
And it is further ordered that the
following franchise be granted and
be spread upon the minutes Of SAID
Board.
The above franchise as granted by
the Board, consisting of several
pages of typewriter matter, is IN
serted in the minutes of the Commis-
sioners' proceedings.
In connection with the above mat
ter. j. l.. Dart of the law form OF
Henderson & Game of Elko. Nevada
appeared before the Board on De-
half of the Bell Telephone Company
and submitted a copy OF the iran
oh;sa which had been granted Dy