The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-28
COUNTY TAX
 LAID TENTH
 OF A MILL Committee Instructed to Com pIete Addition to Court E House. SIZE OF BUILDING
 WILL BE DOUBLED Resolutions On Deaths of Klinefelter, Matheis and Mead.

The county representatives met in the library at county court house to- day. appropriated $114,250 for county expenses for the forthcoming fiscal year. and laid tax Of 1-10 mill on the equalized valuations of all taxable property in Fairfield county The county receipts equal $90, ,14O, leaving $24A11O to be raised by taxa ton.
 |, The plans of Architect Briggs were accepted and a committee raised to complete an addition to the court house, under the plan which was be- gun with the condemnation of the Hall home.
 The same committee was continued with the addition of Samuel H. Wheeler to carry on the work, the committee consisting of the county commissioners and Judge George w. Wheeler, Judge John J. Walsh, John
 c. Chamberlain and John w. Banks.
 Samuel H. Wheeler was added to the original committee upon the mo- Bridgeport, that the work might have the advantage of MT. Wheeler'sz large experience as builder.
 The committee was authorized to ask the General Assembly for power to issue bonds for s273, ,000 ito cover the cost of land and building The n1otion was offered by Rep. C1ftus H. King of Fairfield, and passed ,a11ani-
 mously The addition will about dou- :
 ble the size of the court house. z The new work will not take away from the haxmpnious quality of the architecture
 The meeting was called to order at 1 10 o'clock by County Commissioner Simeon E. Pease.
 Senator HaufoYd s. Weed of Darien was chosen pefaAanezit chair9nasss The report of the building conn mittee was made by Justice George w. Wheeler He said the new buiid-
 thought it might be built for a less sum than the figure estimated by the architects. which was $240,0O0. The committee was instructed to ask the legislature to establish a sink ing fund for the extinction of the l now owes $131, 1000, and that the debt is being extinguished at the rate of 1000 to $6,o00 a year.
 The representatives present at the
 meeting were Lynn W. Wilson and John H. McMurray of Bridgeport, D. Clark Joyce of Brookfeld. Howard w. Taylor of Danbury, Frederick E. SiIli- man of Easton, C1itus H. King and Dwight M- Banks of Fairfield. Nelson B. Mead of Greenwich, Marshall Beach of Monroe, Edwin T. Hook of New town, Charles w. Hodges of New Ca ! naan, George W.1Nexius of New Fair field, Thomas M. Stocking and Emory F.. Sanford of Bedding. Thomas J. Kyle of Stamford. J. Henry Blakeman and Alexander St John of Stratford, John w. Treadweu of Trurn bull, Will liam J. Wood of Westport, and Sena- tor Hanford s. Weed of New Canaan. A committee was raised to draft resolutions on the deaths of Jeremiah c. Klinefelter. of New Canaan and Henry Matheis of Norwa1k and upon the death of County Commissioners whitman s. Mead. all of whom died since the meeting of the county repre- l sentatives a year ago.
 The report of the committee de- scribes the project for the new court house as follows:
 They provide on the first floor for | a court room for the criminal court of common pleas, with rooms for the jury and judge, for hearing room CT and committees together with off fees for the countya tyacommissfoners. 1 the prosecuting attorney, the sealer l of weights and measures. and for con- sultation rooms of attorneys. On the second floor they provide very greatly increased accommoda. tions for the law library, for a num- l Der of reference rooms and for three
 rooms for the judges adjoining the l library.
 | an additional court room, a large supreme court consultation room, for offices for the naturalization clerk. and a number of rooms for the use | of attorneys and witnesses.
 On each floor ample toilet accom- 1 modations are provided.
 l Changes are made on the first floor to accommodate the stenographer, and on the third floor the Superior court clerks offices are enlarged. | T7a infa eT1f l is adapted to meeting all purposes for which court house is required for many years to come. The arrange ments of the several rooms is con- venient for their uses, and in general utility and practicabflity will, we think, be found to be excellent, com pairing very favorably with any court house in the state.
 P. J. CLARK IS DEAD