The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-07-13
COMMISSIONER PROCEEDINGS
Business Transacted Blythe Board
At It's Regular Monthly
Meeting


was held July 6. Present, Commits
sioners Edgar Sadler, r. ]. Reid and
W. $. Raine, the Clerk, Auditor and
District Attorney. The following
business was II transacted:
The Board and the Auditor count
ed the money in the Treasurer's
hands and reported that the same,
together with the amount in bank.
agreed with the Auditors balance.
The minutes of the last meetings
were approved as read.
The various County and Township
officers reports we're received, read
and ordered placed on file.
1t was moved and seconded that
the following resolution be adopted,
which motion was unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, the District Attorney of
the said County of Eureka has called
upon the Hon. A. ]. Maestretti of
Austin, Nevada, for assistance in the
prosecution of a certain criminal case
entitled State of Nevada VS.. Overton
and Parker. and
Whereas. the said Maestretti did
assist in the prosecution of the said
criminal case in the town of Eureka,
State of Nevada, from the beginning
of the trial on June 8. 1918, until the
discharge of the jury in the same
month. and
Whereas, the said Maestretti has
placed no valne upon his services 80
rendered but has left it to the Board
of Commissioners to compensate him
as they think fit. and
Whereas, the statutes of the State
of Nevada, in such case made and
provided. and the opinion of the At
torney General of the said State as
handed down shows that the said
Board of Commissioners are also "em-
powered to ratify the acts of the Dis
trict Attorney in employing S h
counsel"
Now, Therefore. be it resolved that
the said Board of Commissioners do
hereby authorize the issuance of a
warrant to the said A. ]. Maestretti
in the sum of one hundred fifty dol
lars for such services rendered in the
of the said case.
A communication was received
from Kate Harris tending her res
ignation as Health Officer of Eureka
The resignation was &C.
1t was ordered that DIR. w. H.
Bremen be employed as County
from the first day of July
until December 81. 1918. at a salary
of $50 per month. provided that the
services of the said DIR. w. H.
Bremen shall be at all times
satisfactory to the Board. Said
services shall consist of attending
professionally. both as physician and
surgeon. the patients in the County
and the furnishing of all
necessary medicine and stimulants
for said patients: and also attending
as aforesaid, the sick. indigents and
prisoners in the County of Eureka;
provided that for said services out
side the limits of the town of Eureka
he shall be paid his actual travelling
expenses in addition to said salary.
1t was further ordered that the said
DR.. w. H. Bremen be appointed
Health Officer at a salary of
$25 per month for the same period
as he has been appointed County
Physician; and it was further ordered
that this contract shall terminate
upon 80 days written notice from
party hereto.
A communication was received
from Edgar Gather, Auditor OF
Eureka County, in reference to the
bill of $3.50 allowed attorney A. j..
Maestretti, as follows: Il hereby
to audit or allow this bill for
the reason that | cannot find any
law authorizing its passage" On
motion, duly seconded and unani-
mously carried, it was ordered that