Gainesville Daily Sun

DULL MEETING OF COUNTY SOLONS

Little Business Transacted at the Meeting for February.

NUMBER OF BILLS PAID

But Aside from This Nothing of Special Interest Occurred—Orders Regarding Road Machinery—Road Engine to be Sold to Best Advantage.

Gainesville, February 6.—The Board of County Commissioners met this day. Present: John G. Dampier, chairman; J. G. Osteen, C. C. Pedrick, F. F. Pauling and J. F. Townsend.

The meeting called to order. The minutes of January read and approved.

The following bills were ordered paid:

S. H. Wienges, clerk and auditor, $40; W. M. Torrey, guard at jail, $25; Moses Sherman, janitor, $25; Southern Bell Telephone Co. services, $6; East Florida Telephone Company, services, $2; S. H. Wienges, stamps, etc., $11.60; T. I. Boulware, wood for court house, $28; Gainesville Gas & Electric Power Company, $5.60; W. D. Dickinson, collector, commissions, $92.11; L. A. Jernigan, care of clock for quarter, $10; Baird Hardware Co., sundries for poor farm, $69.10; J. S. Bodiford & Co., medicine for poor farm, $3.50; H. H. McCreary, publishing collector's report, etc., $22.15; V. Edelstein, sundries for poor farm, $10.33; conveying two children from poor farm to Arcadia, $2; N. A. Mathews & Co., sundries, $12.90; for roads and bridges, $445.31; J. B. Fletcher, care of paupers, $50; L. W. Fennell, feeding prisoners, $90.50; L. W. Fennell, conveying lunatic to asylum, $62.15; nurse attending lunatic to asylum, $32.97; George W. Livingston, reward for arrest and conviction of Fletcher Watson, $50; J. W. Smith, coroner, fees and jury expense, etc., $10; guard of Daniel Hall, $50; Virginia Bridge and Iron Co., bridge at Hotah, clerk, $7.50; appropriation for road hands for February, $1,500; F. F. Pauling, $5; J. G. Dampier, $10; W. H. Abshire, treasurer, comms., $50.10; H. Peos, coroner, fees and jury, $15; Stark, $10; one hundred; Treasurer's report received as follows:

I herewith hand you my supplemented report of the fourth examination of the tax books for the year 1904, from which it will be seen that W. D. Dickinson, tax collector of Alachua county, Florida, has overpaid on the special school tax the sum of $170.04, and that the sum of $105.65 is the amount required to balance said books, which said amounts are divided in the following funds: General revenue, $21.71; road tax, $32.61; school tax, $51.33.

In view of the fact that Mr. Dickinson has overpaid the sum of $170.04, and it required the sum of $105.65 to balance the books for said year of 1904, I would suggest that in order to balance said books, that the board make an order allowing Mr. Dickinson full credit for said amount of $105.65. It is evident that an error existed in said book, and which error could not be found without going through the whole book, which could only be done at great expense to the county.

Respectfully submitted,

FERDINAND BAKER,

Special Examiner.

Ordered, that the above report be accepted and W. D. Dickinson, tax collector, be allowed a credit of $105.65, as is shown above.

The board adjourned until Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock.

Wednesday, February 7.—The board met this day pursuant to adjournment of Tuesday, a full board being present.

Ordered, That the petition of the citizens of District No. 21, asking that a road from Bell to Wannee be run as follows: Commencing on the north side of R. R. road at or near depot, to be thence west or parallel with railroad track to southeast corner of I. B. Jones' field, thence west on section line to the northeast corner of I. C. Sims' homestead, thence south along boundary to the outside of J. F. Jones' fence, thence southeast to the United States post office at Wannee, be granted, and that A. B. Simmons, J. C. Walkup, W. K. Moore be appointed to view and mark out said road and report their findings at the next regular meeting of this board.

That B. W. Get, be paid amount of