Have Saved County $1882

Cut in Bills Already Made by County Auditors

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SALARIES FOR OFFICERS

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Recommended by the Auditors Comic Opera on the Board Over Six Plank Bridge

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The Board of Supervisors Tuesday re-elected James Taylor, of Chelsea, superintendent of the poor without opposition. The State Savings Bank will have the county moneys next year, paying 2 per cent on daily balances.

Prosecuting Attorney Duffy has been allowed $500 extra compensation for the year's successful work.

Messrs. Landwehr, Weeks and Fischer have been appointed a special committee to consider the Judge of Probate's request regarding the care of the insane.

The Board of Auditors made their report to the board in the afternoon. They had acted on claims as follows:

Civil Claims...Claimed. $3,222.39, Paid. $2,845.64

Criminal, No. 1....Claimed. $2,756.45, Paid. $2,500.71

Criminal, No. 2....Claimed. $1,762.90, Paid. $1,717.40

Contagious Dis.... $4,955.84, Paid. $3,700.47

Total.........Claimed.$12,706.58, Paid. $10,764.22

The cut in the bills the auditors had made amounted to $1,882.36, of which $376.75 was in civl claims, $204.74 in criminal claims No. 1, $45.50 in criminal claims No. 2, and $1,255.37 in contagious disease bills.

The Auditors verbally said that the contagious disease bills were likely to assume serious proportions. Criminal claims No. 2 were also likely to be serious. The only way to check these bills seemed to be to place the sheriffs and justices on salaries. One case was instranced of $30 bills against the county to collect a $3 hotel bill, the case being dismissed by the justice.

The committee reported in favor of measuring Ann street pavement and paying the city fo Ann Arbor the county's proportion of the cost. The report was unanimously adopted.

Then came the comic opera of the session. The board was called on to decide whether Lodi or Scio was to repair a bridge admitted to be in a very dangerous condition on the highway between the two towns. The highway commissioner of Scio claimed that Scio had taken care of the bridge for 26 years. An agreement had been made in 1876 between the towns as to working the highway. Measurements showed that this bridge was 100 feet inside of Lodi's district, and Scio had previously repaired it under a misapprehension.

Daniel Seyler claimed that Lodi took care of six out of eight bridges on the highway between the towns and if this bridge was put on them it would make seven for them to take care for.

Arthur Brown, for Lodi, claimed the 26 years care of the bridge by Scio, made it that town's duty by prescription.

William Aprill, who made the agreement for Scio in 1876, spoke for that town. 

The discussion waxed very warm and many humorous cracks were made. Finally, in response to questions it was discovered that the bridge only contained six planks. Messrs. Bilbie McGuire and Weeks were appointed a committee to investigate and the board adjourned amid much merriment.