Supervisors Have Gone

SUPERVISORS HAVE GONE

Attempt to Reconsider Hospital Action Defeated

BOARD DID NOT CHANGE

Their Action in Regard to Their Allowance for Judge of Probate's Office

The Board of Supervisors closed their annual session Saturday and have gone to their homes, after one of the most interesting sessions the board has ever held. The attendance on every session of the board has been larger than ever before and the general public has taken more interest in their doings.

Friday, after our report closed, the board adopted a resolution calling the attention of the township boards to the contagious disease bills and to the law, asking them to certify no bills for property destroyed unless a proper inventory of the property had been made.

The dispute between Lodi and Scio over the five-plank bridge was settled by the adoption of the report of the committee that as Scio had taken care of the bridge for the past 26 years she be allowed to do so in the future.

Judge Kinne appeared before the Board Saturday and expressed his thanks to them for the kindness with which they had treated him in the matter of fixing his salary.

The Board decided to strike from the record all action relating to the board of prisoners, leaving the rate as heretofore fixed.

A motion was made to reconsider the vote relating to the submission of the contagious disease hospital, but it was lost by a rising vote of 7 yeas and 13 nays. The clerk was then instructed to take all the necessary steps to submit the proposition to the people at the spring election.

Judge Watkins addressed the board. He said that he had not had formal notice served upon him to submit a report and presumed that the Board had receded from its position as to his making a report. He read a decision of the supreme court to show that a probate judge was in no sense a county officer. His position was that at the October session, 1901, the Board had fixed the allowance for clerical services of the probate register at $400; that the Board could not diminish this, but it might increase it. He held that any resolution they had passed on the matter was utterly void. As to the report on insane persons, he might furnish it as a matter of compulsion.

The Judge retired. No one made any remark regarding his talk and the matter was not in any way referred to by the Board.

An effort was made to increase the school commissioner's allowance $100. He now gets $1,200 salary and $200 allowance for clerk hire. The increase of $100 was defeated by a vote of 5 yeas to 20 nays.

Resolution of thanks to the chairman and chairman pro tem. were adopted and the Board adjourned with a general handshaking time.