{"id":480,"date":"2010-01-29T10:24:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/?page_id=480"},"modified":"2015-03-08T01:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T07:20:43","slug":"january-13-1899","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/home\/january-13-1899\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners&#8217; Proceedings &#8211; January 13, 1899"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Proceedings from the January 13, 1899 issue of the Roanoke Beacon Newspaper.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 75%;\" \/>At a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Washington county held January 2nd, the following preceedings were had:<\/p>\n<p>P L PHELPS was appointed Surveyor to survey and plot a tract of land entered by J W PATRICK<\/p>\n<p>It was ordered that Haywood GARDNER and L C MARRINER be allowed to list their taxes with the Sheriff and be released of double tax<\/p>\n<p>It was ordered that the following persons be released of taxes for reasons: J M ALEXANDER, &lt;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6&gt;; \u00c2\u00a0Arthur BARDEN Estate wrongfully listed; Daniel W. CLIFTON, wrongfully listed<\/p>\n<p>Ordered that the following persons be granted licesnes to retail spirituous liquors in quantities of five gallons or less:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plymouth township \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A.C. GARRETT, L.S. LANDING, and L.B. BOWEN<\/li>\n<li>Lee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mills Township \u00e2\u20ac\u201c L J PECOCK and Friley CHESSON<\/li>\n<li>Skinnersville Township \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Warren SEXTON<\/li>\n<li>Scuppernong Township \u00e2\u20ac\u201c G.D. SWAIN and C.C. DECORMIS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CHESSON, SEXON, and SWAIN were notified to appear before the Board on the 1st Monday in Feburary next to answer charges, show cause, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Rogust P. BARNES, Constable elect, of Lee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mills Township, presented his bond in the sum of $500, with N.B. MIZELL as surety, which was approved, ordered recorded and filed.<\/p>\n<p>J M ARPS having been appointed Standard Keeper at a previous meeting presented his bond in the sum of $200, which was approved, ordered, recorded and filed.<\/p>\n<p>Claims amounting to $109.45 were allowed as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>W C HASSELL, supplies for poor house, jail, etc., $30<\/li>\n<li>F M BUNCH, assistant warden to the poor for one month, $1<\/li>\n<li>D O BRINKLEY one ton of coal delivered to te Court ouse, $6.30<\/li>\n<li>J A HARRISON keeper of the poor house 1 month, making garments, $9.58<\/li>\n<li>G W WHITE one cotton furnished for pauper at poor house, $4.00<\/li>\n<li>W.H. HOWCUTT one day as Co. Commissioner and mileage, $2.27<\/li>\n<li>Rufus SWAIN one day as Commissioner and warden to ppor, $15.20<\/li>\n<li>Jno. L. PHELPS feeding jail prisoners and turn keys, $31.40<\/li>\n<li>W R STEELEY Register of election in Skinnersville Township, $3.25<\/li>\n<li>Jno J. ROWE Judge of election in Creswell Precinct, $3.00<\/li>\n<li>J.W. ALDRIDGE Sheriff Pamlico county expense keeping J. RUFFIN, $3.35<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Proceedings from the January 13, 1899 issue of the Roanoke Beacon Newspaper. At a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Washington county held January 2nd, the following <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/home\/january-13-1899\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}