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OF THE
BOARD OF SUPH:RVISORS
OF THE
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CHAUNCEY L. WATTLES, Chairman.
TF4O MAS W. BURNS, Clerk.
ITHACA, N, Y.:
DEMOCRAT STEAM BOOK AND 3013 PRINTING} HOUSE,
1876.
PHOC 1 fEDINGS
OF THE
CARD Off' SUPERVISORS
OF THE
COt YNT Off' ri`OMPI111V S,
For the Year 1876.
CHAUNCEY.L. WATTLES, Chairman.
THOMAS W. BURNS, Clerk.
ITHACA, N, Y.:
DEMOCRAT STEAM BOOK AND SOB PRINTING HOLISM,
1876.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
(ANNUAL SESSION.)
The Board of:Supervisors of Tompkins County met in their room Nov. l6th,1876.
Taos. W. BURNS, Clerk of the former Board, organized the meeting and called
the roll. The members were all present, as follows:
Caroline, C. L. WATTLES, Dern.
Danby, JOHN E. BEERS, Rep.
Dryden, HARRISON MARvrN, Dem.
Enfield, LEROY H. VANKrRu, Rep.
Groton, NELsoN STEvENB, Rep.
Ithaca, DAVID L. BIIRTT, Dem.
Lansing, JAS. M. WOODsuRY, Rep.
Newfield, EzRA MARION, Dem.
Ulysses, J. PARKER Kix°, Dem.
On motion of Mr. C. L. WATTLES, NELSON STEVENS of Groton, was made tem-
porary Chairman.
On motion of Mr. KING, an informal ballot was taken for permanent Chairman,
C. L. WATTLES, 5
D. L. BunTT, 3
J. P. KING,
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The formal ballot resulted as follows :
0. L. WATTLES, 7
D. L. BIIRTT, 1
Blank, 1
9
On motion of Mr. BIIRTT, Kr. WATTLES was declared unanimously elected
Chairman of the Board.
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SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
Ballot for Clerk was,
Taos. W. BURNS, 9.
He was declared unanimously elected.
On motion of Mr. MAItwIN, a ballot was had for Janitor.
The vote was, J. WILSON, 5
J. J0IINsoN 2
Blank, 1-9
On motion of Mr. STEVENS, Mr. WILSON was declared unanimously elected.
On motion of Mr. KING,
Resolved, That all bills and demands presented to this Board be referred to the
proper committees without further action of the Hoard.
On motion of Mr. STEVENS,
Resolved, That all resolutions presented to this Board by the members be in writ-
ing, unless otherwise ordered by the Board.
On motion of Mr. MARroN,
1?esolved, That the Clerk of this Boarcl be instructed not to deliver any of the
Town or County orders audited at this session of this Board until after its adjourn-
ment. .
On motion of Bir. VANKIRx,
Resolved, That the sessions of this Board shall continence at 8 a. u1. and 2 p. m.
Mr. BURTT and Mr. BEERS were appointed to furnish conveyances for the Board
on its annual visit to the County Poor House.
On motion of Mr. BEERS,
Resolved, That all County orders issued by this Board be countersigned by the
Chairman, and all Town orders by the Supervisors of their several Towns.
On motion of Bir. KING,
Resolved, That the County Treasurer be.authcrized to pay to the order of the Rev.
Joseph Wade (in the place of the Rev. E. R. Wade), fifty dollars, for services as
Chaplain at the County Rouse during the past year, that amount having been
appropriated at the last session of the Board of Supervisors for that purpose.
The Clerk read the following reports:
STATE OF .NEW YORK,
CoMPTfl0L .EI: s OFFICE, ALBANY, October 2, 1876. j
To the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins:
Srlt:—I enclose a form of statement of the valuation of real and personal estate
required to be made by you, pursuant to Chapter 177 of the laws of 1836, and for-
warded to this office previous to the second Monday in December in each year,
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under a penalty of fifty dollars. I also enclose a form of Return of Incorporated
Companies liable to taxation. It is indispensable tliat this Report be furnished by .the
time prescribed.
The Board of Equalization of Taxes, in pursuance of Chapter 312 of the laws of
1859, have fixed the aggregate valuation of property in your County, at the sum of
$10,062,269, upon which amount a State tax of $34,798.68 must be levied for the
current fiscal year, commencing October 1st, 1876, as provided in said act and
amendments thereto, by.Chapter 351, laws of 1874, being 3 11-24 mills on the dollar
for the following purposes, viz.:
For Schools, ... ......1 mills, per Cha"ter 381, Laws of 1876.
For General Purposes, including New Cap-
itol, etc ...........
For Bounty Debt 3 "
1% I,
(t t{
it It
581, 0°
381, "
1876.
1876 •
Total................3 1124 mills.
Your obedient servant,
L. ROBINSON, Comptroller.
TREASURER'S OFFICE, WILLARD ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE,
OVID, N. Y., September 1, 1876.
To the Treasurer and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins:
Sins—The number of insane persons in the Asylum chargeable to your county
at this date is 25.
As it is probable the number will be added to during this year, by new admis-
sions, rather than diminished, allowance for the increase should be macre.
The charge for board of patients for the ensuing year has been fixed at three
dollars per week, and is based upon the actual cost of support for the past year.
It is estimated there will be required for the maintenance of the patients now in
the Asylum for the ensuing year, the sum of $3,900, and for clothing, $500. Total
$4,400.
You are respectfully requested to bring to the notice of the Board of Supervisors
at its next meeting, the contents of this letter, in order that the Board may act
understandingly in raising the amount necessary to meet the bills transmitted
quarterly from this Asylum.
In order to comply with the spirit and letter of the law, which requires that all
purchases for the Asylum be made for cash, and prohibits the Trustees from con-
tracting debts, the Board of Supervisors is respectfully requested to make the requi-
site provision for the support of patients in the Asylum, to enable the Treasurer to
meet the current expenditures as they occur.
Respectfully yours
J. B. THOMAS, Treasurer.
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SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
BROOME COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE, r
Clerk of Supervisors Tompkins Co.; BrNGnArrrrox, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1876.
DEAR SIR:—Enclosed please find bills due the Susquehanna Va11ey. Home from
your County, as follows :
Bills due April 1, 1876, principal
" " July 1, 1876, „
" " Oct. 1, 1876, "
Int ........
I am directed by John 14 T. Smith, Esq., one of your Superintendents, to send the
enclosed bills to you. The arrangement made by one of your Superintendents (his
name I have forgotten), with the managers of the Home was, that your County
would pay interest after bills were due. I have not added it, but should your Su-
pervisors ratify his arrangement you can do so
Respectfully yours,
A. C. MATTHEWS, Treas. of S. V. Home.
Mr. DING presented the following reports, which were accepted:
J. P. KING, Supervisor of the Town of Ulysses:
SIR:—As Commissioners appointed iu relation to binding the town of Ulysses in
aid of the Pennsylvania and Sc dui Bay Railroad, referring to our report of Nov. 9,
1876, we herewith report for the past year:
Amount of bonds originally issued, seventy-five thousand dollars, ($75,000 00,)
with semi-annual interest at seven per cent. per annum.
Amount of bonds purchased and canceled the past year, eleven hundred dol-
lars, ($1,100 00.) ,
Total amount of bonds purchased and canceled, four thousand one hundred
dollars, ($4,100.)
Leaving a balance against the town unpaid of seventy thousand nine hundred
dollars, ($70,900.)
There is a balance after making provision for all coupons due, of twenty-three
and 20-100 dollars, ($23 20.) which is now in the hands of A. M. Holman.
The interest required by law to be raised the ensuing year is five thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars ($5,250), and it will be necessary to raise by tax the fore-
going amount for interest as aforesaid. The law also requires to be raised by tax
at least one per cent. as a sinking fund, which will be seven hunched fifty dollars
($750), making a total to be raised as required by law of six thousand dollars ($6,000.)
We hereby recommend that the aforesaid sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000),
be raised by direct tax on the town for the purposes above stated, and hereby cer-
tify that the above amount, with the statements herein made, are to the best of our
knowledge true and correct.
Dated Trumansburg, November 5, 1876.
....... $ 9086
I30 00
112 45
$333 31
T. BOARDMAN, t Commissioners.
A. M. HOLMAN,
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
To the Board of Supervisors of Tompkins County :
In accordance with Chapter 552, laws of 1870, I hereby report the public debt of
the town of Ulysses to ee'as follows, viz :
Bonds issued to the Pa. & Sodus Bay Railroad Co., under the a. t to facilitate the
construction of Railroads: passed by the Legislature of 1850, and amended May
18th, 1869:
Amount of Bonds issued ....... • • ..... • .........
Rate of interest, 7 per cent.
Amount of principal paid Nov. 511', 1876 .......
Amount of principal unpaid Nov. 911', 1876 .......
Amount of interest becoming due March 1st, 1877
Amount of interest becoming due Sept. 1st, 1877
•••• •••• •••• $75,000
....•.........• 4,100
70,900
2,625
2,625
$76,150
Total amount of indebtedness
J. P. KING, Supervisor.
The following reports were adopted:
In accordance with Chapter 552, laws of 1870, I hereby report the public debt of
the Town of Enfield to be as follows :
Bonds issued by Commissioners appointed by the County Judge of said
County in favor of Penn. & Sodus Bay R. R. under the act to facilitate
the construction of railroads, passed by the Legislature of 1850, and
amended May 18th, 1869.
Amount of bonds issued
Rate of interest seven per cent. Amount of interest coming due the
ensuing year.... • •
Sinking fund as recommended by railroad commissioners of
Sinking fund in the bands of commissioners of said town..
Total amount of indebtedness less Sinking fund ...........
Railroad bonds held ...... • . • • • • • • ... .
$25,000 00
said town..
1,750 00
500 00
1,007 98
26,742 02
25,000 00,
L. H. VAN KIRK.
ENFIELD, Nov. 8, 1876.
To L. H. VANKIRx, Supervisor of the Town of Enfield :
We the undersigned Bonding Commissioners of the Town of Enfield would re-
spectfully report :
That there has been issued against the Town aforesaid, Bonds to the amount of
twenty-five thousand dollars to aid in the construction of the Pa. & Sodus Bay R. R.,
and that we hold certificate of Capital Stock of said R. R. Company for the above
amount. That the property belonging to said company has passed out of their
hands, owing to mortgage foreclosure and sale of said property.
The bonds outstanding against said Town of Enfield, bear even elate of Septem
ber lst, 1871, and bear interest at seven per cent payable semi-annually on the 1st
of March and September of each year; Interest and Principal payable at the office
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of the Union Trust Co. of New York. The amount of money required to pay the
interest to become due the next year is seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, ((81750 00),
and we ask you to assess and levy a tax for that amount against said town to meet
said interest when due.
We would also report : That we now have on hand and securely invested a
Sinking Fund amounting to one thousand and seven 98-100 dollars, and we farther
request you to raise in like manner by tax the sum of five hundred dollars to be
applied on said Sinking Fund toward the final liquidation of said bonds as provi-
dad by Section Six, Chapter 907 of laws of 1869.
EDGAR BREWER, )
WILLIAM MILLER, - Commissioners.
ISAAC H. NEWMAN. J
To the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins, State of New York.
We the undersigned Commissioners of the town of Lansing,duly appointed under
the provisions of an act of the legislature of the State of New York, entitled an
act to facilitate the construction of the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad
and to authorize towns to subscribe to the capital stock thereof passed April 5th,
1866, and of the several acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, do
respectfully report that the consent in writing of a majority of the taxpaying inhab-
itants of said town of Lansing authorized the execution and issue of bonds of said
town to the extent of one hundred thousand dollars to be used to aid in the eon-
structiou of the said New York and Oswego Midland Railroad and its branches,
that under that authority we have executed, issued and sold seventy-five thousand
dollars of bonds of said town, that said bonds were all sold at par, and the amount
of money so raised by us was expended by us in the purchase of stock in the said
New York & Oswego Midland Railroad, and the security we hold for the sante is
the stock of the New York & Oswego Midland Railroad to the amount of seventy-
five thousand dollars, the scrip for which is in our possession.
And we further report that no part of the principal of said bonds is due or to be-
come due or payable within the ensuing year, that no dividends have been paid or
received by us upon said stock. And we further report that the interest is now
due on the aforesaid seventy-five thousand dollars from the first clay of September,
1873, until the first day of September, 1876, amounting to .........$15,750 00
Likewise the interest to become due from the first day of September, 1876,
to the first day of September, 1877, payable on the first day of March,
and the first day of September, 1877, amounting to ......5,250 00
Total. ............. ........................ $21,000 00.
Wliich sum of twenty-one thousand dollars your bond is by authority of the afore-
said
foresaid acts authorized and required to cause to be assessed and levied and collected
upon the real and personal property of said town of Lansing, and to cause the
same when collected to be paid to us as such commissioners to be applied to the pay-
SuPEILVISOns' _PROCEDIr6S.
nrent of the amount of interest now due and so to become due and payable during
the coming year, and that duty you are respectfully requested to perform.
Dated, Lansing, Nov. 15, 1876.
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EGBERT 1ZTILLIAMS,
CHAS. GCommissioners.
. LIAGIN,
J. BRUYN BOGARDUS,
On motion of Mr. KING,
WI-IERMA:5, The town of Ulysses having passed, at its last annual Town Meeting,
a resolution purporting that hereafter the Town Meetings in said town should be
held by election districts, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a committee of three to prepare an act to be
passed by the Board to carry into effect a law passed June 5tb, 1875, by the Legis-
ature of the State, allowing the several towns to so hold their Town Meetings.
Messrs. KING, STEVENS and BUR.TT, were appointed a committee in accordance
with. the above resolution.
,after further preliminary work the Board, at 6 p. m.. on motion of idir. Marvin
adjourned.
FRIDAY, NOV. 17.
Board met at 3 a. m.
Roll call and all members present.
On motion of Mr. VAEKIP.K,
Resolved, That in accordance with the law of the State this Board do now proceed
to visit the County Poor House for the purpose of making an examination of the
premises and noting what is necessary to be done there.
The Board spent the day in accordance with the above resolution, returning n
the evening.
SATURDAY NOV. 18.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present.
Committees were at work during the day, and previous to the adjournment, un-
til Nov. 23th, inst. at 10 a. in., the following resolutions were passed.
On motion of Mr. Marv.N,
Rao/ea, That the Committee ou Repairs be requested to procure cushions for the
chairs in the Supervisors' Rooine.
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SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS.
On motion of Mr. STEVENS,
Re ingl, That wo extend the time of receiving the County Clerk's bills frcm the
19th until the 22cl inst.
MONDAY, NOV. 20.
Board met pursuant to adjournment,
Roll call.
Minutes of Saturday read and approved.
On motion of Mr. KING,
Resolved, That the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars, 61,250) be levied and
assessed upon the taxable property of the town of Ulysses for highway and bridge
purposes, two hundred and fifty dollars, ($250) upon the application of the Commis-
sioners of Highways, and one thousand dollars, ($1,000,) pursuant to a resolution
passed at the last annual town meeting.
On motion of Mr. BEERS,
Resolved, That the amount of two hundred and fifty dollars be assessed to the
town of Danby for the repair of roads and bridges, as per estimate of the Commis-
sioner of Highways of said town.
On motion of Mr. KING,
Resolved, That the Superintendents of the Poor be and are hereby authorized to
employ a Chaplain for the County Poor House at a salary not exceeding fifty dol-
lars, and to be paid upon an order of the Superintendents on the County Treasurer.
On motion of Mr. WOODBURY,
.Resolved, That the Clerk of this Board be authorized and directed to draw ail or
der on the County Treasurer for thirty dollars for ten copies of Thomson's Super-
visors' Manual.
On motion of Mr. VANKIRIr,
Resolved, That Grand Jury list be apportioned among the several towns of the
county at the same proportion as in 1875.
The following reports were accepted :
To the Board of Supervisors of Tompkins
552 laws of 1870, I hereby report the public
as follows, viz:
Bonds bearing interest at 7 per cent issued
Lake Bail Road, seventy-five thousand clolla
Cayuga Lake Rail Road Stock held by said
town........
County, in accordance with Cliepter
debt of the town of Lansing, to bo
by the Commissioners of the Cayuga
re... 0'5,000 00
Commissioners for the benefit of said
• • ........$75,000 00
SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS.
Bonds bearing interest at seven per dent issued by the Commissioners of the New
York and Oswego Midland Rail Road, seventy-five thousand dollars....$75,000 00
New York and Oswego Midland Rail Roacl Stock held by said Commissioners
said town...... .........$75,000 00
for the benefit of........... •
The above report is based entirely upon the statement of the Rail Roacl Commis-
sioners of the town, and I deem it proper to so far qualify my report as to state
that I cannot say anything in reference to the issuing of said Bonds or of the holding
of the Stock of said Roads for the benefit of said town of my own personal knowl-
edge, and the legality of the proceedings in reference to the bonding of said town..
for the benefit of said roads being now in litigation, I am unable to present a defi-
nite report of the indebtedness of said town on account of said roads .until the final.
decision of the suits now pending in reference thereto.
Dated Nov. 20th, 1876.
TUESDAY, NOV. 21.
Roll call.
Minutes of Monday were react and adopted.
Bills to No. 69 were passed upon by the Board.
On motion of L. H. VnNKuu
J. BI.WOODBURY.
Resolved, That in accordance with the request of the Commissioner of Highways
of the town of Enfield, I would ask that the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars
be levied and collected from said town, for tho purpose of defraying the expenses
of highways during the coining year.
Board granted hearing at 2 p. ni. 22nd inst., for S. Love, Esq., in behalf of Z. Tyler.
The following paper was served upon the Board :
Circuit Court, United States :
Judgment rendered against the Town of Lansing, in favor of Francis H. Brown.
Time of docketing judgment, Nov. 21, 1876, 11 a. in.
Perfected in U. S. Circuit Court, Northern District N. Y , Nov. 17,1876, 2 p. m.
$'3,516 61
. _ 130 46
Costs, ...................................
Amount,
STATE OP NEW YORK, •
Tourxii s COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,
3,647 07
DAVID WRIGHT, Attorney.
S L I certify the above is a correct transcript from the Docket of Judgment
kept in Dry office. D.. TARBELL, O1erk.
Dated Ithaca, Nov. 21, 1876.
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FRANCIS H. BrowN, }
ugainst
Tali TOWN of LAN-
1
SING.
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
The certified copy of docket of jud1.1•ment in this case, now before you shows
amount due Nov. 17th, 1876,, ,
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Interest computed to Ist Monday in Feb. 7, 1877, is ...... . ... . ti 3. 56 o 07
Add for certified copy of judgment roll herewith— G7_folius, 10c..., ... 70
670
To be levied, assessed and collected.
................ �;3, 700 7t
To the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins:
The petition of Francis H. Drown of the city of Boston, in the State of Massa-
chusetts, by David Wright, of the city of Auburn, in the State of New York, his
Attorney respectfully shows
That your petitioner on the 17th clay of November, 1876, recovered a judgment
in the Circuit Court of tate United States for the Northern District of New York
against the Town of Lansing, one of the towns in said County of Tompkins for the
sum of three thousand six hundred and forty seven dollars and seven cents, damn-
, ges, interest and costs. A certified copy of the record of which judgment is here-
with presented.
And your petitioner by his aforesaid Attorney further shows, that said judgment
has not been suspended by Writ of Error or otherwise, nor has said judgment been
paid or satisfied, but the whole of said sum of three thousand Six hundred and rorty
seven dollars and seven cents, together with interest thereon from the said seven
teenth clay of November, 1876, remains due and wholly unpaid thereon.
Your petitioner therefore prays, that you as the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Tompkins, will acid the amount of said judgment, together with interest
thereon from the said seventeenth day of November, 1876, (the time when the sarno
was so as aforesaid recorded) to the first Monday in February neat, and also the
expenses of said certified copy of said judgment record, to the tax to be laid upon
said Town of Lansing, to be assessed, levied and collected as other contingent
charges of said town, to be paid by the County Treasurer to your petitioner.
Dated at Auburn, N. Y. this 23c1 day of Nov. 1876.
FRANCIS H. BROWN,
by DAVID WRIGHT, his Attorney.
STATE OF NEW YORK,
CAYUGA COUNTY.
David Wright of the city of Auburn, N. Y., being duly affirmed says, that he
is an Attorney and Counselor of the Circuit Court of the United States, for th
Northern District of New York, that he acted as such Attorney and Counsel for
Francis H. Brown, the petitioner named in the foregoing petition, in the action in
which the judgment mentioned and referred to in said petition was recovered and
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that he is the Attorney for said petitioner, end as such, atuhorizcd to take all neces-
sary and proper means to collect the monies due and to gmcc due thereon.
That he, this Atfirmant lies read the fu reguinepetition, and knows the euntents
thereof, and that the sauce are true of his own knowledge. D. WRIGI1T.
Affirmed before me this 23d day of Nov. 1876.
A. 81. WHITE, Notary Public.
At 12 m. the Board adjourned.
At 2 p. m. the Board convened. Committee of ladies from the the State Chari-
ties Aid Society visited the Board, and Mrs. C. M. Titus on behalf of said society
matte a statement and presented the following petition.
To the Honorable, The Board of Supervisors of Tompkins County :
The members of the Visiting Committee, State Charities Aid Society, in their
several visits to the County House have been greatly impressed with the need of a
change in the quarters at present provided for the invalids of the institution.
It no doubt has come to the notice of your honorable body, that there is not in
the County House a suitable hospital room or al least a separate room for the sick.
It being the custom to have the sick and well, the boisterous and unfeeling, idiots
if any there be, occupying the, same rooms, To the aged sick, to the nervous, to
the debilitated, to those suffering ones, the custom of having the inmates of the
County House, sick and well in the same apartments must be so painful and ag-
gravating that we trust some change may be made. This can only be done by
providing apartments separate from those in common use. Rooms so located as- to
be quiet, and in every particular comfortable, well ventilated aucl provided with
the modern sick room appurtenances.
We appear here to -day to earnestly request your honorable body to take such ac-
tion in the premises as will provide the way and means to cause the additional
rooms to be constructed for the purpose above mentioned. We do not deem it
necessary to particularize the many objections that can be made to the present ar-
rangements, nor to allude in an int_usive chancier to any of the prevailing customs
which can be said as to the consistency of our request, but we are constrained to
believe that your Honorable Body will entirely cancer with us, and that whatever is
expedient and proper will be done.
We the members of "The State Charities, Tompkins County Visiting Commit-
tee," in the performance of our duties, feel that we do not overstep the bounds of
propriety in taking the liberty of bringing to your notice in this manner, what to
us, seems an important measure of reform and progress in the management of tha
County house for the needy and afflicted, We therefore bcg that you Will consid.
er our request all of which we respectfully submit.
The ladies of the State Charities, Tompkins County Visiting Association.
Ithaca, Nov. 1876.
The petition was ordered on the minutes,
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SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
On motion of Mr. BEER$,
W IIr,P.EAs, The ladies of the Tompkins County Visiting Committee, having pre-
sented an application for an improvement in the County Poor House, for the better
accommodation of the sick, therefore be it
Resolved, That this Board appoint a committee of three to enquire into and en
deavor to make proper arrangements thereunto pertaining, said committee to re-
port during the present session.
Dr. Beers, ]iIr. Burt!. and Mr. King were appointed a committee in accorda.neo
With the above resolution
The following document was served upon the Board :
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT
NORTHERN DIST. OF NEW Y oRIc.
JoIIN J. STEZI'AI T, ) Judgment July 11, 1870,
Ts. ` Damages, $3,176 25
TRE TOWN OF LANSING, j CostS, 110 95
Docketed at Utica, and transcript duly filed and docketed at Clerk's (S/fe87 oof
Tompkins County, at Ithaca, Oct. 14, 1876.
JAS. R. COX, Plaintiff's Attorney.
Auburn, N. Y.
The Board then adjourned.
WEDNESDAY NOV. 22
1101I call, and all members present.
Minutes of 21st read and approved.
On motion the Town A`,stracts of Enfield, Dryden, Danby, Ithaca, Groton and
Lansing were accepted and allowed.
On motion the following reports were accepted :
To the Poard-of Supervisors of Tompkins County :
Eighth Annual Report of the Commissioners of the Town of Ithaca, pursuant of
an Act of the Legislature passed April 17th, '66.
Amount of Bonds issued for the Ithaca and Athens Road, i 300,000 00
Expended for Ithaca and Athens Stock, 300,000 00
Ithaca and Athens Pail Road Stock,
................ 300,000 00
There will be required for the corning year to pay interest on said Bonds, and
by virtue of said act, the snot of twenty-one thousand dollars, (:21,000), and ask
that the same may be assessed and levied upon the Town of Ithaca.
.TORN L. 1VIII'I'ON, )
PETER A.I'GAIR, SComtuissioncrs.
Ithaca, Nov, 13, '76,
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Res2l5e_l, Tliat in pursuance of Chapter 645, Laws of 1866, entitled "An Act to
facilitate the construction of the Ithaca and Towanda Railroad, by au act of Feb.
18th, 1370, now Ithaca and Athens Railroad Company, and to authorize town to
subscribe to the capital stock•thereof, and of a notice served upon this Board by
the Commissioners of the town of Ithaca, there be levied and assessed upon the
taxable property of the said town of Ithaca, the suns of twenty-one thousand dol-
lars, for the purpose of paying interest to become due March 1st, 1877, upon the
own bonds issued for mid Railroad and that the Supervisor of said town pay said
sum to the Commissioners of said town to be expended for that purpose.
ITIIACA, November 20, 187 6.
Report of the Commissioner of the Geneva & Ithaca Rail Road.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins:
The undersigned commissioners, report to your honoranle body, that they have a
sinking tund on hand in payment of bonds issued in aid of the Geneva and Ithaca
Ra,i Road, es follows.
Bonds issued in aid of said road, .... ... • • • • • .. • • • • .• .• • . • ..• ....
Accumulated interest on bonds, etc., ..
Total.......................................
The bonding law of May 18, 1869, makes it obligatory on the commissioners of
ter three years, to call for a tax of not less than one per cent. to be laid aside as a
sinking fund for the payment of said bonded debt. The three years having ex-
pired, we therefore ask that your honorable body levy a tax on the taxable prop-
erty of the Town of Ithaca, of not less than two per cent. on $100,000 00, amount
of bonds issued in aicl of the Geneva and Ithaca Rail Road, for the purpose of cre-
ating a sinking fund provided by law.
$3,000 00
301 09
$3,301 09
C. ]4I. TITUS. Commissioners
JOHN RUMSEY, of the
Town of Ithaca.
Revolved, That in pursuance of the provisions of Chapter 907, Laws of 1869, enti-
tled an "Act to amend an Act," to authorize the formation of Railroad corporations
and to regulate the stone, passed April 25, 1850, so as to permit municipal corpora-
tions to aid in the construction of railroads, p:)ssed May 13, 1869, and of a notice-
served- upon this Board, by the. Commissioners of the town of Ithaca, for tiro Ge
neva and Ithaca Rani oad Company, then be levied and assessed upon the taxable
property of the town of Ithaca, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000), being two
per cent of the bonds issued to aid in the construction of the Geneva and Ithaca
Railroad, for the purpose of creating a sinking fund as provided by law.
To the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins :
In accordance with Chapter 552, Laws 1370,. I hereby report the public debt of
the town of Ithaca to be as follows:
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BIIPnEYISORS' TROCEEDINGS.
Bonds issued March 1st, bearing interest at seven per cent,......... $300,000 00
by Commissioners for I, & A. R. R.
Amount of principal unpaid•
....$300000 00
Amount of' interest for the current year,
Bonds issued Oct. 1st, 1871, payable Oct. 1st, 1901, by the Commis-
sioners for the Geneva and Ithaca Railroad, interest on same, payable
semi-annually,.. .
.
.
.
. .................... ...
Amount of interest coming clue April 1st, 1877,
Amount of interest coming due October 1st, 1877, ... ..... , , ..
Less sinking fund on hand in payment of bonds,. ......
21,000 00
100,000 00
3,500 00
3,500 00
$428,000 00
3,301 09
$424,693 91
D. L. BURTT, Supervisor.
ITHIACA, November 20, 1876,
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins
Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioners of the town of Ithaca for bonds is-
sued in aid of the Geneva and Ithaca RailRoad.
Amount of bonds issued in aid of said'road, $100,000 00
Interest to come due April 1st, 1877,.. 3,500 00
Interest to come due Oct. 1st, 1877, ........ 3,500 00
We therefore report that there will be required for the coming year, to pay in-
terest on the said bond, the sum of seven thousand dollars. We therefore ask that
the same be assessed and levied upon the Town of Ithaca.
C. M. TITUS,` Commissioners
f the
JOHN RUMSEY, f'Townctof Ithaca.
Resolved, That in pursuance of the provisions of Chapter 907, Laws of 1869, ,enti-
tled an Act to authorize the formation of Railroad corporations and to regulate the
same, passed April 2d, 1850, so as to permit municipal corporations to aid in the
construction of railroads, passed May 18, 1869, and of a notice served upon this
Board by the Co.nmissioners of the Town of Ithaca, for the Geneva and Ithaca
Railroad Company, there be levied and assessed upon the taxable property of the
town of Ithaca, the sung of seven thousand dollars, to provide for interest coming
due April 1st, 1877, and October 1st, 1877, on bonds issued for the benefit of the
Geneva and Ithaca Railroad, and that the Supervisor of the town of Ithaca, pay
said sum to such Commissioners, to be expended for that purpose.
On motion of Mr. KING,
Resolved, That Joseph Willson be appointed County Sealer for the ensuing year.
The following reports were accepted
Resolved, That in pursuance of the provisions of Chapter 433, of the Laws of 1866
entitled "an Act to facilitate the construction of the Southern Central Railroad,'
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and to authorize towns to subscribe to the capital stock thereof, and of a notice
served upon this Board by the 11ailroad Commissioners of the town of Groton
there be levied and assessed upon the texabio property of said town, the sum of
one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for the purpose of paying the interest
upon the Railroad Bonds issued by said town and now unpaid, and twelve thous
and five hundred dollars as principal. The aggregate fourteen thousand two hun-
dred and fifty dollars, and that the same when collected be paid to the Commis-
sioners of said town appointed pursuant to this act. Be it also
Resalved, That in pursuance of the provisions of Chapter 907 of the Laws of 1869
and notice having been served upon this .Board by the Commissioners of the town
of Groton, there be levied and assessed upon the taxable property of said town of
Groton the stun of one thousand and thirty-six dollars and eighty eight cents for
the purpose of paying the interest upon the Railroad bonds issued under this ect in
the town of Groton, also the star of one hundred and fifty dollars be levied and
assessed upon the taxable property of the town of Groton for the purpose of crea-
ting a sluicing fund, according to instructions in said Chapter 907 of the Laws of
1869, and that the same when collected be paid to the Commissioners of said town,
appointed under this act, to be expended for the above purpose.
To the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins
In accordance with Chapter 552, Laws of 1370, I hereby report the public debt of
the town of Groton to be as follows, viz :
Bonds remaining unpaid, issued by Commissioners bearing interest at seven per
4
;.2100000
cent for the Southern Central Railroad. w'
Interest on the same coming due the ensuing year; .... ...... 1,600 00
Bonds issued by Commissioners for the Ithaca and Cortland Railroad,
bearing interest at seven per cent. payable semi-anunlly, . 15,000 00
Interest on same coming due the ensuing year,......... .. 1,036 84
One per cent on said Bonds for sinking fund . .. I50 00
Total indebtedness,
. $12.786 84
N. STEVENS, Supervisor.
To the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins:
-Tate report of the undersigned Commissioners of the town of Groton, appointed
under the Act entitled "an Act to facilitate the construction of the Southern Cen-
tral Railroad, and to authorize towns to subscribe to the capital stock thereof'
passed April 7, 1866, respectfully shows, that they as such commissioners have is-
sued the bonds of said town to the aggregate amount of fifty thousand dollars, that
the whole of said bonds have been sold by the undersigned as such commissioners.
That no dividends have been received by the undersigned, and there will become
due and payable for principal and interest upon same bonds during the next ensu-
ing year in the aggregate the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars, princi-
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sucErtvISons' rnoCEEDI:NGs.
pal due on sane bonds, and the sum of seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, and
those amounts will be required to pay said principal and interest.
And the undersigned as such Commissioners aforesaid, therefore request that
these amounts may be levied upon said town of Groton to pay said principal aucl
interest besides the expense of collection.
Dated at Croton, ibis eighteenth day of November, I376.
A. BACKUS,
war. H. Bl'iNHA11,
)Commissioners
it of the
) Towu of Croton.
To the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins :
We the undersigned Commissioners of the town of Groton, appointed under the
Act passed May 14th, 1868, Laws of New York, Chapter 907, would respectfully
subunit the following report.:
That the amount of bonds issued in aid of the Ithaca and Cortland Railroad
is ........ %15,000 00
That the amount of Town Bonds exchanged for Stock in the Cort-
land and Ithaca. versus U. I & E. railroad, is...........
That Ibe interest failing due Feb. 1st, 1877, is five hundred and
twenty -rive dollars (525), less thirteen and 21-100 dollars. The thirteen
and 21-100 dollars is interest upon $525, loaned at five per cent from
Feb. 1st. 1876, to August 1st, 1876, this being in accordance with in-
structions in Chapter 537, Laws of New York of 1871. Therefore we
ash for an appropriation to pay interest on said bonds for Feb. 1st, 1877,
the sum of.......,,
Also, an appropriation to pay interest on saki bonds, Aug. 1st, 1877,
of
Also, an appropriation for a sinking fund to liquidate bonds, of....
15,000 00
511 88
525 00
150 00
Aggregate . 1,Is6 88
We therefore report that will be required for the year 1877, to pay interest
on the above mime'] bonds in addition to what is on hand, line sum of one thous.
and thirty six and 8Sµ100 dollars. ($1,036 SS). Also, one hundred and fifty dol-
lars (,•150), as 0 sinking find toward liquidation of said bonds.
We therefore respectfully ask that the same be assessed and levied upon the tax-
able properly of said town of Groton.
Dated at McLean, Nov. 17, 1876.
J. B. (TART,
B. H. W �KELY, Commissioners.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Rol call.
11'1r. Samuel Love, Esq., anode an argument before the Roared in behalf of the Rev,
Z. Tyler. Mr. Tyler's property ]Having been assessed] contrary to law, although Itis
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own it is on record as the property of his children. The question was taken into
consideration by the Board.
The following Report of Committee on Printing was accepted :
GENTLE IEN—In accordance with the requirements of the Board your commit.
tee solicited proposals from the Ithaca Ti eekly Journal and Ithaca Weekly Democrat,
to publish the proceedings of the Board of Supervisors, also to publish two thous-
and (2,030) copies of the proceedings 01 this Board in pamphlet forth. Matter to be
set in wide measure and printed on book paper.
In response to the above yonr committee have, drily received the following. pro-
posals from each of the printing companies, (viz) :
Ivw&cx, Nov. 21, 1876.
To the Board of Supervisors of Tompkins County :
GENTLEMEN —The following is our estimate for publishing the proceedings of
your body, publishing. proceedings in Daily and Weekly Journal, thir•y cents per
folio, publishing two thousand (2,000) pamphlets, (not to exceed 32 pages) on book
paper, matter to be set in wide measure, seventy dollars, ($70.00) and seventeen 50-
100, (717 50-100) dollars for every eight pages exceeding thirty two.
Respectfully etc.,
ITHACA_ JOURNAL.
IrIIACA, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1876.
To the Committee on Printing, Board of Supervisors :
GEsrr.rt1::_r--We will publish proceedings of the Board of Supervisors in Ithaca
Democrat for 30 cents per folio.
We will print two thousand (2,000) copies of proceedings in pamphlet form in
good type and on good paper, not to exceed 32 pages for $65.00, every additional
eight pages for .µm16 25.100. Yours very Respectfully,
SPENCER & GREGORY.
In accordance with the proposals of the 'Ithaca Weekly Journal and Ithaca
Weekly Democrat your committee submit the following resolutions :
Res•'lvrd, That the Clerk of this Board be instructed to contract with the Ithaca
Weekly Journal and Ithaca Weekly Da,norrat to publish the proceedings of this Board
at 30 cents per folio.
R so'ce.Z,
That. a full report of the proceedings of the extra sessions of the Board
of Supervisors of 1875 and 1876, held Feb. 5th, Murch. 181h, April 15111, Sept. 2d,
and the regular session of this Board of Supervisors be prepared by the Clerk, who
shall furnish the same to the Ithaca Democrat for publication, and contract with
said firm to publish 2,000 copies of the proceedings of the Board in pamphlet form,
- matter to be printed in wide measure and in good type in accordance with the pro-
posals submitted], tate 2,000 copies to be ready on the first day of January, 1877.
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E UPE UYISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
- Reso?red, That when the said pamphlets are react)' for delivery it shall be the duty
of the clerk of this Board to examine the pamphlets and if in hisjudgment. they are in
compliance with the contract he shall accept the same and distribute them to the
Supervisors of the several towns in proportion to the Grand Jury list.
EZRA MARION,
J. W. WOOD13URY, `-Commissioners.
HARRISON; MARVIN, 1
Committees were engaged at committee work until adjournment.
THURSDAY, NO V. 23.
Roll call.
Minutes of Wednesday read aucl approved.
Committees began work and convened for adjournment at 12 m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Roll ca]1.
The abstract of Town Audits of Caroline was passed.
Committees engaged until adjournment.
FRIDAY, NOV. 24.
Roll call.
On motion of Mr. WooDnunv,
lssolec.d, That each officer when conveying prisoners to the llfonroe County Pen-
itentiary shall be allowed eighteen dollars in full for all expenses and fees, and for
every additional prisoner when taken at the same time he shall be allowed four
dollars but in no case shall such officer be allowed for transporting one when two
or more prisoners are under sentence at the same time.
Bills were passed to No. 120.
Board divided into committees until noon adjournment.
11/r. Wood of Auburn, presented the petition of Francis H. Brown of Boston, by
his Attorney, Mr. Wright of Auburn, for the payment of the judgment against the
Town of Lansing ; also, a copy of the Judgment Record of same ease.
Roll call.
Mr. Samuel Love, Esq., again appeared in behalf of Rev. Z. Tyler, and argued
AFTERNOON SESSION.
SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS.
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the abrogation of I+Ir. Tyler's property from the assessment roll of Ithaca. The
final disposition of the matter was postponed until 2 p. m., 25th inst.
The abstract of Town Auditors of Newfield was passed.
Mr.. Cox, Jr., for J. D. Cox, Esq., of Auburn, presented a paper in relation to a
Judgment rendered against the Town of Lansing, and docketed at Utica as fol-
lows, viz:
Annum, N. Y., Nov. 24, 137G.
To the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Tompkins Co., N. Y., Ithaca.
DEMO Srrr-1 beg to enclose herewith, and invite the attention of the Board to the
Judgment obtained by my client, Mr. Stewart, against the Town of Lensing. It
has not been appealed, and there is, so far as I am aware, no reason why by i t should
not be provided for by the Board of Supervisors, now in session, levied and paid.
Ihave written i\1i•. Woodbury upon the Nehject, and -furnished him with a state-
ment.
And my object in writing you, is respectfully to empire, whether the Board are
disposed to provide for it, payment, according to law ; or whether we are to he put
to further trouble and costs, in an application for the Writ of JIto:darsua, rviricir will
make further expense, and litigation for the town to pay.
You will see the reasonableness of a prompt answer to my reasonable enquiry, so
that if the Board hesitate to act, or refuse, T shalll have time to:procure and serve
the .11 zndemo. , while the Board are in session.
Will you be sokiud as to answer my enquiry ?
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
JAS. 11. COX, Att'y for Plaintiff.
On motion of Mr. i'Iauvrr, the following report was accepted and ordered on
the minutes.
To the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors :
SIR—The committee appointed by you to visit the County house to examine the
accommodations provided tor the sick, as per resolution adopted by the Board of
Supervisors, Nov. 224, have the honor to report as follows :
- We inspected the rooms used for hospital purposes in the County Mouse, on the
23d day of the present month, and found them inadequate. The dimcnsien of the
ward for men being about 44n15 feet, the room for women, 15x13 feet. 'lire ceiling
of either apartment is nine feet from the floor. These measurements give a cubic
capacity of 1,630 feet, and 2,, fail feet. We learned that the average number of sick
in .either ward was four, this being the case, each man would only be ailor; eel 173
feet cubic space, and each woman 600 feet cubic space. From all respectable au-
thors upon hygiene we learn that the room necessary for each patient in a close
hospital, to be of at least 1,800 cubic feet capacity.
22 SUPEavrsoIts' PROCEEDINGS.
From the above figures you will readily comprehend the pitiful condition in
which our invalid paupers are placed.
Upon careful examination we fount that by removing a partition between the
male ward, and one adjoining sleeping room ten feet farther south, a. ward of
24x15 feet could be obtained, We found that the partition between the female
ward and sitting room cotticl be moved to the south, thus securing an apartment of
18x19 feet in dimension.
Your committee recommend that at least two ventilators be placed in each ward,
also that an outside door be built for the woman's sick room.
By inquiry we learned that one Anthony Orrin, an idiot, occupied the sick room
In common with other patients. This we consider very objectionable, and ask
that the Superintendent's of the Poor be instructed to have him removed to a room
by him: -eh;
We present herein a diagram of the ground floor of the County House which
may assist you in understanding the changes your committee recommend. All of
which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN E. BEERS,
D. L. BURTT, }- Committee.
J. P. KING,
SATURDAY, NOV. 25.
Roll call—all members present.
Minutes of Friday read and adopted.
Bills were passed to No. 132.
The committee on Treasurer's Accounts made their report and it was withheld
for further consideration.
Judge LYON'S report was presented and accepted.
The R. R. Commissioners' Report for the Town of Newfield was presented and
accepted, and also the report of the indebtedness of fire town of Newfield.
To EznA MAmoN, Supervisor of the Town of Newfield :
The undersigned Commissioners of the Town of Newfield, appointed in pursu-
ance of the statutes of the State of New York, authorizing towns to subscribe to
the capital stock of railroad corporations, and to issue bonds therefor, respectfully
report that it will be necessary for said town of Newfield to raise, by tax, the sunt
.of three thousand six hundred and forty dollars ($3,610), to pay interest from Sep-
tember 1st, 1876, to September 1st, 1877, on bonds of the said town of Newfield to
the amount of fifty-two thousand dollars (52,000), issued to aid in the construction
of the Pennsylvania and Sodus Bay Hail Road, said interest being payable semi-
annually on the first days of March and September in each year ; also to raise as
aforesaid an additional sum of five hundred and twenty dollars ($520), being one
per cent of said bonded indebtedness, to provide for a sinking fund.
P. S. DUDLEY )Commissioners
A111OS D. SHAFFER, ( of the
MERRITT KING, 3 Town of Newfield
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To the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins.
In accordance with Chapter 552, Laws of 1870, I hereby report the public debt
of the Town of Newfield to be as follows, to wit:
Bonds issued by Commissioners appointed by the County Judge in favor of the
Pennsylvania and Sodus Bay Rail Road under the act to faciliate the construction
of Rail Roads passed by the Legislature of 1850, and amended May 13, 1569.
Amount of Bonds,........ . $52,000 00
Rate of interest seven per cent.
Amount of principal unpaid Sept. 1st, 1876,
Amount of interest coming due March 1st, 1877,....
Amount of interest coming due Sept. 1st, 1877,
Interest payable semi-annually.
One per rout. on said bonds for sinking fate) to. be raised the coming
year..............................................
Amount of Pennsylvania and Sodus Bay Rail Road Stocls held by the
Town of Newfield,.
Amount of sinking fund raised in 1875, and now in the Commission-
er's hands, ....... .......
Newfield, Nov. 25th, 1876.
52,000 60
1,S20 00
1,820 00
520 00
52,000 00
520 00
EZRA MARION, Supervisor.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Roll call. Messrs. KING and WOODBURY were excused from this afternoon ses-
sion.
The Report of the committee on United States Deposit Fund was presented and
accepted.
The following resolution of Mr. MArtviii ras postponed until 2 p. m., 27th.
Adjourned to 10 a. m., Monday 271h.
To the Board of Supervisors, Tompkins County :
The undersigned, one of the Loan Commissioners for Tompkins Co unty, begs
leave to report the condition of the United States Deposit Fund as follows .
Amount on hand at last annual report,.... $1,297 89
Amount recd since last report, ............7,034 00
Amount reloaned,. .....................
On hand subject to loan . ........ . ... ... ..............
Amount outstanding, 67,916 23
On hand,... 521 89 Aggregate Ain't..
INTEREST,
Amount rec'd since last report, $4,701 87
Including dues from four delinquents,
$7.39, ....
$8,381 89
3,060 00
$321 89
68,233 17
4,701 87
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Advanced interest as foIIows
Feb. 22, 1876, By check, .... ........ 66 22
Nov. 6, Cheek to Oct. 1, 1876, ............4,000 00
Commissioners' fees, ... ...341 19
Due from delinquents, ... .... 87 00
Balance clue comptroller, .......206 96
• ••• ... 4,701 87
There are at present four delinquents whose property is advertised, the interest
of which amounts to 87 and 50.100 dollars, the amount being included in the above
statement.
I certify that the above statement of the condition of the United States Deposit
Fund in Tompkins County is true.
ALLEN GRAY, Loan Commissioner.
Ithaca, Nov. 21st, 1876.
The committee on Loan Commissioner's accounts respectfully report that they
have examinee the boobs of the Loan Commissioners and -found the statement of
the receipts and disbursements in the above report to be correct.
NPLSON STEVENS,
EZItA MARION, } Committee.
D. L. BURTT,
MONDAY, NOV. 27.
Roll call. .All members present.
Minutes of Saturday read and approved. .
Bills were passed to No. 146.
Committees were engaged until noon adjournment.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Poll call,
Resolution of Mr: MARION' in relation to the petition of Rev. Z. Tyler was passed.
On motion of Mr. MA1IIZeiIT,
WitEris.v, Zackaria Tyler having petitioned the Board of Supervisors to exempt'
from taxation a certain piece of property which he alleges is owned and occupied
by hint, and whereof he claims exemption on account of his being a minister of the
Gospel, and
NIriI;_s, Said property was properly assessed by the assessors to persons
holding the title thereof, said Tyler not occupying the premises when the assessment
roll was finished and delivered to the Supervisor, and as this Board questions the
propriety 10 exempt front taxation said property, therefore be it
.ssolre:d, That the claim of the Rev, Mr. Tyler be not entertained by this Board,
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The report of the committee on Treasurer's Accounts was accepted and ordered
on the minutes, as follows :
The committee on Treasurer's Accounts, report the following as the receipts and
disbursements of the County 'treasurer trent Nov, 19th, 1875, to Nov. 24th, 1876;
and they have examined all the books, receipts and vouchers, and find them correet
except an error of 1 35-100 dollars.
Tompkins County in acct. with N. S. VanVoorhes, County Treasurer.
To amount due Treasurer on settlement, 1875, ............ 82,615 73 $2,015 73
" paid Comptroller State tax, .... 55,901 50
t1 1f canceled tax, heretofore admitted for
town of Ithaca, ....... 55,925 53
" paid school money, town of Caroline, .... ....
" °` Dryden, •
24 03
2,065 17
3,249 15
2,609 25
2,205 98
5,520 21
1,313 43
1,883 30
2,188 58
2,233 71
80 00
125 00
409 69
20 00
2,500 00
50 00
600 GO
400 00
600 00
60 00
650 00
188 06
4,094 00
1,328 97
541 08
143 00
48 75
276 30
15,847 70
5,838 38
2,759 89
1,291 01
27 00
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" Groton, ........
Lansing, . .
Ithaca, .......
Enfield,
Danby,
Newfield„..
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Ulysses,
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To paid Supervisors' Janitor,
/{ {1 '' Clerk,
Fuel and light, Court House and Jail, ..........
Supplies Treasurer's Office, .......... .
Salary, County Judge, ........................
Special County Judge,
District Attorney,.
School Commissioners,
County Treasurer,
Chaplain, Pool House,
Supervisors' note, Tompkins County Bank,......
SusquehannaValley Home, ....................
Willard Asylum,
" N. Y. State Lunatic Asylum,
" Monroe County Penitentiary,
" Returned fines, town of Dryden,
" Groton,
" Ithaca, ....
" paid County Audits,
" Court Orders.,
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Superintendent's Orders in doors,
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Transportation,
23,328 78
205 00
409 69
20 00
4,100 00
650 00
6,15211
468 05
15,847 70
5,838 38
4,077 99
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" Taxes returned as uncollectable from Danby, ..... 15 5725 00
B. M. Hagiu, Sheriff ...........
" " " " Newfield, ...... 13 77 .. ......... . 19 70
A. M. Lucas, J. P., Ithaca, .
" " CC" Groton 65 61 Wm. Marshall` J. P., Enfield, • •15 00 59 70
" 4C" Dryden, ......•.. 23 43
Cr. by taxes from town of Lansing, • • • ". • 16,909 66
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Ulysses, ........ 113 20 t as " Danby, 6,500 84
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" " " Ithaca, . .. 329 11 560 69 is is " Newfield,. , . 11,009 59
paid audita, town of Caroline c 26,969 42
" ...... sly 11 � « Groton
•` " Highways " PO 251 50 869 61 ;` " "
Caroline, 5,077 46
" " audits, town of Lansing,..... 2,022 04 is Cf CC Dryden,. 17,064 67
...........
" " Highways " " ... 3,068 00 {{ it " Enfield, 6,700 78
"' " Poor, , 50 00 5,140 04 as " " ....:........ 73,821 73
`< <` Ithaca
audits, town of Danby, " Ulysses, 20,086 38 184,140 53
.... 333 56 ` �� hwa s
" " Highways, Y , • • • • • • • • • • . • • • .. • ..... 1,185 50 1.519 06 "School money from State, 23,328 78 23,328 73
" " audits, town of Newfield,
1,649 52 1575, Nov. Cr. by note lis. Tompkins County Bank,::'.638 41
1876, May 2, " " " . 5,000 00
5,809 52 Oct. 10, " " " " 1,500 00 7,138 41
Cr. Cash from Sheriff on Atwater's Bond, ....... 2,210 25 2,210 25
" by fines from Sheriff, .............................. 196 35
18,499 85 " " town of Groton, ................... . 2 31
a " Lansing, .... 40 00
a " Ithaca, .................... • 94 82
4,485 84 „ `• Caroline, 25 00 358 48
" Board of patients, Willard Asylum, ...... • • • • • • • • 539 62 589 62
"° Interest on Pa. and Sodas Bay R. R. Bonds, 3,640 00
" Sinking fund, 520 00
" audits, town of Groton, 18,137 76
" Highways, • ..254 89
" Sinking fund R. R. Bonds, ............ .............. 107 20
" Highways, town of Dryden, 2,985 00
" Town Poor, 250 00
" Audits, .... 1,250 84
audits, town of Enfield, ............................ 1,092 65
" Interest on R. R. Bonds, ... ....... • . , . • ... 2,000 00
" Highways, 250 00
..............
" R. R. Commissioner, 11 92 3,354 57
" audits, town of Ithaca, ........ 11,384 41
" Highways,......... 250 00
" Interest I. & A. R. R Bonds, 21,000 00
" Sinking fund, ........... 975 59
" Interest G. & I. R. R. Bonds, 6,909 .51
" Sinking fund, .... ..,. .... , , .. . , ...... .... .... ...... 3,000 00 43,519 51
" audits Town Ulysses, ................ 1,837 62
" Highways,. .................................. 1,077 24
" Overseers of the Poor, 200 00
" Interest Pa. & Sodus Bay R. R. Bonds, 5,250 00
Sinking fund, .... 750 00 9,114 86
" amount clue from George HBristol, .... 5,194 60 5,194 60
Cash on hand 659 05
$217,766 07
And your committee would further report that the Treasurer's books show in ad-
dition to fines in above report received since settlement, fines from,
$217,766 07
Statement of accounts for which appropriations were made and amounts paid
thereon t
OVERPAID. DUE.
Paid Comptroller State Tax ....$55,901 50
Cancelled .... 24 08
$55,925 53
Amount Appropriated ......... • - • • • - • • . • ..... 55,901 50 $24 03
Pard County Audits.... .... 15,847 70
Amount Appropriated ........................ 15,761 Iii 85 95
Appropriated for Court Expenses .............. 3,000
To supply deficiency.... 1,862
Note at Bank ... 638 41
1,500
$7,000'41
Paid Court Order ... ... 5,838 38
$1,162 03
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SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
Paid Superintendents Orders ........... . 4,077 90
Appropriation ... . $2,232 00
Paid by Towns.... ......... 1,838 06
4,070 06 7 84
State Lunatic Asylum ........................ 1,328 97
Transferred to Willard ............. ...... 671 03
Amount Appropriated
$2,000 00
. 2,000 00
Amount appropriated Willard Asylum ........ 3,000 00
Transferred from Utica , ............. 641 03
Received Board of Patients ... 589 62
$4,260 65
Paid ....................... 4,094 00
Appropriated Salary Co. Judge....... 2,500 00
2,500 00
50 00
50 00
600 00
600 00
400 00
400 00
600 00
500 00
50 00
50 00
650 00
650 00
409 69
400 00
Appropriated Special Co. Judge......
Paid
Appropriated District Attorney
Paid ........... ......
Appropriated School Commissioners..
Paid
Appropriated County Treasurer ...
Paid
Appropriated Chaplain Poor House...
Paid ...............
Appropriated for Note at Bank.......
Paid
Paid Fuel & Gas, Court House ori Jail.
Appropriated ....... ..........
Amount forward
Amount appropriated for Insurance...........
Paid..... ..................
Paid Monroe Co. Penitentiary.......
Appropriated ........................ .
Paid Supervisors' Clerk ....
Appropriated .
Paid Supervisors' Janitor ............
Appropriated.... ... ..........
Fines returned to Supervisors ..
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4'
11
'4
14
'4
133 00
000 00
541 08
3.50 00
125 00
100 00
80 00
40 00
468 05
9 69
166 64
$127 51 $1,328 68
127 51 1,328 68
191 08
25 00
40 00
133 00
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
Appropriated.... .... ...
Paid Susquehanna Valley Home
Appropriated
Paid Supplies Treasurer's Office... ..
Appropriated
Taxes 1875 Returned ................
" 1874 Collected ...
Fines of 1875 on hand
received on Atwater's Bond ..........
Paid Geo. H. Bristol Balance.........
Due from Geo. H. Bristol ...........
Received from Note at Bank.
Toamount on hand
Amount Principal due Heirs.......
"_
11
000 00
188 06
000 00
20 00
00 00
560 69
459 50
2,210 25
2,015 73
5,194-60
5,000 00
Secureties on Hand
Uninvested
29
468 05
188 06
20 00
101 19
358 48
194 52
194 60
659 19
$2,014 68 $2,014 6S
$65,419 83
.....$65,042 64
377 19
$65,419 83
Amount of Securities received Geo. H. Bristol... $62,947 13
" 1,975 39
Since Jan. 1, 3,769 43
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Cash /f
Principal "
paid 1L
due Heirs .................... .
$68,691 95
Amount of Interest paid ............................... $3,766 23
“ '° received ..., .... ..
" due Treasurer
All of which we respectfully submit,
$65,419 83
3,272 12
65,419 83
$68,691 95
$3,634 52
121,76
$3,756 28 $3,756 28
D. L. BURTT,
J. E. BEERS, Committee.
L. H. VANKIRK,
And the Committee would further report that they re-examined the securities of
the Infant Heir Funcl, and compared them with the abstract furnished by the
Treasurer, and find thein to agree, and that they have examined all the books,
vouchers and receipts, and find them correct, except an error of three 46-100 ($3.46)
dollars, which is added to the amount due the heirs for the purpose of balancing
the account.
And the Committee would further report that they have examined the Military
Fund, and find the balance on hand as follows:
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' MILITARY FUND ACCOUNT.
Amount appropriated .......... . . .... _.........$500 00
Amount expended per Orders .... .., . , 481 60
$18 40
The Committee on Poor House and Superintendents' Reports presented the fol-
lowing report :
On motion of Mr. MAr vIN, the report was adopted and, the amount of money
asked for by the committee was ordered raised.
Report of the committee on ,Poor House and Superintendent's Report.
L. H. VAN KIRK, Chairman.
Your committee to whotu was referred, the report of the Superintendents of
Poor of the County of Tompkins, would respectfully report that from the 15th clay
of November, 1876, there was provided for in the Poor House as follows, viz :
County Paupers. 143
From the Town of Caroline.... ........... .. . ........ 1
11 1/
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Danby
Dryden
Enfield
Groton.
Ithaca,
Lansing
Newfield, ...
Ulysses,....
Total.
7
4
2
4
15
5
5
9
195
The whole number of days said Paupers were supported in said Poor
House was........ . 16,954
The whole amount of drafts drawn on the County Treasurer forbills
audited by the Superintendents for the support of the institution du-
ring said year over and above the proceeds of the farm, was.......... $4,709 05
Which sum was expended as follows, viz :
Forout door relief .............. . .......................... 1,797 54
". Services of Overseer.,....... 161 95
" Transportation of paupers .33 48
" Insurance ...................... 64 00
" Children in Asylum ............. . . 111 27
`- Building henely............. 10 06
" Indoor Expenses 2,630 75
Total .... . .......... $4 709 05
SUPERYISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
31
Of the above, there is unpaid on drafts drawn on the County Treas-
urer, the sum of ....... 739 31
The amount of produce raised on the. County House farm during the
said year, and the amount on hand the -15th day of November, 1876,
is shown as follows, viz :
30 bushels of Wheat raised ...... ............................ 180 on hand
824 " Oats raised.300
Ears Corn " .700
775
•
400 " Potatoes .300
5 " Peas
20 Onions
4 " Beets
8 " Beans " 7/l
200 " Apples " 50
400 Heads of Cabbage " 400
12 Tons of Hay
Corn Stalks from 12 acres of corn all on hand.
Stock on farm belonging to the County, and on hand is as follows, viz :
1 Yoke of Oxen, 7 Milch Cows, 2 Yearlings, 4 Spring Calves (extra), 9 Hogs (fat.
tening), 10 Shoats (for wintering), 1 Bull (fattening), 200 Common Fowls. There is
also on hand 300 pounds of butter, 6 bushels of Carrots, 38 Tons of Coal, 20 Cords
of wood, a quantity of Fulled Cloth, Flannel, &e., and many other articles belong-
ing to the house.
We further report'that all children sent to the County Poor House are transfer-
red to the Orphan Asylum at Syracuse and Binghamton.
The number of paupers in the Poor House November 15th, 1875,
was.... .... ......... . ...................... 37
The number received into Poor House during the year was 155
The number;of births. ..... 3 195
The number discharged from the Poor House during the year,
was........................................................... 145
The number absconded was ' 5
The number of deaths was ... - 5
40 195
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The number in Poor House at present......
The average number in the Poor House during the year was 46 164-365
The average expenses for each pauper supported above the proceeds of
the farm was ............ $54 '70
The average expense per week was ................. . 1 04%
Whole number of days board of county paupers ..6,619
Cost of board and clothing............ 991 93
Town of Caroline, days board ........ . 365
Cost of board and clothing , ... .
54 70
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Town of Dryden, days board
Cost of board and Clothing ... . .... .... .... .
Town of Danby, clays board ........
Cost of board and clothing
Town of Groton, clays board .....
Cost of board and clothing
Town of Enfield, clays board
Cost of board and clothing
Town of Ithaca, days board
Cost of board and clothing
Town of Lansing, days board ..
Cost of board and clothing
Town of Newfield, days board , ...
Cost of board and clothing
Town of 'Ulysses, clays board.— . ,
Cost of board and clothing
1,048
....1,048
638
108
3,018
725
1,028
....... .................... 1,518
157 05
263 39
95 61
16 19
451 53
108 80
108 80
22749
16,954 $2,540 75
The following statement shows the amount of produce sold from the County
farm from the 15th day of November, 1875, to the 15th day of November, 1876, and
where applied :
For Hams sold
" Oats s , ... ,
" one pair of Oxen sold
....$ 6000
... 304 38
........... 125 00
Total ..,, ........
Which is expended as follows.
Supplies, Mattison &, Loomis
Shoes, William Farrington ....... , .
..................
Coal, Roswell Wilcox. , . , . , ... , .
" D.,L.(W.R.R
Services, Mary Nolen •,,
For Tramps, J. E. Vandermark..,....................
Lumber, Williams Bros.
Fresh Mecat, F. Murphy
Taking Children to Asylum ...............................
Beans and Corn.......
Expenses, &c
Draft Book, Andrus & McChain. ,y.
...... . ...............
Pork, A. B. Woodworth .......... ............
$489 38
38 65
218 10
10 63
15 00
3 00
32 50
5654
10 75
31 40
5 00
7 75
45 00
total . .. • . $439 38
In conformity to the 30th section, title 1st chapter 20th, of the revised statutes
sumintvIsoli5' PROCEEDINGS. 33
the Superintendents of the Poor for the County of Tompkins estimate the expenses
for the support of the County poor in the county and towns for the ensuing year
at $2,500 00
For transporting Paupers to the Poor House .... 40 00
For temporary relief for County Paupers not in Poor House ............. 1,500 00
For Overseers of the Poor for services ..................................150 00
For Poor House Keeper, salary .................... ... 600 00
Total estima•tes............ $4,690 00`
To meet the deficiency now existing and to provide for the poor expenses for the
ensuing year, your Committee ask Ieave to introduce the following resolution:
Resolved, That the sum of $739 31 be levied and collected in the County of
Tompkins to meet the unpaid drafts drawn on the County Treasurer for said
'amount, and also the sum of $2,260 69 for the support of poor during the ensuing
year.
Your committee ask that the sums expended by the Superintendents of the Poor
for the support of the poor in the several towns of the County of Tompkins, be
levied and collected on said towns according to the following statement, which
shows the amount due from the several towns for the support of their poor in the
Poor House from the 15th day of Nov., 1875, to the 14th day of Nov., 1876 :
From the town of Caroline ........................ .. $ 54 70
Dryden................................. .. 157 05
•6 '• Danby .... 283 39
Groton 95 61
Enfield ................ 16 19
Ithaca ... 451 b3
Lansing .. ... , .... • .. 108 80
.< « Newfield ............................... . .... . ........ 154 06
6s Ulysses . . .. . ............... . ................ 227 49
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Total.,..
$1,548 82
We also ask that the following suns be levied and collected from the County
of Tompkins, for the support of its poor for the time above mentioned.. $991 93
Total for Town and County Paupers .......$2,540 75
The amount of money on hand and raised for the support of the poor
during the year was.... .. ................. , .. , • .. • ... $2,232 00
The estimate of the Superintendent's call for ... 4,690 00
To supply deficiency... 739 31
Total amount $5,429 31
34
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
The amount to be collected from the several towns of the county $1,548 82
by resolution of the board............
..... 3,000 00
Total amount .................... $4,548 82
Making the amount for support of the poor in the county $880 49, less than the
sum of the estimate of the Superintendents and the deficiency.
Your committee would further report that the buildings, stock, fence and every-
thing connected with the farm, as being in good condition, and it is their belief
that after making a thorough investigation and inquiry that the inmates of the
house are properly cared for and kindly treated. To the Superintendents we ex-
tend our thanks for their kindness in imparting all information called for, and to
Mr. Bower and family for courtesies received.
L. II. VAN KIRK, j
J. P. KING,
EZRA MARION, }Committee,
J. W. WOODBURY,
NELSON STEVENS, J
The Abstract of Town Audits from Ulysses was passed.
Committees engaged until adjournment.
Roll call.
Minutes of Monday read and adopted.
On motion of Mr. KING,
TUESDAY NOV. 28.,
Resolved, That hereafter no additional compensation will be allowed to and
County Officer for extra services performed, they having accepted their respective
offices with a full knowledge of the salary to be received.
On motion of Mr. STEVENS, the following was presented,
Resolved, That we request the clerk of Tompkins County to ask for bids for all
printing matter which comes by law through his office and that he let the sauce to
the lowest bidder.
The yeas and nays being called for resulted, yeas, Wattles, Marvin, VanKirk,
Stevens, Bunt, Woodbury, Marion, King, Beers. -9. Nays -0.
It was declared carried.
Mr. BuRTT presented the resolution passed at the annual Town Meeting, Apri
4th, '76, as follows :
At the annual Town Meeting held April 4th, 1876, in and for the town of Ithaca,
at Military Hall. The following Law was voted upon and declared carried.
Laws of New York passed June 5th, 1876. Chapter 482, Section 25.
Tax Receivers --To authorize any town which shall make application therefor by
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS. 35
the vote of an annual Town Meeting, to elect a Tax Receiver in place of a Collec-
tor whenever the aggregate of State, County and Town, taxes in such town shall
exceed the sum of fifty thousand (50,000) dollars, and in such case to prescribe the
mode of the coilection of taxes, the security to be given and the commission or
other compensation to be allowed to such Tax Receiver for his services.
I certify the above to be a correct copy of the records in my office.
A. B. WOOD, Town Clerk.
An Act to authorize the Town of Ithaca to elect a Tax Receiver in place of a
Collector.
WHEREAS, The Town of Ithaca at the annual Town Meeting held at Military
Hall, in the town of Ithaca, on the fourth day of April, 1876, by vote of town
meeting has made application to the Board of Supervisors of Tompkins County, to
elect a Tax Receiver in place of Collector, pursuant to Section 25 of Chapter 482,
of the Session Laws of the State of New York, passed June 5th, 1875.
§1. Be it enacted by the Boarcl of Supervisors of Tompkins County, that at the
next annual town meeting.of the town of Ithaca, there shall be elected by ballot
and in the same manner that Town Collectors of taxes are now elected a Tax Re-
ceiver for the town of Ithaca.
(2. No person shall be eligible to the offiee of Tax Receiver unless he shall be • at
the time of election an elector and resident of the town of Ithaca.
0. Every person chosen or appointed to the office of Tax Receiver before he
enters on the duties of his office and within eight days after he receives notice of
the amount of taxes to be collected by him shall execute to the Supervisor of the
town of Ithaca, a Bond with two or more sureties to be approved by such Supervi-
sor in double the amount of such taxes conditioned for the faithful execution of his
duties, which bond shall be filed in the County Clerk's Office within 6 days after
its execution.
O. If such person so chosen or appointed to the office of Tax Receiver shall not
give such security as is above required within the time limited for that purpose,
such neglect shall be deemed a refusal to serve and create a vacancy in the office
which shall be immediately filed in,the manner provided by Chapter 13, Section
11, Part 1, Revised Statutes of the State of New York, for filing vacancy in. the
office of Collector.
O. Immediately upon the receipt by said Tax Receiver of- the warrant, he shall
give notice by publication in two or more newspapers published in the town of
Ithaca ; That for thirty clays he will attend at 'a certain place to be named within
said town, and receive from any person or corporation, his, her or their tax without
charge, for thirty days succeeding the expiration of the first period two per cent.
will be added, and upon the tai unpaid at the expiration of sixty days five per
cent. will be added and collected by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of
the person or corporation assessed and in arrear, The compensation of the Tax
36 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS
Receiver shall be four lnindred ($400) dollars for the collection of said tax and all
services required of hint under this act, and such services in the execution of the'
warrant and return as are now required by law and rendered by Town Collectors.
§6. In the collection of the taxes remaining unpaid at the expiration of sixty
days after notice, as provided in Section 5, the Tax Receiver shall proceed to col-
lect the same in the manner and by the proceedings provided by Article First, Ti-
tle 3, Chapter 13, Part 1, Revised Statutes of the State of New York, for the collec-
tion of taxes by Town Collectors, and shall pay the percentage collected thereon to
the Supervisor, pursuant to the directions of his warrant to be by hint disposed of
as the Board of Town Auditors may direct.
They were passed by the Board.
On motion of Dr. BEERS,
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a committee of three to examine the Coun.
ty Clerk's Office Building with a view toarrange the rooms in said building so as
to provide offices for the Sheriff and County Treasurer, and that said committe be
required to report during the present session of this Board.
Beers, Marion and Woodbury, were appointed such committee.
1311 No. 147 was passed.
owing Insurance Report was adopted :
To the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors :
Sra—The committee on Insurance report that they have insured the County
buildings in the following companies :
CLERK'S OFFICE.
Amount.
Connecticut Fire Insurance Company ........:....... $1,000
North British
" `` 2,000
11. J. GRAFT Agent.
JAIL.
Amazon Fire Insurance Company
ALLEN GRAY, Agent.
Hanover Fire Insurance Company
H. J. GRANT, Agent.
COURT HOUSE.
Phoenix Fire Insurance Company
T. P. STRAIN, Agent.
Queen's Fire Insurance Company.......
A. BURRITT, Agent.
Liverpool & London Fire Insurance Company..
A. Buxxrnr, Agent.
Insurance'
$6 00
12 00
2,000 25 00
2,000 25 00
2,500 25 00
1,500 15 00
2,500 25 00
$133 00
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.. 37
Your committee recommend that the Clerk be directed to draw orders on the
Treasurer for sums so allowed in favor of: such persons above named. $43 00
T. P. St John, Agent
Allen Gray, Agent • ... • .... . 25 00
H. J. Grant, Agent ................ 25 00
A. Burritt, Agent. 40 00
$133 00
J. E. BEERS.
J. P. KING.
HARRISON MARVIN.
On motion of Mr. WOODBURY, Mr. BURTT was appointed a committee to investi-
gate and take charge of the matter of $10, claimed by Wm. D. Andrews, for a
driven well in jail yard.
On motion of Dr. BEERS,
Resolved, That pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 791 of the Laws of 1868, the
sums placed in the following Schedule be levied and assessed upon the taxable
property of the persons whose names are included in the several lists and in the
sums respectively named in said list, submitted to the Board and furnished to the
Supervisors of the several towns named in the said Schedule by the Overseers of
Highways of the road districts included therein.
District No. 27
" 50
District No. 10
District No. 55
" 3
" 6
District No. 141
62
35
101
47
139
129
" 132
CAROLINE.
days 23
" 3%
DANBY.
days 5
ULYSSES.
days 1
°• 5%
" 2
DRYDEN.
days 214
" 2
" 6
" 16
" 1%
.t l
" 1%
" 1j
at $3 75 •
5 25
nonresident
Amount
$9 00
$7 50
$1 50
8 28
3 00
$12 75
$3 76
3 00
9 00
24 00
2 25
75
2 25
1 50
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District No.
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15
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24
04
30
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NEWFIELD.
days 24
" 1
" 2
" 3
" 2
ITIL&cA.
District No. 32 days 113
Roll call.
2 25
3 00
$5175
$35 50
1 50
3 00
4 00
3 00
$47 00
at 1 60 $17 00
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Milo Goodrich appeared and made a statement in relation to the legal proceed-
ings between the Board and the town of Lansing.
A motion was made to ballot for papers to publish the Session Laws the ensuing
year.
The ballot resulted :
Ithaca Democrat
Ithaca:Jourual
Groton Journal
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•
9
The Ithaca Democrat and Ithaca Journal were declared duly elected for publish-
ing such laws.
On motion of Mr. MARION,
Resolved, That in accordance with Section First and Second of the Laws of 1845,
the papers heretofore designated by this Board to publish the Session ,Laws, shall
print:only the General Laws of the State and the laws local to this County, and
that this Board accept the propositions of the Ithaca Journal and Ithaca Deezocrat
to publish the same at forty cents per folio.
Adjourned until 10 a. m., 4th December.
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4.
39
Roll Cli.
14iiuutesi of 28th November, read and approved.
The following Report and Act were presented and passed.
Your committee to whom was referred the drafting of an Act to provide for the
holding of Town Meetings by election districts in the town of Ulysses would re
spectfully submit the following :
An Act to provide for the holding of Town )Meetings by election districts in the
town of Ulysses.
The Board of Supervisors of Tompkins County in pursuance of the power con-
ferred upon them by Subdivision twenty-six of Section 1st, of Chapter 482 of the
laws of the State of New York, passed June 5th, 1875, do enact as follows :
SECTION 1. Hereafter all Town Meetings in the town of Ulysses shall be ]field by
election districts, such election districts shall be the same as are set apart in said
town for the holding of State elections. The duly elected Inspectors of election in.
each district shall provide a suitable place for the holding of town elections in said
town, and act as Inspectors of Election at all Town Meetings held in said town'
and shall be governed by the same rules, have the same powers and receive the
same compensation as are now allowed said Inspectors for services at State Elec-
tions. A. statement of votes cast at any Town Meeting shall be delivered, duly cer-
tified by the Inspectors or by one of them deputed for that purpose to the Supervi-
sor of said town within twenty-four hours after the same shall have been subscribed.
If there be no Supervisor or he shall be disabled from attending the Board of Town
Canvassers, such statement shall be delivered to tho Town Clerk of said town.
2. The Board of Town Canvassers shall consist of the Supervisor, Town Clerk,
and the Justice of the Peace, having the longest time to serve and shall meet at 10
a. m., on the second day subsequent to the holding of any Town Meeting at the
office of the Town Clerk of said town and choose one of their number as Chairman
The following oath shall then be administered to them by some person qualified by
law to administer the same :—I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitu-
tion of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I
will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of canvasser of the votes of the
Town of Ulysses, according to the best of niy ability. They shall then proceed
without delay or adjournment to canvass all the votes cast at said Town Meeting,.
and declare and record the result in the book of records of said town.
§ 3. Whenever any Commissioner of Highways or other officer authorized so to
do shall make au application for money to be voted for at any Town Meeting for
any special purpose it shall be the duty of the Inspectors of election in each district
to prepare a box for that purpose upon which shall be written or labeled "In regard.
to raising money for " The ballots upon such question shall be in
40 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
the following form, "In favor of raising dollars for " or "against
raising any sum whatever for ." In case the vote in favor of raising
any particular amount Fl hall be greater than the vote in favor of raising any other
particular amount voted for at that Town Meeting, such amount shall be declared
to be the amount voted to be raised for the purpose required. In case the votes
against raising any sum whatever shall exceed the whole number of votes cast in
favor of raising any suns then the Town Canvassers shall declare, and record that
no sum whatever has been voted to be raised for the purpose named. The votes
upon this question shall be counted and returned in the same manner as directed
in the first section of this act.
4. All reports heretofore or hereafter directed to be made at any Town Meeting
shall be made in each election district by the Supervisor or by some one duly au-
thorized by hiui to make such report.
J. P. RING,
D. L. BURTT, - Committee.
NELSON STEVENS/
On motion of Mr. KING,
Resolved, That the Clerk of this Board be instructed to transmit a certified copy
of the above act to the Town Clerk of said Town, to be by him recorded in the
Book of Records in said Town.
Board met in Committee of the Whole on bill 48.
The Committee arose at 12 in. and, through its Chairman, Mr. BURTT, reported
progress.
Adjourned to meet at 2 p. m
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Roll Call.
Mr. BURTT reported that bill No. 48 passed Committee of the Whole for e43.60.
On motion for adoption of the above report, yeas, Beers, VanKirk, Stevens, Wood-
bury -4. Nays, Wattles, Marvin, Burtt, Marion, .Ging-5.
The bill was then rejected by the following vote : Yeas, Wattles, Marvin, Burtt,
Marion, King -5. Nays, Beers, VanKirk, Stevens, Woodbury -4.
On motion of Mr. MARVIN,
Resolved, That the Collectors of the several towns in Tompkins County be
requested by this Board to settle with the County Traasurer on or before the 15th
day of February, 1877.
Resolved, That the County Treasurer be authorized to extend the time for the
collection of taxes in any town in this county, when such extension may be neces-
sary, as provided in the 13th Subdivision of Sec. 1st, Chapter 482, of the Session
Laws of 1875.
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
On motion of Mr. VANKIIii:,
inasmuch as it is customary for each Board of Supervisors to visit the County
Jail at its annual session, therefore be it
Resolved, That this Board now proceed to visit the County Jail and make an ex-
amination of the condition of said institution.
On motion of Mr. VANKrax,
Resolved, That the editor of the Ithaca Democrat be requested to print 500 addi-
tional copies of the proceedings of this Board which shall be distributed and paid
or according to former resolution and contract.
Board was engaged until adjournment at 6 p. m.
41:
TUESDAY, DEC. 5.
Roll call.
Minutes of Monday read and adopted.
C.D. Johnson personally assured the Board that he would assume any cost
imposed by the driven well claimants.
Doctor Tarbell gave notice that he would have counsel make a motion before
Judge Murray at 2 p. m., asking the judge to issue an order compelling the Board
to audit bill No. 148.
Mr. Woodbury was appointed to secure a counsel to oppose the motion.
Committee on Equalization, and the committee on the eXamination of the County
Clerk's building were engaged until noon adjournment.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Roll call.
Bill No. 48 was reconsidered and passed in full amount claimed.
The report of the committee on the County Clerk's building was made as follows:
Resolved, That the Sheriff and County Treasurer be authorized to cut a door-
through the partition between the County Judge and District Attorney'E offices•
and erect a partition through the said District Attorney's office, east and west nine
feet more or less from the south wall of said office, making au additional office for
the County Judge, and that the Sheriff and County Treasurer be allowed to occupy
for an office the room now used by the County Judge as a private office, and that
the work shall be done in a good and workmanlike manner, to correspond with the.:
other offices in said building, and at an expense not to exceed fifty dollars to the:
county.
J. E. BEERS.
J. W. WOODBURY.
EZRA MARION.
42 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDTNGS.
On motion of Mr. MARTIN,
Resolved, That the Chairman of this Board be authorized to borrow upon the
credit of Tompkins County by bank note or otherwise payable January 20th, 1877,
the sum of one thousand and five hundred dollars for the purpose of paying the
present deficiencies in county expenses.
Resolved, That the following amounts be transferred to the current expense ac
count, viz :
Amount on hand from Atwater judgment $194 52
Amount of fines and balance of Atwater judgment received from ex -
Sheriff VanKirk. ............ ......... , 121 25
From the amount of cash on hand the sum of ... , 300 71
$616 48
Resolved, That the Treasurer be requested to appropriate the proceeds 'of the
bank note given by this Board in the month of Dec. 1876, to the following accounts
in the following amounts.
State fund account
County "
Superintendents of the Poor
Monroe County Penitentiary...
Supervisor's Clerk.......
Supervisor's Janitor
Fines clue towns..
Susquehannah Valley Home
Treasurer's Stationery. ......
Return Tax.
And the balance to the fuel and gas account.
Onmotion of Mr. liIARYON,
Resolved, That hi accordance with Chapter 446, Title 4, Section 6, Laws of 1874
that there be levied and assessed upon the following:towns the sums set forth in
• the following schedule to reimburse the county for the amount of monies paid to
Willard Asylum to December 1st, 1876.
2 Inmates chargeable to Newfield. •• • • • • .
2 " ,, Dryden,
2 " . Groton,
2 '' ,, Caroline,
1 „ Lansing...
2 o “ Danby..... ................... . .....
2 " ", Ulysses. .... .'....... .... .... ............
7 " " Ithaca .
2218 63
85 95
784
191 08
25 00
40 00
474 05
188 06
20 00
101 19
$1,351 80
Members engaged in business until adjournment.
$350 77
541 78
330 97
335 92
61 29
246 82
296 86
1,167 07
$3,331 48
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS. 43
' WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6
Roll call.
Minutes of the 5th read and approved,
On motion of Mr. VANKuts,
esolved, That the Superintendents of the Poor be instructed to make repairs in
the hospital rooms of the Poor House according to the recommendation of the com-
mittee, presented and accepted Nov, 24th ultimo, said repairs be made forthwith.
Committee on Equalization were engaged until noon adjournment.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Roll call.
Mr. Woodbury being i11 was exeu;,ed for his absence.
Bill No. 149 was passed.
On motion of Mr. MARVIN,
WHEREAS, The Trustee and Collector of School District No. 21, in the town of
Dryden, have made returns of uncollected School Tax against the New York and
Oswego Midland Rail Road Company in said district, to the County Treasurer, and
the same having been presented by said Treasurer to this Board for insertion,in the
tax list against said Rail Road Company, therefore be it
Resolved, That the amount of suck uncollected tax, being $31.77 together with the
addition of seven per cent ($2.22) making a total of thirty-three dollars and ninety
nine cents, ($33.99) be levied and collected upon the property of said New York
and Oswego Midland Rail Road Company, for the benefit of said School District
No. 21 of the town of Dryden.
On motion of Mr. MARVIN,
Resolved, That the Chairman of this Board be authorized to renew the note of
this county, given for the sum of $5,261 03 payable at the Tompkins County Na-
tional Bank and due January 18, 1877, for any length of time he may think advisa-
ble, not exceeding one year from the 18th day of January, 1877.
On notion of Mr. STEVENS,
Resolved, That the District Attorney of Tompkins County be required to report to
this Board at its annual Session each year according to Chapter 406, Laws 1867,
all fines imposed as the result of his prosecution and all fines and forfeited recog
nizances paid to hint, and what disposition he has made of the same.
Members engaged in the business of the Board until adjournment.
THURSDAY, DEC: 7.
Roll call. Mr. Woodbury took his seat shortly after and engaged in business of
the Board.
Minutes of the 6th inst., read and approved.
Committee on Equalization were in until noon adjournment.
44 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Roll call.
The following report was ordered on the minutes.
To Board of Supervisors, Ithaca, Dec. 7, 1876.
- Supplementary Report of County Treasurer, showing the actual state of accounts
and monies in my hands at this date.
Court Expenses.
By amonnt clue on settlement............................$1,160 03
" balance on Atwater Judgment ........................ 134 52
recd VanKirk, Sheriff............ 71 95
50 00
tt
" Fines
" Fines
rec'd IIagin, Sheriff........
Due Treasurer.... . .
Amount appropriated ...... .
On hand...
Due County
Due County....
Bill No. 150 was passed.
Committee on Equalization in session until evening adjournment.
Fuel and Gas.
Willard Asylum.
Insurance.
75 00 $1,552 80
9 69
134 39
166 65
.... 133 00
124 70
166 65
133 00
$1,977 15
K. S. VAN VOORH1S, County Treasurer.
FRIDAY, DEC. 8.
Roll call.
Minutes of the 7th read and adopted.
Bill No.151 was passed in full.
Mr. Marvin presented the following as the report of the Equalization Committee
The Committee on Equalization respectfully report that the assessed valuation of
the several towns as reported by the Assessors for the year 1876, is as follows:
Real.
1,050,945
1,581,151
962,346
670,656
588,288
1,721,383
741,910
1,313,794
3,412,306
Dryden,
Groton,
Caroline,
Danby,
Enfield,
Lansing,
Newfield,
Ulysses,
Ithaca,
Acres.
61,232
30,725
31,253
33,286
22,007
37,731
36,169
20,087
19,233
291,723 12,042,779
Personal.
79,825
228,533
41,150
25,620
34,040
177,150
31,240
342,702
573,575
1,533,835
Total,
1,130,770
1,809,084
1,003,496
690,276
622,323
1,898,533
773,150
1,656,496
3,985,881
13,576, 614
SUPERPISOIts' PROCEEDINGS.
45
We the undersigned committee on Equalization would respectfully report the
following to be the equalized valuation of the real estate of the several towns in the
County of Tompkins for the year 1876.
Acres. Real. Personal
31,253 580,659 41,150
33,286 721,094 26,620
22,007 522,602 34,046
30,725 1,030,019 228,533
19,233 3,879,554 573,575
37,731 1,644,832 177,150
61,232 1,807,324 79,825
36,169 708,685 31,240
20,037 1,148, 010 342,702
Caroline,
Danby,
Enfield,
Groton,
Ithaca,
Lansing,
Dryden,
,Newfield,
;`Ulysses,
291,723 12,042,779 1,533,835
HARRISON MARVIN, 1
NELSON STEVENS, 1 Committee on
J. P. KING, } Equalization.
L. H. VAN KIRK, j
D. L, BURTT,
Total.
621,809
746,714
556,642
1,258,562
4,453,129
1,821,982
1,887,149
139,925
1,490,712.
13,576,615_
On motion of Mr. MAIrIox,
Resolved, That each Supervisor in this county acid to his town abstract three dol-
lars to reimburse the Clerk of this Board for furnishing to each a copy of Thomp-
son s Supervisors Manual.
Bill No. 140 was reconsidered and passed for $1,514.43.
On motion of Mr. MARvrx, Chairman of Committee on Equalization,
Valuation of the County for 1876, as equalized by the State
Assessors $10,062,249 00
For Schools 114 mills $12,577 81
" General purposes including new capitol and for bounty
debt % mills.... 22,220 87
For Court Expenses.... 3,003 00
" Wood and Gas Court House, Jail and Surrogate's Office 300 00
" State Lunatic Asylum....... 1,000 00
" Monroe County Penitentiary .... 300 00
" School Commissioners 400 00
"° Salary of County Judge... 2,500 00
" Quarter deficiency in County Judge's Salary 625 00
" Incidental for Surrogate's Office ....... • .. • . • • • • 50 00
" Susquehanna Valley Home .. .......... 350 00
" Note at bank for Court expenses deficiencies 1,524 74
" Salary of Special County Judge ...................... 50 00
34,798 68
46
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
" Supervisors' Clerk ........ ...
cc cc " for transcribing minutes and proceed-
ings of Board.. ...... . Board......................................
" Supervisors' Janitor ................................
" Court House Janitor
cc
County Treasurer's Salary ..........................
100 00
50 00
40 00
150 00
500 00
cc Chaplain to the Poor house ........................ 50 00
cc Note at the Bank for deficiencies in county expenses. 1,500 00
" Expenses in the case of the Supervisors vs. Bristol and
others ............... 125 00
" County Audits ........................ ............ 12,136 43
" Willard Asylum............................3,500 00
" Less amount paid by towns ....... 3,331 48 168 52
cc Superintendents of the Poor 3,000 00
" District Attorney's Salary.. .... 600 00
" 1 Quarter deficiency in the District Attorney's salary.. 150 00
Less amount returned from Ithaca
28,669 69
24 03
28,645 66
For postage for Supervisor's Clerk 5 00
$23,650 66
On motion of Mr. MARTox,
.Resolved, That at the request of the Supervisors of the several towns named in
the following Schedule, the claims set forth therein be added to the audits of the
said towns and levied and assessed upon said towns respectively.
Newfield Supervisor's Manual
E. Marion, assessment roll and paid charges on coupons
M. King, Railroad Commissioner
Luther S. Ham, Justice of the Peace
Sinking fund .... •
Interest on Pennsylvania and Sodus Bay Rail Road
Returned Tax
Ithaca Supervisor's Manual.........
H. C. Williams, Town Auditors...
Peter Apgar
D. B. Stewart. c°
3 00
1 25
6 00
8 00
520 00
3,640 00
$4,178 25
14 24
4,192 4J
3 0t
903
900'
:9 00
SUPEIIYTSORs' PROCEEDINGS. 47
Irighway purposes
ug fund....and
interest on Ithaca Athens Rail Road Bonds
G. I. &A.P. R ....................................
G. I. & A. R. R. Tax reserved.... .... ......
Groton Supervisor's Manual.
Dudley Andrews Justice of the Peace ...................
cc cc cc cc ...............
cc cc cc .... ........................
George E. Barney, Town Clerk ........... .
George W. Davis, Inspector of Election
Charles N. Tarbell, constable .
Enfield Supervisor's Manual ....................... •...........
Assessment Roll......... •
Highway purposes..
Sinking fund.. ...............
Interest on. Pa. and Sodus Bay R. R. bonds
H. Curry, Superintendent of Poor.......
Caroline Supervisor's Manual...
John Wolcott, Clerk of Election
Russell F. Abbey, Excise Commissioner .... • • ... • • • • • • • . • . • • • •
Danby Supervisor's Manual
J. E. Beers, meeting State Assessors
Uncollected Taxes.... ........
Ulysses Supervisor's Manual.. .. . .
Sinking fund .. . . •
Interest on Pa. and Sodus Bay R. R. bonds.. .
A. G. Updyke, Town Auclitor............
J- Stilwell• .. • . .
cc
E. C. Seymour
Bridges
cc
250 00
2,000 00
21,000 00
7,000 00
30,280 00
871,92
31,152 02
3 00
3 50
2 45
2 26
3 00
4 00
9 20
82740
3 00
75
250 00
250 00
1,750 00
8 00
$2,261 75
3 00
4 00
3 00
$10 00
3 00
3 12
16 00
$22 12
3 00
750 00
5,250 00
6 00
6 00
9 00
1,250 00
$7,274 00
48 SIIPERVISOns' PlOCEEDINGs.
Dryden Supervisor's Manual.........
-
Harrison Marvin, Tax Book.... ...................
John E. McElheny, Appraiser .................................
Leonard Griswold,
Joseph A. Geuoung, Auditor...
A. L. Tyler, c
John H. Kennedy ct , . ...
Highways and bridges voted at Town Meeting ..................
cc cc by Auditors........
Lancl damages and laying out new roads..: ......
Debt to S. D. Hamblin, voted at Town Meeting........
Lansing—For highway .
purposes.......... °
.... ......
Supervisor's Manual
AFTERNOON SESSION.
3,00
2 00
6 00
6 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
850 00
995 00
683 30
56 85
$2,629 15
250 00
3 00
S253 00
Roll call.
The report of the Committee on Equalization was adopted by the following vote:
Yeas, Wattles, Marvin, VauKirk, Stevens, Burtt, Woodbury, King. Nays, Beers
Marion.
Bills were passed to No. 163.
Bill No. 140 was re -reconsidered and passed for 1,459 56.
Members engaged in business until adjournment.
SATURDAY, DEC. 9.
Roll call.
Minutes of the 8th read and adopted.
On motion of Mr. MARVIN,
.Iteaolved, That the following sums be levied and collected upon the several towns
for the purposes therein named :
CAROLINE.
State tax.. .... ........ • 1,593 78
County tax. ....... ............. . .....1,312 20
Highways......... 250 00
Town audits.... ....
668 83
Willard Asylum ............................ 335 92
Superintendents of the Poor.... 54 70
Overseers of the Poor...........
.................... 125 00
4,340 43
State tax..
Countytax.... .. • • • • • • , • •• • ............
Highways
Town audits.... .• • • • • •• • • • ......... .
Willard Asylum ........ • • • • • • • • • • .
Superintendent of the' Poor....
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
ULYSSES.
Return tax........ •.
Interest on Rail Road Bonds.... .... , • •
Sinking fund............................
State tax. . • • •
County tax
Town audits
Highways
Willard Asylum
Returntax ................................
Superintendents of the Poor
DARBY.
GROTON.
State tax.. .... ...... ......... , , • • •
County tax.-.
Town audits
Highways.............................
Superintendent of the Poor ....................
Willard Asylum ...
Interest and principle On Rail Road Bonds ......... . ..... .
Return tax
Thompson's Supervisor's Manual
NEWFIELD.
State tax .............................
County tax ....
Town audits ... , ........
Superintendents of the Poor ...........
Willard Asylum. ..
Interest on Rail Road Bond
Sinking fund •
Return tax......
•
49•
3,829 89
3,145 84
1,250 00
312 88
296 86
227 49
114 42
5,250 00
750 C0
15,668 38
1,913 93
1,576 78
369 98
250 00
246 82
16 00
233 39
4,655 90
3,225 83
2,655 92
2,556 77
250 00
95 61
330 97
15,436 88
67 57
3 00
24,622 55t
1,896 53
1,561 46
3,273 87
154 06
350 77
3,640 00
520 00
14 24
11,4'0 93
50
State tax
County tax
Highways.
Town audits
Willard Asylum ...... .
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS
DRYDEN.
Superintendents of the Poor ........................
Return taxes.
Less amount in Supervisor's hands ......... , . , • • .
LANSING.
State tax .............
Countytax.... .... ....... ...... _ ........................... .
Town audits..
Highways
Willard Asylum ......
Superintendents of the Poor ..........................
Judgment on bonds of N. Y. & O. M. R. R. „......
....
Judgment on bonds of Cayuga Lake R. R .......
ITIIACA.
State tax
County tax .......................
Town audits.......
............ .
Interest I. & Athens Rail Road Bonds ................
Interest on Ithaca & Geneva Rail Roacl Bonds.......
Sinking fund
Town audits added by- Supervisor
Returned tax assessed on town
Amount to reimburse county
Superintendent of the Poor .... ......
Return tax
Willard Asylum:..... ......
Highways .......
G. I. & A. Rail Roacl sinking fund ....
4,837 02
3,982 45
2,585 15
1,002 85
541 78
157 05
24 13
13,130 43
232 39
$12,898 04
4,669 99
3,844 91
3,894 73
1,550 00
61 20
108 80
3,709 79
8,414 74
21,254 25
11,413 96
9,397 42
13,307 71
21,000 00
7,000 00
2,000 00
30 00
416
24 03
451 53
333 45
1,167 07
250 00
871 92
$68,251 25
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
ENFIELD.
Statetax..... ........
County tax ...
Townaudits. • . ...................... ................. .
Interest on Rail Road Bonds...
Sinking fund..
Highway. . ••• •..• .•...,•...•. •........... ••.......
Overseers of the Poor
Superintendent of the Poor ...............
AssessmentRoll.... • ......................................... .
51
1,626 75
1,74 68
477 62
1,750 00
250 00
250 00
8 00
16 19
75
$5,353 99
On motion of Mr. BEEPS,
Resolved, That Dr. William Coryell be employed as attending physician at the
County jail, and that he be allowed a reasonable compensation for same, and that
the Sheriff be furnished with a copy of these resolutions.
On motion of Mr. VANKIRr,
Resolved, That this Board do now adjourn to meet Saturday next, for the purpose
of disposing of the remaining business of the session.
SATURDAY, DEC. 16.
Board met pursuant to adjournment, and all members were present.
The members were occupied during the clay in filling collectors' warrants, &c.
On motion of Mr. MAPVIN,
Resolved, That the Senator from this Senatorial District (Hon. J. H. Selkreg), and
he Member of Assembly from this County (lion, S. R. Wickes), be requested to
introduce, and use their influence for the passage of, a general or local law, applic-
able to this County, making it the duty of all persons paying money to the County
Treasurer for the benefit of infant heirs, to have the receipts for the same recorded
in the County Clerk's Office. in a book to be kept by said- County Clerk for that
xpress purpose. And said receipts to be recorded within the space of ten days
rom the date of said receipts. Aud in case of neglect to so present the same for
record, the County of Tompkins is not to be responsible for any loss that may occur
on account of said Treasurer neglecting to pay over, or account for, such monies
received by him.
Resolved, That the Clerk of this Board be required to forward immediately a copy
of the above to said Senator and Member of Assembly.
52 SUPERVISORS' I'ROCEI,DINGS.
On motion of Mr. MAP,ION, 160,000 2,520 00
Ithaca.
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
53
Resolved, That the thanks of ibis Board are ;ustly due, and aro hereby tendered First Nat. Bank...
to Chauncey L• Wattles, Esq., for the kindness, firmness and uniform courtesy.
Tompkins Co. Nat. Bank .......... 12,356 112,000 2,089 18
manifested by him towards each and every member of this Board, and for the Ithaca Water Works Co.... 1,200 10,000 588 00
Ithaca Gas Co 25,000
faithful and impartial manner in which he has discharged his duties as Chairman 6,800 114 24
2,500 62 16
U; L E. R. R....... 871 92
during the session of this Board. 51 900
G. I. &A. R. R...... • • • "' 49,400 829 92
Mr.•
STEVENS, upon rising to second the adoption of the above resolution, said D L.w. R. P..... • . • • 194 88
that such wasoftenbut custom, and passed as such; blithe belived that the semi- Cayuga Lake R. R • •• • • • • • 11,600
mems of the resolution existed in the heart of every member of the Board. Newfield:
On motion of Mr. VANI�1RIi, 24,000 355 20
G. I. & A. R.R 1,600 22 53
Resolved, That the thanks of the Board are due, and are hereby tendered, to Mr. E Pa & S B. R R
Thos. W Burns, for the gentlemanly and efficient manner in which lie has dis- n
Ulysses. 473 00
charged the duties Mr. Clerk the Board. 50,000
On motion of AIARVIN, { G. cL I. R. R4,000 37 84
Pa•S.B.R.R....
Resolved, That the thanks of this Board are due to Sheriff B. 11I. 1Iagin, for the _
orderly and cleanly manner in which the jail is conducted. $528,256 $274,500 $11,112 61
Amount unt of taxes paid by Rail Road Companies for 1877 $5,526 62
The Board then adjourned sine We. 5,594 99
" other corporations
Total..:. $11,121 61
A. table of Incorporated Companies in Tompkins County.
Amount of interest paid by the county on bonds and stocks of Rail Road Com
Caroline. Assesed Valuation. Personal. Tax. parries for 1876.
Delaware L. & W. R. R. Co ... , .... $50,000$216 50 Caroline
Utica I. & E. R. R. Co 42,000 181 86 Danby
Danby. g Dryden $2,250 00
D. L. & W. R. R. 12 80 4Q
000 Enfield
�
15,436 88
G. I. &A. R. R... R...................40,000 268 00 Groton 30,000 00
Dryden. ,
Ithaca 6,997 99
Lansing.
U. I. & E. R. R... ... R....................40,000 4,160 00
571 00 Newfield
Southern Central R. R.... .• • • . • . • .. 30,000 342 60 5,250-00
Ulysses.
N. Y. & 0 Midland R. R..... • . • .... 6,000 68 52
D. L. & W. R. R .. 1,000 17 13Total $64,094 87
Enfield.
Pa. & Sodus Bay R. R..,•......,•.. 2,000 1720
Groton.
v. �......................... bo 4u0 758 98
U. I. & E. R. R... 7,000 95 90
First Nat. Bank ... . ................ 8,500
116 45
Groton Carriage Co . , .......... 16,000 219 20
TOWN AUDITS,
CAROLINE.
Abstract of accounts, names of all persons who presented accounts to be audited
by the Board of Town Auditors of the Town of Caroline on the 9th clay of Nov.
1876, with the amount claimed by each and the amount allowed, and the nature of
said claim.
No. NAME AND SERVICE.
1 C. L. Wattles, supervisor.......
2 O. P. Rich, clerk of Election
............
3 John J. Yaple, poor master ......
4 S. R. Blackman, assessor ............
5 James Boice, «
6 F. C. Cornell, excess of tax........
7 John W. Gass, town clerk. .....................
S Emery Boice, commissioner of highways... e.....
9 J. B. Boyce, constable
10 II. H. Robeson, deputy constable ........
11 Isaac M. Boice, constable .......
12 A. A. Haskins, constable ........ ,
13 A. T. Harding, overseer of poor....
11 J. S. Youngs, inspector of elections..............
15 Jay H. Clark,
16 13. S. Krung, «
17 Wm. B. Wolcott, '
18 T. E. Davis,
«
19 John Rightmire, commissioner of highways......
20 S. B. Landon, deputy sheriff.......
21 Charles Davis, ex -town clerk
22 Johnson Quick, assessor .
23 Truman Spaulding, overseer of the poor
24 Wm. E. Davenport, counsel fee
25 Robert E. Brink, use of hall
26 A. T. Harding, coffin for poor
27 A. T. Harding,
28 J. P. Merrill, justice
29 Matthew Bull "
30. Able T. Lott "
CLAIMED. ALLOWED.
$42 45 4'41 45
6 00 5 00
600 600
17 00 17 00
16 00 16 00
25 30 25 30
33 07 33 07
19 00 19 00
10 45 8 45
5 00 5 00
489 489
450 450
300 300
400 400
4 12 4 12
500 500
4 00 4 00
4 00 4 oG
4000 4000
4355 4355
1675 1675
26 00 26 00
26 00 26 00
10 00
10 00 10 00
20 00 20 00
15 00 15 00
16 90 16 90
33 60 33 60
21 40 21 40
SUPERVISORS' PROCuD1N05.
No. NAME AND SERVICE.
31 Daniel A. Paine, excess of tax...........
32 Win. C. Gallagher, physician.........
33 Wnl- 0. Gallagher, "
34 E. C. Marsh, constable
35 John Davis, ex -constable
36 Mary Halstead, hall and board
37 Davis C. Krum, inspector
38 J. H. Ostrander, constable
39 J. J. Freer, board of prisoners
40 J. J. Freer, hall for election
41 J. J. Freer, board of poor
42 E. E. Legg, clerk of election
43 Franklin Courtright, justice
14 J. H. Snow, com. excise
45 George Keth, constable
46 Franklin Courtright, inspector of election
47 Edward Lounsberry, com. of excise
48 John J. Peters, clerk of elections
49 N. 11L Toby, auditor
50 Smith D. Stevens, auditor
51 Mason Clark "
52 R. F. Abbey, ex. com.
63 John Wolcott, clerk of election
64 C. L. Wattles, supervisor's manual
Signed,
55
CLAIMED. AT,LOWED.
300 300
30 00 30 00
24 00 24 00
1585 1585
3 85 3 85
18 05 18 05
425 425
18 30 18 30
210 210
10 00 10 00
2 50 2 50
400 400
495 495
3 00 3 00
15 00 15 00
400 400
3 00 3 00
4 00 4 00
3 00 3 00
300 300
3 00 3 00
300 300
4 00 4 00
3 00 3 00
$668 83
MASON CLARI€,a Auditors for the
L. D. STEVENS, . Town of
NATHANIEL M. TOBY, Caroline.
Nov. 9th, 1876.
I certify the foregoing is a true copy of the abstract now on file ill the Town
Clerk's office of the town of Caroline. JOHN W. GASS,
Town Clerk of Caroline.
DANBY.
Abstract of Town Audits for the Town of Danby, Nov. 9, 1876.
NO. NAME AND SERVICE,
1 Enos Perry, unjust tax
CLAIs D. ALLowra.
18 18 18 13
56
No.
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
NAME AND SERVICE.
2 A. W. Knapp, clerk of election
3 Dr. Eli Beers, medical services
4 Benjamin Williams, town clerk
5 Benjamin Williams, janitor
6 Oscar Jennings, commissioner of highways
7 Willis Bierce, janitor
8 W. A. Mandeville, clerk of election
9 Lemuel Jennings, justice
10 T. Spaulding, overseer of poor
11 John E. Beers, supervisor
12 Josiah Hawes, ex supervisor
13 J. D. Fish, assessor
14 Charles Howland, Justice
15 Jeremiah Thatcher, justice
16.
17 O. S. Jennings, inspector of election
18 J B. Genung, excess tax, 1875
19 Genung & McEwing, damage to engine in bridge
20 Alfred Vose 2d, assessor
21 Jacob Wise, assessor
22 D. A. Everest, assessor 1875
23 T. J. Bierce, constable
24. A. W. Knapp, overseer of poor
. 25 Geo. B. Grant, inspector of election
26 Charles Howland, town board
,27 L. Jennings,
28 J. E. Beers.
29 E. L. B. Curtis, auditor
30 Benjamin Jennings, auditor
31 C. C. Howell, jr., auditor
32 Joseph Grant . , _ .
33 •J. E. Beers, supervisor's manual
OLALLOWED.
4 00
5 50
38 35
23 00
40 00
3 00
4 00
17 80
4 00
4 36
16 97
22 75
4 50
9 40
4 00
5 00
10 00
21 00
19 00
4 00
26 35
21 50
4 00
1 00
1 00
1 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
21 20
3 00
$366 86
4 00
6 50
38 35
23 00
40 00
3 00
4 CO
17 80
4 00
4 36
16 97
22 75
4 0
9 40
4 00
5 00
10 00
21 00
19 00
4 00
26 35
21 50
4 00
1 00
1 00
1 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
21 20
3 00
$366,86
The undersigned Town Auditors of the Town of Danby, County of Tompkins,
certify that the foregoing abstract is correct, as to the amount claimed and amount
allowed thereon by us.
E. L. B. CURTIS, ) Town Auditors,
BENJ. JENNINGS, Town of Danby,
C. C. HOWELL, Jit.,) 1876,
Danby, N. Y., Nov. 9th, 187s.
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
DRYDEN.
57
Abstract of accounts of all persons who presented bills to the Board of Town
Auditors of the Town of Dryden on the 9th day of November, 1876, with the
amounts claimed and the amounts finally allowed.
No. NAGE AND SERVICE. CLAIMED. ALLOWED
1 Henry H. Houpt, clerk of district No. 3 $4 00 $4 00
2 Isaac P. Fergerson, inspector of election 3 6 00 6 00
3 Jonathan N. Fox it t, 4 4 00 4 00
4 James M. Carr, clerk 4 4 25 4 25
6 John H. Mineah, • ,, " 4 5 00 5 00
6 Geo. E. Goodrich, for fees as justice of the peace
and inspectors, elections 3
W. S. Middaugh, inspector of elections 1
7
8 Jacob McKeney,
9 Daniel Manning, " " 1
10 Bradford Snyder, clerk 1
11 J. T. Morris " " . 1
12 D. M. Montgomery, " 3
13 Isaac N. Smith, "
14 Warren D. Ellis, house election
15 Edward H. Teeter, for over assessment. ...
16 Isaac Benham,
17 James H. Fox, services as assessor
1 i Cyrus Knapp...
1) c,rtw? G. More, house town meeting.
E:"_iue Clildebrant, constable service
21 I)r d 13-cch, clerk of election district No. 2
;.2 Jesse Bartholemew, inspector of election dist. No2
23 Geo. E C±a:rtcr;l 4, At 2
24 Joseph V !i Ise
{f 2
25 Asa Fox, use of house for election
26 Atwood Shirley_ "
27 Lewis Covert, services excise com
28 Russell Seager
29 Thomas Givens, "
30 Geo. S. Barber, clerk and stationery .......
31 Ford & Strobridge, ................
32 S. D. Hamblin, services highway commissioner...
33 John W. Webster, justice of peace, etc ........ .
34 Wm. H. Sears, use of hall at elections ...........
35 Philip S. Snyder, refunded tax ..
36 Wm. H. Goodwin, justice of peace services... :.
it 1
3........
15 40 15 40
400 400
400 4 00
5 00 5 00
425 425
400 4 00
400 400
400 400
1000 1000
7 60 7 G0
4 66 4 30
43 00 43 00
38 00 38 00
30 00 30 00
37 65 37 66
400 460
4 00 4 00
5 50 5 50
425 4 25
10 00 10 00
10 00 10 00
18 00 18 00
18 00 18 00
18 00 18 00
36 15 35 15
1 85 1 85
14 00 14'00
15 85 1585
10 00 10 00
7 61 7 61
11 10 11 10
58r
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
No. . NAME AND SERVICE.
37 Willard Shaver, clerk of election No. 4
38 Rufus Sutliff, inspector of elections No. 4.........
39 James M. George, appraiser of damage
40 Walter Marsh, clerk of election district No. 2
41 Freman Stebbins, assessor
42 Wm. J. Smith, justice of peace services...
43 Enos Snyder, services as constable
44 Harrison Marvin, Supervisor
45 H. F. Pierce & Son, bill of undertaking..........
46 Wm, Fitch, service as physician ........ ....... .
47 J. J. Montgomery 'o
48 King & Montgomery, attorney for town.
49 Sears & Battens, supplies for poor
50 Harrison Marvin, supervisor's manual... .
60 Alvah Ewers, overseer of poor
51 Moses Tyler, constable services
58 S. H. Sperry, service overseer of poor
53 Truman Spaulding, of Caroline, and money paid..
54 Solomon Howe, commissioner of highway
ADDED BY SUPERVISOR.
55 Harrison Marvin, tax roll
56 A. S. Tyler, town auditor
57 J. H. Kennedy, town auditor
58 J. A. Genung,
59 J. E. McElheny appraiser.
60 Leonard Griswold, "
CLAMED ALLOWED.
400 400
5 00 5 00
6 00 6 00
4 00 4 00
63 30 63 00
1480 1480
985 860
79 39 79 39
50 00 45 00
1450 1000
25 75 21 25
20 00 20 00
30 86 30 86
3 00
30 00 30 00
20 05 20 05
4510 4510
9 00 6 00
201 04 120 04
$958 85
2 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00
6 00
We the undersigned Board of Town Auditors for the town of Dryden, clo here-
by certify that the foregoing is a correct list of all claims presented and allowed by
us against the Town of Dryden, this, the ninth day of November, 1876.
A. L. TYLER,
J. H. KENNEDY, } Town Auditors.
JOSEPH A. GENUNG, j
ENFIELD.
Abstract of all the names of all persons who presented accounts to be audited by
the board of Town Auditors of the Town of Enfield, on the 9th day of November,
1876, with the amounts claimed by each, and the azaounts audited and allowed
each, viz :
NO.
NAME AND SERVICE. CLAIMED.
1 Wm. H. Ammack, commissioner of excise...... $6 00
ALLOWED,
$6 00
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
NO,NA ru AND SERVICE. CLAIMED.
2 1-I. H. Smith, commissioner of highways ........ 45 00
3 W. H. Jones, inspector clerk of election 4 00
4 A. V. Lanning, assessor 23 00
5 Munson Potter, commissioner or excise 3 00
6 Eliphalet Covell, justice of peace 12 00
« " " 5 00
8 Elfish Horton, 2 85
9 Wm. Marshall °' 16 90
10James M. Lanning, " 12 00
11 D. W. Bailey, ex -supervisor. ... 33 40
12 Moses L. Harvey, for use of house for town purposes 40 00
13 Eugene G. Willis, inspector of election 4 30
14 J. S. Miller, poll clerk ... 4 00
15 Hiel T. Havens, constable. 3 75
16 L. F. Palmer, overseer of highway 51 63
17 George W. Budd,,inspector of election 4 00
18 John Hetherington, constable ..... .. .. 2 30
19 Edgar Brewer, R. R. Commissioner, services and
disbursements 15 91
20 William Miller, R.R. Commissioner, services and
disbursements. 12 66
21 Isaac H. Newman, R. R. Commissioner, services
and disbursements. 9 66
22 Christopher Smith, commissioner of excise 6 00
23 L. Lawrence Soule, assessor 20 00
24 S. V. Graham, ex commissioner of highways for
services. .. . . 12 00
25 S. V. Graham, ex commissioner of highways for
disbursements in case of Enfield vs. Protts 26 73
26 J. R. Sage, assessor 20 00
27 Rob. R. Updike, inspector of election4 00
28 Hermon Barnes, for excess of taxes 150
29 T.Burns, supervisor's manual 3 00
30; L.II. VanKirk, supervisor services... 14 30
31. Miles Rumsey, for excess of taxes 12 23
00
32` Wm. Barber, ex town clerk services 8
33 John Russell, town clerk service . 29 50
34 H. Brewer, town auditor 3 00
35 D. L. Aiken, "3 00
36 H. A. Graham, " 3 00
59
ALLOWED.
45 00
4 00
23 00
3 00
12 00
5 00
2 85
16 90
12 00
33 40
40 00
4 30
4 00
3 75
51 63
4 00
2 30
15 91
12 66
9 66
6 00
20 00
12 00
26.73
2000
4 00
1 50
3 00
1430
1223
8 00
29 50
3 00
300
3 00
$47762
60 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS
No. NAME AND SERVICE.
Harrison Curry, overseer of the poor
1 Tax Roll.
CLAIMED.
ALLOWED.
8 00
75
H. A. GRAHAM, )
D. L. AIKEN, `Auditors.
HENRY BREWER, S
GROTON.
GROTON, Tompkins County, New York, 1876.
Nov. 9, 1876. At a regular meeting of the Board of Town Auditors held in and
for the town of Groton, the following bills were passed upon by the following
.officers.
On motion C. P. Atwood was chosen Chairman present
C. P. ATWOOD, Chairman.
JOHN REYNOLDS.
LYMAN DARLING.
GEO. E. N. BARNEY, Clerk,
NO. NAME AND SERVICE. CLAIMED ALLOWED.
1 Zeno C. Pierce, poor account 73 50
2 S. IJ. Jones, medical 35 50
3 Frank Cleruant, constable.... ..... ......... • 4 35
4. Dudley Andrews, coffin and attendance .......... 20 00
5 Jahn A. Kinney, excess tax 3 75
6 M. D. Goodyear, clerk of election .. - • 4 00
7 M. D. Goodyear, medical 36 50
-8 Dudley A.ndrews, justice of peace.. 8 00
9 William Niver, assessor 48 25
'10 W. D. Mount, justice of peace .............. .... 19 35
11 Hugh Halsey, justice of peace 6 00
12 Lewis M. Ogden, assesssor 34 15
13 Walter W. White, assessor... 14 00
'14 J. B. Hart, commissioner 7 45
15 B. II. WakeIy, commissioner 7 46
16 Groton Joxrnca, printing.. 15 45
17 A. F. Morton, poor account 67 13
18 John. Goodyear, medical... 8 50
19 Tompson Metzgar, assessor 34 00
20 C. P. Atwood, auditor.....: 3 00
21 Frank L. Tarbell, election inspector ............ 6 00
-22 E. R. Nye, use of hall .......................... 25 00
23 A. B. Buck, election inspector 4 00
24 A. B. Rogers, use of hall ........................ 10 00
25 Alvin S, Stearns, election inspector 4 00
73 50
35 50
4 35
20 00
3 75
4 00
35 50
8 00
48 25
19 35
6 00
34 15
14 00
7 45
7 45
15 45
67 13
8 50
34 00
3 00
6 00
25 00
400
10 00
4 00
sUPERVISORs' PROCEEDINGS.
NO. NAME AND SERVICE.
26 John Sellen, "
27 Ezra Halsey, constable ..........................
28 M. D. Fitch, election clerk............
29 J. M. Tarbell, election clerk..
30 Timothy Loomis, constable ......................
31 R. E. Spence, excess tax dogs
32 Dana Rhodes, justice of peace.
33 H. D. Spencer, excise
34 Paschal Fitts, excise...............
35 E. R. Weaver, medical...
36 Thomas Morgan, use of hall.......
37 Albert Morton, poor bill
38 George H. Hart, election inspector.
39 V. B. Gross 44 .......
40 Warren Little, "
41 R. Lanning,
42 N. Stevens,
43 S. C. Reynolds,
44 V. B. Gross, supervisor
45 Nelson Harris, excise
46 C. H. Spaulding, constable .............
47 Dana Rhodes, justice of peace........
48 S. A. Niver, assessor's clerk....
49 Wm. Burnham, rail road commissioner
50 Artemas Backus, . "
51 J. 111. Thomas, election inspector
52 George E. Barney, town clerk
53 Charles Newton, highway commissioner....
54 John Reynolds, auditor...
55 Lyman Darling, auditor
66 Nelson Stevens, supervisor's manual.
57 Dudley Andrews... ..........
58 Dudley Andrews.....
59 Dudley Andrews
60 G. B. Barney. ....... ............ .....
61 G. W. Davis.. ........ ......................
62 C. N. Tarbell
is
CLAIMED.
4 00
4 65
4 00
4 00
3 60
10 50
32 15
10 00
9 00
32 50
10 00
50 15
4 00
6 00
4 00
4 00
2 75
4 00
31 07
21 00
18 95
1 00
6 00
9 00
3 00
4 00
36 28
1,697 54
3 00
3 00
61
ALLOWED.
4 00
4 65
4 00
4 00
3 60
10 50
3215
10 00
9 00
32 50
10 00
50 75
4 00
6 00
4 00
4 00
2 75
4 00
31 07
21 00
18 95
1 00
6 00
9u0
3 00
4 00
36 28
1,697 54
3 00
3 00
3 00
3 50
2 45
225
3 00
4 00
9 20
$2,559 47
We the undersigned, the Board of Auditors of the town of Groton, Tompkins
County, New York, do certify that the within named bills were duly audited by us
on this 9th day of November, 1876.
LYMAN DARLING.
0. P. ATWOOD.
62 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
ITHACA.
Abstract of the names of all persons who presented accounts to be audited by the
Board of Auditors of the town of Ithaca on the 9th day of November, 1876, with
the amount claimed by each one and the amount allowed.
NO. NAME AND SERVICE.
1 Tompkins County National Bank 105 20
2 Truman Spaulding........ 8 00
3 S. K. VanVoorhees, poll clerk 8 00
4 Robert Howell, constable 17 80
5 P. G. Ellsworth, consultation .................... 15 00
6 W. F. McClune, poll clerk, 2d district............ 4 00
7 L. P. Kennedy, inspector 2d district... 4 00
8 Ithaca Journal, advertising 25 00
9 C. D . Johnson, inspector 2d district ...... . 4 00
10 Eugene B. Maurice, poll clerk 1st district5 00
11 L. V. B. Maurice, repairing desk 2 00
12 T. Hollister & Son, ballot boxes15 75
13 A. H. Philips, poll clerk 2d district 4 00
14 J. Burlitt & Son, keys for lock .................. 1.90
15 A. H. Phillips, ex town clerk 16 00
16 O. H. Gregory, ex coin. and printing............ 41 00
17 Linford Mood, ex con 36 00
18 Royal Thompson, assessor....... 96 00
19 W. J. Totten, making assessment roll.......... 30 00
20 W. J. Totten, service bill 40 00
21 W. J. Totten, justice....... 44 83
22 Warren H. Lyon, poll clerk 1st district 4 00
23 Thomas Nelligan, inspector 1st district4 00
24 Charles L. Taber, inspector 1st district 6 00
25 Daniel M. Fowler, . " 5 00
26 James H. Tichenor, service hill assigned to H. C.
Williams, treasurer ... .... 46 00
27 James H. Tichenor, justice, assigned to C. F.
Blood .. 71 53
28 James H. Tichenor, assigned to S. L. Tichenor.. 206 32
29 James H. Tichenor, justice.,.. 77 80
30 J. F. Bradley, surveyor ......: 10 00
31 T. P. St John, inspector 3d district........ 4 00
32 C. F. Blood, office rent 65 00
33 S. P. Sackett, poor doctor 160 00
34 James H. Tichenor, justice, assigned to R. A
Crozier ... .... 618 50
CLAIMED
ALLOIYED.
105 20
8 00
17 80
15 00
4 00
4 00
25 00
4 00
4 00
2 00
15 75
4 00
1 90
16 00
41 00
36 00
96 00
30 00
40 00
44 83
4 00
4 00
5 00
4 00
46 00
71 53
206 32
77 80
10 00
4 00
65 00
150 00
618 50
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
No. NAME AND SERVICE.
35 Dr. A. Bishop, poor doctor
36 L. S. Mackey, oiling clerk's desk ................
37 J. C. McWhorter, inspector 3d district ..........
38 Samuel Stoddard, poor account,
Paid the poor ........ $2,772.72
Service bill No. 1 389,30
Cr .............................. $3,162 02
By cash and certificate.......... 1,000 00 2,162 02
39 James Gardner, constable........ .......... 73 35
40 A. B. Stamp, feeding prisoners and use of house
or election..
41 Enos Buckbee, Military Hall, for town meeting..
42 John Rumsey, hardware
43;rA. B. Wood, town clerk ........................
44 D. L. Burtt, supervisor....
45 William Andrus, printing and stationery........
46 George B. McCormack, poll clerk 3d district ....
47 fit J. White, equalize school tax....... ...
48 P. M. Blodgett, constable ............
49 Ithaca Democrat, advertising .. .
50 Spence Spencer, inspector 2d district ..
61 Spence Spencer, stationery .... _ ..... .
52 S. H. Willets, ex commissioner ................ .
53 Finch & Apgar, poll book
64 H. Lamkin & Son, livery.... ....
55 D. J. Seaman & Son, livery.... ....
56 Samuel B. Beers, assessor...
67 B. L. Almy, services, overseer of poor..........
58 Charles G. Day, service bill.
69 Charles G. Day, justice ........................
60 A. R. Whitaker, constable, assigned to J. D.
Beardsley ... .
61 F. P. Randolph, inspector 3d district............
62 James E. Puff, constable, assigned to Washington
Davis,
63 E. G. Phelps, constable ...............
64 Dr. M. M. Brown, services ....... ..... •
65 B. L. Almy, service bill with town boards
66 J. W. Willson, constable ............
67 L. F. Colegrove, com. highways work and
material... ... $3,853 25
63
CLAIMED. ALLOWED.
150 00 160 00
2 68 2 68
4 00 4 00
2,162 02
7335
265 00 265 00
35 00 35 00
418 418
12731 127 31
159 30 159 30
13 40 13 40
400 400
2 00 2 00
60 00 60 00
500 500
4 00 4 00
3 10 3 10
36 00 36 00
2 50 2 50
7 00 7 00
7 00 7 00
250 00 250 00
55 00 55 00
49 00 49 00
108 19 108 19
30 35 30 35
4 00 4 00
15 85 15 85
41 15 41 15
300 300
2 00 2 00
500 500
64 suPERVIsQIts' 4ROCEEDINGs.
No. NAME AND SERVICE.
service bill • 696 00 $4,549 25
Cr, by R. R. tax........ $13600
Cornell University...... 25 00
Certificates.... 3,350 00
Error bill rendered2 50 [3,513 50
68 Charles G. Day....
69 Lewis Clark, constable, assigned to K. S. Van -
Voorhees
70 H. N. Humiston, deputy consta• ble
71 A. M. Lucas, service bill
72 A. M. Lucas, justice
73 A. R. Whitaker, constable ........:...
74 John L. Whiton, jail road conmmissioner
75 P M Blodgett, constable ..
76 Myron Sexton, assessor...
77 Dr Tarbell, abstract of sales ....................
78 Ithaca Police, assigned to S B Beers .... • .......
79 Ithaca Police, B R Williams, chief...
80 Jonah Sincepaugh, coal. ,.. ....
81 A S Wesley use of house for election, assigned to
8 B Stewart, 0 W Blackmer .................. .
82 E Ellis, use of house for election, assigned to D B
Stewart... - .... .....
83 A B Wood, design, quantities and estimate, six
mile creek bridge... ....................
84 D L Burtt, supervisor's manual ................
CLAIMED.
ALLOWED.
1,035 75 1,035 75
12 54 12 54
5 65 5 65
13 25 13 25
46 00 46 00
253 59 253 59
20 60 20 60
20 00 20 00
75 75
94 94 94 94
15 00 15 00
319 05 314 60
607 20 605420
1 75 1 75
15 00 15 00
15 00 15 00
12 00 12 00
3 00
We the undersigned Town Auditors certify that the above abstract of accounts
to he correct. H. C. WILLIAMS,
PETER APGAR,
D. B. STEWART.
Town certificates issued from November 5th, 1875, to November 9th. 1876, Com-
fort Hanshaw, Commissioner of Highways, November to April.
Certificate March 31, '76 ................$766 02
Interest to January 1st, '77 8 72 174 74
L F Colegrove, Commissioner of highways, April to
November.
Certificate June 29, '76 ............... $800 00
Interest to January lst, '77 28 00
Certificates August 14th, '76 ............ $500 00
Interest to January 1st, '76.... 13 11
Certificate September 29th, '76 ... . $650 00
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
Interest to January 1st, '77 .............. 11 75 661 75
Certificate 29th, '76 .................... $1400 00
Interest to January 1st, '77 25 31 1,425 31
Samuel Stoddard, overseer of poor.
Certificate March 31st, 76 ... $975 59
Interest to January lst, '77 51 22 1,026 81
Certificate March 31st, '76 $187 18
Interest to June 1st, '77 9 83 197 01
Certificate September 9th, '76 $500 00
Interest to June 1st, '77. 11 08 511 08
65
3,602 91
1,734 90
$13,293 25
Statement of Poor account from November 5th, '75, to Nov. 9th, '76.
Disbursements for town poor.. .... .... .... .... .... 6,391 09
Cash from supervisor's excise money .............. 2,566 30
Town certificates !....................... 1,662 77
Balance due Samuel Stoddard ............... . 2,162 02 6,391 09
Statement of highway account from November 5th, '75 to November 9th, '76.
Comfort Hanshaw, work and materials from Nevem-
5th, '75, to March 31st, '76 ... • 416 02
L F Colegrove, work and materials from March 31st,
'76 to November 9th, '76.. .... ......... ... 4,549 25 4,965 27
Cr. Comfort Hanshaw, cash from collector 250 00
Town certificate ............. 166 02
L F Colegrove, rail road tax ... 136 00
Cornell University • 25 00
Certificates ... •0 .. 3,350 00
Error in bill rendered........... 2 50
Balance clue L F Colegrove ........................ 1,035 75 4,965 27
LANSING.
Abstract of bills audited by the Auditing Board of the Town of Lansing, Novem-
ber '9th,1876.
No. NAME AND SERVICE. CLAIMED. ALLOWED;
1 J W Pratt, inspector and messenger of election..
2 Charles Drake, inspector of election
828 00 3 George Moreland, inspector of election..........
4 'G' E Smith, inspector of election ................
513 11 5 H Teeter, inspector of election
6 Wesley Decamp, use of house for election ......
$5 20
4 00
4 00
4 00
4 00
8 00
5 20
4 00
4 00
4 00
400
8 00
66 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
NO. NAME AND SERVICE,
7 James H Ross, inspector of election .. -
8 G W Miller, inspector and messenger. .,.
9 Dana Bower,
10 J F Rhodes,
11 J H Conklin
12 James W Houser, use of house for election
13 Dana Bower, justice ........... ... ,
14 G M Beard, digging T Allen grave
15 Thomas Miller, burial of T Allen
16 A H Clark, excise commissioner ................
17 Lamson Heddehl, inspector of election ..........
18 W Seely, use of house............ ......
19 C G Hagin, inspector of election
20 8 B Fields, excise commissioner
21 Jonathan Norton, inspector of election
22 W D Williams, inspector and messenger
23 Alphonso Baker, constable .......
24 Dr D Hall, medical
25 David Crocker, justice of peace ..
26 Wm G Godley, town clerk ........
27 John Wyckoff, assessor ........
28 L L Myers, constable
29 John Wyckoff, commissioner
30 Isaac Hilliard, assessor ..
31 Dennis Kelley, assessor ..
32 Henry Miller, use of house for election
33 John Brown, for plank ...................
34 James Houser, care of T Allen
35 Wm Mead, supplies for poor.......
36 S Stoddard. Ithaca, supplies for poor
37 P L Smith, supplies for poor ....................
38 C G Benjamin "
39 Harriet Butler,; keeping pauper ................
40 Dr Gulick, medical .
41 Newell Gibbs, burial Wm Jugly, pauper....
42 DrD T Barr, attendance H LobdeIl`............
43 Dr Wm 13 Barr, c, Mrs Mack ...
44 A M Tarbell, constable .............
45 A M Tarbell, constable
46 J M Woodbury, supervisor .................... .
47 J M Woodbury, justice of peace
48 J M Woodbury, rail road expenses .......... . .
if
of highways . , ...
CLAIMED. ALLOWED.
400 400
500 500
400 400
4 00 4 00
400 400
15 00 15 00
205 205
200 200
20 00 20 00
300 300
4 00 4 00
12 50 12 50
400 400
3 00 3 00
500 500
400 400
260 250
2675 2300
1480 280
400 400
38 00 38 00
215 215
174 00 174 00
40 00 40 00
44 00 40 00
15 00 15 00
34 41 34 41
15 00 15 00
30 15 30 15
14 80 14 80
775 775
175 175
52 72 52 72
65 50 38 00
40 00 30 00
7 00 5 00
12 50 9 00
4 00 4 00
3 55 3 55
39 19 39 19
6 00 6 00
1,231 29 1,231 29
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
No.- NAME AND SERVICE.
49 H D Donnelly, lawyer's fees . 110 00 50 00
50 Jesse Havens 31 00 8 00
51 H L Comstock, lawyer's fees ................ 439 42 -439 42
52 Milo Goodrich, lawyer's fees 1,300 00 1,300 00
53 Win N Buck, overseer of poor ............ 33 15 33 15
54 N E Lyon, supplies to poor ................ 28 20 27 50
55 D T& W H Barr, medical 5 25 2 75
56 A,W Knettles,board auditors 12 00 12 00
57 1) 0 Herring, " 12 00 12 00
58 Myron Halliday, " 12 00 12 00
59 Wm Mead, clerk of board auditors ....... 6 00 6 00
60 J M Woodbury, supervisor's manual ........ 3 00
3,894 73
67
CLAIMED. ALLOWED.
A. W. KNETTLES,
D. C. HERRING, Auditors.
MYRON HALLIDAY,
WM.. MEAD, Clerk of Auditing Board.
At a Special Meeting of the Board of Town Auditors of the town of Lansing,
held at the house of Warren Seely in said town on the first day of July, all the
members present.
The following resolutions were unanimously passed.
Resolved, That the Board authorizes John W. Wyckoff, Commissioner of High-
ways for said town, to raise the suns of three hundred dollars on the credit of said
town to be expended in repairing the highway north of Ludlowville in said town.
D. C. HERRING,
MYRON HALLIDAY, r Town Auditors.
A. W. KNETTLES, j
At a Special Meeting of the Board of Town Auditors of the town of Lansing,
held a the house of Warren Seely, in said town, all the members being present ;
the 2cl. day of September, 1876, the following resolutions were unanimously adop-
ted : That they authorize John Wyckoff, Commissioner of Highways of said town,
to raise the sum of one thousand dollars on the credit of said town, to be applied as
follows: Five hundred dollars for iron bridge near B. hI. Hagin; two hunched
dollars for iron bridge at Lake Ridge, and the balance for the repairing of various
bridges in said town.
D. C HERRING,
MYRON HALLIDAY, Town Auditors.
A. W. KNETTLES,
68 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
NEWI+IELD.
Abstract of the nanies of all persons who presented accounts to be audited by
the Board of Town Auditors of the town of Newfield, on the 9th day of November,
1876, with the amount claimed and the amount allowed to each claim.
No. NAME AND SERVICE.
1 J H Seabring, ex commissioner of highways 29 05
2 Win Hartranft, inspector of election 1st district4 00
3 S D Cook, f0 44 4 00
4 G N Alexander, " " 4 00
5 Wm McCollum, clerk of board of inspectors 4 00
6 G W Peck, , {, " 4 00
7 Oliver Crawford, assessor •••37 13
8 D M. Kellogg, assessor... 38 30
9 Benjamin Starr, justice of peace. .... .... ... . 28 00
10 J W Dean, justice of peace .... 18 75
11 E A Curtis, excise commissioner ... 3 00
12 L H Bower, desk [and table for clerk ........ 14 00
13 P S. Dudley, railroad commissioner ............. 6 00
14 P S Dudley, use of hall ... 20 00
15 Amos Shafer, railroad commissioner 12 00
16 Stephen Kennedy, excess tax 7 30
17 R H Carpenter, poor master ............... 38 00
18 S A Seabring, medical services........ '1 50
19 J 0 Everhart, assessor ............. .... 34 30
20 Ezra Marion, supervisor 20 88
21 A J White, ex supervisor 46 54
22 Samuel Simpson, inspector of election 25 district, 4 00
23 Abner H Stamp, 4, it 4 00
24 James Stamp, " " 4 00
25 Alvah D Brown, clerk of board of inspectors..... 4 00
26 J C Carpenter, " " 4 00
27 Alvah Brown, use of house ...................... 10 00
28 Charles Knickerbocker, commissioner of highways 166 00
29 Jacob Pull, excise commissioner .... .... :..... 3 00
30 Benjamin Drake, excise commissioner.......... 3 00
31 Henry Taber, town clerk ....................... 48 00
32 E 0 Thorn, justice of the peace 29 25
33 Charles Knickerbocker, commissioner of highways, 2,548 62
34 H S Rockwell, town auditor, three days 9 00
35 R C Estabrook, town auditor ....... 9 00
36 N 8 Georgia " ... .. 9 00
37 Robert J Merritt, damage to horse and wagon.... 50 00
CLAIMED.
ALLOWED.
29 05
4 00
4 00
4 00
4 00
4 00
37 13
38 30
28 00
18 75
3 00
14 00
6 00
20 00
1200
7 30
3800
7 50
34 30
20 88
46 54
4 00
4 00
4 00
4 00
4 00
10 00
166 00
3 00
3 00
48 00
29 25
2,548 62
900
9 00
9 00
20 00
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
66
38 Ezra Marion, supervisor's manual.... .... • • . • • • • . 3 00
$3,258 fit
The undersigned Board of Town Auditors of the town of Newfield, do certify
that the foregoing abstract is correct. Newfield, November llth, 1876.
H S ROCKWELL,
R. C. ESTABROOK,
N. S. GEORGIA.
Resolved, That the Commissioner of Highways be authorized to expend the sum
of fourteen hundred and twenty-five dollars in the construction of abutments of
stone built on piles, and an iron bridge across the inlet near the house of William
P. Blakeslee, in this town, said bridge having become impassable since the last
annual town meeting. E. MARION, Supervisor.
H. L. TABER, Town Clerk.
BENJAMIN STARR,
L. S. HAM, Justices.
J. W. DEAN,
CHARLES KNICKERBOCKER, Commissioner.
NEWFIELD, July 28th, 1876.
On motion it was resolved that the Commissioner of Highways be authorized to
expend the sum of $700 dollars to built] and repair bridges in the town of New-
field, viz., on Chaffee Creek, three bridges to be repaired seventy-five dollars, by
Warden. 200 dollars, in Tompkins District 125 dollars, by Kellogg 100 dollars, by
Madison Clark 100 dollars; for all others 100 dollars. Total 700 dollars.
E. MARION, Supervisor.
BENJAMIN STARR, )
L. S. HAM, (-Justices.
W. DEAN,
CHARLES KNICKERBOCKER, Commissioner.
H. L. TABER, Clerk.
ULYSSES.
Abstract of the names of all persons who presented accounts to be audited by the
Board of Town Auditors of the town of Ulysses, on the 9th day of November, 1876,
with amounts claimed by each and the amounts audited and allowed each, viz :
No. NAME AND SERVICE. CLAIMED. ALLOWED.
1 J P King, supervisor .. 52 80 52 80
2 S A Ammack, commissioner of highways ... 104 13 104 13
3 A M Holman, bonding commissioner............ 12 00 12 00
4 T Boardman, " 18 50 18 50
5 0 M Wilson, printing ................... 5 00 5 00
6 E Sisson, clerk of election, etc ...................4 26 4 2.5
70
SUPE+RVISOBS' TBOCEEDINGS.
No. NAME AND SERVICE,
7 J D Smith, inspector of election
8 HABower „
9 J L Pope,
10 F D Barto, clerk of
11 E 8 Pratt, assessor........
12 C Burch, use of house for election
13 Lewis Clock, constable, assigned to Biggs & Bro
14 Lewis Clock, constable
15 Lewis Clock, constable
16 W A Fuller, constable assigned to Biggs & Bro..
17 J D Bouton, justice of the peace ................
18 JIIEmery, 'c .....••.••••••••
I9 C C Mattison, commissioner of highways
20 George C Vann, work on highway
21 J F Flickinger, medical services
22 J F Flickinger, medical services
23 R C Taylor, clerk of election .. .
24 A V VanLiew, ex commissioner of highways
25 J G Jones, justice of the peace
26 James D Pease, commissioner of highways
27 John VanBuskirk, inspector of election
28 John VanBuskirk, coffin, etc
29 Samuel Colegrove, assessor
30 11 B Chase, medical services, ..
31 H B Chase, ci ...................
32 Abram Chase, ex town clerk
33 Elias Smith, ex overseer of the poor
34 Elias Smith, clerk of election
35 J Carman, justice of the peace...
36 Charles Bower, excess of taxes ....
37 H G Cooper, town clerk ........................
38 J M Farrington, medical services........
39 Isaac Bullard, house for elections, etc...
40 R Tallmadge, medical services
41 Rozine Fish, constable... .......,..
42 Thomas Vann, ex commissioner of highways
43 L 11 Owen, commissioner of excise ......
44 Thomas Bower, commissioner of excise ..........
45 Henry Lucky, assessor ..
46 J M Stout, inspector of elections
47 Edward Pearsall, commissioner of excise 2 years,
48 0- 11 Stewart & Sons, undertaking.....,........
2 years
election...
CLAMED. ALLOWED.
450 400
800 800
460 425
425 425
43 75 43 75
15 00 10 00
23 40 17 65
8 55
315 315
26 35 19 50
12 00 10 00
33 60 31 60
11 00 11 00
24 54 24 54
35 00 19 00
8 00 6 00
400 400
6 00 6 00
4 00 4 00
25 00 25 00
800 800
19 00 17 50
24 00 24 00
7 25 7 25
13 50 13 50
15 00 9 00
6 50 6 50
4 00 4 00
3 85 3 85
4 90 4 90
23 00 20 00
75 62 53 12
46 00 27 55
9 00 9 00
400 400
400 400
17 44 14 44
18 00 15 00
35 77 35 77
463 463
27 00 24 00
30 00 25 00
SUPEIRVISOR& PROCEEDINGS.
No. NAME AND SERVICE.
•
49 A G Updyke, town auditor.... • . • • • • • • • •' • • ..
50 J Stilwell, c. ° ° .
51 E 0 Seymour, " °
52 Repairs of highways and bridges ................
23 Interest on Pa. & S. B. R.R. Bonds...........'
•
Sinking fund due ........................:.. •
54 J P King, supervisor's manual...........
CLAIMED. - ALLOWED.
6 00 6 00
6 00 6 00
900 900
1,250 GO
5,250 00
750 00
$8,062 88
The undersigned Board of Town Auditors of the town of Ulysses, do certify that
the foregoing abstract is correct.
Dated Ulysses, November llth, 1876.
A. G. UPDYKE,
JACOB STILWELL, Town Auditors.
E. C. SEYMOUR,
COUNTY AUDITS,1876,
No. NAME AND SERVICE.CLAI&IED.
• �5 00
1 J M Farrington, medical services ...... • • • • • • .. 37 75
2 A Clapp, printing • , • • .. • .... . .. 34 25
3 Groton,Jonrnal, printing..........
4 Ithaca Water Works Company..... • • • • • • • • . ' 00
00
5 Ithaca Gas Light Company ............. • • • ..... 1724 5005
6 5 H Peck, medical services ................ • • • • • 9666
7 J J Montgomery, medical services ........... • • • 20 00
S 5 P Sackett, medical services
9 J V Wilson, painting and supplies 97 002 84
etc.... ... t......
10 White & Burdick, glass, 35 50
11 G C McClune, flag stone, etc .... • • • •305050000
12 Cornell Library, rent Military Hall ...........
13 5 J Parker, medical services.... ................ 19 85
14 Spence Spencer, supplies etc., to supervisors 19 62
15 David Randolph, work, mortar, etc • ..... • • • 50 00
16 Town of Danby, armory rent 50 80
.. .
17 V B Gross, ex supervisor • • •' ' • •1875 and 1876 to
18 Gauntlett & Brooks, supplies,
8 13
jail, etc ....................... • ........ 4 00
19 Wm Spence, gravel ........... . ..........
ALI.owED.
$5 00
1 50
3 00
66 00
97 44
13 50
24 05
15 00
97 56
2 84
35 50
300 00
30 00
19 85
19 62
50 00
10 80
6 13
4 00
72
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
No. NAME AND SERVICE.
20 Dr M M Brown, medical services as coroner
21 Wm M Smith, coal to jail, court, etc........
22 A C,Carpenter & Co., wardrobe judge's office, 1875,
23 John Rumsey, supplies
24 P 11 Farrington, Sup't of poor,
25 M T Denman,
26 J M Smith,
27 Dr Rightmire, medical services
28 J 3I Farrington,
29 M Beesimer,
30 Hyatt & Oltz, carpentering and supplies
31 Simeon Smith, disburs'ts as District Attorney
32 J M McKinney, ex services as special co. judge
33 W N Buck, poor master services
34 J F Burdick, medical services...
35 Biggs & Co., armory rent
36 Henry Miller, armory rent and armorer
37 G Rightmire, medical services
38 G Rightmire,
39 D W Bailey, ex supervisor.......
40 J M Farrington, medical service,
41 C P Farling, medical services....
42 John E Beers, medical services...........
43 Dawson & Co., printing court terms
44 John D Parsons & Co., supplies to co. clerk
45 A J White, ex suphrvisor
46 John Stoddard, meals to jurors ........ , .. • , , , , , •
47 Eli Beers, medical services.... .... .
48 J K Folletts, livery bill .............
49 A A Haskins, constable fee ...........
50 A R Whittaker, constable fee
51 Charles G Day, justice fees...
52 J 11 Tichenor, justice fees assigned to 8 C Tichenor
53 R R Howell, deputy sheriff and constable fees, as-
signed to Robert Reed
54 S B Landon, deputy sheriff
55 E Snyder, constable fees
56 James Gardner, constable........
57 Ezra Rumsey, constable ...
58 S D Hamilton, constable .
...............
59 W J Totten, justice of peace.......
60 Burr Rumsey, constable
CC
CLAIMED.
54 00
80 39
26 00
20 86
126 60
68 50
150 00
5 80
11 20
10 00
18 40
78 37
150 00
23 65
20 00
26 00
49 50
5 00
5 00
25 68
5 00
9 00
7 00
13 90
4 50
8 88
6 50
7 00
4 00
1 45
9 35
13 65
114 31
58 55
15 51
15 10
10 90
8 25
7 65
2 60
6 65
ALLOWED.
36 00
80 39
20 86
126 00
61 00
150 00
5 80
11 20
5 00
18 40
78 38
23 65
14 00
25 00
49 50
5 00
5 00
25 68
5 00
9 00
7 00
13 90
4 50
8 88
6 60
7 00
4 00
1 45
9 10
13 65
113 71
58 55
1554
15 10
10 90
8 25
7 66
2 60
665
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
No. NAME AND SERVICE.
61 P ➢I Blodgett, constable ................
62 R R Howell, deputy sheriff.... ... • • • •
63 J M Fish, constable ...........
64 R R Howell, deputy sheriff, assigned to. William
Carpenter
66 J B Boyce, constable ................
66 A 1VI Lucas, justice of peace
67 C J Mesian, constable, Evans Centre, Erie co.,N Y
68 Wm Waters, constable............
69 Lewis Clock, deputy sheriff........
70 C H Spaulding, deputy sheriff
71 D J Seaman, livery for supervisors to county
hoose
72 A W Knapp, justice of peace .
73 Henry H Houpt, census enumerator 1875 ........
74 J H Wilson, work in jail, etc., cash paid out etc.
75 Rankin & Son, supplies to court hoose
76 Howard & Clement, spring swivil chair, county
clerk's office ...... • .... ............... •
77 J M Jamison, plumbing and supplies to jail and
courthouse ..............................
Plumbing, etc , County Clerk's Office .......... .
78 Lafayette Dusenbury, armorer
79 A C Carpenter, supplies to jail, etc
80 M M Brown; coroner's fees
81 Dr Coryell, medical services ....................
82 J G Wortman, armory
83 Carrier & Winslow, medical services
84 W C Gallagher, medical services.......
85 Dr Gilbert, medical services
86 L S Mackey, glass and setting ................. .
87 Mason Burdick, armorer ........... •
88 Edward Lounsbery, armory rent. .... • • • • • • . •
89 D V Personius, armory rent ....................
90 Sandford Brothers, supplies, ........... ...
91 J H Theal, armorer........ •
92 F P Randolph, labor and supplies, county build-
ings .....
93 11 J Wilson, supplies to jail
94 Marcus Lyon, coal and janitor, money paid
95 W J Gulick, medical services ...................
96 A C Carpenter, burial of Desebner. • ...........
73
CLAMED. ----- ALLOWED.
29 15 29 15
4250 4250
34 56 34 55
38 24 38 12
4 15 4 15
4667 4442
44 50 44 50
1160 11.10
648 648
11 41 11 41
1200 1200
2 00 2 00
49 20 24 00
20 81 20 81
640 640
8 50
26 97 26 97
25 57
9 75 9 75
31 25 31 25
96 93 88 00
35 25 35 26
50 00 50 00
500 500
35 80 33 30
15 00 16 00
2 75 2 75
21 75 21 75
25 00 25 00
2 45
1 00 1 00
1400 1400
56 65 56 65
459 459
91 10 91 10
900 900
28 00 28 00
-74
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
No. . NAM AND SERVICE.
97 J W Dean, census enumerator 1875
98 Culver & Co., supplies to jail, etc........
99 J L Baker, prosecuting Deschner.......
100 H J Wilson, supplies to jail
101 C L Crandall, survey and map for Halliday .in
1876, (people vs VanZoil) .... , .. .
102 F E Tibbetts, defending prisoner, assigned by
court, not county charge .......
103 J T Morrison, supplies to jail
104 Finch & Apgar, stationery, etc
105 Hunt and Coryell, coal, court house and jail....
106 A C Carpenter, repairing chairs, court house ....
107: Dr 0 Cook, medical services
108 D Randolph, mason and lime (assigned to B M
109 George H Houtz, armory rent
110 D Tarbell, armorer ............ .
111 Ford & Trowbridge, printing (not properly au-
thorized)..
112 John E Beers, supervisor's fees, (extra sessions)..
113 J M Woodbury, ., <<
114 D L Burtt, «
115 C L Wattles
116 Harrison Marvin,
117 S D Halliday, legal services, (civil case)........
118 L L Myers, constable ...
119 W H Goodwin, jr., justice of peace .......
120 A R Whittaker, constable ..
121 Albert Neidick, constable .........
122 Lester Conklin, constable ... .
123 N Underwood, constable ...... .
124 Moses Tyler, constable ........ . ......... .
125 E C Marsh, constable
126 B R Williams, armory rent
127 John Goodyear, medical services ..............
128 F G Ault, armorer
129 J P King, supervisor (extra sessions)
130 F G Manley, under sheriff, fees
131 E G Phelps, constable ..
132 C H Tarbell, constable.
133 B M Hagin, sheriff, board of prisoners , . , ......
134 B M Hagin, sheriff, service bill .......
CL &MED
2 00
49 46
5 00
61 38
32 00
50 00
820
78 84
57 01
12 50
10 00
15 16
40 00
30 88
46 87
8 24
32 96
39 20
18 40
33 48
78 13
14 70
3 50
5 05
2225
470
29 00
12 65
1720
40 00
43 50
46 49
1968
123 29
8 00
9 90
2,218 85
698 80
ALLOWED.
2 00
49 46
5 00
61,3S
30 00
8 20
18 S4
5701
12 50
8 00
15 16
40 00
30 88
8 24
32 96
39 20
18 40
3348
7813
1470
3 50
505
1252
4 70
29 00
12 65
17 20
40 00
12 00
46 49
1983
123 29
8 06
9 90
2,21885
598 80
SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS.
No. NAMEANDSERVICE.
135 R R Howell, deputy sheriff (presented too late
for audit)
136 F G Manley, under sheriff ............... • .
13.7 B R Williams, Win Sullivan, Ed Mowry,
J Staley, constables, assigned to S B Beers....
138 B R Williams, constable
139 Dudly Andrews, justice of peace
140 D Tarbell, county clerk, fees.......... .
141 S .A. Seabring, medical services • • • • • • • • -
142 Andrus, McChain & Co , supplies to co. officials.
143 Ithaca Democrat, pub co
144 Ithaca Journal,
145 Treman, King & Co., supplies for court house,
jail, etc, 1874, etc .
146E C VanKirk, ex sheriff fees
for board and
services -• •••
147 Williams Bros., lumber and cartage to jail, 1874
148 Hunt & Coryell, coal for co. clerk's office,1875, '76
149 Treman, King & Co., stove for jail kitchen
ISO T W Burns, extra service as clerk, etc
151 Lewis Clock, deputy sheriff.... •...........
152 Nelson Stevens, supervisor
153 Nelson Stevens .......
154 L H VanKirk, supervisor
155 L H VanKirk, supervisor ..................... .
156 J E Beers, supervisor
157 J P King, supervisor . .
158 C L Wattles, supervisor
159 D L Burtt, supervisor . • ..... • , • • . • • • • • • • • • • •
160 J PI Woodbury, supervisor
161 Ezra Marion
162 Ezra Marion, supervisor .
163 Harrison Marvin, supervisor
75
CLAIMED. ALLOWED.
6 20
248 26 248 26
107 70 .107 '10
94 90 94 90
325 325
1,632 28 1,459 56
10 00 8 00
368 11 368 11
979 41 971 84
1,027 20 938 00
187 40 108 62
453 45 453 45
985 985
8720
53 95 53 95
83 75 83 76
2198 24 98
5 56 5'56
81 99 81 99
776 776
7133 7133
72 13 7213
84 84 84 84
73 69 73 69
93 49 93 49
77 20 77 20
866 856
74 87 74 87
83 65 83 65
$12,136 43
In relation to Justice of the Peace and other County and Town Officers.
It is the desire of the Board of Supervisors of this county to be controlled abso-
lutely by law and equity. The cases coming under their jurisdiction aro generally
ministerial and controlled by statute. Many officers have in the past so neglected
or refused to comply with the laws of the state and Boards of Supervisors that
much time has been lost by the Boards in examining matters which reports from
such officers, in accordance -with law, could have easily and readily made clear;
76 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
besides the possible wrong doing•to some innocent parties. The past few years at-'
test the truth of these remarks. . And after due caution to such officials the Super-
visors have decided to be unsparing in their duties to the people. To many this
chapter may be beneficial. Justices of the Peace can find in Chapter 341, Laws of
1864, and Chapter 404, Laws 1853, their duty to the people by such reports.
The following is a list of the justices of the towns, and their reports according to
said laws :
CAROLINE.
J P Merrill, failed to report ...............
Frank Cortright, failed to report ................... •
Mat. Bull,. ,.,
A T Lott,.
DANBY.
L Jennings, failed to report
J Thatcher, failed to report .......... • ....
Charles Howland, failed to report,... •.., ..
DRYT)EN .
Wm J Smith, failed to report ...............
John Snyder....... ................... ....
J W Webster, ..... .............
Wm H Goodwin, Jr
Wm Marshall... ... ,
Elisha Horton ,
J M Lanning, . ,
Eliphalet Covell, .
ENFIELD.
GROTON.
W D Mount, failed to report , .... .
Dudley Andrews,. • . • ...
'Dana Rhoades, failed to report
HughHalsey, ... ..................
ITHACA.
James Tichenor.
A M Lucas, • . .
CG Day, ........................
W J Totten.
LANSING.
David Crocker, failed to report ....................
Dana Bower, failed to report ..................... ..
Nelson E Lyon, failed to report ....................
J M Woodbury .......... .
Amt. received as per Report.
$25 00
15 00
15 00
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS. - 7
NEWFIELD.
L S Ham....
Benjamin Starr
Elvin 0 Thorn . • ................
J W Dean ...........
J R Emery
T D Bouton........
Jacob Carman ..
ULYSSES,
22 35
Statement showing the amount of compensation audited by the Board of Super.
visors of the County of Tompkins to the members thereof, within the past year,
with the items and nature of such coiupensation as audited ; the number of days
the Board were in session; the distance traveled by the members respectively in at-
tending county canvasses and meetings of the Board within the past year.
Published pursuant to 14th section of Act passed December 14, 1874,
SUPERVISORS
TOWNS.
O
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+p+ Ol
g
Ad U
C. L. Watites Caroline
J. E. Beers Danby
II. Marvin Dryden
L. VanIKirk Enfield.......
N. Stevens Groton
D. L. Burtt (Ithaca
J. M. Woodbury (Lansing
E. Marlon 'Newfield
13 00 J. P. Ring Dlvsses
D. W. Bailey !Enfield
V. B. Gross Groton.......
`f+
J. }fames Danny
A. J. White , Newfield
2
2
2
2
2
2
'2
2
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A
''22
20
24
20
20
20
26
20
22
6
2
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Miscellaneous.
F
$72
66
78
66
66
93
n.l
66
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88 00 I hereby certify that the above statement is correct that the Board of Supervi-
19 70 sors of Tompkins Comity were in session 17 days, and the slumber of miles traveled
30 00 dining official duty by each member respectively is correct as stated. And that no
6 82 accounts were audited or allowed by the Board without being verified according to
law, for any member of said Board or any other person.
THOS. W. BURNS; Clerk.
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SPECI
AL S 1H1SSIONS.
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9' c p SPECIAL SESSION, FEB. 5, 1876.
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G To the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors :
o 0 You are requested to call a special session for Feb. 4th, 1876. .
2, C. L. WATTLES,
c D. L. BURTT,
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¢, A. J. WHITE,
0 J. M. WOODBURY,
HARRISON MARVIN,
D. W. BAILEY.
a c The Board was called to order at 2 p. m., by the chairman, Mr. BURTm.
8. •
At roll call all were present but Mr. Bailey, who came in and took part in the
oin proceedings shortly after.
02o The following communications were read by the clerk and ordered on the min-
„ Utes:
o G -
a 0, Susquehanna Valley Home and Industrial School, L
o P Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1875 5
P c T. W. Burns, Esq., Clerk of Supervisors, Tompkins County :
r' Dear Sir—The children for which the bills were sent, of which 1 wrote you, were
2 regularly committed to our care by P. II. Farrington, one of your Superintendents
i of Poor, he signing the proper form of application, and they should have been no•
Es
o co ticed in his report. _
The agreement with your Supervisors dates back several years, though for a time
; co
a. there were no children here under it,
CD .8
=° P The amount due, $188 06.
re One of the children is still with us. If the matter cannot be provided for out of
p G, the appropriations and paid, we shall have to resort to our legal remedies.
0 Yours respectfully, JOSEPH P. NOYES, Sec'y
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p0 Journal Office, Jan 8, 1876.
o PL. To the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Tompkins County :
0 o DEAR SIR -I learn that Messrs. Spencer & Gregory, of the Ithaca Democrat, have
o refused to publish the laws at the price specified ; I therefore, also refuse to insert
the laws at the price designated by your said Board at the late session.
IBJ C
R, o, J. I3. SELKREG, Proprietor Journal. .
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80 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
Office of Ithaca Democrat,
Ithaca, N. Y. January 15, 1876. S
D. L. Burtt, Esq., Chairman Board of Supervisors
DEAR SIR—We cannot publish lire session laws as required by statute at the price
and sn the manner designated by your honoraole Board at its last meeting. Yours,
very respectfully, SPENCER •.0 GREGORY.
•
On motion of Mr. WATTLES,
Whereas, There is a just claim against this county for $188 06 by the Susquehan.
na Valley Home of Binghamton, therefore
Resolved, That the County Treasurer be authorized to draw 8188 06 from the .
amount appropriated to the Utica Insane Asylum and pay it to the said S. V. Home.
On motion of Dr. White, the amendment of Mr. Gross to the resolution of Mr.
Wattles, in relation to the publication of the Session Laws, "That the price be 30
cents per folio," adopted at the late session of the Board was rescinded by the fol-
. lowing vote.
Yeas, Wattles, Marvin, Bailey, Burtt, White, Woodbury, 6.
Nays, Hawes, Gross, King, 3.
Mr. Bailey moved an amendment to the same resolution of 40 cents per folio to
be the price paid for said publication. Mr. Woodbury moved to substitute 35 cents
for 40 cents. Lost.
Mr. Bailey's amendment was then adopted.
Whereas, The last act of this Boarcl at its annual session authorized the Clerk
to superintend the publication of an abstract of all fees which come under the ac-
tion of town or county audits, and
Whereas, The said labor was in excess of the usual amount of labor performed
by the clerk of this Board, therefore,
Resolved, That the sum of $25 be paid him by the County Treasurer from the
surplus now in his hands.
The following was read by the Clerk and the Superintendents referred to the res-
olution of Mr. King adopted at the last session as having conferred full authority in
all such cases as therein stated :
JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 4, 1876,
To the honorable, the Board of Supervisors :
DEAR SIRS : Since your annual session, I have- opened a correspondence with
the officers of the Orphan Asylum of Auburn and Syracuse, and the best offer is
from Syracuse. They agree to take all the children that come under our care that
we •cannot find proper hones for, at $2 per week, and find all, the clothing, both
winter and summer; also all school books, and in fact everything they may need
to make them comfortable.
If you think it best for us to enter into the contract, would you not advise us to •
transfer the children from the Susquehanna Valley Home, at Binghamton to Syra-
cuse, as we will save the expense of clothing, and I think the children will. be bet•
ter provided for.
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS.
81
We wish you to advise us in the matter, as there should be a concert of action
among the county officials. Truly yours,
P. H. FARRINGTON, Sup't.
The chairman stated that Sheriff Hagin requested the Board to regulate a certain
price for each journey to Rochester while in charge of prisoners, because the ac-
counts were many and cumbersome during the year. He said he had been to
Rochester twice, and the two trips had cost about $19, and he thought this enough
for the Board to fix a price from.
Dr. White opposed granting the request because he had inquired of an ex sheriff
in regard to the matter, and learned that three dollars covered the necessary ex-
penses of one trip to the above named city; and also because it was for the pur-
pose of having the expenses certified to that he offered the resolution at the last ses-
sion. The request was not granted. The Board then adjourned sine die.
'PHOS. W. BURNS, Clerk.
SPECIAL SESSION, MARCH 18, 1876.
Special Session, relative to the affairs of Ex -County Treasurer Bristol.
Order to Clerk empowering Iiinl to call a special session.
To T. W. Burns, Clerk of the Boarci of Supervisors of Tompkins County :
You are hereby requested to issue a call for a special session of said Board at
their room, on the 18th of March next, at 10 a. m.
D. L. BURTT, C. L. WATTLES, J. P. DING,
D. W. BAILEY, JOSIAH HAWES, J. M. WOODBURY.
V, B. GROSS. HARRISON MARVIN, A. J. WHITE.
The Board met pursuant to call at 11 a. m., and all the Supervisors were present
but Messrs. Gross, Marvin and White.
The Clerk was instructed to notify Treasurer VanVoorhees of the session, and
he appeared and made a statement of the condition of the accounts as at present
between his predecessor, G. H. Bristol, and Himself.
On motion of Mr. King, the Board adjourned until 1:30 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Roll call, and all members present.
County Treasurer VanVoorhees appeared before the Board with his counsel, itir.
IIT. King. Mr. King, by request, gave his views of the matter under discussion.
On motion. of Mr. MARvrn,
Resolved, That the matter of the deficiency of the County Treasurer be referred
to the committee on Treasurer's accounts, and that they be requested to report lin-
mediately what action is necessary to be taken in the matter.
The committee then presented the following preamble and resolution, which
were adopted
82.•' SUPERVISORS -PROCEEDINGS.
Whereas, The members of this Board have been notified that George 11. Bristol;
the former County Treasurer of this county, has refused or neglected to pay over
to his successor in office money and securities which the said Bristol is by law re-
quired to pay to his successor, therefore.
Resolved, That a prosecution be, and the same hereby is, ordered against the said
Bristol and the securities upon his official bond for any and alt deficiencies in his
accounts, and for the recovery of any- and all moneys due from said Bristol and
which should be paid over to his successor in office.
JOSIAH HAWES,
D. W. BAILEY,
V. B. GROSS.
On motion of Mr. BAILEY; the following were adopted :
Whereas, The accounts of the County Treasurer are in a very unsatisfactory
condition, and from the statement of the present County Treasurer that there is
not only a deficiency of 65,000 in the cash account of the taxes of last fall, but also
in the infant heir fund of 8,000, therefore,
Resolved, That all persons that have any interest in the above named tund be re-
quested to present their account to the County Treasurer immediately, .that the
Board of Supervisors may be able to ascertain if the above is the only deficiency
existing in said fund.
Resolved, That the above notice be inserted in all the papers published in the
county.
' On motion of Mr. MARVIN,
Resolved, That a committee of three, of which the chairman of •-this Board shall
be included, be appointed to prosecute, in the name of this Board, the claims
against the late County Treasurer for deficiency in his accounts, and to employ
counsel as they deem proper.
The chairman appointed Messrs. Woodbury and Bailey to act with himself as
such committee.
Resolved, That the committee appointed to prosecute the claim against the late
County Treasurer be empowered to call a special session of this Board whenever
they may deem advisable to consult in regard to the matter.
On motion of Mr. White, the Board then adjourned sine die.
THOS. W. BURNS, Clerk.
SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS. 83
SPECIAL SESSION, APRIL 15, 1876.
At Ithaca, April 15th. There were present from
Caroline—Chauncey L. Wattles, Dem.
Dryden—Harrison Marvin, Dem.
Danby—John E. Beers, Rep. •
Enfield—Leroy H. 'TauKirk, Rep.
Groton—Nelson Stevens, Rep.
lthaca—David L. Burtt, Dem.
Lansing—James M, Woodbury, Rep-
Newfield—Ezra Marion, Dem.
Ulysses—J. Parker King, Dem.
Mr. Marvin moved, and it was carried, that Mr. Burtt be elected temporary
chairman.
Sheriff Hagin made a statement that one of the prisoners in the - jail is poor and
destitute; that she is not in possession of clothes fit to appear before the court or
people, and asked that nine dollars be voted for the purpose of . purchasing the
requisite clothing for her.
The following resolutions, on motion of Mr. Marvin, were adopted:
Resolved, That the slrer-iff be authorized to expend the amount of $9 towards fur-
nishing.tlie prisoner the.clothing necessary. •
Resolved, That this Board when it adjourn Meet at half past one p. m.
Resolved, That a member of the committee' on settlement with the bondsmen of
the late county treasurer be appointed by the chairman in place of D. W. Bailey.
The chairman appointed Mr. Marvin to fill the vacancy.
Tlie Board adjourned at 11:30 a. in.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Roll call. All members present.
Judge Ellsworth, counsel for the committee on Treasurer's Deficiency, made a
detailed statement before the Board, and
On motion of Mr. ItLvnvtN, it was
Resolved, That the committee appointed by this Board to prosecute the claim of
the county against the late county treasurer and his sureties be instructed to make
a thorough search and investigation of the widow and orphan funds in order to
ascertain the full amount of any deficiency that may appear, and that the commit-
tee shall he reimbursed for their time and the necessary expenses incurred in said
investigation. Such search to embrace the time between the 1st day of January,
1870, and the 1st day of January, 1£376.
Resolved, That the time of commencing suit against George H. Bristol, late treas-
urer and his sureties, for deficiency in the accounts of said Bristol, be left to the
discretion of said committee.
84 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDIP.GS,
Resolved, That the Committee appointed to prosecute the claims against the late
county treasurer be authorized, if necessary, to raise by bank note or otherwise,
the amount of money necessary to pay the state taxes due the 1st of May, 1876,
from this county.
On motion, Messrs. King and VanKirk were appointed to fill the vacancies made
by Messrs. Hawes and Bailey in the committee on repairs and supplies.
The Board thea adjourned sine die. T. W. BURNS, Clerk.
SPECIAL SESSION SEPT. 2, 1876.
Mr. Thomas W. Burns, Clerk of Board of Supervisors :
You are hereby requested to call a special session of the Board of Supervisors o
Tompkins county for Saturday, Sept: 2d, 1876, at 2 p. m. Signed by
D. L. BURTT, NELSON STEVENS, J. P. KING,
EZRA MARION, L. H. VAN KIRK, J. E. BEERS,
C. L. WATTLES, J. M. WOODBURY, H. MARVIN.
SATURDAY, Sept. 2, 1876.
Board was called to order and roll was called by the clerk. All members present.
The contract between the county of Tompkins and the Monroe cortuty Peniten-
tiary having expired, the following resolution was moved by Mr. King and adopted.
Resolved, That the Clerk of this Board and the County Treasurer be authorized to
make a contract with the superintendent or agent of the Monroe coun.y Peniten-
tiary for the safe keeping of such persons as may be sent for criminal offences from
this county, said contract to expire January 1, 1879.
On motion of Mr. 111ARVIN,
Resolved, That the County Treasurer be authorized to pay the drafts from the
Willard Asylum from the funds appropriated for the State Lunatic Asylum.
On motion of Mr. MARVIN.
Resolved, That the chairman of this Board be authorized to raise, by bank note
or otherwise, to be paid on or before the 1st day of January, 1877, for the purpose
of paying the court expenses for October next, the amount of which note shall be
fifteen hundred dollars ($1,600)
The Board then adjourned sine die.
T. W. BURNS, Clerk.