Commissioners Refuse Raise in Cow T.B. Funds. . . Request from State Veterinarian for $500 Additional to Fight Bovine Tuberculosis Is Denied. . . Mitchell is Praised. . . Additional $50 a Month Allowed Colored Farm Agent; L.B. Perry Asks Tax Relief in Vain
Flat refusal by the Board of County Commissioners in regular session Monday morning greeted a request from William Moore, State veterinarian, that Pasquotank County raise to $1,000 its appropriation of #500 for eradication of bovine tuberculosis in the County.
Mr. Moore’s appeal for the added appropriation was embodied in a letter to the board, setting forth that only limited funds were available for the work, and that, considered from the standpoint of taxable property values, Pasquotank should increase the amount set aside. The letter stated further that the work had been completed in 50 counties, and in many of these the entire expense had been borne by the counties.
Reconsideration of the matter was brief. Commissioner Philip Pritchard led the opposition.
“They took Perquimans and Chowan for $500 apiece,” he said. “I won’t vote to pay any more.”
Commissioner Hillery Cartwright also expressed the opinion that sufficient had been set aside, and the matter was dropped without further discussion.
With only Mr. Pritchard dissenting, the commissioner voted to raise the County’s allowance to J.W. Mitchell, colored farm agent, from $25 to $50. Several members of the board joined in praising Mitchell’s work highly.
A report from the Utilities Commission to the effect that the fire hydrant nearest to the County Home was situated at Edge Street and Southern Avenue, some 1,400 feet distance from the home, and affording it insufficient fire protection, was read, and the commissioners passed a motion to ask the Utilities Commission what extensions were contemplated in that part of the city, with a view to reducing this fire risk.
The commissioners accepted a report from Dr. Zenas Fearing, who served as acting coroner in investigating the death of Charles H. Berry, night watchman, early Wednesday morning at Kramer’s mill, to the effect that Mr. Berry died from natural causes. Dr. Fearing served in the absence of his brother, Dr. Isaiah Fearing, city coroner.
An appeal from L. B. Perry, local contractor, to be relieved of $500 State license tax in connection with a contract for construction of Christ Church Parish House, now under way, was denied by the board when it was learned that other contractors engaged on the parish house project had paid the tax. Through is attorney J.C.B. Ehringhause, Mr. Perry told the commissioners he had known nothing of this tax when he bid on the job, and that his contract figure had been fixed accordingly low. The commissioners decided that was Mr. Perry’s hard luck, and that in fairness to other contractors, they couldn’t relieve him of the tax.
Dr. C.B. Williams, County health officer, reported that both the jail and the County Home were in good condition, with the inmates properly cared for. He stated that there were two cases of diphtheria in the city.
County Auditor Pritchard presented an audit of the affairs of Pasquotank Drainage District No. 1 from September 30, 1924, to April 30, last, the close of the district’s fiscal year.
From the first page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday evening, Jan. 4, 1926
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