“At a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners held on the 28th last month, it was determined to at once begin the work of removing the debris from the burned Infirmary building, preparatory to the erection of a new structure, and authorized Mr. Winters, one of the Board, to superintend the same. It is the intention to push the work to an early completion as soon after letting of the contracts as possible. The plan being prepared by AB Alger, the architect, under the orders of the Board, provides for the erection of a two-story brick structure, with a basement -the whole containing sixteen rooms above the ground. The approximated costs is about $9000.”
“Although the Board has not yet officially considered the question of providing the means for the payment of the expense to be incurred in the erection of the new building, it has transpired that there is a difference of opinion in regard to the manner in which the money is to be raised. The plan of selling a part of the farm, and converting the proceeds to the uses referred to, has the support of a portion of the Board, while the insane scheme of placing the cost upon the duplicate for collection in December and June next, also has some backers in official quarters. It would seem that the taxpayers of Scioto county were already sufficiently burdened without the additional levy contemplated by the originators of this brilliant idea. The proposition to sell a portion of the farm is the only one favorably considered by the people of the county, and the Commissioners have only to make some inquires to apprehend the truth of our remarks upon this subject.”
“Let the Board apply plain business principles to the solution of this question, and the people will be satisfied.”[/efn_note]Over the Hill to the Poor House. (1882, August 05). Portsmouth Times, p. 2.[/efn_note]
