June Term, 1903

ACCOMAC COUNTY COURT.

Proceedings, June Term, 1903.

The following fiduciary accounts were confirmed and ordered to be recorded: Audits of estates of Charles P. Finney, Thomas Littleton, Sarah E. Hill, William H. Guy, Ashton C. Southall, George West, colored, Jno Sunket, colored; orphan accounts of Fred W. Hopkins, Alice A., Pearl K. and Brandon B. Killman, Clarence E. Birch, Robert and Lena Hall, Mamie E. Parker, Althea Mears McCready, John D. and Maggie E. Wright, Charles E., Lloyd M., Harvey L. and Willie C. Gilden; guardian accounts of Alice L. and Evelyn L. Mister; trust accounts of Jefferson L. Hickman and wife, Sealmore Bloxom, W. J. Hall & Son.

Retail liquor license was granted to Berkley L. West, Pungoteague, and to Lucretia Fisher, Bloxom.

License to keep a hotel (to sell wine, ardent spirits, &c) was granted to William C. West, Onancock; to Richard W. Kelly, Bloxom and to George T. Mapp, Keller.

The last will and testament of Samuel T. Phillips, deceased, was proved and ordered to be recorded.

Letters of administration were granted to Benjamin T. Gunter on the estate of Shalmanezer Scott, deceased; to Sudie E. Lewis on the estate of William R. Lewis, deceased; to Elizabeth A. Miles on the estate of William H. Miles, deceased; to Upshur Q. Sturgis on the estate of James A. Botts, deceased.

James B. Taylor was appointed registrar of the Magisterial District of Atlantic, in place of James E. Anderton, resigned.

The last will and testament of Sealmore Bloxom, deceased, was proved and ordered to be recorded.

The sheriff made report to the court the number of prisoners in jail, their offenses, sentences, &c.

Application for retail liquor license of Archie T. Cropper, at Centerville, continued until 1st day of next court.

The following county and district officers, whose terms of office have been extended to the first day January 1904, by the schedule ordained by the Constitutional Convention, which assembled in the city of Richmond on the 12th day of June 1901, entered into a new bond: Warner Ames, attorney for the commonwealth; Lee B. Kellam, sheriff; John H. Hopkins, treasurer; Thos. C. Kelly, commissioner of revenue for District No. 1; William S. Ayres, commissioner of revenue for District No. 2; John O. Ewell, superintendent of the poor; Fred E. Ruediger, county surveyor; Lucius J. Kellam, Alfred J. Lilliston; John W. Wessells, William L. Nock and William N. Conant, supervisors, respectively, of the Magisterial Districts of Pungoteague, Lee, Metompkin, Atlantic and the Islands; Samuel S. Martin, Alexander W. Lilliston, Joseph R. Riggs, Edgar V. Twyford, overseers of the poor, respectively, of the Magisterial Districts of Pungoteague, Lee, Metompkin, and the Islands; Joseph C. Wescott, Tankard G. Kellam, William P. Godwin and Edward T. Ross Sr., constables, respectively, of the Magisterial Districts of Pungoteague, Lee, Metompkin and Atlantic; James E. Tarr, road surveyor for the election district of Chincoteague.

Upon petition of C. F. Bloxom and others to widen a public road. Viewers appointed.

Commonwealth vs. Ralph Lovejoy, on an indictment for felony. Nolle prosequi entered.

Franklin P. Mears was appointed superintendent of the poor for the county of Accomac for term of four years, commencing January 1st, 1904.

Thomas W. Shreves was appointed and qualified as guardian of William R. Lewis, orphan of William R. Lewis, deceased.

A special election was ordered in the Magisterial District of the Islands, on Saturday, the 22d of August, 1903, on the question "of granting or not granting liquor license" in said district.