Show THE ASYLUM BOARD bids for building material opened and awarded THE excavation CONTRACT straw bros aco will do afe work A secretary and treasurer appointed other dismiss the board of directors of the terri isrial insane asylum held a meeting on wednesday may alst on motion of C E alien the matter of dr proposition in his communication muni cation of april 7 1890 was indefinitely postponed on motion of L W shurtliff W IL dusenberry was elected treasurer of the institution application of geo A dusen berryf dr tho position of secretary was receive d mr hugh M dougall nominated 11 aedwards CE dwards for the position of secretary P T farnsworth nominated A 0 smoot jr for the same posu ion C A dark was nominated by C E alien upon the ballot being taken amr dark was elected tho auditing committee reported on the report of expenditures for the quarter ending february 28 amounting to finding the same correct the executive committee reported as follows to the board of directors of the territorial insane asylum GENTLEMEN your executive committee to whom was referred the letting of the contract to excavate the ground for the contemplated new building have tu report that the parties who proposed to do the excavation in its entirety for 19 cents per cubic yard failed to give responsibility to carry out such a contract and after conferring with alie different persons who made proposals lor the work we found that the best that could be done was to let the work to straw bros co at the following rates for all north of the boiler house and ice house at 30 cents per cubic yard all couth of ice house at 27 cents per cubic yard contract was completed with alie above parties W N chairman report adopted W N dusenberry chairman of the building committee reported that the committee had advertised for bids for building material and fifteen bids were submitted in answer to said advertisements the board proceeded to open and consider bids the following bids were received FOR ROCK FER CORD mcdougal springville Spring ville and harris brothers provo terry B hallett joshua graves G W mcgullough johnson provo william C foot provo daniels fe holdaway BRICK PER athons thons T E fleming provo jones pollard cook liddiard co FOR LIME PER BUSH boardman thomas provo 23 sears co S L city 40 FOR SAND YER yris love and pearce provo GU hooks and rawlings Kaw lings r 64 jno elewis 55 75 BIDS ALLOWED G W was awarded alie contract for furnishing fuini shing the rock upon the execution of a good and sufficient bond on motion of E A alien all bids for brick were rejected alie condrack con track for sand was awarded to john E lewis upon his furnishing a good and sufficient bond to the amount of the contract for furnishing lime was awarded to boardman althomas bonds to bo filed in the sum of 1000 on motion of J D carnahan the building committee were instructed to conclude a contract for brick upon the best terms to be obtained in the open market the following communication was received from medical superintendent W R pike MOVEMENTS OF PATIENTS FROM NOVEMBER 30 1889 TO MAY patients in asylum kov 30 1889 patients received since that date 26 total patients discharged 15 died 5 remaining patients in asylum mav 21 1890 females 67 males 08 total A special report giving an account of the death of sing lee was also presented report adopted 0 E alien introduced a resolution exonerating from blame all of the em aloyes of the institution of the death of sing lee and ordered that a copy of the verdict of the coroners jury be spread upon the minutes the je solution was unanimously adopted superintendent reported eliat the asylum were very much in need of another team on motion of J 1 carnahan ane executive committee were authorized to purchase a team and a wagon on motion of P T Farnsw the matter of building a horse barn was re to the building committee with authority to act iu the matter on motion of J J carnahan alie sum of two thousand dollars was appropriated to straw brothers co on account the following bids for supplies for the next six months were awarded as follows smoot deal for coal at s per ton cook scott co beef at cents per pound and mutton at G cents per pound smoot drug co for drugs and dunn co for groceries and provision the medical superintendent was instructed ted to liase shoes clothing and machine oils in the open market the secretary was instructed to dra orders for per diem and mileage at each meeting of the board the claims of C E alien for services ber vices amounting to and george sutherland amounting to were predent cd and referred to the auditing committe 0 on motion of C E alien secretary waa instructed to draw an order on the auditor of public accounts for all monies due the asylum from the territory up to including october 31 the board adjourned sine die |