Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-07-03
RANDOLPH COUNTY.

AZ Special teTtu vi 1Iduuolpu OOuuty SOuTI uc.
gun and held for said county, on the 21st day OF
June, A. d. 1861, convened according to the pro-
visions OF an Act of the General Assembly entitled
IAN Act to authorize the County Courts and cor
porate towns and cities to lay taxes for police pur
poses" majority of all the justices Of said county
being present, the following proceedings were had:
1t is ordered by the Court that for the purpose
of rendering aid and support to the INDECENT fam
lilies of persons engaged in the military service of
the State that loan Of forty thousand dollars in
Such sums and from time to time as the members
of the Court hereinafter may deem necessary, and
for the purpose of negotiating said loan and direct
ing the application Of it the following members of
the Court designated a committee, to be called
the executive committee, to-wit: John B. Troy,
Jesse Walker and Alexander S. Horney.
1t Is further ordered, That said committee have
leave to negotiate said loan on such terms and in
such amounts as they may deem the most expe-
dent and the said committee shall cause the amount
and date of each certificate, and the name of the
person corporation to which issned to be record
ed IN a book to be kept by them for that purpose
and they shall cause said book to be laid before the
said Court at next February Term, and at any other
term when required by the Court.
1t is further ordered, That said committee pay
into the hands of an agent to be elected by the
Court, the monies raised by said certificates, and
take from him bond in such penal sum as they
shall deem adequate, with two or more good secu-
rites, conditioned for the faithful disbursement and
accounting for the funds that may come to his
hands, according to tine orders Of said committee
and the Court, which bond shall be filed with the
Clerk of the County Court for safe keeping.
1t Is further ordered, That said executive COM
mttee shall appoint chairman, who shall sign all
drafts on the agent and they shall have full power
to adopt all such rules and regulations as they may
deem necessary and proper to carry into effect the
objects of the act aforesaid.
1t is further ordered, That committee of three
be appointed by this Court in each Captains dis
trct, whose duty it shall be to report to the execu
tive committee the families in their districts entitled
to the relief contemplated by said act and all facts
tending to enable the executive committee to decide
on the amount of relief which should be granted to
each family.
1t is further orderd, That majority of the mem.
bers of said executive committee shall have power
to act and the County Court at any regular term
may fill vacancies in said committee occasioned by
death, resignation or removal and majority of the
Justices may at any time abolish said committee or
remove any member of it.
1t is further ordered, That said Executive Com
mittee keep journal of their proceedings and such
journal shall be at all times open TO the inspection
of any member Of the Court, or any taxpayer.
1t is further ordered by the Court, That the
committee of Finance audit all claims for expenses
incurred by individuals in clothing provisioning,
and drilling or otherwise fitting out any company of
volunteers now in the service of the State which
may hereafter enter the SERVICE incurred prior to
such companys being rendered and accepted by the
Governor, and that said committee certify to this
Court or to any Board or tribunal authorized to
fund such expenses, the amount of each of such
claims which in their opinion ought to be refunded.
1t is further ordered, That each member of the
Executive Committee shall receive two dollars for
each day he may attend said committee in discharge
of his duties, to be paid by the County Trustee on
the order of the County Court.
| 1t is further ordered by the Court, That out of
the aforesaid Forty thousand dollars, the Executive
Committee direct the Agent to pay the expenses in
Cured in organizing any volunteer company hereto
fore rendered and accepted provided, The accounts
of such expenses shall first be audited and approved
by the Committee of Finance.
| 1t Is further ordered That the County Trustee
be drawn on by the Executive Committee for such
| sums of money as he may have in his hands, not
needed for County purposes.
l. The foregoing was unanimously adopted by said
Court.
John NJ. Worth was elected Agent, and the fol-
lowing committees appointed in the several dis
| tricts, towit:
Trinity College District-B F. Steed, Hezekah
Dorset, and Richard Laughlin.
| Glenn's District-Joseph Hoover, Nineveh Rush,
Benjamin Rush, Sr.
|
| Coltrane, and Franklin Garner
| RusEs D1triet-Jason Horner, Jesse Steed, and
| Zebedee Rush.
CrantorGs District-James Hopkins, William
Barney, and Seth Crawford
Little Rioer District. Wesley Dean, Nathaniel
| Steed and William Gollehora.
Fork Creek District.-Alfred Brewer j. Spinks,
and Emsley Loudermilk.
Raccoon Pond District-Abel Cox, Jacob Eli
son, and Simeon McMasters.
Back Creek District-S. D. Burkhead, Isaac
Keerans, and William Alfred.
Cheeks istrict-George A. Foust, Robert NJ.
Stinson and VIM. F. Foushee.
| Hardin's Distrist-John Truitt, Alfred Smith,
and Alfred Pike
Liberty District-Jesse Julian Henry Kevtt,
! New Salem District-Sampson B. Glenn, Robert
McAden. and Davis Horney.
1t is further ordered, That copy of the pro-
ceedings of this Court be forwarded to the N. G..
Standard for publication, and that the Fayetteville
| Observer and Greensborough Patriot be requested
! to copy. s.
On notion the Court adjourned.
JOHN B. TROY, Cha