The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-03-01
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SAMUEL K. LEWIS.
TnrRSnaY. Feb. l.


CoUtha.t.ee.
THURSDAY, Feb Is.
A resolution was adopted, appropriating 9
500 to purchase coal for the Court House
and Jail
An appropriation of 80 cents per week
was voted for the support of Wm Fowler,
of the town of kermillion
The following resolution was adopted
Resotred, That the sum of three dollars
be allowed the Supervisor OF each town,
for his services in pasting up election
notices and for taking and returning TO
Recorders office the town Collectors bond,
and the clerk be authorized TO draw his
order on the Treasurer for the same.
The following resolution was adopted
/ fe&fgeg That this Board appropriate
the sl'm OF one dollar per weeh, iior the
support OF Betsy g. Erickson and four
c!iildIed, to be allowed till the next sit
: l4eI Of this Board; said sum to be ex-
pended thrcasi-tl4s care 81 the Supervisor
OF the town OF Mission.
The special order fer this day, at
clock, being the consideration of the
preamble and resolution relative to swamp
lands, which was before the Board at tAe
lasi session. 1t. was orde.ed ii1at the same
session
Rp0rt Of tie htl.tayy COMMITTEE
Your Committee have examined the
accounts for relief fufni.Led 10 families
of volunteers from the seyeral towns. and
find there has been expended under the
( advice OF the Supervisors of the several
towns since the last meeting of the Board.
the sum of four thousand three hundred
and sixty-two dollars and forty-one cents
our committee would report tha. the
sam to be realized from the one mill tax
will amount to about six Thousand three
hundred dollars, from which after de
Quoting the sum already expended leaves
balance vi nineteen hundred and thirty.
seven dollars ani 3S reats Your commit
tee have asceriainsd that the number of
families OF volunteers, at present receiving 2
az! from the county. Is one hundred and
eighty SIX, with an aggregate of four
hundred and thirty seven children under
fourteen years of age
Your committee feel the Importance Of
keeping the expenditures within the
means provided, and for that purpose
would recommend tha. relief TO families
hereafter shall in no case exceed the FOL
ing rates
To grown person, dependant upon a
I volunteer for support, fifty cents a week ;
and for each child under fourteen years of
age. 25 cents week; and your committee
would suggest that, so long as tie county
furnishes support TO their families, the
necessity OF sending home money vii! not
be so urgent and Will be neglected by the
volunteers and for this reason we would
recommend that no relief be grant to the
families Of volunteers by the county. after
the first day of next April, except in cases
OF sickness or absolute distress
Your committee have examined the
accounts of the committee appointed by
this Board at its last meeting, to issue
bonds in payment of the volunteers under
the resolution appropriating eight dollars
to each volunteer, mustered into the SER
vice of the United States, from La Sale
county, To the number of one thousand
men, report the whole amount of bonds
issued up the to present time is seven thou
sand six hundred dollars, of which there
has been expended for the support of
families of volunteers, previous to the
I first of September, 1861, two thousand
( six hundred and forty-eiglt dollars and
twenty-five cents, and four thousand SIX
| hundred and forty seven dollars and one
cent has been paid on the eight dollar
/ bounty voted to volunteers, and a discount
of five per cent. or sixty dollars was allow
| ed on twelve hundred dollars of bonds
| sold, leaving balance in the hands OF
| said committee of two hundred and forty
| four dollars and seventy-tour cents uuex-
! pended.
Your committee find that the number
of men paid the eight dollar bounty in
full is four hundred and three, and the
number of men paid in part is two hund-
red and eighty seven, for the details of
which we would refer TO the accompany
| ing report of said committee, marked A.
/ Your committee would further recon-
mend that the Treasurer be instructed to
set apart the one mil. tax or two ninths OF
| the whole county tax for the current year
| to be designated the Volunteer Relief
| Fund, and to be used exclusively in pay.
| ment of orders issued in payment OF bills
for relief to families Of volunteers, and to
! distinguish said orders from those Issued
for ordinary expenditures, the Clerk shall
stamp the word military across the face
of said orders before issuing the same
WIN. w. GILMAN,
WM. L. F. JoNEs,
! ELMER BALDWIN,
/ + CocyyTS