Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-06-19
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r Floyd County within three years from
July 4th, 1862. Third that said Road
is to be completed to St Charles City
Floyd County, Iowa, within four years
from July 4th, 1862 and in consid-
GRAFTON of the foregoing, the said com
mittce is hereby authorized to surren-
der the Individual Bonds held by
Floyd County, Iowa, as security for
Floyd County Bonds also the ccrtif-
icatcs of stock for the same amount
npon condition that the remaining
coupons with the Floyd County Bonds
be surrendered to said committee.
Resoired, Second, That in case of
failure to effect the foregoing resolu-
tion, the committee are hereby au-
thorized to surrender the Individual
Bonds held by Floyd County as sccu-
rity also the sum of $55, 500 in stock
of the Cedar Falls and Minnesota
Rail Road Company upon said Com
pany's delivering to said committee
the bonds of Floyd County to the am
ount of S55, 800 and the coupons for
eight years attached thereto.
Rcsoired, That the committee notify
! the officers of the Cedar Falls and
Minnesota Rail Road Company of
their authority to settle the matter
and request a meeting of the Board
of Directors of said Company to effect
said object.
Resolred, That in case the commit
tee are unable to effect settlement
in accordance with one of the two
foregoing propositions, it shall be their
duty and they are hereby authorized
to procure competent counsel and pro-
cecd by law to protect the interests
of Floyd Comfy, Iowa, as in their
Judgment may seem best, and that the
committee be fully authorized to do
any and all acts necessary to carry
into effect the foregoing resolutions
and nothing in the foregoing resolu-
tons shall be so construed as to pre-
vent the said committe from making
any arrangements by which said cou-
pons SO deposited with said Trustee
good and valid against Floyd County,
Iowa.
Resolred. That the Treasurer and
Clerk of Floyd County, Iowa, he au-
thorizcd to deliver to said committee
all certificates of stocks, bonds, cou-
pons and all other papers in their
hands in relation to this matter all of
which is respectfully submitted.
r. n. MATHEWS,
I
RuDoLPH REX,
Which report is accepted and adopted
and the committee discharged and
II. \. Mathews, John Chapman, and
Rudolph Rex arc appointed hy the
Board as the committee to carry into
effect the foregoing resolutions.
On motion of Mr.. Humphrey, it was
Resolred, That in the case of Charles
II. Roberts against Floyd County, that
the suit be appealed to the Supreme
Court and that X. n. Mathews act as
agent for the County to procure an ap-
peal bond and 10 employ such coun-
sci as he may deem eXpedicnt.
On motion of Mr.. Graham, Mr.
! Chapman was appointed special
committee to settle with the Trcasu-
rer and Clerk.
ROAD PETITIONS, JUNE SESSION, 1862.
Road Petition
No ll6.
| Inman RexS others. The petition of
! Samuel Rex, Loren lnman and others,
of Union Township was presented to
the Board of Supervisors asking for
the appointment ot Commissioners to
view and if thought best locate "a road
as follows:
Commencing at the Southeast cor
ner of Section thirty-onc 81 Town
ship Ninety-four 81 Range seven.
teen III thence running North on
Section line between Thirty-onc and
Observation-Disclosures and Thirty
Nineteen and Twenty. and Seven
teen ami Eighteen, town and range
aforesaid, until it intcrsect the road
commonly known as the Bradford
road. Also to discontinue a part OF
a county road commencing at point
where said road leaves Road No 32
thence running West tbro' the centre
of Sec. Tl71 Seventeen and Eighteen
town and range aforesaid until 1t IN
tersccts the East line of the West
half of the Northwest fractional quar-
ter town and range aforesaid, and al
so to relocate said road on said line.
On motion, the prayer of the Petition
was granted, and 4. }. Asper ap.
pointed said Commissioner (; and to
commence said view on the 10th July,
A. d., 1862, and report to the next
regular meeting Of the Board.
], Road No. l0i.
/. Roscnkrans e. others. This road was
set for final hearing at the last Jan'y.
meeting but was overlooked. On mo-
: tion it was taken up and there being no
|, objection to the establishment of the
r road described in Petition No. l0l on
: file, it was voted that the road be cs
: tablished in accordance with the com
+ missioncrs' report and plat on file and
that the Clerk record the same.
e Road No. ia.
: Cramcr & others. The commission
:. er, David Ripley, appointed at the Jan
A uary meeting Of the Board to view
and locate road as prayed for in Pc
e tition No. ia having filed his rcpor
4 together with a plat of said road re
e commencing the establishing the sam,
: it is ordered by the Board that the ii
! nal hearing of the same be had at tn,
O next regular meeting Of the Board.
o An application for damages made
$ by Il. G. Wilcox by reason Of the 10
e eating of the above road, No. ia
d Wesley Brownell, Seth Richardson an,
J. r. NJ. Waller were appointed apprais
. a.s =, nssnSs the damages he mus