The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-09-13

CHaiTulan dresser. ,....... GID
Allowance made to Wilson Stubbs. Knann
Caldwell & Wright, on contract with Co.
ouuSe.. ........... 81 90
The Board made the following Levies fur
Taxes, for the year 1862, on all taxable pron.
erty OF this County: For County Tar a
mills Poll Tax, 80 cents; County School
Tax, l mill Relief Fund, / mill State Tay
~ mills ia Total mills-being min less than
The building Of an addition to the County
Poor House was postponed until June 1863
Slemnons & Dotts petition for a road -
Report Of Commissioner McGlothln con
CURED in.
G. W. Dashield, Petition for road Re
port of Commissioner McGlothlin, and prayer
ofpetitioner granted. Caleb Heacock, Sam
Shearer and Joseph Gardner, were appoint.
ed Commissioners to assess damages, claim
ed by E. R. Manning, and report to this
Board at their October Session. The above
road is to be 40 feet wide.
Taxes on South Ottumwa abated, except
what accrued on the valuation of 5000.
j. r. Mcleod, taxes on $500, valuation
for 1861, abated.
Resignation Of Henry Sage, Supervisor
of Keokuk Tp., received.
Moses Fairburn, appointed county Supervis
or or:.Keokuk township.
Rerolved, That from and after this session
of the Board all claims and petitions that are
not presented on or before the first day of the
session will not be acted upon at that session
Adopted.
RESOLVED, That the tax book, or assessment
for the year 1852, lie and the same are hereby
notified and received. Adopted.
Messrs. Neville, Hinsey and Bedwell. specia
committee on relief of families of volunteers
and drafted men. as report offered the follow
ing resolutions, to wit $500
Resolued, BY the Board of Supervisors, that ,
levy of one mill on the dollar of the valuation
of the taxable property of the county be lait
for the purpose ofcreating special fund fo
the relief of the destitute families of volunteer
and those who may be drafted either into thu
military service of the United States, or Of thi
State, to be called the relief fund, and thu
CLERK of the Board Is hereby athorized to make
such levy and extend the same upon the tax
books under the head of relief fund.
sors Of Wapcllo County Iowa do hereby appro
pirate out the above fund of the County %, l0r
to be raised by special tax pi divided for the SUP
port Of the families of those persons who hav
or may hereafter volunteer or be drafted int
the actual military service of either the U. 5
or the State of Iowa who are or may be in dea
titute or needy circumstances, and who resid
in this County and to this end we hereby En-
power the Clerk Of this Board to issue such or
ders upon the County Treasurer payable out {
the funds raised by special tax for that purpos
for such amount and to such persons as shallb
directed by the written order of the Supervise
from any township who are appointed Comm
tee in their respective townships for that pu
pose in the next succeeding Section hereof,
Sd, The County Supervisors of each towr
ship be and are hereby appointed . Committe
| in their respective townships to whom shall
made all application for assistance in that pa
ticular TOWNSHIP p out of the herein before apr
/ priated and it shall be the duty of said commi
| tees acting in their respective townships in .
cases Of application for assistance to investgat
and carefully determine whether the apphcan
are the families of those herein before provide
for and whether they are in needy circumstance
/ and II such committee so determine they a
j hereby authorized and directed to draw writ,
order upon the clerk ofthis Board directing hi
to issue an order for such amount as shall
deemed necessary and to be stated in said wri
, rider.
4th, That it is hereby made the duty Of 81
committees to make report of doingsin their
spective townships including the number NJ
names of the needy families in their respecti
townships and the several amounts that ha
been allowed to each, to this Board at their re
ular meetings.
4 9th. The clerk is further authorized not to
} sue orders to exceed the amount Of the lie
!, in the aggregate.
!. On motion TO adopt the foregoing the ye
and nays were called every member Of the Bos
voting in the affirmative the foregoing "
adopted unanimously.
Per d. +, Gaylord, Dept'y.