Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-16

special committee. IS f8
Adjourned till 9 o'clock Friday morning.
MORNING SESSION.
The assessment on w. ] of s. W. t sec. 10
was reduced from $50 per acre to $40.
The Committee to settle with the Township
Clerks made report, which was adopted.
The Committee to count the money in the
hands of the County Treasurer reported the
following amounts as being on hand on the
LIST day Of January, 1868:
Money in bank, ........... $S7l2 63
State warrants, ............ 399 o.
Total. =. $9ll2 OF
Between $l1 900 and $4,000 have been
received on the sale of lands for taxes, the
account for which has not yet been rendered.
The bill of A. Fisher, for wood, amounting
to $S5. was allowed, the warrant to be issued
to the county, in payment Of delinquent taxes
due by him.
The Clerk was instructed to pay the Town
ship Trustees for 1862.
The Clerk was directed to furnish the
Assessors with blanks.
Charles A. Wright, and F. A. Brown con-
stable, were appointed Justices OF the Peace
in Goshen township, until their successors
shall have been elected and qualified.
The Committee on County Printing pre-
scented written propositions from Messrs.
Mahin and Thayer. On the question OF pub
fishing the receipts and expenditures OF the
county in both papers, the yeas and nays
were called for by Mr.. Hoyt yeas, lsett'
Hoyt, Ferry, Fullmer and Hunt; nays, Evans
Heberlmg Younkin, Crane, Burgan, Robo,
Patterson, Farnsworth and Tracey.
Adjourned till II o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The bonds of P. D. Riggs, Justice of the
Peace of Pike Township, George Francel,
Constable, and Vernon G. Sheppard, Clerk
of Moscow Township, and G. Bagley, Clerk
of Wapsinonoc, were adopted.
The Treasurer was instructed to enforce
strictly, Section II, of chapter 1853, OF the
Acts of the Ninth General Assembly, in re-
lation to collection of delinquent taxes by
distress and sale.
The Committee on County Property, was
authorized to take charge of the court house
square and yard.
It was resolved that the interest to be paid
to Isett and Brewster, be computed by aver
aging the dates.
Mr.. Robb moved that the statement OF re-
ceipts and expenditures be printed once in
the Muscatine JOURNAL, at the rates proposed
| by Mr.. Mahin, which was passed.
The accounts of Mr. Waite, Township CLERK
of Wilton, and of Geo. Bagley, Clerk of Wap-
sinonoc, was referred back.
The Clerk was authorized to pay all road
Commissioners employed by him, without
any further action.
John Madison was appointed Justice Of
the Peace, A. Clark, Constable, of Sweetland
Township.
J. W. Jayne was allowed $50 per month
for services as Clerk of the Board, until the
next meeting.
Mr.. Parvin's bill for viewing the Sherfey
and Fairport road was allowed.
A resolution to pay per diem and mileage
on the most practicable route was paesed.
| The bonds of S. Overturf, as Justice OF
the Peace of Pike Township, were ap-
proved.
1t was resolved that where debtors to the
School Fund have paid all interest on their
debts promptly, there would be no necessity
for renewing the notes.
| The committee to settle with Township
Clerks, made an additional report, which was
received
| Adjourned sine die.