Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-11
TUESDAY, Sept. 8.
FORENOON,

TUESDAY, Sept. 8.
FORENOON.
A communication was received from G. B.
Denison, County Superintendent for com
mon schools, requesting the Board to furnish
him blanks; was referred to Committee on
| schools. .r.
A motion that each member report at the
next regular meeting, the amount collected
by each, towards the erection of soldiers
monument, was adopted.
A committee of three was appointed to as
certain the amount Of outstanding debts
against the levce fund, to report to the clerk ;
also, levying tax to pay the same.
The following roads were established
"Cone road,' "Wingrove road" and the
following roads and parts of roads vacated :
"Correll road" vacated in part, and Barrow
road"
The Board went into Committee of the
whole on the communication of Mr.. Duane
Wilson, and made report, of which the fol-
lowing is an average:
One per cent. less of wheat was sown
yielding five bushels less to the acre than last
year. ......
The corn crop will be fifteen bushels less
per acre than last year.
There was less sugar cane planted this
year than last, and the yield will be y per
cent. less.
AFTERNOON.
Two hundred and fifty dollars was appro-
priated to the Poor Fund until the next meet
ng of the Board
One hundred and sixty dollars were ap-
propriated to pay for hauling wood from the
Poor House farm.
The communication of Mr.. Waldron, pray
ing an abatement of tax on money loaned,
was referred to committee, as was also a
petition from H. j. Chinn on the same sub
ject.
The Committee on County Property were
empowered to fill up the back end of the Jail
lot.
A resolution releasing A. B. Wiles on a
Swamp Land note due from VIM. II. Miller,
on which Wiles is security, on payment Of
principal, was passed. The Treasurer was
authorized to make an abatement of the tax
against John Waldron on affidavit from him
that he had no taxable property in 1857 and
1859. ~.
A resolution of Mr.. Robb to appropriate
one hundred and twenty dollars from the
Road and Bridge Fund for the repair of the
bridge at the mouth Of Pine Greek, and one
at the mill, on the same creek, was passed.
The bill of Lemp & Sells for mating TO
the court room, amounting to $229,22, wa
allowed.
The plan for a soldiers monument, sub
mitted by W. H. Simpson, was accepted.
The committee was instructed to furnish
each member of the Board with drawing of
the plan, and printed copy of the resolu-
ton authorizing the erection of the soldiers
monument.
1t was resolved that the names of the per-
sons contributing to the monument, with the
amount of each, be deposited within the mon
ument.
An appropriation Of $13 was made to pay
for making drawings of the plan.
A resolution that tho Board preferred en-
ploying Mr.. Simpson to erect the monument,
if he will do the work on as reasonable terms
as others, was passed.
| The statement of the Clerk was received
and referred to the Committee on revenue,
with instructions to report at the next meet
ing. ..s.-. .-.....s
| Adjourned till next regular session in DC.
tober.
'aTHE WAR POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT. -
This little pamphlet, compiled by Rev. J. H
Power and D. G. Cloud, Esq, Of this city,
and published at this office, has received many
fattering notices, both from the press and
from individuals. We received the following
letter Tuesday from VIM. Barry, Esq, Sec
rotary of the Chicago Historical Society,"
Coming from such source, it is high com.
pliment to the value of the work:
CHICAGO, Sept. Z, 1868.
To the Editor Of the Daily Journal:
SR:-A copy of the pamphlet published
IN your office, entitled 1.-THE Powers Of the
President Of the United States in Times Of
War;" has recently been presented to this
societys library. A publication of so much
value well merits not only to be distributed
but to be preserved, and that too in our prin.
cipal libraries of the United States. Permit
me, sir, to ask if this society could be obliged
bv any number for their distribution and ex.