The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-06-03
County Commissioners Office
ASHLAND Co May 4, 1868.

TO the several TIP. Trustees Of Ashland Co.
The Legislature of Ohio, at its late session,
| PASSED an act for the relief of the families of
Volunteers, in which it makes it your duty to
distribute the funds levied for that purpose,
under such rules and regulations as the Com
missioners may prescribe.
1t is almost an impossibility to prescribe
rules for the distribution of that fund, so that
the really needy only shall receive it and such
only are the ones which the law ~contemplates,
shall receive aid You will therefore have
to exercise a judicious discretion, and as
near as can be, observe the following general
rules in the distribution of the same
LIST. No family shall receive aid from said
Fund unless in positive cases of necessity.
I'd. No family shall receive aid unless such
family were bonafde residents of Ashland
County at the time of the enlistment of their
representative in the army.
3D.. No woman shall receive aid who has no
children to support, unless such woman he I'M
able to labor for her own support.
4th. Everything else equal, an equitable
difference should be made between those who
pay, and those who do not pay rent.
9Th. No family whose husband or son is at
home on p%a;ole, discharge or furlough, shall
receive aid unless such husband or son is una
BILE to labor for their support.
9th. The widow of any deceased, or family
of any disabled or discharged soldier. who
ars unable to support themselves, shall receivs
aid from said Fund for the space of one year
from the death or disability.
You wi | report to US on Monday the 22d OF
June at the Auditors Office the number of
families in your several Townships, ahom it
will be necessary to aid, and the probable
amount it will require for your Township per
month, and at each of our regular sessions in
Scpsember, March and June, you will make q
detailed statement of the several amounts paid
for such relief in your Township, and to
when paid. Herewith find so much of the
above name1 act as relates to your duties in
tie premises.
JOHN BERRY, Comnaissrs
ROBERT CowAN, Ashttnd
JACOB EMERICK.) County, o.
AN ACT
For the Relief of the families of Soldiers
AMI Ma ines in the State and United States
service.
Sec. 2 This
Act shall not apply to, the family of any SOL
der or marine who has been dishonorably dis
missed, or deserted the service.
SEC. 5. That the commissioner of the sew
eral counties, respectfully, shall take control
of said fund for the purposes named in this
act, when paid into the county treasures, and
shall a2portion the same to the several town
ships, wards and election districts, in their re-
spective counties, according to the necessities
OF the families aforesaid, as returned by the
trustees of the several townships, wards, and
election districts, as provided for in section
two, which sEall be paid to the several town
ship treasurers, and in cities of the first class
to the treasurer thereof; and shall be drawn
out upon the order of the trustees of the sew
eral townships, wards and election districts,
and be distributed by them for the relief of
the necessities of the families of non-con-
missioned officers, musicians aud privates in
the service aforesaid, in money, as their neces-
sites of the families may require, under such
rules and regulations as said commissioner
may describe but if it appears to the trus-
tees that any family is. making an improper
use of the men y, they may provide for the
necessities of said families. Said trustees
shall continue to afford the relief contemplated
by this act to the family Of any soldier or
marine heretofore CIR hereafter deceased or dis
ubled in the service aforesaid. The trustees
shall report to the commissioners of the coun-
ty, as to the disposition of the fund, as the
commissioners Of the county may, from time
to time, direct. No money raised by the state
levy authorized by this act shall be used by
the commissioner or trustees otherwise than
to meet the future necessities of said families.
SEC. Z. The
word family as used in this act, shall be con-
strued to mean only a wife, dependent minor
child or children, and dependent parent or
parents.