The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-03-30
For the Democrat.
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War Widows.

For the Democrat.
War Widows.
MEssRs. EDITORS The County Au.
ditor was waited upon few days since by
an installment Of war widows" who ask.
ed and expected relief under a law that
the Legislature OF our state, passed at its
late session, for their special benefit; and
as others will expect relief from the same
source, sooner than it can be brought
about, it has occurred to me that il
would be interesting to some, at least, to
understand what the provisions of the law
are, and the probable amount of tax that
will have to be paid by the citizens OF
Marshall County for that purpose. The
law requires the state auditor TO fur
nish the county auditors with a sufficient
quantity Of suitable blanks; (Which has not
yet been done said auditors are to hand
said blanks Immediately to the township
assessors, who are in the next fifteen days
to take the enrolment. (if might be al
lowed the expression and make return to
the auditors, OF all the names OF the wives
of soldiers who are in the service of the
United States, and the wives Of those who
have died in the service, and widow wo-
men whose sons are In the service. and
each child of such women, under twelve
years old, in five days after said assessors
make their report, said auditor is to send
a condensed report Of the names of the
women and the number Of children Il
the auditor Of state, who is required to
make an apportionment similar. or on the
same principle, as the superintendent of
common schools, and send. TO the county
auditors in ten days. The county auditors
are TO call the county commissioners TO-
gether as soon as practicable.
The legislature levied thirty cents on
each one hundred dollars worth of taxable
property in the state, and one dollar on
each poll. The commissioners are rcouir.
ed TO apportion to each township its share
of the estimated sum that the state audito!
apportions 10 each county. The appor-
tionment to each township is distributed
by the trustees, who are required to give
an additional bond in double the amount
that will probably come into their han Dis
Should said comm ssioners be Of the opin
ion thai any one or more of said trustee:
are incapable Of performing the duties re
quired of them BY said act. other men whe
are capable arc to be selected by said
commissioners.
As nothing can be realized from the
above law until next winter. the commits
s'oners are authorized TO borrow none,
from time to time, at E per cent interest
SAID commissioners are required to appro
pirate any funds in the county treasury
lor the time being, except the school fund,
to that purpose To those whom the trus
tees ascertain are entitled 20 relief undel
the law, the trustees arc to pay each wo-
man. monthly, eght dollars, ana to eacl
Of their children under twelve wears old
two dollars. At least six months mus
elrpsc before relief can be given under
Tie law. At the close of the financial year
May 81 J We will haze paid to the FAM
lies OF soldiers something over $1,000
some have received more than they should
others probably not as much as they shoud
have done We are Of the opinion thai
the above amount properly distributed
would keep them as well as they were kept
when their husbands were at home. The
taxable property ia this county last year
was nearly four and half millions. and
something over two thousand polls, on
which We Will have to pay, yearly, fol
1868 and 1866 the sum Of about Sl5, 900
and probably not more, at most than hal
OF that amount will be paid to those living
in this county.
/ The legislature at its last session in
creased the school tax cents, the stat,
proper. ) cents, which added to the 81
cents for the families Of soldiers. max,
IL cents on the 500 valuation, and one
dollar ON each poll, over and above wha
our taxes were in 1864 which was recar
ded by many then as being very high.
From the foregoing the families of tn,
soldiers, and the tax payers, can gleal
j something OF what is in reserve for then
the next two years.
Vie.