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CRANE CREEK Mar. 81 1865
Editors Of the Plain DenIsr


| CRANE CRFrK Mar. 21 1856,
D Editors Of the Plain Dealer.
! Al article appeared in your issue
February Oath getting forth the pr,
priety IF the county's Offering Undue,
ments fer volunteers, to be applied 8
the quotas Of the townships of thi
county for a prospective future call
the president, which will probably tax
place At no very distant day. Th
subject having elected no respons
from any Of th"se whose duty ie is t
attend to the matter and the prospec
# pence which dawnea a short tim,
since having vanished; and a. thef,
is to he no regular meeting of the su
pervisors until J ane, it seems to m,
that in compliance with the recon-
mrndatisn of the provost marshal, j
would be pl per that the sups yyi
'ors should meet Immediately for the
purpose Of offering a liberal bounty
as 1t appears that there are not wan
ting 'mongs US those who are pr.c:ic
ing the nefarlous business of spiriting
away men who might by little liber.
ality on the part of the Board of Su-
p-rvisors, be applied on the quota.
OF the townships Of this county. Such
'n'quitous proceedings deserve general
execration. This vie traffic may be
to some extent counteracted, if the sx.
pervisors meet without. delay and of.
fer good bounty with such provision.
NJ to have it if possible satisfactory to
all.
Some memkers urged an obies-
tion to what was understood as the
Wheel arrangement, and perha ps
justly too-that it interfered with the Of
ferins Of township bounties while 9th
ers principally, those representing the
thinly settled townships held that if
: large bounty we're offered without
exclusive benefit of It, at least as re-
CARDS any volunteers that might be
gotten from without the county, their
location being ia an advantageous po-
.ition, as strangers wishing tojoiu for
the county would be most likely to go
to tn. County Seat. Now I will sub
nit proposition on which both par
ties might it seems to me agree. %
Itis that q liberal bounty be offered
for the county and that volunteer
b. applied as proposed in the arrange
ment referred to above which in sub
st.n nss is rs follows: Giving thu
townships having to furnish the great
est number Of men the 6rst man ant
the next greatest the next man, and s.
to keep on, until each township shout
have one man and then to commence
and proceed as before until all :h'
townships should have the required
number, it being understood that town
| ships should drop out of the count &C
oriing az their quotas should be filled
The change that I pr pose being mad
| is, that where townships consider tn
motion Of the Wheel to Glow, the
might offer additional inducements i
the way of township boun ties, and tn
volunteers 50 procured to be apple
en- their quotas independent Of tn
above arrangement, but when volun
teers should be procured in this wa
the county bounty for them to be les
by specified amount say one hundre
dollars or some amount fixed npon.
some such 81 stem as this be eadopte
something more substantial than flatter
or generous spirits will have to b
brought to bear in order to induce me
to enlist for favorite localities.
. In proposing this measure it is n
at all presumed but that the Boar
should, they meet, could produces bett
one, for if two heads are better than on
certainly twelve heads ought to be ma
better; but that the members may ta
the matter into consideration and ha
the sense Of their constituents on t
subject before meeting. oa
Al It has bsen insinuated thst i