The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-02-18
SuperviSOrs.

ever, up to yesterday morning, few important
entries OF the minutes. But the most I'M
portant proceedings are generally crowded
into the last day or two of the session. The
measure before the board, which seems to
overtop all others, is proposition t".pay
bounty Of $500 per man for men enough 10
fill the qnota of the county. The money Is
to be given to the towns in proportion to the
number of their quotas. The towns OF Otta-
VA and South Ottawa, being out OF the draft,
are To be excluded from the benefit of this
distribution If the quota remains rs MOI"
assigned, the adoption of the proposition will
involve an addition of some $210.0oO to the
debt of the county. The Board have appoint
ed a committee, consisting of Messrs. Gilman,
Hise, and Rogers, to go to Springfield and
endeavcr to get new apportionment to the
towns of the quota fthis county, the country
members of the Board insisting and COM
planning that Ottawa and South Ottawa
have got out of the draft by getting credit for
a large number Of men who ought to have
been credited to the country towns
P.S. Since the above was written, the
matter before rhe Board in reference tie boun-
ties and the draft has been adopted, in the
following form:
Whereas, Information has been received
by this board that the quotas of the several
towns in the County of La Sale, under the
last call Of the President Of the United States,
amount in the aggregate to nine hundred
and fourteen men:
AHd ,rhereds, we consider it for the honor
aid interest Of the county, to fill said call
without resort to draft, and believing that
the burthen of furnishing men to our army
should fall equally upon all the in
habitants and tax payers of the county, and
that no locality should be exempted by reason
of inaccuracies in the enrolment or by evil
dent errors in computing the quotas of the
several TOW rs: we therefore recommend the
adoption Of the following resolutions:
Resotred, That the Chairman and Clerk of
this board be authorized to issue bonds of
this county to the amount of two hundred
and seventy-four thousand and two hundred
dollars, in sums of one hundred dollars each,
or in larger sums if requested by the parties
to whom they are to be delivered, with inter
est coupons attached at the rate of ten per
cent. per annum, payable annually on the
FIRST day of March in each year !; said bonds
to be made payable as follows, or earlier, at
the option Of this Board of Supervisors, to
Wit:
On the first day of March IN 1866,
the sum OF $4,000
On the first day of March in 1867,
the sum Of $4,000
On the first day of March in 1868,
the sum of I: :: $1,000
On the first day of March in 1869,
the sum of $4,000
o. the first day of March in 1870,
the sum of 4: $4,000
Resolred, That the board of town auditors
of the several towns, lie authorized to appoint
an agent in behalf of their respective towns,
to receive their several proportions of bonds
which shall be issued and delivered to each
town, at the rate of three hundred dollars for
each volunteer or recruit required to fill The
quota Of said town, now assigned, or which,
by reason of any corrections that may here
after ae made, shall be assigned as the res
Pective quotas of each town in the county,
under the pending call and that said agent
be required to give bonls, to be approved by
the said board of auditors, for the faithful
discharge of the duties Of his agency.
Resolred, That the board of town auditors,
Of each town, be authorized to appoint COM
mittee to dispose of the bonds so received,
said bonds or the proceeds thereof to be used
for the benefit of said town in procuring vol
drafted men, in such manner as SAID board of
auditors may determine: Irorided, that no
thing herein contained shall be SO construed
as to give any further claim on any portion of
the above funds to any volunteer, substitute,
or recruit who has already enlisted and re-
ceived bounty from any Individual or town
in this county Further prorielcd, that
thing herein contained shall be construed as
to prevent those towns who have already, or
shall hereafter furnish men under the pend
ing call, from re-imbursing those who have
furnished the means to do the same in pro
rata proportion.
Resolred, That, in distributing said bonds
to the several towns care shall be taken that
each town, as near as possible, shall have
pro rata share u the bonds becoming due at
the different dates.
Resolred, That any of the county bonds or
coupons becoming due on the first day of
March, in any year, may be received by the
several collectors and the county Treasurer
for the county taxes levied the previous Sep
& TENDER.
3 Resolred, That two per cent. per annum
y Hereby levied on al the taxable prope rty
Of the county of La Sale for the purpose of
paying the principal and interest of the
bonds issued in pursuance of the above reso-
buttons.
R<solred, That the military districts Of this
county shall each pay the expenses which
they shall respectively incur in receiving and
disbursing the above named fund.
HENRY S. Foor, member of the rebel con-