The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-10-05
To the Thinking Men and Tax
Payers Of Wood County.

! AogNAo VI WVVu NVuutfa
In reply to the Circular, Just issued by
the friends Of Bowling Green. on the coun-
tyseat question, we. the Porrysburg Exec.
utive Committee, say:
LIST. That there is now, aud has been, no
attempt or proposition on the part of Mr..
! AsuLEY's friends here, MIR. DoDGEs friends,
or the friends of Mr.. GRAHAM or KNOLL, or
any other candidate residing in or favorable
TO the interest of Pcrrysburg, to effect any
bargain or sale whatever. On tho contrary,
tLey are most decidedly opposed to any
such arrangement, aud the men Of both
parties are fully determined to vote their
straight ticket so far as party is con.
cerned. As to Mr. REiD's failure to get a
room for his law office, IL is owing solely
to his personal appropriately not to any
other cause.
I'd. On the question Of the validity of the
pretended bond, given by the thirty.two
gentlemen of Bowling Green, we have to
say: First the Commissioners have aoeop.
ted no such bond, and do not propose to
accept any such bond, and their reasons are:
FIRST, because from the written opinion of
Hon. r, b. RANNEY. Hon. JAMES MURRAY
and other prominent lawyers, they are ap-
prised that the bond, as drawn, is invalid
and worthless, for these reasons: The bond
is an agreement with the County Commits
sioners, with reciprocal obligations, and in
order to render it in the least binding on
the said obligors, the Commissioners are TO
transfer to said obligors the present Court,
house and Jail in case of removal" This
they obviously have no power to do. Iu
fact those buildings will, in law, revert to
the men who originally furnished them,
and the ground they stand on, whenever
the county ceases to use them, for county
purposes. The Commissioners cannot trans.
fer them in any way to the obligors of said
bond, and without this the boz d by its terms
is void and not binding ON its signers
Again-By the terms Of said bond, [" An
money paid, or to be paid OH any subscrip.
ton, for tie erection Of county buildings,
shall be paid to Tie oblig0rS," and without
this the ooligors can not be held. Nov,
look at the legal effect OF this clause:;
Suppose any part of tho subscription
money is not paid over, by reason of the
death, irresponsibility, or failure to pay, of
any of the subscribers, the amount sub
scribed by them, to the obligors of said
bond, then the oblgors are not holden Tor
one dollar on their bond. ia#t-.H
Again-Who, of the oLlisors, is author.
lied to receive the. money subscribed? The
bond says, it Shall be paid to the obIigors-l
not one, but all of them. Then, each sub I
subscriber is. to,pay to each obligof tie full
amount of their respective subscriptions. or
the bond is void. 'a
Again-When Messrs. BIssELL & CoRR1LL
say Twenty-Five Cent Stamp is all that is
required, they are, we think, mistaken.
The stamp should be Fifty Cents for every
one thousand dollars-or Seven Dollars and
FIFTY Cents; and when any firm Of lawyers
can make such bIhhder, in SO plain
matter when consulted, It seems to us that
their legal opinion Oh more important points
is sMofthless. Is l-3rr'A @rc tgU edit