Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-09-25

three to four thousand dollars.
That said defendant, John Lowrey
Is not a suitable person to have tli
care or custody of said pauper.
/ further find that the cost O
maintaining the said pauper 18th
sum of "a, so per week. have, there
fore, entered up an order, ordering
and directing the said defendant j OH
Lowrey to pay over to w. K. Brown
one of the Directors OF tho Poo
House, in said Rlackhawk County
the sum of two hundred and thirty
four dollars per year, payable on th,
lat day of eacli and every month II
the sum of nineteen dollars and fift,
cents, so long rs said psupcr shall re
main i'm said Poor House, and unit
otherwise ordered, and that said pau
per be retained In tho said Poor Hous,
of said Blackhawk County. a.........
| q. A. EBERHART, Clerk.
September 7th, 1868.
Report adopted.
A petition from the county super
intendent asking the Board To estab
lish depository where books, blank,
&C., for school officers may be ob
tanned, was then read and laid on
tho table. ...s ..
Mr.. Sandilands moved the adop.
tion of the following resolution !:
Rcsotued, That the Clerk. he au
thorized to issue a warrant on thu
Bridge Fund In favor of Caleb May
for two thousand dollars, for build,
Ing bridge across the Wapsipinicon
River, In Lester Township, when.
ever the building committee certify
to said clerk that said bridge IL flu
ished according to contract.
Lost.
Yeas-Messrs. Boyles, Culver,
Hitchcock, Holt, Humphreys, Sandi.
lands, Webster-7
Nays-Messrs Champlin, Cobb,
Corwin, Homer, Jackson, McCord
Mott, Nichols, Rownd, Ward, Was.
son-1l A
Absent-Mr. Hempsced.
Mr.. Cobb moved that the Board APP
propriate one hundred and seventy
five dollars additional appropriation
for the building of the Wapsipinicon
bridge to make up the deficiency in
the subscription by the inhabitants
for building the same.
Mr.. Rownd moved that the motion
be laid on the table until it is ascer-
talned how much Is delinquent.
Carried. E1f# 'a# Es#
MIR. Wasson offered resolution
asking an appropriation for bridge
at La Porte City.
Referred to the special committee
on Roads and Bridges.
Mr.. Corwin moved that the prose-
L. Nzs.l A.,
examine the expediency of paying
the $400 Bounty Warrants, and t6
report Immediately.
Carried.
The committee submitted the fol.
lowing report.
Your committee to whom is refer
red the question for the payment oi
the four hundred dollar bounty war.
rants issued by the former Clerk ot
this County, would respectfully re.
port that we find two cases now
pending In the District Court of Blu.
chanan County against this County
on said warrants, and we wotld rec
commend that an arrangement be
made by the attorneys acting for the
County OF Black Hawk to try one OF
said cnses and make Ii n test case, and
upon the final determination of said
case, the result be reported to this
Board, and NIL further action, on the
same be deferred until such deter
mination and report.
T SAMUEL II. RowND,
Il. A. CoBB,
ID. IL. CHAMPLIN,
Committee.
Adopted.
Tho same COMMITTEES submitted the
following report: iut.3g.sf atfng,
Your committe, to whom was re-
ferred the judgment vs. the County
In favor of j. Jamison, Esq, on q
four hundred dollar bounty, would
respectfully report that we have ad-
yised with counsel as to the probable
success of having the decision revers-
ed In the Supreme Court, and that
we are advised that the County wo'd
not be warranted In appealing the
same, as the case Ii not I'm such po-
sition thatsuccess would be probable.
SAM. III. RowND'
.n g g l.. A. Conn,
ID. IL. CHAMPLIN.
Committee.
Mr.. Humphreys offered q resolu-
tion asking an appropriation for
bridges i'm I,incoln Township.
Referred 10 the Special Committee
on Roads and Bridges.
Mr.. Wasson moved the adoption OF
the following resolution:
Whereas. I'm the case of Robert
Lowrey, n pauper of Black Hawk
county, which was referred to u. A.
Eperhart, Clerk OF this county, to
take the testimony and hear said
cause, and whereas 10 appears that
notice was given to John Lowrcy rs
provided by law, and whereas IL APP
pears from the report of said q. A.
Eberhart, Clerk, that said John Low
rey appeared, and further as IL APP
pears that John Lowrey Is the son OF
said Robert Lowrey, pauper, that he
Is able to support the said Robert
Lowrey, his father, without his per-
sonal labor, and further as II appears
that the expense of maintaining said
pauper is the sum Of four dollars and
fifty cents per week. 1t IL therefore
ordered that said John Lowrey pay
to w. H. Brown, one of the Directors
OF the Poor House In Black Hawk
County, Iowa, the sum of $3.50 per
month for the support Of said pauper
for each and every month, while said
pauper shall be supported by said
county, and that said pauper be sup
ported by said county at the Poor
House, az said John Lowrey is not a
suitable person TO have charge OF
said pauper. 1890.
Adopted.
Mr.. McCord presented petition
for the formation of q new township
west Of Black hawk creek.
Referred to committee on new
townships.
The committee on erroneous As
sessments reported as follows: We
have had the following petitions un-
der consideration, aud would recon-
mend that the petitions of Owen Me-
Manus, M. u. Alexander and g. r.
I Brown be granted, aud that the pc
tilon of Asa Camp be laid over I'LL
the next regular meeting OF the
Board.
H JAMES SANDILANDs,
8a l.. A. CeBB, 81
A. II, WEBSTER,
Committee.
Adopted.
The committee on taxation and
equalization reported as follows:
We recommend that the following
taxes be levied on all the taxable
property OF the county for the yeal