The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-10

June, i,O2ss9
September, $3.50
December, sSs 20
- S,7,22l
COUNTY coURr.
March, 2gO'OO
lone. 10000
september, 1870
December, lN.Vo
COUNTY BOARD,
March, asoCV
september, 2I7OO
December, 244'OO
- $4,000
CIRCUIT counr.
March, 1920
June SOL 81
December, 492.35
EIO.O5
MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS,
March, $l,SlS.59
June, 2,244.4T
September, 2,2l433
December 3,370.2l
--- $9,742.6O
Making . total amount
asdited by the Board Of
Supervisors for tho year
1868, S32,960.s3
Your committee beg leave to call the at
tention Of the Board to the item ofexpendi.
ture Of the poor and poor house. OF the
eight items Of expenditure this alone comes
within $l6j 65 Of equalling all the others
10 which the taxpayers are subjected. A
Ia nE ha al haa
pended outside Of the poor house.
Your committee would further call the at
tention of the Board to the fact that the
Warsaw and Rockford railroad bond indebt-
edness January |, 1869, is $72Asl OIL, and
that the Indebtedness OF the county above
its revenue January |, 1869, is $40, 1850,
making the actual indebtedness of the
county, over and above the Warsaw and
Rockford railroad bonds, $2,97i6s.
Respectfully submitted,
j. W. BALLARD,
JoHS MoRRIs, Committee.
GEO. ALLEN,
On motion OF Supervisor Abbott the
following resolution was adopted by the
GARD
Resolred, That the report Of the special com
mittee on the financial condition Of the county be
made O matter Of record, and the County Clerk
be instructed to have 1000 copies thereof printed
In circular form and furnished to the Supervisors
If the several towns TO thatG copy Of said
report is placed in the hands Of each tax payer
Ia his town.
On motion of Supervisor Morris the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted by the board,
viz;
Resolvea That the Clerk Of this board be re-
quested to take the necessary steps TO have the
plat book Of the original surveys Of Rock Island
county corrected, it appearing to this board that
township IS, north range west in Mercer county
has been plated therein instead Of township II,
west tEdgington) in this county.
On motion Of Supervisor Allen the board
adopted the following resolution:
Rcsoived, That hereafter and until further or
ders no claim or demand will be allowed by this
board for anything furnished or any services
rendered 20 or on account Of the poor Of this
county, or any person or persons claiming to DO
Of the poor or pBupers Of this county, coming
from any source whatever, except from or by the
order OF the steward Of our county poor farm, by
him duly certified, and except contracts already
made by which this county il legally holden and
bound, and also demands and claims for remov.
ing paupers to the poor house or from this coun-
ty.
On motion of Supervisor Webster the fol.
lowing report Of the committee on abste
ments was adopted by the board, viz:
To the Hon, Board Of Supervisors of RocE Island
county.
Gcntlemen--IOur committee, to whom was re-
ferred the bills for abatement have carefully
| amined and would recommend that the follow
! ing amounts be abated and refunded as follows,
/ viz:
Rinnah Wells, double assessed ..............S3l 20
| y. Belcher, q" ..,............ l6 40
! c. II. Stoddard, .............. II
| A. b L. Adams, personal abatement and
! Delinquent personal property returned by
| the collectors Of the different towns and
presented by Treasurer Thomas for the
year %