The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-03-28
Written for the Advertiser,
FROM DAYTON TOWNSHIP.
More About the INVESTIGATING
Committee.
CLARENCE, March 18th, 1872

expecting to be for sometime to come,
wish to state that have lately become
more deeply interested on account Of
certain communications contained in
said papers in reference to excessive
taxation-cause necessity, &c. Hav.
ing perceived that it has become
fashionable to write and deeming
myself q fashionable man, and knowing
that man might as well be out of the
world as out Of fashion, shall with
your permission proceed to notice
slightlyt'the report Of the committee
appointed in Dayton township, to
investigate the necessity of such an
enormous taxation, and may add what
| think proper. Being acquainted
" tn said committee and being present
during the reading Of said Committees
report, and having understood before
and since that it was not the inten-
ton of said Committee to have said
report published; but it found its way
into the columns of the papers. Isay
it was not the intention Of the Com
mittee to have it published in its
present form. There were several
verbatim explanations made by the
chairman of the Committee, viz, that
they found recorded on the Supervis-
Sas n o sna %s nyfD5syfS
the year 1877 to be SO 60 per acre,
which certainly must have been
mistake on the part of the Super
viSors
They also found upon examination
this to be fact that the average
valuation for 1871 was SIS IS per
acre. This was raised 25 per cent,
which equals $l3 43 per acre instead
of SO 60. Other verbatim explana-
tions and suggestions were made.
The Committee had but little time to
spend in Upton, from the fact that
bad storm kept them at home until it
was nearly time to report at an ad-
iourned meeting for that purpose.
When ! take into consideration the
vast amount Of bad whiskey sold in
Upton and Clarence land l must
think that we have laws only to tram
pie upon) there is not SO much wonder
that they got their figures mixed, as
your correspondent complains.
But as it appears they made one
grand glorious jump, and landed right
side up on the opposite bank Of the
river Jordan. But that was not the
proper way for them to have done.
Their example has caused others to
jump, and they have landed in the
deep waters, with no arm to save.
No. Mr.. Editor, the Honorable Com
mittee should have Disseminated, and
said in their very intelligent and
undeniable report that they found the
Indebtedness of our county for the
year 1870 to be s22,491 ", distrib-
ntcd as follows:
IDLcTeSI, al O.OSS *
Volunteer bonds,. ....... 3,2W 90
Court House bonds. ...... 3,764 50
r. r. bonds, ......... $4,000 90
Total. 22,491 72
They should have said that in the
year 1870, there was paid as interest
and principle on Volunteer and Court
House bonds, the sum Of 1896 rs,
besides running the vast machinery Of
our county. In 1877 the county
purchased Poor Fasm, ieeuing hor
bonds for the same to the amount Of
So 900, thereby increasing her bonded
Indebtedness. They should have
Disseminated, l say, and reported to
the citizens Of Dayton Tp., and said
that they, the Committee, found upon
examination that the county in the
year 1871 paid, or caused to be paid,
the sum of $7,l37 26 as interest on
Volunteer, r. r., and Poor Farm
bonds, leaving the present indebted
ness of the county $4,000, besides
money enough in the Treasury to pay
off 81, 900 in r. r. bonds, and money
to spare.
That Committee should have used
discrimination, ! say, and stated to
their constituents that they found
upon examination in the year 1871
that the county received School War
~
rants to the amount Of S61, O95 Al,
distributed as follows:
G ontingent Fund.-. .$ll,s36 %
Distributive .......... 5,557 81
School House .......... 1858 70
Teachers ........ 29,657 ~
Total, 81, ,O95 Al
Yes, Mr.. Editor, that Committee
should have reported to their constit.
uents, say, what salary the manager
Of the Poor Farm received last year.
Tha, they utterly failed to do. They,
the Honorable Committee, only said
that they did find recorded in the
Supervisors book, in back and white,
that he was only receiving salary Of
500 per year, and he furnishes one
team and wagon. They also report
find ng in the same book, that they
are paying said manager only $l75
for furnishing an extra team, which, !
pre- suIne, is less than that team cost.
Blu no blame attaches itself to the
ma ,auer. m xse would all improye q