, 1872-11-23
The Question Of Their Purchase Still
Agitating the County Board. :
Intellectual Efforts Of New Members to
Bring About a Settlement.
another and More Elaborate Plan Sub
mitted by General Julins White.
The Value of the Abstract Books
Said to be Rapidly De-
creasing.

meeting Of the Board of County Commits
sioaefs Was held yesterday afternoon, President
White in the chair. Present, Nlessrs. Ashton,
Galloway, Harris, Herting, Jones, Lonergan,
Pahlaran, Roelle, stearns, skelly, Miller, and
Crawford.
The credentials Of Mr. Bosre, elected to fill
Che vacancy caused by the resignation Of LII.
Hitchcock, we're presented, and ho took his sent
Mr. Galloway said they had attempted, by !
division Of the resolution offered by the Special
Committee, to get an opinion as to the advisable
. ity Of buying the books es all, but had wandered
from the point. He offered the following:
= Hesolrsd That it is the opinion + of the Board q
to real estate in Cock County, now in possession of
Gha1e Brothers shortan i Hoard, and Jones Sellers
shall be pnrchased ~ the county, the same can b
bought for reasonable consideration.
Mr. Ashton suggested it had better be referred
to the Committee Of the Whole, and consider it
there.
Mr- Galloway had no objection, but thought
they might come to q vote on that naked propo-
sition in the Board. He offered another reso1u-
hon to obVlate the terrible necessity Of going
to private firms to prove title, after the books
had been bought:
ResoZred That the Recorder Of Deeds in the County
IT Cook and State Of Illinois, be instructed employ
to the ordinary force in his Office make fair set Of
tract ndicest and to keep the same up With the
Of such e1u clerE or clerks meets e appsoga Of the
Judges, wh? arc by law authorized to designate the
nn1nber Of clerks to be employed BY said Recorder.
It Was laid over temporarily.
LII. Galloway's first resolution IVES then adopt
ed-yeas, 8; nays, s; as follows:
Herring, Pahl1nsn, Roelfe, and White. -1'
Nays-5ones, Lonergan Miller, Shelly, and stearns.
HI. Galloway moved the Board 60 into Com
nittee of the Whole on tho subject Of restoring
the records.
It was agreed to- and Mr.. Miller took the
chair
Mr. Galloway IS second resolution was taken up.
Mr. Galloway said they all knew that the fees
paid the Recorder went to the county, and
would, it was hoped, give it q surplus, which
could be paid for additional clerk hire. II the
county had such indices as the abstract men
did, any individual could make out his own
abstract, without having to go to private parties,
and leave it to them to determine whether man
had title to land. # the resolution .was not
broad enough, certainly the Board could find
some way Of carrying out his object.
Mr. Stearns thought the resolution premature,
since they had not the books. They need not
make the officers till they got the bo oks. There
Alr. Ashton thought the resolution pertinent,
with slight amendment. He moved to amend
by adding the following:
and Provided further, That the compensation to be
paid eaid additional ceska to b e9ployed shall b
otuar employees, rs provided by law.
Mr. Galloway thought the Law already fixed
the salary Of all clerks.
Mr. Ashton thought an open question WAS
lett
Ar. Galloway accepted the amendment.
Mr. Sicily thought they we're forcing things,
and buying the furniture before they had the
house. Where we're they TO put the books, even
it they we're bought They had better wait,
which the Judges meant. He liked the idea Of
the resolution, but it was 8 bad time to begin
on it.
Mr. Stearns said he had misunderstood the
resolution at first. It began with the fire. Il go,
ing Of tie abstract books, he favored it.
Ir. Crawford said he offered about the same
thing year ago. The Committee then investi-
gated the matter, and found it lmpracticable at
the time. He favored the resolution most
heartily,
The resolution was adopted
General White asked leave to Withdraw his
resolution, to present one differing from it to
some extent
Leave was granted.
Gena-al White then offered the new preamble
and resolution the former baing unchanged,
hui the latter being Us follows:
tfE@1LtEG%
rataou Of Public Records be and they are hereby au
tnosizod znd instructed offer to the Of the
Sss a
bound Or n loose sheets. i posssssien
b then hen from rom said T fecords,: % not - copies,
whether obtained from the records Of the
lnauent taxas any other official sources Whatever
rortd thas prior TO making such proposition to the
m fha EirCD1t
xnr Courts certified copy Of this resolution for their
.Pprova. or dzspprova1 as required y & law In case
oepred by the Of said abstracts. and upon the
deasery thereof to the Recorder OF Cook County It
draw 8 warrant on the Treasurer Of the County
Tor Of 100000 IN bonds Of the county, paya-
rte Of cent per from The dste Of he de-
livery Of said abstracts to the Recorder, aforesaid
T. gsst therefor :; md for the :, Ct
Board the lands owned by the county, known
t'@ such time Or times within two yea1s from
5nagmeat I Ct eaid Finance COMMITTEES % x b most sd
vantageous, at public private sale, upon the follow
3ng q esRf Txsa ees % ts Rs
succeeding three years, until pnehalf Of the pur
CHASE money ehau have been paid, the Remainder,
being pneha to be payable in twenty years from the
time 1t sale al deferred payments Tor aaid lands to
sssr atsr pasane St the zas e.
Or mnrt9sge On the lands SO sold; the pro !
eeeds Of such sa1es, not exceeding s4oo,-
600, fast received, to be
turned orer IN for said abstracts, assigned
BY competent authority from the county, without re-
course In said lunds do not produce the
quired to complete the payment for said abstracts,
then the difference shall be made up In cash or IN
per cent twsntyyear bonds Ct the county 1t the
sa1e of The said bonds the county shs pa the owners
Of said abstracts interest upon sum due and not
paid ut the rate Of per cent It being expressly
derstood that in case the proposition named
In this resolution be accepted by the owners Of aaid
abstracts, they shall signify their acceptance OF the
p1anner of payment as herein proposed
He had nothing to add to what he had already
said IS to the purchase Of the abstracts, except
that the great majority of the people favored it.
Those who said they were not necessary,-that
there Was no occasion for public record, were
not in sound mind, or we're not candid. II they
could be purchased for q reasonable price, be
wanted them. Half q million was ample, per-
haps too much; but much had been spent in
making up the books. He doubted whether the
sbstract men would take that SUE, but the
county could certainly give it. To relieve the
rourtv which HnS hard I'D far ready money!