, 1872-11-23

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ssp,ecla4y H. as ne supposed, they had copies
s.!at ".tn %nlca TO continue their business. Ihey
aese nave the DOCKS.
Mr. stearns thought his resolution to give the
RToG1as outright Tor the abstracts was the best.
ne ne ald not m Ike to run the thing over twenty
taon'
General White said, by giring long time the
p1operty would command higher price than the
ABSTRACT + men would be able to give
down 500, ,0oo to start off With.
The resolution vas adoptea-ayes, 8; noes,
6-Stearns, Bogue, Jones, Skelly, Louargan, and
Miller.
The Committee rose and reported back the
The II first one vas adopted. :
~ Ine eecond s resolution was taken up
Mr. skeuy moved to strike out S500, 900 and
insert S40o0o0. He believed they would take it.
Mr. Miller hoped that the abstract men would
take less than half million.
Ar. Crawford favored the smaller sum, but did
not think it would be accepted. No attention
would be paid to it,.
Mr, Ashton said the abstract men had been
offered $500, 900 for . part Of their books, but
the proposition had not gotten to
ing it. The abstract men would have
was proposed, after the abstract men offered to <,
sea foE no less than s75o,o0e, to offer them
tptuU5VOVs lit Hd6 Hll4QE u E1Om1E E64 pfQDOBl-
ton under advisement to the abstract men, but
he knew they would not accept Of 94DO, 600 or
even Of s5D0, 900. He also wanted to know how
Mr. Skel1y found out the jail would cost $780,
600, and whether he was certain the abstract
men would take less than 3500,000 He was al
most authorized to; say they would not accept
the sum proposed.
Mr. Ekelly said: As for the abstract books,
their owners wanted, at the time OF the fire,
81, 200, 600. Tho abBtract men had been pushing
+f,o L..
loW down they would come he could not say.
It was said they could sell for $780, 900;
would they, therefore, sell for s500, 1000? II they
did, why not for S300,0007 Was there not rea-
son to believe they would take less? He knew
some real estate owners. Some OF them had
written to the Board and said they did not want
the records. They could make copies of all
their books, and could carry on business even il
the originals we're sold.
Mr. Crawford said the abstract men claimed
they had not varied their price at all j.; they had
simply asked for it in different forms.
The 'Chajr 1id not think twantv-vear bonds
would be worth, to the party taking them, more
than $3.50. 900.
Mr.. Sicily thought the County too poor Just
Foravtbe It % sid copy Of eyery W scrap @ Of the memo
rands cou}d he had }or Sim 00n H.
vas 11 rilIing % to " eet the ( books Ssgu xhen they
could affoTd It. IF thew cot them now
ow Of The Pacific Hotel. Let item wait ri til tha
new ronrt Hnnsa Inns wss hnilt anI then % tbe ahstrant
men @ won1d bs 1nora reasonabIa. '1 ~''' '''"' <~'
Wr Efearna said IN t1ra1va Ynonths tba ah-
stract hooks World not he worth s100. .ofRN ~.
arv 7ov 1eauensd tha;r va1na r. fhav con1d oat
s9s9 |d31 for Hair hooks 1rhv ala fhev MI tska
+ yat a. a comnron,;se s,f1 r. or ~ ~ fha
th;og haa Vaa Ti11;ng +o: Giva fhn1e fha Baforno
School ero11nds. "a moved to further amend
bv oivingg o. s301 Inn. '0t-~
Hr sTa1iv accentad Il
NJ. Ga11owav had heen disnosed to vote for
s400. 400. Tha books vonld ionhtlesa become
less valuable to the owners, but that did not
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