Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

Pianos $50 to $500
Melodeons and Organs $40 to $3.50
All monies and bank bills at their cash
value
All notes against solvent parties at
their Cash value.
All corporate stocks at their cash
value.
In regard to persons acting as agents
Of others, the Assessors arc referred to
Sect. 725 Of the revision of 1860, Page
112
The Poor Farm Directors presented the
following Repor, for the year 1872, which
was accepted and ordered on record, to-
wit:
CHANAN COUNTY.
Your Committee being the Directors of
the Poor Farm of Buchanan County, beg
leave to report the expenses and receipts
of the same for the year as follows.
| ExPENCEs.
Salary of Steward, $500 90
Labor on the farm, &3ll. AZ
Repairs on farm and tools, $ So Sc
| Groceries and Goods for Poor, S240 05
Ash house, chimney and cistern, S 67.25
Coffin for J. Patten and Dr.. bills, !; 81 90
$l,239 IS
Paid for hogs bought, S 7I.00
Fence wire and other
| hardware, I0l.37
Total disbursements, $l4l2.3l
There has been received
for produce sold, S277.77
Mrs. Mary Miller pens'n l0l.73 379.5
On hand, wheat, bushels, 473
do oats, bushels, 1,05l
do corn, :" 1900
do potatoes " $50
Other vegetables sufficient for the house
during the season.
There is on hand the following:
Stock Horses,
Cows and young cattle, l6
hogs-fat, IL Shoats, So A
There is also on hand Twenty tons of
hay, besides straw and stalks
The farming utensils are in good con-
dition and properly housed
There has been an epidemic among the
t,oultry by which we have lost about one
hundred hens and forty turkies.
There are now at the house thirteen
paupers-lhe average number for the year
is thirteen,-two of them eight years of
age, and two others seventy years Old.
The Directors have contracted with Mr..
4. n,,tI ~. Go, O.,
for the sum of four hundred dollars. His
term commences December lst, 1872, and
ends December LIST, 1873.
Since the above was written, l.. w.
Hart, administrator of the estate of Thos.
Kurdrick, informs US that he is ready &c
pay the account of S21, which the Poor
Farm has against that estate.
5 H:s. s' T::s r S': ss'n
An Indenture, dated Sept. 9th, 1870,
apprenticing Marion Williams, a pauper,
to Providence Williams, providing said
Marion Williams should not thcnceforth
become county charge, was presented
and ordered on file
The Co. Auditor was instructed TO pay
the taxes Of the year 1872 on the Indem-
nifty Swamp Lands owned by the county
and situated in the counties of Humboldt,
Palo Alto and Pochahonas, and for this
purpose to draw and receipt for warrants
on the County Fund and report al the
April Session.
The Co. Auditor was instructed to issue
and receipt for warrant on County
Fund for $l4S 81 in favor Of the Perma-
ncnt School Fund, as payment Of Interest
on county loans for 1872.
The Co. Auditor was authorized to pro-
cure one hundred pigeon hole boxes for
the preservation of public d ocuments ant
official papers in his Office, at C ost not tc
exceed twenty seven dollars.
The following resolution was adopted,
towit:
Resolved, That d. l.. Smith, Clerk of
the District and Circuit Courts, is hereby
authorized to retain all fees charged by
him for services, including Probate fees
and fees for Marriage Licenses, as COM
pensation for such services.
The salary of the Co. Auditor for the
year 1873 was continued the same as for
1872, upon the same conditions, to wit:
that he furnish all Clerk hire and assis-
lance, without expense to the county.
The consideration of bridge petitions
was postponed until the April session.
The Co. Auditor was Instructed to issue
warrants for the per diem and mileage Of
the Board, present session, as follows,
to-wit
| per
Days Diem Miles Milge Total
j. 4. Stoddard, IL 8 9j SIG %
Morris Todd, 4 10 1a 1.4t sl7,4,
J. d. Russell, 4 l6 1s LA S17.4i
On motion the Board adjourned sine
die.
J. i. LOOMS,
Go Auditor