The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-01-11
Meeting Of the County Commissioners.
COUNTY CoMMIssIoNEa's OFFICE,

COUNTY CoMMIssIoNER'S OFFICE,
. January 8, 1877.
In the matter of the payment Of
the Supersedeas Bonds, after general
consultation and;discnssion of the SUBJ
ject, the following Preamble and Re
solutions were offered by Commits
sioner G. N. Lynch, and unanimously
passed, viz:
WHEREAS, tho Bank Of Commerce
and the Richmond and Danville Rail.
way Company of Virginia, have
brought suits and obtained judments
against tho County of Pickons, and
it's surotios on the supersedeas bonds,
and demand that the money due
thereon be paid at once by execution,
if not otherwise paid; and whereas,
in anticipation of such judgments be-
ing obtained and enforced, the County
Commissioners at their last annual
meeting did levy tax of eight mills,
to be collected at the next regular
taxpaying, to pay off the same if OBJ
tained; and whereas, owing to tho
confusion in tho State Government,
tho said tax is not likely to be collect>
cd until after the said judgments may
be enforced by execution against the
individual sureties on the said bonds;
and whereas, it would be folly to al
low additional costs to be added to
tho said judgments against tho Coun-
ty, by lovies and sales of tho private
property Of tho individual sureties on
said bonds; and whereas, it is the
moral and legal duty of the principal,
the County of Pickens in this case,
to hold its Suretics harmless, and
thereby avoid litigation and trouble
between tho County and its sureties
Therefore, DO it resolved by tho full
Board of County Commissioners now
sitting, viz:
l. That each taxpayer of Pickens
County be asked to pay for the Coun-
ty of Pickens, such d sum of money
as he may be able on the aforesaid
judgments at once.
2. That such monies paid shall bo,
and constitute q debt against the
County of Pickons, which shall bear
interest at the rate Of ono por cent.
por month until refunded out of the
eight mills tax as soon as collected, or
otherwise.
3. That G. l.. Hollingsworth be ap-
pointed agent for the County of Picks
ems, to receive such monies rs may bo
paid by the taxpayers on the judg-
ments aforesaid, and obligato the
county to refund the same, with tho
interest thereon, by signing the names
Of the County Commissioners, and
affixing tho seal OF the County there
to.
4. That the monies thus obtained
shall at once be applied to the pay
inert Of the said Judgments, by the
agent aforesaid, who shall take a re-
ccipt in tho name Cf the county for
the monies paid.
s. That the acknowledgment mado
and given by Picllens County, through
the agent aforesaid to each taxpayer
tor payments made as herein before
indicated, shall bo in the follow ing
form, viz s.. This instrument
of writing witnesseth: that A. B. G.
has paid on the Judgments obtained on
the Supersedcos Bonds against the
County of Pickens, in the Circuit
Court of the United States,
Dollars; and that he is entitled to
have the same refunded to him, with
interest at the rate of one per cent.
per month, until paid ont of the eight
mills tax Levied for the purpose of
paying off the same, as soon as COL
lected; or otherwise refunded.
Given under our hands and official
seals, this the eighth day of January,
A. D. 1877.
JOHN II. GO>SETT,
G. Nj. LYNCH,
ROBERT CRAIG.