Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-19
EIGHTH DAY.

June II, 1878.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
Members all present.
President Postlewaite in the chair.
Minutes of last meeting read and
approved.
The city of Ottumwa presents an
agreement signed by the Mayor for
the city, and by the President of the
Board of Supervisors in session, for
the construction of q sewer on Court
street, from the north side of Third
street to the Jail, which was ordered
spread upon the minutes.
The following communication was
ordered spread upon the minutes and
the Auditor directed to file the same
with the city council for their con-
sideration:
OTTUMwA, Wapello Coz
Iowa, June II, 1878.
To the Csty Council of the City Of
Ottumacd:
We, the Board Of Supervisors of
Wapello county, whose duty it is to
look after the interests of the county,
and audit all bills against the same,
respectfully represent that the pres
ent method by which the officers OF
the city of Ottumwa receive their
compensation is unjust to the county,
in this: The city has salaried the
Marshal, Police and Mayor, wherever
the same is to be paid out of the city
treasury, while the same officers re.
ceive fees when it comes out of the
county, and the result Of this is, they
are constantly engaged in making
arrests, on trifling charges, OF
the worthless and insolvent abou,
the city, on trifling charges, pre-.
ferred either by the police them
selves or by private prosecutors al
insolvent as the parties charged and
in many cases the state either fails, OF
if the party charged be found guilty
he is discharged and ell the costs tax.
ed up against the county.
Now this board protests against all
this and asks your honorable body
to take such steps as to prevent your
officers from increasing their com
pensation out of the county, the same
being, i'll our judgment, unjust to thu
tax payers in general. (Signed.)
| JOHN PosTLEwA1TE,
| D. L. HARDY,
GEO. w. FAIR.
The following preamble and reso
lutions were presented, to wit:
| WHEREAS, The pauper account o.
our county has become q great expen
diture, exceeding eight thousand dol
lars annually, over and above the in
come of the poor-farm, and
| WHEREAS, The said expenses arts,
chiefly from being compelled to sup
port great many of said pauperl
outside of the poor house, and
WHEREAS, The buildings on sale
poor farm being wholly inadequate
for the accommodation of even 6
small portion of the paupers of Wa
polio county, and
WHEREAS, The Insane Commission
ers have notified the Board of Super
visors that on account of the crowded
condition of the insane asylum, por'
ton of the incurable insane from
Wapello county will be returned, and
that the board will have to provide
for them and
WHEREAS, The county of Wapello
should have self supporting farm
su ffcient to accommodate all of the
paupers of said county;
Therefore be 1t Resolved, by tht
Board Of Supervisors Of Wapello
County, That agreeable to Sec. 3O3 Of
the Code of 1879, the question be sub
mitted to the legal voters of said
county at the October election of 1878
whether levy of one mill tax on
the dollar, on the taxable property OF
said county be levied for the purch.
ase of poor-farm.
Chair declared the resolution adopt.
ed.
G. w. Stacks presents petition to
operate ferry across the Des Moinet
river at or near where the division
line between the north and south
halves of section %, township ~
range IA west, crosses said river.
On motion granted.
The petitions of Bauer & Keister
and John j. Bowles. for abatement
of taxes, laid over.