The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-09-27
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Clerks Report OF Proceedings of Sep
TENDER Session.


TUESDAY. Sept. 9th. 1879.
Record of the proceedings, orders ana
resolutions of the Board OF Supervisors
of the County of La Sale, at regular
session thereof, commenced and held AT
the Court House in Ottawa in said coun-
ty, on the second Tuesday, being'the 9th
day of September In the year OF our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
nine.
Board met pursuant to law and was
called TO order by the chairman
On calling the roll the following named
Supervisors answered to their names:
Wright Adams, Mission +. Barton,
Meriden Patrick Barton, Eagle; A. f.
Beach, Dayton; Jackson Butte, Farm
Ridge j. j. Carey, La Sale; SllaS W..
Cbeeyer. Ottawa j. J. Conerton, Dim
mick: Nelson. ii. Cooper, Groyeland;
Casper Fischer, Mendoza Martin Fla
herty. Serena; j. NJ. Fox, Worthwhile ;
Samuel Grove, Utica: Henry Helmig,
Peru: l.. il. IIickok, Troy Grove; II. l..
uOssack. Ottawa; VIM. Lauf, Rlchland :;
A. G. Mclntlre, Mendoza; John l.. Miner,
Eden: Nels Nelson, I'd, Miller Edmond
O'Donnell,, Wallace NJ. OLaughlln,
Brookiield; Joseph ). Palmer, Ophir; }.
II. Pickens, South Ottawa; Edwin L.
Read. Grand Rapids; +. NJ. Robinson,
Manius; Z. =. Singer, La Sale; James
w. Stevenson, Otter Creek }. L. Thorn
ton, Hope; VIM. G. Trout, Vermillion;
Matthew White, Ottawa; ). {. Wiley,
Earl; John =. Wilson, Fall River; John
Miller, Chairman.
On motion of Supervisor O'Laughlln,
il is ordered that this Board now adjourn
to the CITY Hall.
Supervisor Flaherty rendered his reslg-
nation as chairman and member OF the
committee on pauperS, also as chairman
and member of special committee TO
audit bills of state charitable institution,
which designations are accepted by the
chair. Thereupon Supervisor Beach IS
made chairman of the committee on
paupers and Supervisor Thornton IS APP
pointed member thereof.
The chair also appointed Supervisor
Beach memberOf the committee toaudlt
the bills of state charitable institutions,
and Supervisor llOsSack is made chair
man of said committee.
Supervisor Stevenson presents petition
of Jesse NJ. Johnson, assessor of the town
of Otter Creek for the year 1878, asking
for an abatement Of certain specific per
sonal property of Christian Wagner for
said year, which, on motion, was referred
10 the committee on complaintsand abate-
menus.
Supervisor Beach moves that the pre-
amble and resolution of Supervisor Chez
YER, offered ut the last July session, re-
lative to new courthouse and Jail, he
made thesspecial order of business Tor
Thursday evening next. at o'clock.
Thereupon the ayes and noes being de-
manded, Supervisors Beach, Butte, Carey,
Cheever, Conerton, Cooper, Flaherty,
Fox. IIelmig, Hossack, Lauf, Mclntire,
"a. C.l Nelson, Pickens, Read, Robinson,
Singer, Thornton, White, Wiley Is. C),
Wilson and Mr.. Chairman, twenty-five
i22l, voted in the Affirmative. Supervisors
Adams, Barton (E.), Fischer, Grove,
lIickok, Miner, O'Donnell, o. Laughlln,
Palmer, Stevenson and Trout, eleven (l1l,
voted in the negative. Motion carried.
On motion of supervisor Pickens, it is
ordered that this Board adjourn till 8
O'Clock tomorrow morning.