The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-01-24
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to this end, suggest the rat
OF interest on deferred payments OF pur
seven per cent. per annum, PAYABLE ANNUALLY
and that the principal be made payable "a
the option of the purchaser at any time with
in twenty years, with strict provision fo
forfeiture upon failure to pay interest within
u reasonable time after its maturity.
.l..| bose SCHOOL LANDS. ... I-
In pursuance of the provisions of section l.
chapter lT6, of the laws of Kansas OF 1877, au
thoriZiug the Governor to appoint an agen,
for the State whose duty It should be, among
other things, TO prosecute to final decision
the claims of the State for school lands due
the State from the United states on &C
count of Indian reservations, my predecessor
appointed as such agent Hon. Samuel j.
Crawford, who after being duly qualified,
which have resulted in securing to the State
about 265 900 acres of choice lands, in addi-
ton to the large body of school lands al
ready owned by the State. Noappropriation
having been made TO defray the necessary
expenses connected with the selections of
the lands thus secured, and in view of the IA
pidity with which the Government lands in
officers, realizing that the best interests of
the State required that these lands should be
selected at as early a day as possible, united
ment Of Hon. G. c. West, ]. c. McQuary, o. Z.
Morse, L. A. Thrasher, l.. B. Snow. and j. +.
Stoae, citizens of Kansas, as Commissioners
to select said lands. These Commissioners
faithfully and promptly performed their du-
ty by selecting the amount OF land due the
State, and making full and complete report
thereof. which is now on file in the Office OF
the Auditor of State, and to which you are
respectfully referred. ..s. r..-f
These lands are among the best in the
state; and at the average price received for
school lands patented to this date will be
worth to the state about s., l2O goo. To meet the
expenses necessarily incurred in selecting
these lands and making full report thereof,
the State officers, tO-wit Geo. L. Anthony,
Thos. II. Cavanangh, +. 1. BOnebrake, John
Francis, willard Davis, and A. Is. Lennon,
united in borrowing. on their personal re-
they are liable to payment of interest
amounting to Sl29i. making a total OF S3,09s.-
%. therefore recommend that a committee
BE s to
gether with the reports and vouchers now on
lille in the auditors Office, and, If found cor.
rect that an appropriation be made to REIN
burse these officers for the full amount so eN
pended by them in the interests OF and for the
State, and for which their personal obligation
is now outstanding.
PRICE RAID CLAIMS.
The report of the board organized in pur-
suance of the provisions of the acts OF Febru-
airy 18th, 1865, and February Goth. 1866, to audit
the claims OF citizens for services rendered.
material and supplies furnished, transporta.
ton lost, and damages sustained from the
Price raid and in the Indian expedition un-
der General Curtis, in 1854, being unsatisfac-
e6th, 1871, provided for new board, to re-
examine these claims BY this act It was
provided that the State should assume the
payment of the amount this commission
should award, by issuing to holders of claims
so allowed interest-bcaring union military
scrip. to be paid out of any appropriation
that might thereafter be made by CONGRESS
This commission awarded: For services,
S2ls, 500 IS; supplies and transportation. $751;
6s2 -; damages. Ssh 0Sss; property lost,
SS55lS.47-makfng total award of 1857 ,295 81.
BY the act approved February II, 1869, q
commission consisting of three disinterested
citizens were created to examine in every
particular into claims rejected by either OF
the former commissions for want OF proof, |
and not having passed upon their merit, and
all claims that had not been prior thereto |
audited by either of the former commissions. |
1t is further provided by this act that all
claims audited and allowed by the Commits. |
sioners appointed under the provisions of |
the acts of February ii, 1865, and February %, |
1866, together with ali claims tor services, |
transportation, forage, subsistence and prop |
erty lost in action that might thereafter be |
and allowed by the Commissioners
thereby assumed by the State OF Kansas; /
provided, that no claims allowed by the COM
missioners appointed under the provisions
of the act of February IL, 1865, and rejected
by a subsequent commission, should be as
sumed unless re-audited and allowed by the
appointed under this act;
and provided further, that the amount as
sumed by the state should not exceed the
sum of $4,000.
The Commissioners appointed under this
act allowed claims to the amount of SCI ,2s2l.S9,
making the aggregate amount of claims
S52S, 5l4 "a, being SIS, 5l4. IS more than was an
20 be assumed under the provisions
of this act. 4 small amount was also allow
ed by the Auditor anu Treasurer of state,
under the act of March 4, 1878.
Congress. by act of June 8, 1872, appropri-
ated $50, 05l.3s, which sum was placed in our
State Treasury to pay the claims allowed for
service, transportation and subsistence OF
troops, by u commission created under an
act Of Congress of February 2. 1871. This
money has been paiu out by the Treasurer,
but not strictly in accordance with the pur
poses for which it was appropriated, part of
It at least having been applied In payment of
scrip ISIS ed on account of damages and for
service in the Indian expedition, which scrip
was not covered ~ the award of the Com
missiOners appointed under the said act of
Congress of February 2, 1871.
Undert the act of the Legislature, approved
March 8, 1877, State agent has been appoint.
ed, whose duty, among other things, rs de.
lined by said act, is go prosecute to final
all claims of the State of Kansas