The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-16

These reports were all referred to the commit
tee on general equalization.
The stationery committee reported 0ills Tor
work on burned records STA u.s. Fades reported
miscellaneous claims to amount of Sl,234, and
asked to be excused from consideration OF Dill OF
II. G. Furness for S2,3'5. .
Miller wanted to hear Furness's bill read. II
was read:
house with Jail, cost Sl20,0O0 a per
cent cent. M .................sl,aO 200 90
To same without Jail, cost 100000 at ooo
same. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. i,ooo w
these plans ordered by committee COM
posed of S. R. Lewis, Dyer, klove.
To plans for addition to old Aims House;
cost. $4,000; ordered by Thos. Johns,
chairman, q 2per cent. .....:,.....' I1o w
To plans for remOdeling old court house,
ordered by Judge Leland. ........ % w
Total Observation-Disclosures. 5000 w
Miller moved to recommit the bill with IN
struction to the committee to report the facts
They again reported verbally the facts substan.
tally as in the bill stated and they were excused
from further consideration OF it.
Mclaughlin, of La Sale, offered resolution
authorizing the appointment of n committee OF
five to examine the mine inspector ana OBTAIN
FROM him statement Of the work done by him
during the year, the committee to report in Sep
TENDER; and to take evidence so that it may be
known how far the state mining laws are com
piled with in this county.-lt appears that the
Inspector is q Streator man, who confines him
self exclusively to those mines, if he enters any
mines at all. He is paid $3.50 year, but has
only once been in La Sale and Peru land then
did not enter the mines), Notwithstanding there
have been one or two serious accidents-lor
which Mr.. Mel. thinks the inspector rcsponsi
BILE. Mr.. McL.'s opinion as practical miner Is
that $3.50 will pay for an inspector, and the min
ers of La Sale want visit from him.
A report by Stevenson on Attachments, giving
as a reason for an abatement that the county at
torney had been consulted Mr.. Glioert called
attention to the law the subject: that it is not
n good reason for an abatement that the town
board acted on it legally. This Board, when a
case is presented, should state at what amount
the party should be assessed at. The acts OF the
town board have no bearing on the action OF this
Board, who are to make an assessment that shall
be Just. This Board is lot the judge OF the le-
gaiity of the town boards acts, but can correct
an assessment only when it shall appear unjust
and because it is unjust. Further, this Board
cannot say it cannot find out what the complain
ant is worth it must find out. In certain cases
the reports were recommitted, but in the case OF
j. Higgins, OF Mendoza, (where the committee
refused to cut down s., 500, similar motion was
voted down. Adams thought the idea of Gilbert
new doctrine; and that the Board could con-
slider only the amount under consideration and
cannot 60 beyond it one way or another.
The rents OF Offices, &c, were ordered paid
quarterly by the county clerk; and the clerks on
burnt records and the watchman monthly.
In the afternoon the Board discontinued the
detective committee" putting the subject mat
ter in the hands OF the chairman Of the Board.
Messrs. Mclaughlin, Gilbert, Read Ames and
Helmig were named as the committee to review
the work OF the mine inspector.
The committee to whom was referred the com.
manhattan Of Isaac r. Hit on swamp lands,
asked to be relieved. They were.
Adjourned to $50 this a. N.