The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-18
THE SUPERVISORS IN SESSION.

THE SUPERVISORS IN SESSION.
The meeting of the Board Of Supervisors
for the equalization Of assessments con
yened on Monday afternoon, Deputy Clerk
McKeon called the body TO order, Hoge, OF
Usage being the only absentee. The first
duty of the board being to elect a chair
, man, Stephenson, of Otter Creek, placed IL
, nomination T.. G. Lewis, of Deer Park
? which nomination was seconded by Mcln
3 tyre, of Allen; and Gillet, Of Meriden
nominated F.. w. Fades, of Bruce, second
ed by Gallagher, of Peru. The result OF
the vote was, Lewis 90 Fades, a. after
which the nomination Of Lewis was made
unanimous. II was then moved and car
ried that to expedite the work of the next
session, all bills presented be passed upon
after which an adjournment was taken to
Tuesday morning,
On the assembling of the Board Tues
day morning, Chairman Lewis announcing
the following standing committees;
Fjaance-M essrs. Rhoads, Nicholson, Lauf,
Stevenson, Rowe
Court House md Jnl-Messrs. Reed, Gum,
Bowen, Madden, Norton.
P,ibHc BuH5Hgs-Messrs. Griffin, Farms
worth, Holcckcr, Hilenbrand, Gillet.
Eqtdlc-ation-LANDs: Mcssrs. Mcintyre,
Stevenson, Nicholson, Carin, Wilson, Grams
den, Nelson. LoTs: Messrs. Fades, Griffin,
Phillips, Reed, Burkart, Butterticld, Madden.
PERSONAL PRorERTY: Messrs. Jennings,
Fischer, Dresser, Doyle, Marsh, Sawyer
Graves.
COmplaintS and 1bdtcmcntS-Messrs. Steven
son, Gilett, Mcmillan, Anderson, Phillips.
| TotpbShjU OjgaRizdtiOR-Messrs. Gallagher,
Hickok, T'rumbo, Sawyer, Butterileld.
Roads ana BridgeS-Messrs. Lukins, lioge,
Anderson, Graves, Bubeck.
Puuprs-Messrs. Helmig, White, McLauch-
Ian, Doyle, Bowen, Trumbo, Gum.
FccS and SalayieS-Nessrs Fischer, Fades,
! Mcintyre, Jennings, Holleckcr.
settle 1ot,h comfy IreaSW0-Messrs. Carlin,
1 Gibbs, Rowe.
Claims Messrs ,IIicllok, Ford, Farnsworth,
Marsh, Gibbs.
settle miM County Sup, Of Scloo1s-Messrs.
Dresser, Mcmillan, Nelson.
Settle 'cM County OticerS-Messrs. Grams
den, Fades, Norton, Burkart, HOge.
settle 1cih State Charitable Institutions
Messrs. Wilson, Ford Bubeck.
| StdtiOH1V-Messrs. Gum, Lauf, White.
Mines dnd Nning-Messrs. McLauchlan,
Hclmig, Lukins
A petition was received and read from
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
praying for an abatement of personal prop.
erty assessment in Goodland township
Petition of Rev. Father Heefy, of Mendo
ia, was read, asking for abatement in the
assessment on property used by tie Sisters
of Mercy for school purposes. Summons
in the Reddick will case was read and re-
ferred to county attorney to confer with
counsel for city of Ottawa in making de-
fence. Committee on township organza
ton was directed to ascertain In what town
ships change from the present boundaries
of election precincts would be required in
order to comply with the new election law
and to re-district those so required, and
land committee was also directed to report
names for judges in each election precinct
Adjourned to next Wednesday morning.
THIRD DAY.
After reading the proceedings of the
previous days session and the same being
approved, on motion of Gum, Judge
Blanchard was authorized to place his lib
rary in the law library room. Aresolution
offered by Ford, recommending p. A. Arm
strong of Grundy county, as one of the
commission to revise the revenue laws,
was adopted. A communication from the
Sreator bank relative to assessments of
bank stock, was referred to committee on
equalization of personal property.
A petition from j. N. Strawn stated that
he had been excessively taxed. The spec
ial committee on gas reported that gas
regulator tried at the county Jail in eleven
days saved 17S feet per day; referred to
September meeting. The matter of light
ing the county buildings by electricity was
also referred. The duties of the commit
tee on public buildings and the committee
on courthouse and Jail were defined. The
former takes charge of all public buildings
and permanent Improvements thereon, and
70 examine and report on all claims for i'm
provements, and the latter is empowered
to look after claims for Surprises furnished
the various county offices, Jail, &c. The
clerk was ordered to issue orders for the
per diem of the various judges of the cleo.
ton June l. 1t was also ordered that each
supervisor be allowed 81 80 for posting cleo
ton notices. A move to insure the coun-
ty asylum was lost after considerable talk
on the subject Adjourned until o'clock
next day.
FOURTH DAY.
Minutes of previous day were read and
approved. The committee TO whom had |
been referred the petition of Rev. Heafy, |
of Mendoza, reported favorably. In the
matter of the petition of the Western Union
Telegraph Co, S2l5 was the amount agreed
upon 10y the committee as its assessment
on property in the township of Groveland.
Thos. RhoadS was allowed $50 on claims. |