The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-05-12
COUNTY COURT.

william Williams, y IL cmltD, Ia L
Forbes, G A Leftwitch. w r Scott,
Jesse Read, w F WOolery, Mat
Byrne, John S Ritenour, E l. Nc
Quirton, George Lower, Milton Dur
rill, May Dejarnett, T V Steele, J w
Wicker, Chas HOuchim, Fred King.
G A Paige, j d Fisher, John NJ
Garnett and Willis Warren.
A warrant for $500 was allowed
w. P. Anderson, keeper of poor
farm.
Pauper warrants to the amount of
s168 were allowed different parties.
The city marshal of Lamonte
broug ht to the court an insane man
who gives his name as John Barlow
who is an EngIishman. and says he is
from KiOwa county, Kansas. He is
in Jail awaiting the action of the
court.
johnson Wheeler was appointed a
justice of the peace at LamOn:e to fill
the vacancy accustomed by the re
moval Of w. w. HigginbOttom.
james Toggs was appointed a JUS
tice of the peace at Bowling Green.
The bond of John s. SIavens, as
county surveyor in the sum of $4,000
was e ed and approved. His surities
are Thomas Terry and j. T. Oglesby.
The bonds of John III. Thomas and
Sam w. Reavis as road overseers
were filed and approved.
A petition was filed for a public
road on the line between Pettis and
Saline counties in township 4S and
range 80.
Mayor Stevens and Councilman
Hutchinson appeared before the court
this afternoon and asked that the
county pay part of the expenses of
holding the last election. A school
commissioner was voted for and the
committee agreed that as part Of the
election was county business, the
county should pay part of the costs.
The court took the matter under ad-
visement.
TAX LEVY.
Now on this day it is ordered by
the court that there be and are here
by assessed and levied upon all the
taxable property, both real and per-
sonal, situated in Pettis county, Mo. +,
for the tax for the year 1891, the fol-
lowing rates to-wit:
For sinking fund to redeem the
new funding bonds of Pettis county,
ten cents on the 800 assessed valua-
ton.
For sinking fund to redeem court
house bonds, seven cents On the 800
assessed valuation.
To pay interest on the court house
bonds, six cents on the 500 assessed
valuation.
For road purposes, fifteen cents on
the 800 assessed valuation.
For state revenue and interest
thirty cents on the hundred dollars
assessed valuation.
For county revenue thirty cents on
the hundred dollars assessed valua-
ton.
To pay interest on new funding
bonds twenty cents on the hundred
dollars assessed valuation.
1t is further ordered that the county
clerk make the rates for school taxes
In accordance with the estimates certi-
fed to him by the clerks of the var
iOus school districts throughout the
country.
ORDERED SENT TO ASYLUM.
John Barlow, who has been con-
fined in the county Jail for sometime,
was ordered by the county court, yes
terday, to be sent to the insane asylum
at Nevada. Barlow is a stranger in
this community and makes conflicting
statements as to where he came from
and as to his past career generally.
Sheriff Smith will take Barlow to
Fulton tonight.
THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Yesterday, County Clerk Mitchum
presented to the county court the
financial statement, showing receipts
and disbursements of the county for
the year ending May 1, 1891, which
was received and approved by the
court, and ordered published in the
BAzoo.
The bonded Indebtedness of the
county is as follows:
per cent Funding bonds, $40
years.-................... $3.50 10000
per cent Court house bonds,
$40 years.. ..................... 100000
~t1O,OUOUUI
Amount in Sinking Fund.- 20, 100000