The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-29

hiittee submitted the following report:
TO The Hon. the Board Of Supervisors.
y Your Auditing Committee have care.
fully compared orders Nos. $50 to $40,
both inclusive, with the several amounts
allow ed by this Board and find them to
agree in every particular.
j. Y. MARTIN, Committee.
On motion of Supv Baldwin the report
was accepted and adopted.
| On motion of Supv. Washburn the
Board took recess until tomorrow morD-
ing at half past nine o'clock.
M. OsBURN,
| Countersigned, Chairman.
| j. III. COLLINS,
Deputy Clerk.
At an adjourned session of the Board
OF Supervisors for the County of Shiawas-
see continued and held at the Court
House in the City of Corunna, in said
county, on Thursday, the 3lst day of Oct
| ober, 1895.
Board called to order by the chairman.
Roll called by the clerk.
Present, Supvs. Baldwin, Chaffee,
Crane, Cronk, Fuller, Harper, Houghton,
Lyman, Martin, Morris, j. A. Morrice,
F. G. Morrice, Osburn, Parker, Peacock,
Reed, Scougale, Sheldon, Shepard, Stan.
lake, Trowbridge and Washburn. "a "a
Minutes of yesterdays proceedings read
and approved.
Supv. Shepard offered the following
resolution:
WHEREAS, There is a widespread feel
ing on the part of the taxpayers of the
county that they are paying heavy taxes
for keeping large numbers of tramps,
Migrants and disorderlies of various kinds
at the different places where said persons
are confined, and that the cost of courts
and officers of the law is constantly in
creasing, and
WHEREAS. great many people are of
the opinion that said prisoners should be
made to do some kind of manual labor
and to pay some part of the expenses of
their detention, therefore,
IL Is resolved, by this Board that a COM
mittee of three be appointed to investi-
gate the matter and the feasibility Of
some plan by which the above named
classes may be made to labor for the ben
eft of the county. Said committee to re-
port at the beginning of the January ses-
sion of this Board.
FIN. SHEPARD.
Supv. Parker moved the adoption of
the resolution, which motion was lost by
the following yea and nay vote:
Yeas, Supvs. Crane, Fuller, Harper,
Houghton, Martin, Morris, Parker, Pea
cock, Reed, Shepard and Washburn; total
yeas, IL.
Nays, Supvs. Baldwin, Chaffee, F. G.
Morrice and Trowbridge; total nays, 4.
Supv. Reed, chairman of the Commit
tee on Abstracts, submitted the following
report:
To the Hon. the Board of Supervisors:
Your Committee on Abstracts respect
fully submit their report. The register
of deeds has kept the abstracts fully
brought up to date. The whole amount
received from non-residents abstracts
and searches from Oct LIST, 1894, to Oct.
LIST, 1895, is as follows: $5625, and that
the register of deeds holds receipts from
the county treasurer for $23.123, one half
the receipts for same.
s s B. kf lyman, com'ttee.
A. A. HARPER,
On motion of Sup. Harper the report
was accepted and adopted.
On motipn of Supv. Shepard the reso-
luton in relation to tramps and Migrants
was reconsidered.
Supv. Shepard moved. that the resolu-
ton be adopted.
Supv. Harper moved as an amendment
that the committee report at the present
session of the Board.
Which amendment was carried
The question then recurring upon the
original resolution as amended was adopt
ed by the following yea and nay vote:
Yeas, Supvs. Baldwin, Chaffee, Crane,
Cronk, Fuller, Harper, Houghton, Ly-
man, Martin, Morris, Parker, Peacock,
Reed, Sheldon, Shepard, Stanlake and
Washburn. Total yeas, II.
Nays, Supvs. j. A. Morrice, F. G. Nor
rice and Trowbridge; total nays, 3.
The chair appointed to act as such COM
mittee Supvs. Shepard Baldwin and Pea
cock.
Supv. f. III. Morris, chairman of the
Committee on Records in the clerks Of
flee, submitted the following report:
To the Hon. the Board of Supervisors:
Your Committee on Records in the
| county clerks office would submit the
following report, to-wit:
We have examined the records in said
clerks office and find there has been paid
into the clerks hands from Jan. l, 1896
to Oct. /, 1885, the following sums, to.
wit.