The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-12

The grand jury read their present
ments Wednesday afternoon, and
were discharged for the term by
Judge Reagan.
The presentments embrace a re-
port made by a committee appointed
by the previous grand jury to in
vestigate the various departments of
the county government. This report
is a review of the affairs of the
county, and contains much that is OF
interest. The books of all the county
officials are found to be in apple pie
order, and these public servants are
given generous praise.
The city court has not only been
self-sustaining, but has paid the sum
of $1,O66.83 in cash into the county
treasury since last June. Besides
this it has furnished the county with
labor on the public roads that is
worth $4,000 or more.
There seems to be more land in
the county this year than last. The
tax digest of 1906 shows 206, 500.
acres against 205, 1853 acres in 1905,
an increase of 1,257 acres.
The jury calls attention to the
alarming increase of the sale of in
toxicating liquors" as shown by the
dispensary reports.
Terrell county spends less on pau
pers than any other county in the
state. perhaps. There are forty pau
pers in the county, and they are
paid $3.50 a month from the coun-
ty treasury, a fraction over $500
each The county has no pauper
farm.
The Presentments.
The presentments, as read in open
court, follow:
We, the grand jurors chosen and
sworn for the November term of
Terrell superior court, beg to sub
NIT these our presentments:
The committee appointed by the
grand Jury at the May term of Ter
rell superior court made the follow
ing report:
Georgia, Terrell County.-To the
Honorable Grand Jury for the No
vember Term, 1906, of said County:
Having been appointed a special
committee from the grand jury at
the spring term of the superior court
of said county in the year 1906 to
audit the books of the several coun-
ty officers, we beg leave to make the
following report:
Ordinary.
We find all the records of this
office to be correct. Guardians, adj
ministrators, executors and officers
bonds are all in accordance with the
law.
We find fifty-one (51 pensioners
as follows: Is widows and in
digent widows, 20 INDECENT soldiers
and disabled soldiers, who receive
a total of $3,105.00.
There have been two writs of luna
cy issued one of which has been
committed to the asylum and the
other has not as yet been tried.
The present ordinary, who has
lust recently been installed, we think
is the right man in the right place.
Clerk of City and Superior Courts.
We have examined the several
records of this office, to-wit: Min
utes of the courts, mortgage and
deed records, the several court dock
cts and execution dockets, and lind
them neatly kept and all of said
records properly indeXed. We find
the filing dockets for both deeds and
mortgages direct and reverse and
so arranged that parties examining
these records can get desired infor-
nation with very little trouble. We
find that the clerk, at his leisure
time, has almost completed a direct
and reverse index to all the deed
records in his office, which we have
examined and find that they will be
of invaluable convenience and use
fulness in this office, enabling the
public to readily trace up titles to
any parcel of land of record. We
find that the clerk is now making
numerical index to the record to