Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1900 — May Make It Warm for “Doc.” [ARTICLE]

May Make It Warm for “Doc.”

The Barkley "tp;, .people who opposed the Gifford l railroad tax are very bitter toward the leaders who forced thisobnoxous tax upon them, and especially toward their present township trustee, .aS. R,. Nicholsywb© was the prime mover in having the second election called, u as trustee, has been very remiss -in his duties. The old law-required- tbe trustees to make their annual settlement nHth the bounty commissioners oh fhF first’Monday ih August of each v£ar: Two years agd he.did not settle until Sept. 14, srtx-weeks' ‘after the time the law specified Settlement should be made. The law also required the trustee to ptrblish his annual'report within ten days after filing of same, but thenbove report Was not published until the latter part of September. This year Nichols has published no report at all, and it is understood that he will n6t do so, and it is said that some of the Barkley tp., taxpayers will 1 proceed against | him under section 8477, Revised j Statutes, which relates to annual I settlements and the publishing of same, and says regarding the pub- ! lication: "And on failure.so to do he shall be ' liable upon his bond, in the sum of one hißidred dollars, to be recovered upon lan action, brought in the name of the State of Indiana, in the relation of such i township against the Trustee failing to j so publish such report, and said Trustee ! shall also record at 1-ngtha copy, of such report iri the township record.”