Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1911 — TRUSTEE WINS HIS POINT. [ARTICLE]

TRUSTEE WINS HIS POINT.

Right of Commissioners to Abolish Township Is Denied. Thomas M. Honan, attorney-gen-eral, has filed an opinion with Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction, to the effect that a board of county commissioners‘has ho power to do away entirely with a township, although it has the power to change the boundaries and power to take from or add to the township territory. The question was put to the at-torney-general as a result of the action of the county commissioners Of Lawrence county, who attempted to abolish Flinn township, of that county. The advisory board and trustee of the township refused to acknowledge the right of the commissioners to abolish the township, and held their January meeting as if no action by the board had been taken. They appealed t 6 Mr. Greathouse for an opinion. The attorney-general also held, in an opinion to Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, that county health commissioners or town health commissioners, had no power to appoint deputy commissioners, although they had power to employ persons to assist them in their work.