Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1902 — County Council Appropriations. [ARTICLE]

County Council Appropriations.

■ -www ww-w-w • *)** ***** The county council met in annual session last week and made the'following appropriations for the expense of the county government during the year ending December 31,1903: Salary county clerk 1500 00 Office expenses 291 00 Salaiy county auditor 2300 00 Office expenses 666 00 Salary county treasurer 1200 00 Office expenses 250 00 Salaiy county recorder 1700 00 Office expenses 308 00 Salary county sheriff. 1400 00 Office expenses 27 60 Board of prisoners 400 00 Fees of county surveyor and assistants. .. 1450 00 Office expenses 183 85 Per diem connty superintendent.... 1200 00 Office expenses 238 00 Per diem county assessor 450 00 Office expenses 29 30 Per diem township assessors: Hanging' Grove 136 00 Barkley 23000 Newton 136 00 Wheatfield 200 00 Union 250 00 Gillam 196 00 Marion 430 00 Keener 134 00 Carpenter 330 00 Walker 257 00 Jordan.... 13400 Kankakee 128 00 Milroy j 3 i 00. Supplies 300 00 Expenses of circuit court: Jurymen.- 1600 00 Bailiffs 400 00 Witness fees 50 00 Special judges ... 250 00 Improvements of court r00m.... 50 00 Fees: Clerk 250 00 Sheriff 250 00 Board of jurymen 3000 Reporter 325 00 Law books 100 00 Repairs to judge’s room 25 00 Telephone and telegrams 20 00 Jury commissioners 30 00 Superintending publication bar docket 20 00 Printing 40 00 Grand jury 150 00 Defending criminals 150 00 Supplies 6 00 Miscellaneous matters 40 00 Change of venue 600 00 Expense of court house: Repair of building and care of grounds 100 00 Supplies 800 00 Janitor and other employes 800 00 Probable expenses 50 00 Expense county jail: Repair of building and care of grounds 100 00 Supplies 162 00 Employes 40 00 Steam heating plant and plumbing 700 00 Expense poor farm: Repair of buildings and care of grounds 400 00 Salary of superintendent and employes 1000 00 Supplies of all kinds 1160 00 Drainage 500 00 Physician 35 00 Telephone 12 00 Burying dead 50 00’ Expense of insanity inquest 206 00 Expense new bridges: Keener township, Halloran ditch

bridge Joo oo Kankakee, Fisher ditch bridge. . : Jflßfbo Carpenter Gallagher ditch bridge. ' - ■ Carpenter, Hunt bridge <ssS'bd Wheatfield ' 7CKJ 00 Union .... 200 00 Expense bridge repairs and approaches. . 1000 00 Commissioners’ court: Salary commissioners 700 00 Bailiff 50 00 Other expenses 25 00 County attorney 400 00 . Secretary board of health 208 00 Stationary 4 00 Emergency 50 00 Repairs of free gravel roads: First commissioners’ district.... 1200 00 Second commissioners’ district (Marion) 1725 00 Second commissioners’ district (Gillam) 300 00 Third commissioners’ district. 800 00 Interest on bonds 6654 10 State Benev. and Penal Institutions: Hospital for insane 115 00 Institution for deaf 70 00 Blind institute 60 00 School for Feeble Minded Youth. 60 00 Reform School for Boys 60 00 Reform School for Girls and Women’s Prison 60 00 Public advertising 650 00 Truant'officers, per diem j O o 00 Office expenses 6 60 Board of Review: Per diem of members 225 00 Bailiff 20 00 Witnesses 40 oo Other expenses ....; 15 O o Coroner: Per diem 60 00 Inquests .... 12400 Stationary 4 00 Additional appropriations for 1902: Assessing, Barkley township ... 7 00 Marion “ .... 20 00 “ Jordan “ .... 1700 “ Keener “ .... 13 00 “ Union " .... 4 O o Expense courts: Per diem jurymen 400 00 Postage for clerk 5 00 Defending criminals 100 00 Sheriff per diem i O o 00 Change venue j oo 00 Expense court house: Repair buildings and care of grounds 100 00 Supplies 675 00 Expense Poor Farm 7 6 O Bridges: Keener township y oo 00 Kankakee... 40000 Wheatfield 350 00 Carpenter 400 00 Moving bridge Gillam 30000 Bridge repairs abutments Barkley bridge 150 00 Abutments Carpenter bridge.... 995 00 Range line bridge Carpenter.... 350 00 Bridge plank 350 oo Gravel road repairs Marion 275 00 Expense county council 50 00 Supplies for children in schools... 100 00 Location highways 200 00 Advanced on free gravel roads.... 300 00 LEVIES MADE BY COUNTY COUNCIL, For county purposes 40 cents on each SIOO valuation. For court house bonds 9 cents on each SIOO valuation. For gravel road repairs ij cents on the SIOO valuation.