Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1903 — Commissioners’ Court. [ARTICLE]

Commissioners’ Court.

The commissioners have been in session this week and had not yet adjourned at the time of going to press. In the matter of lettiDg the contract for the Hanging Grove gravel roads, the bid of Smith & Padgett, the only one received at the January meeting, was rejected. The bidders specified that gravel was to be used from pits near the Proposed road and as the commissioners have no power to change the specifications, their bid could not be accepted. The matter of cleaning the Marble lateral to the Wheatfield ditch was continued for notice. A. McCoy et al, petition for ditch. Continued for notice.

Wm. H. Baker et al, petition for ditch. Referred back to viewers for correction.

The bill requiriiig township trustees to publish a full report of their receipts and expenditures each year instead of a synopsis only, as at present, has reached its third reading and will probably become a law.