Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1871 — Meeting at Remington. [ARTICLE]

Meeting at Remington.

Eds. Union: —Pureuant to adjournment, the citizens of Carpenter township met at the school house in Remington, on Saturday, January 21st, 1871, at one o’clock p.m. N. S. Bates was chosen chairman, and C. H. Price was chosen secretary.' The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Short speeches were made by D. H. Kaufman, G. B. Chappell, Wm. Railsback, and others, in which they manifested a determination to fight to the bitter end, the tax assessed for bnilding the F. W. & P. It. R. W. 11. Shaw offered the following resolutions which were adopted: Resolved , That we believe the law passed by our legislature authorizing the people to be taxed for the benefit oi coporations, to be wrong in principle and that it will be so considered by onr- higher State courts, but until it is so adjudged, we as law abiding citizens submit to its requirements when there is a practical demand for their application.

Resolved, That We regard it an assumption of power on the part of our Commissioners to authorize and require the levy and collection of a tax for railroad purposes under the law to above, when there is no prospect of the money collected being required for such purposes. Resolved, That we disapprove of and condemn the act of ouT late Board of Commissioners in appropriating Rive Hundred Dollars of the people’s money to pay for surveying a route for a railroad through the county, and that we consider them morally and legally bound to refund that amount to the people’s treasury. On motion a committee of three consisting of Dr. D. H. Patton, W. H. Shaw and C. H. Price, were appointed to hare circulars printed and distributed among tax payers, notifying them of the action of this meeting. On motion Wm. Railsback was appoipted to solicit subscriptions to defray expenses for printing, &c. On motion it was ordered that the proceedings of this meeting he published in the Rensselaer Union- There being no farther business to transact, on motion adjourned.

N. S. BATES,

C. H. Price, ' { Chairman. Secretary.