Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1871 — September, 1871, Term of Commissioners Court. [ARTICLE]

September, 1871, Term of Commissioners Court.

Court opened by Sheriff Monday, September 4th, 1871. Present, Jared Benjamin, Win. K. Parkinson and Sam’l McCullough, Commissioners, Ira W. Yeoman, Auditor, and Allen J. Yeoman, Sheriff. M. L. Spitlcr, Clerk, filed his quarterly report of fees collected in his oftico for quarter ending August 31st, 1871, which shows the amount paid county treasurer to be $110.87. Report approved by the Board. i ~ Allen J. Yeoman, Sheriff, filed quarterly report of fees collected by him for quarter ending August 31st, 1871, which shows the amount paid county treasurer to be $117.55. quarterly report of fees collected by him for quarter ending August 31st, 1871, which shows the amount paid county treasurer to be $9.10. Reports of Sheriff and Auditor approved by the Board. Appointed D. T. Halstead to receive tho bridge across Carpenter creek, opposite Egypt school houae, from the contractors when completed. Appointed Allen J. Yeoman to supervise the construction of a side walk in front ol lot 10, block 14, in the town of Rensselaer, owhhd by Jasper county. Accepted from the Ohio Wrought Iron Bridge Company the bridges built by them across the Big Slough at Hoover’s crossing and across Carpenter’s creek at Henry Lipprant’s, on the Rensselaer and Remington road. Allowed tho following bills and issued oounty orders for amounts specified:

Geo. B. Conwell, station’y $ 0.00 Harping & Alter, aid to county poor 10.75 John L. Hershman, taking enumeration ol male inhabitants of Walker tp. i 1.25 John Qucrry, for keeping Harvey Coppess, pauper of Gillam township.... :" 11.00 Alfred Hoover, removing old bridge over Big Sigh 15.00 David Gray, taking enumeration of mhle inhabitants of Hanging Grove township 10.00 Ezra L. Clark, record’g d’d 1.00 Dr. J. H. Lough ridge, rent for Richard Anderson... 12.00 Marion L. Spitler, percent. for fees collected 21.80 Mntion L. Spitler, percent tor fees paid treasurer.. 87.42 Marion L. Spitler, extra quarterly allowance aB county Clerk 152.92 Simon P. Thompson, gervices and expenses as county School Examiner 59.00 Catharine E. McKinsey, '* keeping poor of Jordan township 20.00 R. C. Pierce, medical aid to poor of Jasper county 10.00 Emmet Kannal, blank book for county treasurer.... 2.10 Marion L. Spitler, conveying B. Baker to Insane Hospital at Indianapolis. 25.00 Isaac M. Stackhouse, repairs on public building. 6.81 Willey & Sigler, goods furnished poor of Jasper Co. 8.04 Rosser, Spring <& Co., stationery for Co. officers... 240.50 D. T. Halstead, enumerat’n of ’male inhabitants of Marion township. 5.00 Wm. P. Hopkins, work on vault .75 Braden & Buford, record for county Recorder 24.75 A. J. Yeoman, Sheriff, per centage on fees paid to county treasurer 92.04 A. J. Yeoman, Sheriff, per centage on fees collected 25.51 A. J. Yeoman, Sheriff, quarterly allowance 157.96 Ira W. Yeoman, Auditor, quarterly allowance 375.00 A. J. Yeoman, Sheriff, sum- * moning Board of Commissioners at two special sessions..... 9.40 Charles Platt, payment in fnU for services as county Treasurer t 114.80 L. W. Henkle, quarterly allowance as Treasurer of Jasper county 106.00 Henry A. Barkley, taking enumeration of male inhabitants of Barkley tp. 8.00 Jared Benjamin, per dieul as county commissioner. 28.00 Wm. K. Parkinson, per diem as county commis’r 24.00 Sam’l McCullough, per diem as county commis’r 28.00 Ohio Wrought Iron Bridge Co. t two iron bridges... 1636.47

Chus. l’lalt, taxes erroneously credited while county Treasurer * 7.29 I. M. Stackhouse, tablo for county Surveyor 6.30 Ira W. Yooman, making out Railroad settlement, writing two Railroad Tax Delinquent Records, calculating same and making two copies of Railroad Tax Duplicate 260.00 Alfred Hoover, making r’d . grade to Big Slough br’dg 149.63 Michael Brouslehcm, work on grade to Hoover and Carpenter creek bridges 60.00 John Miller, estimating grades for Big Slough and Carpenter cr’k brdgs 12.00 Thcro was also the usual amount of hearing of road petitions, appointing viewers for proposed new road routes, and receiving reports of viewers previously appointed, that would perhaps be interesting to a particular few, but about which the general public has no great amount of concern and for which we have not Bpace. . (