Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1875 — A DEMAND. [ARTICLE]

A DEMAND.

Last week the proprietors of this paper proposed to Mr. C. M. Johnson, proprietor of the Jasper RepubUoam, to submit to a committee of three 'disinterested persons certtfin data to decide which paper bad *Xhe largest circulation, and agreed to pay Mr. Johnson 810 in oase they should decide in favor of ’the Republican; up to -the hour of going to press our neighbor has not seen fit to accept the prop osition nor to claim the money. This non-actibn is a virtual ad mission that his statement of the week before claiming for his paper the largest circulation of any publication in this county, was false— It will be construed by ti e public in this manner. But we have now something else to say m this connection. On page 33 of the laws of the State of Indiana, passed at the last session of the legislature is an act which reads as follows, to-wit: “An act requiring Auditors to publish a statement of all the allowances made by the County Commissioners. (Approved March 9, 1875.) Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly bf the State of Indiana, That the Auditor of each county of the State shall be required to publish, in a newspaper of the largest circulation in his county, a statement showing all allowances made by the County Commissioners at each term of their Court, to whom the allowances are made, and forwhat purpose; provided, that the printing thereof shall not exceed five cents for each allowance." In consideration of the above fact the publishers of the Rensselaer Union do hereby make a public and formal demand of Frank W. Babcock, Auditor of Jasper county, for a copy of the allowances made by the Commissioners of Jasper county at their last session, to be published in the Rensselaer Union in accordance with the provisions of said act above quoted. c.