Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — Proceedings of Commissioners' Court. [ARTICLE]

Proceedings of Commissioners' Court.

Board of Commissioners of Jasper county met in regular session in the Auditor's office, September 4, 1876. Present Samuel McCullough, George Kessler and £. E. Rockwood, commissioners, Henry A Barkley, auditor, and Ira W. Yeoman, deputy sheriff. Philip McElfrcsh, lesse of county poor farm made settlement with board which shows as follows: Ain’t due Sept. 8, 1876, $ 44 00 Interest thereon 6 m»s. 1.32 Report to March 1,1876 180.00 $225.32 By quietus No. 1,036... $150.00 Balance due $ 75.32 Interest for 6 months... 2.26 Rent to Sept. T, 1876„ 180.00 $257.58 By quietus No. 1,200... $225.00 Balance due $ 32.50 Upon balance asked extension of time not to exceed six months, which was granted. On petition ofE P. Hammond, Hope B. Miller and others to appoint appraisers to assess benefits and damages to lauds by the construction of certain ditches in section 20, town 29, range 6, west, in Marion township, appointed Thomas Robinson, Wilfcorn Pay and John English to act as such board of appraisers.

Awarded contract for blaik. hooks and stationery for o~e of Jasper County one year to Wn. B. Barfocd. ladknapoiif. Awarded to John P. Dunlap the contract for building a bridge aero» the Iroquois river at Lamson's feed. The bridge to be 175 feet long and luSt for $748. If a greater length is required the addttioßal to be buih at the rate of $4 per linear foot. County surveyor. Daniel B. Miller, reported specifications for a grade across Kankakee marsh for approaches to the Burns bridge which was accepted by board of commissioners. Petition of B. C. McCoy for change in division lines of Marion and Jordan towuships dismissed. Petition of James F. Irwin, for bridge over Carpenter creek, continued. Petition of Janies V. Dutton, for an appropriation for bridge over Alters Creek in Jordan township, continued. Petition of Henry Welsh, for bridge over Carpenter creek in Jordan township, continued. Petition of 0. A. Moss et. al. for appropriation to aid the I. D. k C. R. R.. from Marion township, continued. Petition ofG. M. Johuson, for bridge over Pinkamink river, continued. Awarded to William Bull the contract tor making a road grade at the Ball bridge crossing of the Piukamink river, for the sum of 9} cents per cubic yard. Awarded contract for building a bridge across the Pinkamink river, at Ball's Ford, to Cyrus Lewis, forty-five feet in length, two feet above high water mark, at $4.80 per linear foot. Awarded contract for making grade to approaches of the Curtis creek bridge to John P. Dunlap, at the rate of 16 cents per'cubic yard. Awarded to John P. Dunlap contract for making grade and protections to approaches of the Lamaon bridge over the Iroquois river, for $250. Allowances are published in advertising columns of this paper, which see*