Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — No More Poor Relief By County. [ARTICLE]

No More Poor Relief By County.

After Jan. Ist, all the townships of Jasper county must support their own poor or indigent people, or send them to the poor farm. The County Commissioners made tfie following order of record, at their recent session. “The statute having been, by the legislature of 1899 amended so as to prohibit payments by the commissioners on account of expenditures for relief of the poor except inmates of the county institutions, no claims of such character will be paid by the board after Jan. 1, 1901, and the auditor is directed to notifiy the trustees of the township to that effect.”