Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — The County Council [ARTICLE]

The County Council

The County Council passed a number of small appropriations at their special session Monday, the' largest and most important of which was to pay the salary of the county recorder, made necessary by the increase in his salary by the last legislature. ) The proposition of making an appropriation for the tax ferrits was the principal subjeot of discussion. It was moved to appropriate $5,000 for this purpose, to be paid out by the commissioners as fast as earned by the ferrits. This motion was lost by a vote of three to two. A motion to appropriate SI,OOO was then made by a member who verted against $5,000; but those who voted for $5,000 then voted agpinst SI,OOO, and that motion also was lost; and no appropriation was made. One consideration that had some influence in preventing an appropriation at at this time, was a statement by an attorney that further litigation against th'e ferrits would soon be instituted. The subject will come up again at the regular September meeting of the Council. * The matter of an appropriation for the county’s share of the new street improvement was not brought up at all.