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HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.
R. Shelton, 1866; J. R. Shelton, 1868; George W. Egbert, 1870; John N. Gregory, 1872; John N. Gregory, 1874; Jonathan Hadley, 1876; Lemuel Guthridge, 1877; Elliott F. Branch, 1878; Elliott F. Branch, 1880; Charles Seaton, 1882.
CORONERS.
George Crutchfield, 1822; Samuel Scott, 1824; William Wilson, 1831; Richard S. Jones, 1838; Septimus T. Whiteman, 1839; Austin Carr, 1839; Septimus T. Whiteman, 1839; Harvey Sheppard, 1841; Sammerly G. Cunningham, 1843, who did not qualify ; J. H. Sheppard, 1843; Richard P. Johnson, 1844; Thomas Hardwick, 1846; Lloyd Lee, 1848; C. R. Burk, 1849; Perminter M. Parks, 1849; Thomas S. Phelps, 1850; Hiram Whetzel, 1851; E. T. Harryman, 1852; Andrew T. Wellman, 1855; William Haase, 1856; Joseph Bradley, 1859 ; Allen S. Seaton, 1860; Lloyd Lee, 1861; Harvey Baker, 1864; Har- vey Chandler, 1866; Charles S. Twiss, 1868; P. R. Marshall, 1870; Thomas Singleton, 1872; Patrick Cane, 1874; H. C. Robertson, 1876; Samuel N. Bundell, 1878; Elijah P. Ritchey, 1880; William A. Hodges, 1882.
PROBATE JUDGES.
Hiram Mathews, 1829; Benjamin Bull, 1833; Solomon Dunegan, 1834 ; Algernon S. Griggs, 1841; George F. Waterman, 1844; John W. Richards, 1846. (This office was abolished in 1852.)
ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
Jacob Cutler and John Gray, March 13, 1822 ; Samuel Reed, vice Gray, 1824; Jared Olds, vice Reed, 1827; James Burns, 1827, vice Cutler ; John Mathews, 1829; Benjamin Bull, 1833, vice Mathews ; Solomon Donegan, 1834 ; Jonathan Hoffman, 1834, vice Burns ; Jesse S. Rooker, 1836; Jonathan Hoffman, 1836 ; George Miller, 1842, vice Huffman ; J. S. Rooker, 1842; Thomas McClure, 1842; Hiram Math- ews, 1843, vice Rooker, deceased; William Landers, 1849; Hiram Mathews, 1849. (This office was abolished in about 1852.)
PRESIDENT JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COURT.
William W. Wick, 1822; Bethuel F. Morris, March, 1825, vice Wick, resigned ; William W. Wick, 1834; James Morrison, 1839 ; David McDonald, 1842; James Hughes, 1853; J. M. Hanna, 1856; Solomon Claypool, 1859; Delaney R. Eckles, 1860; - Franklin, 1864 ; John C. Robinson, 1876 ; A. M. Cunning, 1882.
COMMON PLEAS JUDGES.
William G. Quick, 1853; George A. Buskirk, 1857; O. J. Gless- ner, 1865; T. W. Woolen, 1869; Richard L. Coffee, 1871. (This court was created in 1852, and abolished in 1873.)
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.
The early examiners are unknown. H. T. Craig, 1854, two years ;
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HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.
Eb Henderson, 1856, two years; John Story, 1858, two years; B. D. Blackstone, 1860, five years; Jonathan H. Henry, 1865, six months ; Samuel S. Griffitt, 1865, two years and six months; J. H. Henry, 1868, eight months ; S. S. Griffitt, 1869, two years and four months ; Robert M. Garrison, 1871, one year and four months; Hiram N. Short, 1872, three years ; R. V. Marshal, 1875, two years; H. N. Short, 1877, two years; S. S. Griffitt, 1879, two years ; E. W. Paxson, 1881, to date.
OLD SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.
Morgan County has no organization of this character except in connection with other counties. In 1869, a call was circulated through- out the county for the organization of an old settlers' society, the meet- ing to be held at Mooresville, and other counties were invited to partici- pate. The call was signed by hundreds, and, in 1870, the first meeting was held on the fair ground at that town. An enormous crowd assem- bled from Marion, Hendricks, Owen, Johnson and Morgan Counties, and a most enjoyable time was passed. The meeting was held on the 9th of August, and James Blake, of Marion County, was President of the Day, and Fielding Beeler, Secretary. Meetings have been held annually since. As high as 10,000 people have assembled. The old settlers have no ex- cuse in not recording their experiences. They recount their personal ex- perience of early times to one another, but neglect to have a competent scribe put it in writing, and thus the incidents so full of interest to their descendants and so valuable, by way of example, to the growing popula- tion and the coming thousands, are lost irretrievably. Such neglect should cease. If necessary a collection of $10 should be taken on the grounds and paid to some competent man to take a brief of everything ยท said, and then write it out in full in proper record books. Don't forget this !
COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS.
When the county was first organized it was compelled to issue " orders " to meet the necessary expenses. The court houses of 1824 and 1834 were built in this way, the orders being afterward taken up as the county funds allowed. Probably the first issue of real county bonds was when the present combined court house and jail was built. They were not wholly redeemed until after the rebellion. Smaller issues were afterward sold to secure ready means to build various bridges. When the new poor farm was bought and a new poor house built, about thirteen years ago, more bonds were sold. In June, 1873, the Commissioners sold $60,000 worth of county bonds to secure funds to build bridges over White River, at Waverly, and at the county seat, and to fence the court house square with iron. In 1876, they ordered $50,000 new bonds issued and sold to refund at a lower rate of interest the old bonds which were drawing ten per centum interest, the other $10,000 having been paid before. The county farm bond debt raised the entire bond debt to about $75,000. In May, 1882, the outstanding bonds amounted to $60,500, which sum, in December, 1882, was reduced to about $50,000, the present county bond debt.
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HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.
RECEIPTS FOR 1822 .*
June 29, from G. W. Preston, County Agent. $364 02
June 29, from Jonathan Lyon, store license .. 20 00
August 5, from Christopher Ladd, tavern license .. 10 00
November 20, from Benjamin Cutler, County Collector 103 81
November 20, from G. M. Beeler, tax on court writs. 2 50
November 20, from delinquent tax collected. 45
Total.
500 78
EXPENSES FOR 1822.
August 4, cash paid County Justices.
$364 02
November, cash paid out on orders 103 81
Total
$467 83
RECEIPTS FOR 1823.
February 11, from G. W. Preston, County Agent $54 00
April -, from Joshua Taylor, tavern license. 10 00
May 29, from the County Collector. 147 12
June 29, from Jonathan Lyon, store license ... 20 00
August 11, from G. W. Preston, County Agent. 165 91
September 20, from Jonathan Lyon, store license. 20 00
October 4, from Samuel Moore, store license. 12 00
October 4, from John Sims, tavern license. 10 00
October 4, from Christopher Ladd, tavern license. 10 00
November 6, from T. L. Galpin, County Collector. 136 87
November 6, from Robert Bradshaw, ferry license 5 00
Total
$590 90
EXPENSES FOR 1823.
February -, cash paid to County Justices. $135 31
August -, cash paid to County Justices. 219 41
November -, cash paid on county orders. 141 87
Total $496 59
The cash receipts for 1825 amounted to $665.56, and the expenses to $660.36, exclusive of outstanding orders. The indebtedness of the county was nearly $200. The outstanding orders were at a slight dis- count, and were current funds in almost all transactions. The cash re- ceipts for 1826 were $540.93, of which $218.20 was county revenue, $229.61 was from the sale of town lots, and $64.25 from merchandise and liquor licenses. The cash expenses for 1826 were $260.22. The cash receipts for the year 1827, exclusive of the county revenue, were $297.60. The county revenue was $241.08; the merchandise and liquor licenses, $72.50; from the sale of lots, $178.03. The cash expenses were $522.57, a few outstanding orders being taken up. The total cash receipts for 1828 were $742.62, of which $241.13 was county revenue ; $71.25 merchants' and liquor sellers' licenses ; $425.23 from the sale of county lots. The cash expenses for 1828 were $794.46, more of the outstanding orders being called in. The total cash receipts and expenses of the county for the year 1829 were in full, as follows :
RECEIPTS FOR 1829.
January 5, from James Crawford, County Agent .. $74 50
January 5, from G. H. Beeler, tax on court writs 4 00
January 5, T. L. Galpin and P. Dicken, fees. . 4 50
*Taken from the Treasurer's ledger. This record does not include outstanding orders. The county was really in debt at the end of each year.
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January 5, from G. A. Phelps, County Collector. 269 85
January 6, from James Crawford, County Agent .. 44 39
February 3, from C. Ladd, estray . 8 50
February 10, from William Lander, estray. 2 87
February 3, from G. H. Beeler, jurors' fees 13 50
February 9, from John Craig, liquor license 5 00
February 18, from Silas Stapp, merchandise license
10 00
May 1, from James Crawford, County Agent ..
271 85
May 4, from G. A. Phelps, delinquent revenue.
131 29
May 4, from Barclay Burris, grocery license.
5 00
May 13, from Samuel Drake, merchandise license.
2 50
August 10, from T. L. Galpin, estray ..
7 12
September 1, from Sims & Drake, store license 1 66
1 10
September 1, from Worth & Kelly, store license.
10 00
September 1, from Samuel Moore, store license.
10 00
November 12, from Sims & Drake, store license. 10 00
November 13, from Washburn & Co., store license 10 00
November 13, from G. A. Phelps, County Collector.
170 00
Total
$1,072 63
EXPENSES FOR 1829.
January 6, cash paid to County Justices. $427 24
April -, cash paid on sundry orders. 11 37
May 5, cash paid to County Justices. 271 85
May 5, cash paid to County Justices. 169 79
November 9, cash paid on sundry orders.
39 38
Total
$919 63
The cash receipts and expenses for 183+ were in full as follows :
RECEIPTS FOR 1834.
January 4, from John Sims, store license. $10 00
January 6, from Clerk, jury fees. 13 50
January 6, interest on $200 loaned. 16 64
January 6, from County Collector. 655 68
January 22, from James Cunningham, store license. 10 00
81
January 30, from M. D. Miller, estray ..
4 50
February 1, from Reuben Lambert, estray ..
1 75
February 3, from Caleb Staggerwalt, estray. 1 75
February 7, from Clerk for jury fees ..
13 50
March 7, from Cyrus Whetzel, grocery license.
1 66
April 17, from J. D. Fogg, circus riding.
10 00
April 25, from R. L. Jones, grocery license.
31
May 5, from H. R. Stevens, jury fees ..
9 00
May 5, from Hiram Whetzel, grocery license.
10 00
May 5, from County Collector. . 65 00
3 34
May 19, from J. M. Mitchell, merchandise license .. 3 33
2 50
June 13, from Samuel Moore, store license.
10 00
June 17, from H. R. Stevens, jury fees.
13 50
July 17, from Miller & Co., exhibiting animals.
5 00
July 22, from Michael Stockwell, grocery license.
1 10
August 8, from Eplinger, estray.
August 11, from S. Butler & Co., exhibiting animals.
5 00
August 24, from John Weathers, estrays.
26 00
September 2, from Gideon Johnson, store license.
1 75
September 2, from John Fee, store license.
10 00
September 4, from J. M. Mitchell, store license.
10 00
September 17, from William Scott, store license.
7 50
October 1, from Samuel & Henry Lawrence, grocery license
87
July 23, from Gideon Johnson, merchandise license 1 00
1 10
May 12, from R. L. Jones, grocery license.
June 3, from John Fee, merchandise license.
January 30, from Hiram Whetzel, grocery license.
5 00
May 4, from John Hurst, liquor license.
September 1, from Washburn & Co., merchandise license
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October 4, from Michael Stockwell, grocery license. 81
October 9, from Jonathan Williams, estray. 4 34
October 22, from Kelly & Worth, store license. 10 00
October 22, from County Collector. 172 53
November 3, from Lawrence Brothers, grocery license. 10 00
November 7, from John Sims, estray. 1 50
November -, from County Collector. 53 00
November 3, from interest on $100 loaned. 8 32
November 4, from J. W. Blankenship, grocery license. 10 00
December 19, from Avery McGee, liquor license. 37
December 20, from John Warren. liquor license. 41
December 24, from John Cox, liquor license. 25
December 26, from William Hasty, estrays.
12 50
Total.
$1,210 12
EXPENSES FOR 1834.
January 8, cash paid to County Commissioners.
$ 795 57
January 8, cash paid on sundry orders. 20 21
November 3, cash paid to County Commissioners. 890 07
Total.
$1,705 85
This exhibit illustrates two important facts : 1. Money had previous- ly accumulated in the treasury. 2. The county was either paying off old outstanding orders, or was engaged in some public improvement, as, for instance on the county buildings, or perhaps both. The total cash re- ceipts for 1839 were as follows :
RECEIPTS FOR 1839.
January 3, from H. R. Stevens, jury fees $ 54 00
January 7, from W. Sheerer, County Agent. 34 20
January 8, from Gideon Johnson, store license 5 00
January 8, from John Haines, grocery license. 25 00
January 22, from S. L. Graham, estrays ..
75
January 22, from E. Pinswanger, store license.
50
January 22, from A. Worth, store license.
5 00
January 23, from H. C. Martin, store license.
1 00
February 7, from E. St. John, store license. 4 20
2 10
February 16, from Wiley Gregory, store license.
1 04
February 18, from H. Collins, estrays 3 00
February 26, from John Hadden, estrays. 6 00
March 5, from County Agent ...
43 80
March 5, from J. S. Killy, store license.
5 00
March 5, from S. R. Trower, store license.
5 06
March 6, from Wiley Gregory, grocery license.
25 00
March 13, from L. M. R. Pumphrey, grocery license ...
4 00
March 18, from Samuel Moore & Co., merchandise license
83
April 2, from W. Sheerer, County Agent. .
47 23
April 13, from Craig & Major, merchandise license.
33
April 13, from S. T. Durin, clock license.
3 15
April 16, from L. D. Pond, wooden clock license. 3 12
18
May 6, from County Agent. .
35 00
May 6, from John Sims, store license ..
5 00
May 6, from N. Edwards & Co., store license.
2 50
May 6, from Hadley & Bales, store license. 2 50
15 88
May 24, from Sluss, grocery license. .
1 37
June 27, from S. Moore & Co., merchandise license.
1 66
June 28, from Otenstine & Goldsmith, merchandise license
83
July 15, from John Hudeburgh, grocery license.
3 12
August 1, from David Wise, grocery license ..
44
August 5, from Ellis Wise, grocery license. 44
August 7, from D. P. Morris, grocery license. 44
3
April 23, from H. Nespum, grocery license.
May 11, from John Crandall, clock license.
February 8, from H. Hamilton, store license.
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August 19, from A. B. Arnold, grocery license.
31
September 3, from Hadley & Bales, store license 2 50
September 9, from G. N. Walbridge, store license.
75
September 11, from John Buckner, store license. 75
September 11, from John E. Clark, store license.
75
September 16, from John Hudeburgh, store license.
3 12
September 18, from P. M. Parks, store license.
1 25
September 18, from J. M. & S. M. Mitchell, store license
83 84
November 4, from N. Edwards & Co., store license ..
2 50
November 4, from W. O. Fee, store license.
5 00
November 4, from J. M. & S. M. Mitchell, store license ..
5 00
November 4, from P. B. McCoy, grocery license.
25 00
November 4, from County Agent .. .
50 00
December 14, from John Hudeburgh, grocery license ...
1 00
December 14, from Samuel Moore & Co., mdse. license. . .
83
December 31, from L. Goldsmith, merchandise license . . .
12
From poll tax on 1,496 polls. 748 00
From property tax on $1,428,856. 1,428 85
From road tax on non-residents. 105 50
From county tax on ferries. . 24 00
26 62
From interest on money loaned.
34 20
Total
$2,814 39
In 1840, the tax on 1,584 polls was $792, and the tax on $1,411,084 worth of property was $1,411.08. The ferry license amounted to $21.50. The cash receipts of the county from June, 1841, to June, 1845, amounted to $22,136.08. This included county revenue, proceeds of the sale of lots, merchants' license, ferry and grocery license, jury fees, estray receipts, seminary fund, interest on surplus revenue and various inci- dental receipts. The cash expenses for the same period were $23,959.67. The total receipts for the year ending June, 1849, were $8,954.84, and the total expenses $6,332.02. The receipts for the year ending June, 1851, were $10,374.13, and the expenses $8,967.33. The receipts for the year ending June, 1855, were $11,778.89, and the expenses were $9,098.19. Receipts for fiscal year 1857, were $24,078.27, less $6,681.85 on hand at the beginning of the year, and the expenses were $17,828.30. For the fiscal year 1862, the receipts were $21,374.09, and the expenses $21,164.39. In 1867, the total receipts were $49,077.63, and the total expenses $56,641.75. For the fiscal year 1875, the orders issued during the year amounted to $33,749.53, there being outstanding orders at the beginning of the year $5,374.51. The outstanding bonds amounted to $60,000, making the total indebtedness $99,124.04. The orders re- deemed during the year were $29,258.35. So much of the indebtedness was paid off in 1876 that the Treasurer's statement showed that $156.48 had been overdrawn. For the fiscal year 1879, there was on hand at the beginning of the year $7,065.81. The total receipts exclusive of this amount were $27,236. The total expenses, less $7,703.49 remaining in the treasury, were $26,598.32. The total receipts for the fiscal year 1881 were $128,248.70, exclusive of $59,043.46 remaining in the treas- ury at the commencement of the year, and the total expenses were $131,- 159.38, there being a balance in the treasury at the end of the year of $56,132.78.
SUNDRY STATISTICAL ITEMS.
The receipts for merchants' license, from June, 1841, to June, 1844,
From sundry delinquent collections
September 30, from W. O. Fee, store license ...
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HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.
were $168.35. County officers were paid $2,341.10 from June, 1842, to. June, 1844. The county paupers cost $1,585.72 from June, 1842, to June, 1843, and $529.61 from June, 1845, to December, 1845. County officers cost $664.48 from June, 1844, to June, 1845. For the fiscal year 1849, merchants' licenses brought $139.17, and the seminary fund re- ceipts were $410.93. County officers cost $651.65 in 1842,* the poor $250.30, county buildings $1,855.20, elections $58.25, roads and high- ways $90.10, jurors' fees $472.74, specific allowances $811.90, and criminals $85.57. The total receipts for 1848 were $10,806.90, and the total expenses $9,146.82. The county revenue was $4,925.44. In 1853, the receipts were $9,517.19, and the expenses $8,515.64. County officers cost $522.40 in 1848, and $797.82 in 1851, and $1,525.75in 1853. The poor cost $485.27 in 1848, and $485.38 in 1851, and $580.51 in 1853.
The cash receipts for the year ending June, 1849, were $8,954.84, and the expenses $6,332.02. Of the receipts, $139.17 was from mer- chants' license, $+10.93 was seminary fund ; county revenue, $5,063.02. Of the expenses, $552.99 was for the poor, $585.25 was for county officers, and $100 was tuition in the County Seminary. The cash receipts for the year ending June, 1851, were $10,374.13, and the expenses $8,967.33. The receipts from merchants' license were $157.50; for the seminary fund, $138.88; for county revenue, $4,419.33; district school tax, $384.42. The expense included $799.82 for county officers, $485.38 for pau- pers ; for bridges, $283. The receipts for the year ending June, 1852, were $7,701.25; expenses, $9,132.62. The paupers cost $714.26, and the county officers $1,026.71. The receipts for the year ending June, 1855, were $11,778.89, of which $9,226.32 was county revenue. The expenses were $9,098.19, of which $2,457.64 was for county officers, $100 for agricultural society, $920.08 for the poor. The receipts for the year, ending June, 1857, were $24,078.27, of which $7,669.76 was county revenue, $6,378.38 for schoolhouses. There was in the treasury at the beginning of the year $6,681.85. The expenses were $17,828.30, of which $1,977.15 was for county officers, $926.02 for paupers, $100 for the agricultural society, and $7,273.75 for schools.
In 1858, public buildings cost $10,229.66; the paupers, $995.11; county officers, $1,198.79; the agricultural society, $130. In 1861, the poor cost $1,107.86 ; county officers, $1,241.91; the agricultural society, $125, and the military, $20.50. For the years 1858, 1859 and 1860, county buildings cost $27,076.73. In 1865, county officers cost $1,476.85; the poor, $2,656.58; the military, $18,375.12; the agri- cultural society, $215; county bounty, $3,530. The county revenue amounted to $50,836.03. In 1866, the poor cost $5,140.04, and in 1867 cost $2,304.89. In 1876, the total poor expense was $9,375.15; bridges cost $9,696.90 ; county officers, $8,683.73. In 1878, the poor cost $8,835.93 ; county officers, $6,342.35 ; orphans, $628.37. The total receipts were $41,910, including $10,381.12 on hand ; the expenses were $34,894.71. In 1881, the poor expenses were $7,768.03, also $3,253.24 on the house and farm ; county officers cost $7,344.43 ; county bounty, $4,513.74 ; jurors' fees, $1,824.89.
*Hereafter the year referred to will mean the fiscal year, expiring the 31st of May of the date mentioned.
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The following is the Auditor's report for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1883:
RECEIPTS.
Balance in treasury June 1, 1882.
$43,651 20
County revenue ..
41,076 03
Fines and forfeitures.
709 48
Congressional interest.
1,092 05
Gravel road fund.
1,120 64
Liquor license.
400 00
Docket fees
10 60
Dog tax fund
656 66
Common school principal.
3,384 16
State revenue.
210 00
Township revenue.
5,653 68
Road fund
14,250 57
Redemption of land sold for tax.
2,049 18
Tax refunder. ..
1,767 51
Common school tuition
17,055 15
Special school fund.
15,300 08
Common school interest.
2,764 24
Highway damages.
200 00
Local tuition fund.
13,013 78
M. & R. F. Gravel Road.
98 36
Bond interest.
3,688 84
Bond principal.
7,060 95
Bridge fund. .
747 02
Town bond fund.
412 76
M. & M. Gravel Road. .
2,765 68
T. S. & M. Co. Line Gravel Road.
9,850 00
M. & J. Co. Line Gravel Road.
1,700 00
Congressional school fund.
1,107 00
Total.
$191,795 61
STATEMENT OF FUNDS IN TREASURY.
County revenue
$7,250 52
Township fund
2,766 58
Road revenue.
13,871 85
Redemption of land.
843 26
Special school tax.
8,489 61
Gravel road fund ..
609 73
Common school principal.
651 46
Common school interest.
464 40
Local tuition tax ..
7,120 91
M. & R. F. Gravel Road.
341 08
Bond interest.
6,569 48
Bond principal.
923 44
Town bond fund ..
14 86
M. & M. Gravel Road ..
1,517 13
T. S. & M. Co. Line Gravel Road.
1,082 50
Congressional school principal.
1,107 22
Total.
$53,624 03
LESS AMOUNTS OVERDRAWN.
State revenue.
$ 52 00
Tax refunders.
110 55
Congressional fund interest.
2,227 73
Bridge fund. .
1,814 05
Salt Lick Gravel Road.
65 05
M. & C. V. Gravel Road.
90 65
M. & B. Gravel Road:
113 45
M. & J. Co. L. Gravel Road.
66 99-$4.540 47
Amount in treasury subject to draft, May 31, 1883. $49,083 56
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HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.
EXPENDITURES.
COUNTY FUNDS.
Fee and salary of officers.
$4,902 44
Jurors and boarding jurors.
3,009 25
Expenses of Poor Asylum, Orphans' Home and interest
on Poor Farm debt.
5,674 31
Specific ..
Criminal expense.
Commissioners' Court.
743 60
Coroner's inquest.
257 85
Roads and highways.
275 10
County Superintendent.
856 00
Books, stationery, printing, etc ..
2,864 34
Assessing revenue.
1,895 90
Insanity
237 01
Fuel
368 41
Bridges
649 74
Temporary poor ..
7,396 50
Bailiffs, Circuit Court.
886 50
County Attorney.
364 50
Board of Health.
363 70
Election expenses
87 80
County bounty.
145 95
County institute.
50 00
Procuring field notes and plat of county.
250 00
Interest on county orders.
219 63
Insurance
75 00
Change of venue
68 40
Total expenditures
$34,953 71
OTHER FUNDS.
Fines and forfeitures.
$709 48
Congressional interest.
1,621 04
Gravel road fund.
510:91
Liquor license.
1,400 00
Docket fees.
10 60
Dog tax fund.
1,488 76
Common school principal.
3,910 00
State revenue.
130 00
Township revenue
6,313 85
Road fund.
9,069 97
Redemption of land.
2,405 99
Tax refunder. ..
1,854 84
Common school tuition.
17,055 15
Special school fund
14,895 62
Common school interest.
2,635 29
Highway damages.
200 00
Local tuition ...
13,075 09
M. & R. F. Gravel Road.
555 50
Bond interest.
2,760 00
Bond principal.
10,500 00
Bridge fund. . .
2,561 07
Town bond fund ..
878,37
M. &. M. Gravel Road ..
607 55
T. S. & M. Co. Line Gravel Road ..
8,667 00
M. & J. Co. Line Gravel Road.
1,766 99
Congressional school principal.
1,971 17
M. & B. Gravel Road ..
113 45
M. & C. V. Gravel Road.
90 65
Balance in treasury May 31, 1883 ..
49,083 56
Total
$191,795 61
1,526 87
1,784 91
48
HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.
TEMPERANCE WORK.
For the following facts in relation to the temperance work done in Morgan County, the publishers are indebted to the contribution of E. J. Sumner, Esq., a resident for nearly fifty years of the vicinity of Moores- ville, and a prominent worker in the temperance cause. The contributor divides the treatment of the subject into three periods-the first extend- ing to the year 1839, the second to the year 1872, and the third to 1884:
During the first period, it was conceded by the advocates of temper- ance that the drinking of spirits as a beverage was not to be condemned, provided it was not carried to drunkenness, which was denounced as a vice; during the second period the temperance men took a step further and declared that not only was drunkenness a vice, but that the only safe way of avoiding that vice, was by total abstinence from the use of intoxi- cants as a beverage ; during the third period, the approved method of urging the temperance cause was by declaring that the only protection for the individual and for society from the vice of drunkenness was through the Constitution and by legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic. The word temperance herein used applies only to the use of intoxicating drinks, and not in its general sense of the proper or moderate use of law- ful things.
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