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The following is a list of newspapers formerly published in Muskegon City, which have, from one cause or another, ceased to exist :
Journal, by Cowan & Hadder; Vindicator, by J. H. Maze; Reporter, by Fred. L. Lee & Co .; Telegraph, by A. G. Blood; Democrat, by A. White & Co .; Enterprise (daily and weekly), by S. R. & I. R. Sanford & Co .; Gazette & Bulletin, by Levi Beards- ley; Lakeside Weekly, by Judson & Co .; The Lumberman, by Wait & Judson; Lakeside Register, by C. S. Hilbourn; Daily Times, by Alfred Perrin; Sentinel, by A. B. Wood & Co .; Journal, (daily and weekly) by James G. Campbell.
In 1873 there were published in Muskegon City The Chronicle, News and Reporter, Gazette & Bulletin, and Michigan Lumberman, all weeklies. The only other newspaper in the county was The Whitehall Forum.
The first newspaper in Whitehall was founded in 1870 by Benjamin Frank, now of California, who ran it for about a year,
when he sold out to Rev. J. G. Schafer, now in New York State, but although a man of ability, Schafer had not the tact to get along quietly with his readers, he was glad to dispose of his interest to Mr. Nearpass, whose course and temperament are conciliatory. The Forum is a quarto sheet of five columns, which was the form adopted by Schæfer for the seven-column folio of Frank. It is Republican in politics, and has a steady circulation. Office over Linderman's block.
C. P. NEARPASS, editor and proprietor of The Whitehall Forum, was born at Concord, Mich., Aug. 21, 1844, and came to Whitehall Dec. 20, 1872; learned his trade in The Marshall Statesman office, where he remained five years; thence to Hastings as foreman of Journal jobbing. Two years after he went to Kalamazoo as press- man on the Gazette, and thence to The Decatur Republican, after which he moved to Whitehall.
There have been four newspapers published in Montague, of which The Lumberman is the only survivor. The first was The Syndicate, by John G. Lee, now of Grand Haven, issued in Decem- ber, 1871, and closed out in the fire of Feb. 21, 1873. The Lum- berman was next published by H. C. Sholes & Co., Nov. 29, 1873. The Vedette was issued Sept. 12, 1874, and lasted but a short time as a campaign sheet. The same year The Investigator appeared. The Lumberman is still vigorous and spicy under the management of Mr. Frank Bracelin, who also practices law, and has been for several years Supervisor of the town of Montague.
Henry C. Sholes, now deceased, and formerly of Kenosha, Wis., started the Lumberman, which came into possession of the Lumber- man Company in 1870, of which I. M. Weston was the manager, and Otis Caldwell, editor. Mr. Frank Bracelin, of Muskegon, pur- chased it in May, 1878, and has since issued the paper. It is Dem- ocratic in politics, and has a bona-fide circulation of over 600.
A sheet called the Investigator was started in 1874-5 by Mr. Vangiesen, lasting about seven or eight months. It was a rather scurrilous sheet.
In 1876 a sprightly paper called the Ve lette, ran for three months as a campaign Democratic sheet, edited by Robert Nelson, now deceased, and a journalist of considerable ability. He was brother-in-law of G. E. Dowling.
The Lumberman, in the hands of Mr, Bracelin, is manged with ability, and has plenty of vim and backbone.
JONATHAN WALKER. *
. The name of Jonathan Walker has now taken its place in his- tory, and as the latter years of his life were spent in the vicinity of Muskegon, his history is part of the history of the county, therefore we give in this book a sketch of his life. He was born on a farm in Harwich, Mass., March 22, 1799, where he lived with his parents until 1816, when he became a sailor boy. All went well with him for about two years, at which time he became very sick, while on a voyage in the Indian Ocean, and for some unaccountable reason, was landed and left in a bamboo hut, without friends or those with him who understood his language. After regaining his health he resumed and continued his sailor life until 1835, with an occasional interruption, when on shore employed in a shipping yard. At the latter date, having become acquainted with Benjamin Lundy, he went with him to Mexico for the purpose of assisting in the col- onization of those who had escaped from American slavery.
About two years afterward, while engaged near the Mexican coast, their small vessel accidentally ran aground, and being discov- ered, they were shot at and robbed of everything, including the ves- sel. He afterward built another small vessel and engaged in the coasting trade along the shore of Alabama and Florida, at the same time assisting those of the slaves in obtaining their freedom who
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might chance to come on board. While making a voyage from Florida to the Bahama Islands, in 1844, with a number of such persons on board, he was overtaken, captured and taken back to Florida and put into jail. He was afterward tried and convicted of slave stealing, was sentenced to be placed in the pillory, to be branded S. S. in the right hand with a hot iron, and to pay a fine of $600 and cost of prosecution. Every portion of the sentence was carried into execution, including his detention in a miserable jail for about one year in solitary confinement.
This cruel treatment of Mr. Walker was the occasion of Whit- tier's immortal poem, "The Branded Hand." Having regained his freedom Mr. Walker spent most of his time during the five succeed- ing years in lecturing on the subject of Slavery, and although he left the field as a lecturer at this time, his interest in the cause he espoused so early in life and for which he spent his best energies, did not diminish in the least until American slavery ceased to exist.
In 1863 he purchased a few acres of land at Lake Harbor, Muskegon County, Michigan, upon which he soon after settled, and engaged in the cultivation of small fruits. Here he continued to reside, and although affable and intelligent, was a quiet and unob- trusive old gentleman, beloved and respected by all those who en- joyed the good fortune to form his acquaintance. His health con- tinued good until the autumn of 1877, after which he gradually de- clined, the best medical skill seemed to be of no avail, and on the 30th of April, 1878, he quietly and peacefully died at the ripe old age of 79 years.
The monument shown in our illustration was erected in the Muskegon cemetery, in 1878, to the memory of Capt. Walker.
JONATHAN WALKER.
It is 10 feet high above the foundation, and stands on a base which is sunk to a depth of 53 feet in the ground, and stands 5 inches above the surface, making the total height of the monument above the surface, 10 feet and 5 inches. The base is 3 feet square. The material of which it is composed is Hollowell granite, from Maine, and it was donated by the Rev. Photius Fisk, of Boston, who also paid the transportation to this county. It has the follow- ing inscription on the south face:
This Monument is erected To the Memory of Capt. Jonathan Walker, by his anti-slavery friend, Photius Fisk, Chaplain of the United States Navy.
THE WALKER MONUMENT.
On the eastern face of the shaft is the following: WALKER'S BRANDED HAND.
On the upper base, same side, is the following:
Jonathan Walker, Born in Harwich, Mass., March 22, 1799; Died in Lake Harbor, Muskegon Co., Mich., April 30, 1878. On the north side is the following quotation from Whittier's poem : "Then lift that manly right hand Bold ploughman of the wave, Its branded palm shall prophesy Salvation to the slave. Hold up its fire wrought language, That whoso reads may feel His heart swell strong within him His sinews changed to steel."
STATISTICAL.
Michigan, which was a territory from 1810 to 1837, and since then a State, had in 1810 but 4,762 inhabitants, and was then the twenty-fourth in rank as to population of the States and Territories of the United States. In 1820 it had fallen to the twenty-seventh in rank, but it afterwards steadily rose to the ninth in 1880, with 1,626,325, being 12,000 below Kentucky, which is eighth,
The population of Muskegon County in 1860 was 3,947; in 1870, 14,894; in 1880, 26,568.
1864.
According to the State census of 1864 the population of Mus- kegon was as follows: Casnovia, 667; Cedar Creek, 166; Dalton, 674; Egelston, 153; Moorland, 126; Muskegon, 2,712; Norton 229; Oceana, 111; Ravenna, 429; White River, 543. Total 5,810.
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The total number of acres of taxable land was 113,308; num- ber of acres of improved, 8,761; number of acres sowed with wheat, 1.160.
The number of saw mills returned were 23 steam, and 9 water- power, which produced 86,600.000 feet of lumber. There were no returns from Cedar Creek, Egelston, Moorland and Ravenna, and of this amount Muskegon sawed 66,300,000 feet. The number of persons employed was 571, and the amount of capital invested $508,350.
The number of bushels of produce raised the preceding year was: Corn, 18,423; wheat, 16,678; other kinds of grain, 10,077. Potatoes, 20,862; tons of hay, 2,837; pounds of wool sheared, 2,175; pounds of pork marketed, 27,200; pounds of butter, 53,695; pounds of cheese, 1,400; pounds of sugar, 39,564. Of live stock there were 490 horses; 867 neat cattle other than oxen or cows; 587 work oxen; 932 milch cows; 969 sheep; 894 swine and 12 mules.
The manufactories were: Flouring mills, 3, all run by water; 2 breweries, both in Muskegon; no oil mills or distileries, and no mines worked. There were also six steam and two water-power manufactories of other kinds. There were 316 dwelling houses.
MUSKEGON COUNTY 1870.
The total population of Muskegon County was in 1870 14,894. There were 526 farms of an aggregate value of $1,342,703. The population by townships was as follows: Blue Lake, 381; Casno- via, 1,093; Cedar Creek, 660; Dalton 401; Egelston, 223; Fruit- land, 228; Laketon, 1,039; Lovell, 167; Moorland, 104; Muske- gon, 401; Muskegon City, 6,001. Total, 14,892. Of these there were native born 5,067 males and 4,377 females; foreign born, 3,335 males and 2,113 females. There were 25 blacks and 15 mu- latto.
There were 1,425 voters owning property, and 1419 voters without property. Total, 2,844.
The total number of acres of improved land in farms were 16,745; woodland, 59,684, other unimproved, 537. Cash value, $1,342,703. Value of farming implements, $16,580. The estima- ted value of all farm products during the preceding year was $306,- 223; forest products, $34,578; home manufactures, $1,835; maple sugar, $17,386.
The live stock on farms was estimated at 767 horses, 21 mules and asses, 977 milch cows, 365 working oxen, 911 other cattle, 2,454 sheep and 1,566 swine, and the total value of all live stock was estimated at $185,275.
The products during the year ending on the 1st of June, 1870, were animals slaughtered, $35,365; wool, 5,446 lbs .; butter, 54,771 lbs; cheese, nil; milk sold, 92 gals .; orchard products, $9,348; wine, 100 gals .; market garden products, $11,151.
The farm products for the same year are estimated as follows: Wheat, spring, 26 bush .; wheat, winter, 27,508 bush .; rye, 5,744 bush .; Indian corn, 27,264 bush .; oats, 24,516 bush .; barley, 439 bush .; buckwheat, 4,391 bush .; tobacco, 20 lbs,; peas and beans, 1,186 bush .; potatoes, 71,165 bush .; hay, 4.629 tons.
In 1870 there were 65 lumber, lath and shingle mills, 52 steam, 12 water, and in one the power not specified, These paid wages to the amount of $746,814, and the capital invested was $2,229,300. The total products were: lumber, 334,090,000 feet; lath, 92,440,000 pieces; shingles, 39,100 thousands. The total value of products was estimated at $4,168,790.
The manufactories of flour, meal and feed were 2 steam and 3 water mills, with a total of 9 run of stones. These ground 52,520 bushels of wheat and 20,600 bushels of other grain. The capital invested was $68,000. They produced 10,350 barrels of flour, and 2,975,000 lbs. of meal and feed, the total value being $126,555.
There were five foundries and machine shops, with an invested capital of $49,000, the total value of products being $82,680. There was one tannery producing $22,250 worth.
The total number of manufacturing establishments was 144, the capital invested being $2,525,500, and the total products being valued at $4,762,687.
The religious denominations of the people were represented by twenty-seven organizations, with eleven edifices with a seating capacity of 4,100, the church property being valued at $39,200.
There were 64 public schools of all grades, with 46 male and 64 female teachers, and 1,020 male and 1,070 female pupils. The total income amounted to $23,184. There were four weekly news- papers published, viz: The Muskegon Chronicle, The Muskegon Enterprise, The News and Reporter and The Whitehall Forum.
The total value of real and personal property is given as $6,971,774. The total debt of the county and minor municipalities was $35,100.
It cost the county $3,465 to support 204 paupers, of whom 24 were native and 180 foreign. This included temporary support. The number of paupers June 1st, 1870, was 10 native and 28 for- eign.
There were 51 persons convicted during the preceding year, mostly for petty offences, of whom 18 were confined in prison on June 1st.
STATE CENSUS OF 1874.
The population of the County of Muskegon, according to the State census of 1874 was 19,375, of whom 10,761 were males and 8,614 females. The population of the townships was as follows:
Blue Lake 297, Casnovia 1,529, Cedar Creek 291, Dalton 425, Egelston 317, Fruitland 208, Fruitport 378, Holton 620, Laketon 1,832, Montague 1,360, Moorland 213, Muskegon 545, Muskegon City 8,505, Norton 392, Ravenna 934, Whitehall 1,323, White River 706.
The total amount of taxable land in 1874 was 270,157.01 acres, and of improved land 26,174 acres. The total number of farms was 839, containing altogether 77,400 acres, or, on an average, 82.25 acres each. Of this there were devoted to wheat, in 1863, 2,320 acres, and to corn, 2,123 acres. The farm products for 1863 were as follows:
Wheat, 30,355 bushels; corn, 49,546 bushels; all other grain, 58,358 bushels; potatoes, 43,591 bushels; hay, 7,718 tons; wool, 9,438 pounds; pork, marketed, 46,575 pounds; cheese, 150 pounds; butter, 115,927 pounds; maple sugar in 1874, 46,724 pounds.
ORCHARDS, &C.
The land devoted to fruit and garden vegetables was as follows, rejecting fractions:
Apple, peach, pear, plum and cherry orchards, 1,979 acres; vineyards, 50 acres; raspberry bushes, 64 acres; strawberries, 130 acres; currants and gooseberries, 21 acres; melons and garden veg- etables, 174 acres.
The quantity of fruit and garden vegetables raised in 1873 was as follows:
Apples, 9,519 bushels; peaches, 260 bushels; pears, 85 bushels; plums, 46 bushels; cherries, 107 bushels; grapes, 1,902 cwt .; strawberries, 1,941 bushels; currants and gooseberries, 206 bushels; melons and garden vegetables, 5,049 bushels.
The total value of all such fruit and garden vegetables was es- timated at $27,629.
The live stock of the county consisted of the following: 1,862 horses; 67 mules; 446 working oxen; 1,946 milch cows; 1,507 neat cattle other than oxen and cows; 1,875 swine and 2,706 sheep.
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There were five flouring mills, two steam and three water power, with ten runs of stones. The capital invested was $80,000, and they made 54,100 barrels, valued at $408,000.
There were 68 saw mills, 58 operated by steam and ten by water, with an invested capital of $4,742,200. These sawed 438,- 448,111 feet of lumber, valued at $5,540,976. There were also 11 shingle mills, which manufactured $169,700 worth of shingles.
The aggregate number of manufacturing establishments, in- cluding those already mentioned, was 125, of which 78 were oper- ated by steam and 17 by water. The capital invested in manufac- turing was $5,366,300, and the annual products were valued at $6,721,676.
CEREAL PRODUCTS OF MUSKEGON COUNTY, CENSUS OF 1880.
Barley, 246 acres, 4,780 bushels; buckwheat, 300 acres, 2,659 bushels; Indian corn, 4,082 acres, 141,871 bushels; Oats, 2,448 acres, 65,026 bushels; rye, 460 acres, 5,170 bushels; wheat, 6,905 acres, 117,089 bushels
Much attention is devoted in this county to the culture of the small fruits. Between June 1, 1881, and Sept. 1, 1881, the sum of $23,333.88 was paid by one of the banks of Muskegon, in the inter- ests of Chicago dealers, to the farmers of this county for berries, principally strawberries.
The population of Muskegon, by the United States census of 1880, was as follows:
TOWNSHIP.
POPULATION.
SCHOOL POPULATION.
Blue Lake.
307
83
Casnovia .
1,715
50G
Cedar Creek
432
104
Dalton ..
395
146
Egelston
218
49
Fruitland
491
130
Fruitport
880
188
Holton ..
892
268
Lakeside
1,702
437
Laketon
918
242
Montague
1,950
607
Moorland
409
142
Muskegon ..
9:4
160
Muskegon City, First Ward.
3.789 )
Second Ward.
3.501 |
Third Ward.
1,718 /
Fourth Ward.
2,254 J
Norton.
556
126
Ravenna.
1.189
409
Whiteha'l.
1,835
507
White River
508
230
In the County of Muskegon there are only 11 Indians and half- breeds, and one Chinaman. In Ottawa there are 85 Indians and one Japanese. Total in Michigan only 7,296 Indians, 27 Chinese and one Japanese. In Muskegon there are 14,786 males and 11,800 females, 17,391 natives, 9,195 foreigners, and 102 colored.
MUSKEGON COUNTY SUMMARY.
1880.
1874.
1870.
1864.
1860.
1854.
1850.
1845.
Casnovia
1,715
1.529
1,093
667
605
Dalton
395
425
401
674
243
Egelston.
218
317
233
153
29
Moorland ..
409
213
194
128
105
Muskegon ..
924
545
401
2,712
283
484
119
Muskegon
City
11,262 556
8,505 392
688
229
197
Oceana.
Ravenna ...
1,189
934
1,035
429
393
655
268
98
White River.
508
706
1,452
543
374
789
Cedar Creek
432
291
660
166
Blue Lake.
307
297
381
Fruitland
494
208
228
Fruitport.
Holton.
Laketon ...
918
1,332
1,039
Montague
1,950
1,360
Whitehall
1,835
1,323
Lakeside
1.702
Total.
26,586
19,375
14,892
5,812
3,893
2,424
752
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STATISTICS OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC 1875-1881.
OTTAWA.
MUSKEGON.
YEAR.
NO. OF
DEALERS.
TAX
COLLECTED.
DEALERS,
TAX
COLLECTED
1875
66
$7.772 7.897
106 122
$11,822 10,942
1877
50
5,622
88
9,823
1878
47
5,083
76
8.098
1879
53
6,286
75
9,217
1880
36
6,037
81
13,217
1881.
71
12,890
In 1881 there were engaged in Muskegon County in the retail- ing of spirituous or fermented liquors seventy-one persons, and three in wholesale or manufacturing. Of these forty-nine were in Mus- kegon, eleven in Whitehall, eight in Montague, two each in Holton and White River, and one each in Muskegon Township and Fruit- port. The revenue collected was $12,889.99; the tax from retailers being $200.
The Muskegon names were: Charles Dunn, Charles W. Heath & Co., Helen Scott, M. Cohn & Bro., Wm. Reinecke, Wm. Kotel- man, Joseph H. Pero, Thos. Stevens, Narzis Steiner, F. Klanken, M. Hamen, George C. Schabert, Fred Witt, Nick Smith, Mrs. L. A. Johnson, Joseph Schobert, George Fraras, Peter Foegan, Henry Leiders, Wm. LaPlant, J. R. Bennett & Co., Henry VanBampus George Schwegler, Wm. Bodendoerfer, Edward Campbell, Adolph Peltier, P. O. Holstrom, Anton Westonmeyer, Peter Damm, Sul- livan & Vincent, Briggs & Briggs, Henry Dorays, John Peterson, Margaret S. Sibley, Herman Vos, Peter Call, Wm. Walters, Nich- olas Meisen, Herbert F. Young, August Peters, John Williams, Muskegon Brewing Co., S. C. Chumard, Frank Barnhardt, John Nystrom, Charles Duvel, Henry Lonsdale.
The Montague names were: L. G. Ripley, Ohrenberger & Co., Lucius D. Smith, Henry Warwick, William Kison, S. D. Shattuck & Co., S. M. Fowler & Co.
In Whitehall there were: James Fox, Thomas Larson, Wm. H. Baker, Eli M. Ruggles, Andrew Nelson, Harm M. Bjornstad, Max Bragenheim, Christ Lahman, Harvey Harwood, Silas Fisher, Hans Christy.
Village of Holton: Wm. Badeaux and Charles Tyson.
Muskegon Township: James A. Robinson.
Fruitport: George Pelton.
White River: Chris Weber and Wm. F. Bruce.
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE.
The first presidential vote cast by Muskegon, in 1860, shows, for Lincoln, 502; Douglas, 241. In 1864 Lincoln, 654; Mcclellan, 366. In 1868 Grant, 1,433; Seymour, 780. In 1872 Grant, 1,772; Greeley, 686. In 1876 Hayes, 2,255; Tilden, 1,511; Cooper, 163. In 1880 Garfield, 2,807; Hancock, 1,608; Weaver, 358.
LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL.
At the session of Supervisors October, 1881, as Muskegon was entitled to two representatives in the State Legislature, it was ar- ranged that the city of Muskegon and the town of Lakeside should be one division, and the rest of the county the other. Each con- tains about 13,000 inhabitants.
The new representative districts of Muskegon are, therefore: 1st, Town of Lakeside and city of Muskegon. Population, 12,964. 2d, All the rest of the county. Population, 13,662,
Muskegon County was situated in the 5th Congressional District, along with Ottawa, Allegan, Kent and Ionia counties.
In 1882, under the re-apportionment, Muskegon was set off to
890 892
378
167
620
6,001
1,448
Norton.
111
214
980
3,807
1876
72
NO. OF
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the Ninth District, containing Oceana, Newaygo, Mecosta, Osceola, Lake, Mason, Manistee, Wexford, Kalkaska, Antrim, Charlevoix and Missaukee, whose population is over 125,000.
Muskegon is in the 14th Judicial District, consisting of Muske- gon, Oceana, Newaygo and Mecosta counties. Judge Russell, of Hart, presiding.
Ottawa and Allegan form the 20th Judicial District. Judge Arnold, of Allegan, presiding.
INCORPORATED CITIES AND VILLAGES.
The cities in Ottawa County are, Grand Haven and Holland; in Muskegon County, Muskegon City. The villages in Ottawa are, Cooperville, Spring Lake aud Zeeland; in Muskegon County are, Bluffton, Fruitport, Casnovia and Whitehall.
STATE TAXES AND VALUATION.
In 1876 Muskegon County real estate was valued at $2,639,- 846; personal estate, $772,399,000; total State taxes in 1880, $5,- 110.
Ottawa County was equalized by the State Board in 1876 at $7,500,000; State taxes 1880, $9,581; and the county was in- debted to the State $41,319.
STATE LANDS.
On Jan. 1st, 1881, in Muskegon County, there were of swamp lands belonging to the State, 435 acres; of school lands, 5,446. In Ottawa County there were 1,293 acres of school lands,and 67 of uni- versity lands.
PROPERTY -- 1881
Acres of land assessed, 279,236.29 Assessors' valuation, $3,- 586,559. County Board Equalization, $3,320,102.25. State Board Equalization, $6,500,000.
STATE AND COUNTY TAX.
Muskegon county's share of the State tax is $9,170.10; the tax for county purposes is, $27,000. The apportionment is as follows:
Moorland $ 515.38 Blue Lake. $ 219.41
Muskegon. 1,073 83 Casnovia 1,964.98
Cedar Creek 420.32
Norton .. 724,91 Dalton. 439.25
Ravenna .. 1,544,74
Egelston 446.46
Whitehall 2,371.15
Fruitport. 1,071.84
White River. 513.33
Fruitland 732.41
Muskegon 1st ward. 2,803.71
Holton. 654.93
Muskegon 2d ward. .6,734.85
Lakeside 2,857.01
Laketon
1,918.44
Muskegon 4th ward 3,674.54 Montague 2,151.62
PURPOSES OF STATE TAX.
University purposes ..... . $ 325.00
and special $ 134,41
Reform School for Girls 790.83
Normal school current ex-
penses. 156.48
Normal Sch'l-training sch'l. 200.62
Agricultural College-gener-
Michigan Building 424.51 al expenses. 400.99 Agricultural College-experi-
New Building 401.23
Repairing south steps at Cap- tol 40.12
ments with Ensilage.
8.03
State public school.
334 23
Board of Fish Commissioners 64.20
Michigan School for Blind .. 148.46
Deaf and Dumb Institute .. 333.83
Reform School for Boys 284.88
General. 3,247.39 State Reform School building
PURPOSES OF COUNTY TAX.
Contingent Fund
.$21,000
Insane Asylum Fund. 2,000
Poor Fund. 4,000
THE COUNTY TREASURY.
Receipts and expenditures of Muskegon county for the year ending Dec. 31, 1881, as copied from the County Treasurer's annual exhibits.
RECEIPTS.
ON ACCOUNT OF :
Bills receivable $ 750.00
Interest. 39.01
Library fund. 649.04
Primary school fund. 8,527.70
Collections and office charges 390.60
Teachers' Institute fund. 55.00
State of Mich. for taxes, redemptions, interest and charges .. 7,350.33
For sales State list. 128.35
For sales adv. list. 1,235.36
From Auditor-General on settlement. 4,311.90 RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT OF :
Circuit Court fund 208.00
Sundry townships and city of Muskegon in liquor taxes and on account of State and county taxes of 1880. 27,933.53
Drain taxes, Moorland township 31.63
Poor fund 29.75
Bal. cash on hand Dec. 31, 1830, as per statement of that date. 20,291.47
Total .$71,931.67
DISBURSEMENTS.
PAID ON ACCOUNT OF :
Poor fund. $ 4,012.29
Teachers' Institute fund ... 44.50
Insane Asylum fund 2,030.32
Library fund
381.17
Primary School fund
8,527.70
Sundry township and city, for liquor, delinquent and reject- ed taxes 15,182.49
State of Michigan. 7,012,36
CONTINGENT ACCOUNT AS FOLLOWS :
County bonds. 5,000.00
Interest on bonds. 250,00
County orders 14,630 09
COUNTY COURT EXPENSES AS FOLLOWS : Jury orders 2,425 80
Witness orders 763.50
Stenographer 337.80
Special Counsel 115.00
Court Officers 372.90
Sundry expenses 20.00
Township Treasurers for returning delinquent taxes
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