On the second Monday of June, as we have previously stated, Ezekiel BALL, Matthew RICHARDSON, and Solomon LINES met in Hamilton, and organized as the Board of County Commissioners. John REILY acted as clerk. Their first business was the auditing of bills, and the first one allowed was to William CROOKS, a judge at the previous election, for making a return to the clerk’s office at Cincinnati, Hamilton County. For this they gave him two dollars. The others were as follows: James BLACKBURN, late sheriff, State prosecutions and proclaiming elections, $21; William MCCLELLAN, sheriff, State prosecutions, proclaiming elections, etc., $18; John Reily, clerk of the Common Pleas, State prosecutions, certifying elections, etc., and one jury-box furnished, $27.25; Darius C. ORCUTT, cleaning up the court-house and jail and furnishing a lock to each, $4; Mahlon BAKER, services as overseer of the poor of the township of Liberty, $5; Matthew WINTON, assignee of George SWAN, for seven grown wolves’ scalps taken, $7; John GREER, balance of his services as county commissioner and secretary to the commissioners for the year 1803, and for stationery, $16.50; James DUNN, balance of his services as county commissioner for the year 1803, $1.50.
On their meeting of July 2, 1804, they allowed the following bills: George MYRACLE, one wolf-scalp, $1; Philip HAYLE, keeping Martin RIXENDOLL, a pauper, for six months previous to the first Monday of May at $20, and from then until the 21st of June at $6.12, $26.12; CONNOR & ORMSBY, nails furnished for repairing the jail, $7.41; Samuel DILLON, coroner, for holding an inquisition on the dead body of Haney THOMSON, and for travel, etc., to hold an inquisition on the dead body of John MORFOOT, $17.74.
They then made an order that the listers of the several towns proceed immediately to take in the lists of land and taxable property in their respective townships, and make return on the first Monday of August next.
On Monday, 6th of August, 1804, they allowed bills as follows: Samuel MILLER, extra repairs to the court-house, $12.81; James BLACKBURN, collector of taxes for the year 1803, was ordered to exhibit his amount of collection for adjustment before the Board of Commissioners on the fourth Monday of August; August 27, 1804, George LONE was allowed for a wolf-scalp, $1; James CRAVEN, lister of St. Clair Township, taking lists of land, etc., $21.25; Thos. POTTENBER, appraiser in St. Clair Township, $1.25; Jas. DUNN, associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas, $20.17; John GREER,an associate judge, $16.17; James MAHAN, lister of Ross Township, taking lists of land, etc., $11.75; Frederick SCHAFF, lister of Liberty Township, taking lists of land, $16.75; Daniel NELSON, appraiser of houses in Liberty Township, $1.25; George HARLAN, lister of Fairfield Township, $20; John TORRENCE, appraiser in [Page 44] Fairfield Township, $5; Garrett VANNEST, lister of Lemon Township, $23; John CARSON, appraiser in Lemon Township, $2.50; John DUNN, taking and returning to the clerk of the Common Pleas sundry lists of land in the year 1803, which had not been entered for taxes as the law required, $6.25.
James BLACKBURN, collector of the county taxes for the year 1803, appearing by John DUNN, his agent, exhibited his amount of collection as follows: James BLACKBURN, debtor to the county of Butler amount of taxes committed to him for the year 1803, $594.49; credit, cash and orders paid into the county treasury, $464.70; order for the remission of Joel WILLIAMS’s tax on his mill in part $3; commission of six per cent on the amount collected, $35.60; leaving a balance due, including delinquents, etc., of $91.13.
On application of Joseph BURGH, of Lemon Township, three dollars of the county taxes assessed on him for the year 1803, on a horse said to be kept as a covering horse (which was not), was remitted, and an order drawn directed to James Blackburn, collector.
The Board of Commissioners for August 28, 1804, made the following assessment taxes: On property subject to taxation in the county, $770.13; taxes of ferries, $1; probable amount received from tavern-keepers, $50; probable amount received from retailers of merchandise; $60; probable amount received by the dividend of the State tax, $186; balance of the county taxes of 1803 not yet accounted for by the collector, making a probable deduction of twenty dollars for delinquencies and insolvencies, $68.13. Total, $1,135.26.
They then made the following appropriations for distributions: Listers of the several townships for services, $102.75; James DUNN and John GREER, associate judges, $36.34; John DUNN, making return of lands, etc., in 1803, $6.25; sheriff and clerk of the Common Pleas, for State and county services, $40; attorney prosecuting the pleas of the State, $80; associate judges’ fees, $100; grand jury fees, $100; judge of election fees, $30; support of paupers, $75; wolf and panther scalps, $50; listers, for completing the lists of land, agreeably to law, $25; Board of Commissioners’ fees, their clerk, and stationery, $100; collector’s and county treasurer’s commission, $70; outstanding orders drawn by the commissioners which remain unsatisfied, $100; necessary for delinquencies and contingent expenses, $219.92. Total, $1,135.26.
The commissioners ordered that the collector of the county taxes should be allowed a commission of six per cent for trouble in collecting and paying over the taxes, and that the county treasurer be allowed a commission of three per cent for receiving and paying out moneys.
William MCCLELLAN, sheriff of the county, having given notice to the Board of Commissioners that he should not undertake the collection of the State or county taxes, and no person offering to undertake the collection of the same, it was ordered that the commissioners should meet at the court-house in Hamilton on Thursday, the sixth day of September, for receiving proposals for the collection of State and county taxes.
Edward GEE was allowed for a wolf-scalp, $1.
On the application and complaint of Thomas MCCULLOUGH, at their meeting September 6th, 1804, ordered that the valuation of his mills be lowered from $3,000 to $2,000 making a deduction in his tax of $5. The valuation of William SMITH’s house and saw-mill was reduced from $700 to $500, making a reduction in his taxes of $1; Joel WILLIAMS’s mill was reduced in the valuation from $1,500 to $1,000, reducing his taxes $2.50; David ENOCH’s grist and saw-mill was raised in valuation from $1,000 to $2,000 increasing his taxes $5; the valuation of Daniel GRIFFING’s mill was raised from $100 to $200, increasing his taxes 50 cents; the valuation of Shobal VAIL’s mill was increased from $300 to $500, raising his taxes $1; the valuation of Stephen VAIL’s mills was raised from $600 to $1,200, increasing his taxes $3; Samuel GREGORY’s mill was set at $300, increasing his tax $1.50. These variations made an increase of $2.50.
At the meeting of September 19, 1804, an order was drawn for Job GEE, for a wolf-scalp, $1; George HARLAN was appointed collector of the county taxes for the county for that year, seven hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-three cents.
The Board of Commissioners met again October 4, 1804, and orders were drawn in favor of the following persons: Joseph SPENCER, killing a grown wolf, $1; William COOLEY, killing two grown wolves, $2; Matthew WINTON, assignee of Benjamin ALLEN, killing a grown wolf, $1; Thomas COOCH, 4 grown wolves, $4; Daniel DOTY a judge of the election held in Lemon Township for county commissioner, $1.25; William BRODERICK, a judge of the election held in St. Clair township for county commissioner, $1.25; Daniel NELSON, a judge of the election held in Liberty Township for county commissioner, $1; James DUNN and John GREER, for services performed as associate judges in laying off the county into townships, appointing the place of holding elections, and attending to receiving and certifying the elections of the first sheriff and justice of the peace for the county and representative to Congress, each $6; John REILY, lands of non-resident proprietors, making out a general alphabetical list of the State tax for the year 1804, and for making out and certifying three copies, $32.16; John Reily, clerk to the Board of Commissioners, for services, including making out the duplicate of county taxes, and books and stationery furnished the commissioners for the use of the county, $37.16.
Benjamin Fitz RANDOLPH and Celadon SYMMES were authorized and requested to collect and receive of and from the several persons who have subscribed money, whisky, or grain for the purpose of assisting the county of Butler to erect public buildings at Hamilton, the seat [Page 45] of justice, such sum and sums of money, whisky, and grain, as they had respectively subscribed; and also to receive from persons who had subscribed stones, lime, brick, timber, mechanical work, labor, or hauling, or any kind of country produce which can or may be exchanged for cash. They were authorized to exchange the articles which they might receive into cash, and deposit it in the county treasury. The clerk was to furnish Benjamin Fitz Randolph and Celadon Symmes each with a copy of the subscription paper and of the order.
At the meeting of November 5, 1804, John BEATY received the premium for a wolf-scalp, 50 cents; James PATTERSON, the premium for five wolf-scalps, $2.50. John Reily, clerk of the commissioners, for services in drawing copies of the order of appointments of B. F. Randolph and Celadon Symmes to collect the moneys subscribed for public buildings at Hamilton, and making out and certifying extracts of lands entered for taxes in the county, which were in the counties of Hamilton, Warren, Greene, Ross, and Fairfield, was granted $5.79; and the following sums were also allowed: John KITCHEL, associate judge, $39.67; John GREER, associate judge, $8; Daniel BEATY, Isaac STANLEY, and Dennis BALL, as judges of the election in Fairfield Township, each, 50 cents; Darius C. ORCUTT and John R. BEATY, clerks of the election in Fairfield Township each, 50 cents; John BEATY, Ralph W. HUNT, Joseph COX, John MORROW, Isaac R. SWEARINGEN, judges of election in Liberty Township; Henry WEAVER, Ezekiel BALL, John CRAIG, Robert FERRIS, Isaiah MORRIS, judges of election in Lemon Township; Robert WINTON, Mr. SCOTT, John ORBISON, William RICHARDSON, judges of election for St. Clair Township; James DUNN, Isaac GIBSON, James ELLIOTT, Maxwell PARKINSON, James MAHAN, William MORRIS, judges of election for Ross Township, were each allowed from 50 cents to $1.50 for their services; David JOHNSTON, a judge of the election in Lemon Township, in October, 1804, $125; Samuel BEELER, a judge of the election in St. Clair Township, $1.25; Isaac SHIELDS, for carrying an abstract of the votes given for senator in the county of Butler, at the October election, 1804, to the clerk’s office in Warren County, $2; Daniel BAKER and Justus JONES, executors of Edward JONES, deceased, for services in making return to the clerk’s office in Hamilton, of the election in Liberty Township, in October, 1803, $2; William MCCLELLAN, sheriff, for his services in proclaiming elections and summoning grand jurors, etc., $13.50; John GREER and Celadon SYMMES, for services in attending at the clerk’s office in canvassing the votes of the county, each $1; John REILY, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for his services in receiving, canvassing, and certifying the votes at the October annual election, furnishing certificates to the persons elected, and certifying the roll-books of the election of electors of President and Vice-president of the United States, $8.75.
February 25, 1805, the Board of Commissioners met, and amounts were allowed and orders drawn, as follows: Samuel WALKER, wolf-scalp, $1; Jesse SIMPSON, wolf-scalp, $1; David LEE, three wolf-scalps, $3; James DUNN, associate judge, $12; John Greer, associate judge, $12; William McClellan, sheriff, hire of a stove for the use of the court-house at January term, 1805, and furnishing fuel, $4; Philip HAYLE, for the keeping of Martin RIXENDOLL, a pauper, from the 21st of June to the 5th of November, $18.88. It was ordered that George HARLAN, collector of the county taxes of the year 1804, should lay before the Board of Commissioners an account of the moneys collected by him and paid to the county treasurer.
April 8, 1805, on application of Peter SHAFER, the commissioners ordered a deduction to be made in his county taxes, to the amount of eighty cents. The following amounts were allowed: George MYRACLE, wolf-scalp, $1; Isaac WILES, work done for the use of the jail, and making irons for the confinement of criminals in the jail, $8.72; James YOUNG, wolf-scalp, $1; Adam SMITH, wolf-scalp, $1; Michael PIERCE, one of the judges of an election held in Lemon Township, on the first Monday in April, 1805, for a justice of the peace, and making return, $1.25; Captain John GRAY, for himself and ten privates of his company in guarding the jail at January term, 1805, $14; William McClellan, sheriff, for locks, etc., procured for the use of the jail, $2.75; William BUTLER, assignee of Thomas BAXTER, inspector of Butler County, for money expended in procuring and branding irons, etc., for the use of the inspector of said county, $12.50.
June 10, 1805, the following amounts were allowed: John REILY, clerk of Butler Common Pleas, the annual allowance by law for failures in State prosecutions, including his services in certifying the election of a justice of the peace in Lemon Township, $23.10; John Reily, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, for services from the 5th November, 1804, to the 22d May, 1805, including stationery furnished, $10.83; Samuel DILLON, coroner, for an inquest taken on the dead body of Stephen WILCOCKS, 14th April, 1805, $11.90; James DUNN, associate judge, $12; Henry WEAVER, associate judge, $12; John GREER, associate judge, $12; Captain James BLACKBURN, the pay of the guard for the jail, furnished from his company, at January term, 1805, $6.75; Captain John WINGATE, the pay of the guard for the jail in January, 1805, furnished from his company, $27.75; William MCCLELLAN, sheriff, annual allowance by law for failures in State prosecutions, including the summoning of two grand juries, $23; Thomas HUNT, lister of Liberty Township, $13.75; Thomas HILL, appraiser of Liberty Township, $1.25; Robert FERRIS, lister of Lemon Township, $25; Moses VAIL, appraiser of Lemon Township, $1.25; George HARLAN, lister of Fairfield Township, $20; Isaac STANLEY, appraiser of Fairfield Township, $2.50; James MAHAN, lister of Ross Township, $12.50; William MITCHELL, appraiser in Ross Township, $1.25; George MYRACLE, wolf-[page 46]scalp, $1; Peter DEMOSS, wolf-scalp, $1; Jesse SIMPSON, wolf-scalp, $1; Thomas MASSIE, wolf-scalp, $1; John DENOW, wolf-scalp, $1; Aaron VANCAMP, wolf-scalp, $1; Daniel NELSON, wolf-scalp, $1; Samuel BEELER, 2 wolf-scalps, $2.
John REILY was appointed clerk to the Board of Commissioners of Butler County, agreeably to the provisions contained in the act entitled "An act establishing boards of commissioners."
It was ordered that, pursuant to the statute entitled "An act for granting licenses and regulating ferries, taverns, and stores," the following sums should be paid into the county treasury by each and every person obtaining a license to keep a tavern or ferry in the county of Butler: On each and every tavern licensed in the towns of Hamilton, Rossville, and Middletown, the sum of twelve dollars annually; for each and every tavern licensed on any highway in any township in the county (the towns of Hamilton, Rossville, and Middletown excepted) the sum of six dollars annually; for every ferry license granted to keep a ferry on the Miami between the towns of Hamilton and Rossville, or at any distance not exceeding half a mile from either of these towns, four dollars; and further, that the rates of ferriage hereafter to be demanded for the transportation of persons and property across the Miami at public ferries, be as follows: Single person, six and one-fourth cents; man and horse, twelve and one-half cents; loaded wagon and team, one dollar; any other four-wheeled carriage, seventy-five cents; an empty wagon and team, or a loaded cart and team, fifty cents; empty cart and team, or sled or sleigh and team, thirty-seven and a half cents; every horse, mare, mule, ass, or head of neat cattle, six and one-fourth cents; every sheep, hog, or goat, three cents.
On Thursday, 20th June, 1805, the amounts allowed against the county were: William SQUIRE, Jacob BELL, and Thomas POUNDS, for their services as viewers of the road from SMITH & ST.CLAIR’s mill on Four-mile, in St. Clair Township, to Nathaniel BELL’s, on Elk Creek, each, $4; Henry WEAVER, for his own services, and the chain-carrier and marker, in surveying the road from Smith & St. Clair’s mill, on Four-mile, to Nathaniel Bell’s, on Elk Creek, and making a report, $12.75; Henry TAYLOR, Jeremiah BEATY, and John GRAY, for their services as viewers of the road from Rossville, by Beaty’s, COOLEY’s, and others, to the State road at or near the east side of the College Township, each, $3; John R. BEATY, for his own services, and the services of the chain-carrier and marker, in surveying and laying out the road from Rossville, by Beaty’s, Cooley’s, and others, to the State road, at or near the east side of the college township, $10.50.
On the 5th of August, 1805, it was ordered that the following shall be the assessment of county taxes to be raised: Amount of taxes, as per the lister’s returns, under the county levy law, $862.34; balance of taxes of the years 1803 and 1804, not yet accounted for by the collectors, $500; probably amount received from tavern-keepers, $100; probably amount received from retailers of merchandise, $40; probably amount received from the county’s dividend of the land taxes for the years 1804 and 1805, $480; total, $1,982.34.
The following were the appropriations of county taxes: The listers, assessors, and others, $310.33; probably amount of outstanding orders on amounts allowed last year, $350; probably amount of the associate judges’ fees, $100; attorney prosecuting for the State, $80; sheriff and clerk of the Common Pleas, $50; grand jury, $100; judges of elections, $20; paupers, $60; Board of Commissioners, clerk, and stationery, $100; collector’s and county treasurer’s commissions, $100; towards building a jail, $500; contingent expenses and delinquencies, $212.01; total $1,982.34.
For collecting and paying over the county taxes, eight per cent, was allowed; and the county treasurer was allowed a commission of three per cent on all moneys received and paid out.
September 2, 1805, at the meeting of the Board of Commissioners, the amounts allowed were as follows: Robert LYTLE, John SCOTT, James WHITE, John WILSON, David JOHNSTON, Aaron VAIL, William SMITH, Joseph MILLENDER, Joel WILLIAMS, Elias BALDWIN, James SUTTON, Benjamin LINE, William HAYES, Abel BELL, and Thomas DILLON, for two days’ services as grand jurors at the Court of Common Pleas, August term, 1805, each, $1.50; Thomas HUNTER, constable, for attending on the grand jury, $1.50.
Several errors were corrected in the entries of land, and deductions made in the taxes as follows: James BARNET, 100 acres, to be changed from first-rate to second-rate; Jacob CASE, 190 acres, second-rate; Joseph ELI, 600 acres, first-rate; Robert FERRIES, 60 acres, first-rate; David FLEANARD, 300 acres, second-rate, Sam. FERGUSON, 250 acres, second-rate, changed to 220 acres; William GWILLYM, 320 acres, second-rate; Michael HILDEBRAND, 102 acres, second-rate, changed to third-rate; Joseph HUNTER, 200 acres, second-rate; Aaron HUFFMAN, Sen., 5 acres, second-rate; George ISMINGER, 320 acres, second-rate; James KENNEDY, 50 acres, second-rate.
On September 30, 1805, accounts were allowed and orders drawn for Darius C. ORCUTT, for crying the building of the jail, $2; John TORRENCE and John WINGATE, first installment for building the jail, $400.
At the meeting of November 4, 1805, accounts were allowed to Isaac SHIELDS, for conveying an abstract of the votes given for a senator in Butler, at the last October election, to the clerk’s office, in Warren County, $2 James SCOTT, William COOLEY, and Daniel PERRY, for their services as viewers of the road from Rossville to Scott’s tan-yard on Seven-mile, each, $3; James HEATON, surveyor, and the services of the chain men and marker, in surveying and laying out the road from Rossville to Scott’s tan-yard on Seven-mile, $9.50; William [Page 47] CROOKS, 1 wolf-scalp, $1; Israel S. SWEARINGEN, making a return of the annual election in Liberty Township, $1; William BRODERICK, for making a return of the annual election in St. Clair Township, $1.25.
Accounts were allowed on December 2, 1805, to Philip HAYLE, for farming of Martin RIXENDOLL, a pauper, from the first Monday in May last to the first Monday of November last, being his fees for the first half-year, $28.75; James MCCLURE, one of the judges of an election held in Lemon Township, on the 16th November, 1805, for the election of a justice of the peace, $1.25; John REILY, clerk of Common Pleas, for making transfers of land and a duplicate of the land taxes for 1805, $39; Edward BEBB, William COOLEY, Samuel WILLIAMS, William BRODERICK, Joseph WILLIAMSON, John KOON, Thomas IRWIN, and James DUNN, Jr., services as grand jurors, each, 75 cents.
January 6, 1806, accounts were allowed Daniel PERRY, James WALKER, John PARKISON, George DRYBREAD, Moses VAIL, Shubal VAIL, Robert EVANS, David GRIFFIS, Samuel SEWARD, Joseph STEPHENS, John HAMILTON, Isaac ENOCH, James WILLIS, and Brice VIRGIN, as grand jurors, each, $1.50; William MCCLELLAN, sheriff, for the hire of a stove, fuel, etc., for the court-house, at December term, 1805, and for the dieting of Mary WILLIS, in jail on commitment, from the 4th to the 19th December, 1805, $8; George HARLAN, fees for collecting the taxes in Fairfield Township, for the year 1805, $15.57.
February 10, 1806, the amounts allowed were: Jacob LEWIS and John WALKER, one day’s service as grand jurors, each, 75 cents; John ENYART, Andrew CHRISTY, and James IRWIN, one day’s service as grand jurors at the Supreme Court in Butler County, on the second day of November, 1805, each, 75 cents; Celadon SYMMES, services at the office of the clerk of Butler Common Pleas, on the 11th of January last, to canvas and certify the votes given at the election for justices of the peace in Wayne and Milford Townships, on the seventh day of January last, $1; Joshua DELAPLANE, notifying Celadon SYMMES to attend at the clerk’s office of Butler Common Pleas, to canvas the votes given at the elections for justices of the peace in Wayne and Milford Townships, on the seventh day of January last, 75 cents.
April 7, 1806, the Board of Commissioners granted John TORRENCE and John WINGATE, in part of and on the amount of the second installment for the building of the jail of Butler County, $200.
May 5, 1806, accounts were allowed to David BEATY, Benj. BELL, Jacob WHITENGER, Joseph WALKER, William BLACKBURN, Robert MOOREHEAD, John ROBISON, Samuel DICKEY, Davis BALL, Abraham HUFF, John WINGATE, Thos. MCCULLOUGH, and Isaac REED, for services as grand jurors, each $1.50; George HARLAN, for attending on the grand jury, at April term, $1.50; Philip HAYLE, balance in full for the farming of Martin RIXENDOLL, a pauper, for the year 1805, $28.75; John REILY, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, for his services from 2d September, 1805, to 7th April, 1806, $26.50.
June 2, 1806, at the meeting of the Board of Commissioners, accounts were allowed to Meeker SQUIRE, one of the judges of the election held in Lemon Township, on the 24th May, 1806, for a justice of the peace, $1.25; John TORRENCE and John WINGATE, in full of the second installment for building the jail of Butler County, $200.
At their meeting June 9, 1806, John ORBISON was given commission on the collection of the county taxes in St. Clair Township, $16.95; and accounts were allowed to Thomas HUNT, lister of Liberty Township, listing of lands and taxable property, $21.50; Brice VIRGIN, appraiser in Liberty Township, $1.25; Robert FERRIS, of Lemon Township, listing lands and taxable property, $29; James MARSHALL, appraiser in Lemon Township, $3.12; James CRAVEN, lister of Wayne Township, $11.25; Robert SCOTT, lister of Milford Township, $6.25; William BRODERICK, lister of St. Clair Township, $11.25; John GERARD, lister of Ross Township, $13.75; George HARLAN, lister of Fairfield Township, $26.25; John WINGATE, appraiser of houses, etc., in Fairfield Township, $6.25; William MCCLELLAN, sheriff of Butler County, fees on State prosecutions when the State has failed, and for summoning grand jurors, advertising elections, etc., $48; John REILY, clerk of Butler Common Pleas, for his fees on State prosecutions when the State has failed, canvassing and certifying elections, making transfers of land and certifying the same $39.50; Matthew HUESTON, one of the viewers of the road from Rossville, by CROOKS’s, RICHMOND’s, etc., to ISEMINGER’s mill, on the dry fork of Whitewater, $6; John MCDONALD, viewer, $6; James WATSON, viewer, $6; James HEATON, surveyor, $7; William MITCHELL, chain-man, $2.25; Israel WOODRUFF, chain-man, $2.25; William CROOKS, ax-man, $1.50; Andrew CHRISTY, one of the viewers of the road from Smith & St. Clair’s mil, on four-mile, up the Miami, by BROWNLEES & SAMPLES’s mill, etc., thence to the north boundary of the county, at or near VANDERVERE’s mill, $8; Samuel GREGORY, viewer, $8; Garrett VANNEST, viewer, $6; Henry WEAVER, surveying the road and making a plat, including the fees of the chain-men and ax-men, etc., $20.75; William SQUIRE, as viewer of the road from ENOCH’s mill on the Miami, eastwardly to the county line, $3; John CARSON, viewer, $3; Thomas IRWIN, viewer, $1; Henry WEAVER, surveyor, for his own service and the services of the chain-man and ax-man, $7.25; James IRWIN, viewer of the road from John VANNIE’s to the county line, in a direction for BEADLE’s Station, $1; Ellis JOHN, viewer, $1; Michael HILDEBRAND, one of the viewers of the same road, $1; John MORROW, surveyor, for his own services, and the chain-men and markers, $5.25.
The premium or bounty on every wolf or panther killed in the county was made for each wolf or panther under six months old, 50 cents; and for each wolf or panther above six months old, $1.