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, underibora of ciaed inj Metn: hanged c which t of the iispenfte. for allTHE WAY THE MONEY GOES.Last week we alluded to the renting of the poor farm by the County Commisaionert, and stated that Mr. Slane's bid was four dollars per acre. Upon a full investigation of the matter, we find Mr. Slane • bid was four dollars and fifty-five cents per acre, and two dollars per week for boarding the paupers. There are one hundred and sixty [.acres of land in the poor farm, and we suppose oneWABHow will proposition Erie Canal ? to attract somore.By an arrbetween thetook this Ca a portion ofhalf is in cultivation. Eighty acres at $4,55 $7,500,000.r neigh-ied the to forminstitulote the lat form,confersper the r their 3 of thisof Con s those uy and, !theyslightest-rpreach «recenty, wheneparato-on as ah a Con*a 8 mayper acre would amount to three hundred and sixty-five dollars. We do not know the number of paupers at the poor fartn, but will put it down at fifteen on the aver-ase. This number at Shine’s bid wouldramount to thirty dollars per week, and to fifteen hundred ami sixty dollars for the vcar. Deduct the rent of the land from theboarding of the pnupers, and you have thesum of $1005, which would have been due Mr. Slane out of the county treasury.Mr. Stephenson’s bid was three dollars per acre for the land, and $2,25 for boarding the paupers. The same calculation as made above would make his offer for the land $240, and his bill for boarding the paupers would amount to $33,75 per week, or to$1755 for the year. Deduct $2,40, the rentof the land, and there is left $1515,, the a-mount which will be due to Stephenson outof the'county treasury. The account thenstands thus:Stephenson s bid,Slane’s bid,turned out1 owuers—thlt; from it beir terest on the they have s“rue, or thands of th ** promise tc quires not o to the mind the subject, have upon t there arc u effort will I mate th is uwatched it ’ rather thangamMwill$1515 00 1095 00ticklings1emocratlber the quoted, ct/ plank ve a dis le when uch pkt$400 00ry means th it. Indeed, can well afi happen to 1 And they n,for a 1 spec, the incomin tive to be rlt; home five o of the sess; received, w tegrity of rr- look atand *58d at theublicans;n power bit Fcdy-ing theiriad excr-ohibiting Indiana, i, before em from the prog-or Indi jo wofuV to thank tent ande Repub' of a Ter nion as a because ions COD; and pro-Clear loss to the County,Can any person give a reason why the Commissioners would be so regardless of the best interests of the county ? Mr. Slane and Mr. Stephenson are both good men— both sober and industrious, and either of | t() them would have done their duty as superintendents of the county Asylum. Then why reject Mr. SInne’s bid, and take Mr. Stephenson’s? Would the Conimissxmcrs, or either of them, if they had been renting their own land, have taken the lowest bid? We think not. llence it was their duty to have taken the lowest bid, and make the best bargain they could for the county.The county is now in debt. The Com. missioners have borrowed several thousand dollars, upon which the people are paying a greater rate of interest than six per cent., and vet favoriteism or partisan political considerations govern them in making contracts for the county. We ask the ta» paying-peo pie of Boone county, are you willing to be thus imposed upon? We have heard men say it was as much as they could do to make enough to pay their taxes, and we don’t at all wonder at it Neither do we wonder that the county treasury is bankrupt, llow could it be otherwise when the Commissioners wili give $228,50 for publishing the t!c; linquenfc list, when it could have been done for $85, and throw away $400 in renting the poor farm when it could have been saved.SICK OF LECOMFTOX AND KANSAS. The Democracy everywhere say, “thentfore, of the pie of every well to the fore themthose are'c••fest, and ca]will eertaii —Andhonesty, it dents of th ing nothinj: of all part endeavor baverse to t: gency, in 1 tioncd the decision, o; rcctly in fs Senators iwho has elainy per] last dozen man who things, wo1 debt of ten if by so di thousandsLet the*from the I* 9ft mi. will
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The Boone County Ledger
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Fri, Sep 24, 1858
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