Hanover Township (part 1 of 29)

Hanover Township

At the meeting of the Board of Commissioners December 2, 1811, William Robison, John Wingate, and James j Blackburn being present, on petition of the. inhabitants j of Reily and St. Clair Townships, it was "ordered, that j so much of the said townships as lies within the following j boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the southeast corner of | the surveyed township "Mo. 4 in the second range east of j the meridian line drawn from the mouth of the Great j Miami River; thence north to the northeast corner of | the same township; thence west to the northwest corner j thereof; thence south to the southwest corner thereof ; j thence east to the place of beginning, - si all compose a j township which shall be known and designated by the i name of Hanover Township." Election to be held at the j house c+' Aaron Saeket on the 21st day of December, j 1811, for the election of officers.

Union Towns. Hip

At the meeting of the commissioners, June 2, 1823, J " petitions being presented for the division of Liberty Township, ordered that the prayer of said petition be granted, and that the new township be called by the name of Union Township, and that an election he held," etc. No boundaries given.

This seems to he the only record of the matter preserved m the hooks of the county commissioner!*. Union 1 "as the last township erected, except Uamiitou That ; was so made after its erection as a city and union with j Rossville.

frame building, roughly weatherboarded, without either filling in or plasteriug. It was set upon wooden, blocks, which elevated it about three feet above the surface of the ground, affording, underneath, an admirable shelter for ] the hogs and sheep of the village.

The judges' seat was a rough platform made of tin- 1 planed boards, erected at the north end of the building. 1 A long table, similar to a carpenter's work-bench, was placed in front of the judges' seat - around which the lawyers were accommodated "with benches made cf slabs, i for seats. The remaining space was occupied by suitors, wit- i nesses, and spectators. In this building, the sessions of the court were held from the year 1803 until the year 1810.

that time, who had been committed for disorderly conduct ; or a breach of the peace. Having by some means pro- j cured, a stone, he commenced beating against the door, j and finally, putting his arm out of the aperture, he beat off j the padlock, opened the door, and came out, leaving the other prisoner, who was chained to the fiuoi . still in confinement. He went directly to the clerk's office, which J was only a few rods distant, and told the clerk ro Inform 1 the sheriff, and get him to take care of that d - d horsethief who was in jail ; for he was determined to stay no - longer in such company; and he, accordingly, went to his home. No further notice was taken of him. This j building was the only jail of Butler County from the year 1803 until the year 1809.

The clerk's office was kept in a small log building which stood south of where the fort was situated, and outside the line of pickets. It had originally Ix-en erected for a storehouse or sutler's shop by some trader at niched to the garrison at the time the fort was occupied by the army. It stood on lot No. (>6, a few rods south of where the United Presbyterian Church now stands. It was built of logs about twenty foot long by eighteen feet wide, and two stories high, with a porch to each story, fronting on the alley. The lower room- was the office; tne upper apartment was occupied as a lodging-room. The building was afterward remodeled, reduced, to one story, and tenanted bv .i German family.

In this building the offices of the Court of Common j Pleas and Supreme Court, the commissioner's office, the J recorder's office, and the post-office were kept by John i Roily from the time of the organization of the county ! until some time iu the year 1809. Here, in court times, j when the court was not in session, and in the evenings, j assembled the judges, the lawyers, and the picked men of the county. It was, in fact, head-quarters, where all the best society met to spend them leisure hours aud enjoy i themselves with entertaining conversation.

In the year 1809 Mr. Reily removed his office to the south room of his private residence, which he had erected, and just then completed, on lot No. 99, on the east of the public square, where he kept his office until the year 1 1824, when, the present brick offices on the public square | having been built by the county and completed ready for j the accommodation of the offices, Mr. Polly removed his | office to that building.

The first building erected on the public square was a j jail. Soon after the seat of justice was established at j Hamilton, a subscription paper was drawn up and put in circulation for the purpose of raising funds to aid the ! county in erecting public buildings. Tt was numerously j subscribed by citizens of the county and others having an i interest in the prosperity of the town. Subscriptions j were received in " money, whisky, or grain, stone, lime, j brick, timber, merchandise, mechanical work, labor, and I hauling." The amount subscribed was about $1,500. In | October, 1804. the commissioners of the county appointed | Benjamin F. Randolph and Celadon Symmes to make collections on the subscriptions obtained. However, it was long before they were all collected. Some of them remained unpaid as late as the year 1815.

On the thirtieth day of September, 1805, Ezekiel Ball, Matthew Richardson, and Solomon Line, commissioners of the county of Butler, made a contract with John Torrence and John Wingate to furnish the materials and build a jail for the county on the south side of the public square. The building was to be of stone, thirtythree feet by twenty-two, two stories high, and to be erected and inclosed by the first day of September, 1808, for the sum of SI, GOO. The contractors erected and in- ! closed the building, according to their agreement, by the I Full of 1808.

The finishing and completing the interior of the | building, securing and adapting it in a manner suit- j able for a jail, was not included in their bargain, but j was an additional expense, aud required some time to j effect, so that it was not ready for the reception of pris- j oners until December, 1808. The inside walls of the 1 prison were lined with logs about a foot square, laid close together, on which, was a lining of two-iuch oak-plank, well secured with iron spikes. The floor and ceiling were of hewed logs, placed in the same manner as the sides, so that t ho whole was very secure against escapes. The i lower story was divided into three apartments, having a .i

On the second day of February, 1807. the commissioners of Butler County made a contract with M dham Squier to put up a building adjoining the jail, already erected, for the accommodation of the .jailer and bis family ; the building to be of stone, thirty-three feet by thirty, and two stories high, corresponding with width and height of the jail then erected ; the whole making a building fifty feet long by thirty-three feet wide. Mr. Squier was to furnish all the materials, and have the -building entirely completed, according to the plan laid down, by the 1st of December, 1807, for which he was to . be paid, the sum of 81,690. Mi. Squier, however, not prosecuting the work with vigor, did not complete the job by the time stipulated in his contract. It was the beginning of the vear 1810 before the building was entirely completed, ready for the reception of the jailer and his family.

The building was divided bv a hall running across the building between the prison and the other portion of it, which was divided into two apartments in the lower story for the occupancy of the jailer and his family. The upper story, over the jailer's apartments, was fitted to accommodate the sittings of the courts, in which room the courts were held from the year 1810 until the year 1817.

At the time this building was erected the numerous fine stone-quarries now known to exist iu the neighborhood of Hamilton had not been discovered. The only stone then, attainable was procured from the bed of the Miami River, and was generally of small size and of an inferior quality. The mechanical art of building bad not then acquiied the perfection to which it has since attained, and the whole work appears to have been executed without a sufficient regard to that strength and durability necessary to render a building designed for a prison entirely secure. While it was occupied as a prison some escapes were made by means of breaches through the walls where the fire-plan s were, which subjected the county to considerable expense. The whole building, in its architectural appearance and in its internal economy and arrangement, presented neither a model of elegance or convenience.

The present jail was lmilt by Alexander P. Miller, to whom the contract was awarded on the 4th of March, 1846. It cost 88,581, ami was finished and accepted on the 9th of August, 1848. The old jail was sold at public auction on the 15th of July to Robert E. Dufficld for one hundred and ninety-four dollars, by whom it was pulled down and removed. The jail, as it now exists, is a stone structure two shades high, about fifty feet bv ninety, presenting a handsome appearance. The front of the builriiug-is occupied for a voddenco by the diciitf, and the rear is appropriated to the detention of prisoners. This room is about forty-five feet square, with a solid stone Hoor, aud lined with boiler iron for twelve fief high.

It ha 3 ten cells, situated in the center of the room, five | on each side. There is no provision for women in the i building other than is afforded by a small and insecure room on the second story.

On the twentieth dav of November, 1813, the comm'issioners of the county contracted with John E. Scott < to furnish all the materials and erect and finish a courthouse, according to a plan that had been drawn and agreed upon, to be completed by the expiration of the year 1816, for the sum of 89,000, He entered upon the ; execution of the work immediately, and had it completed bv the time stipulated in the contract. The building was of brick, erected ou a stone foundation. - It was fifty-four feet long by forty-four feet wide, and two stories high. ' The lower story, twenty feet high, was fitted up for the : court-room, having the judges' seat on the south. The main entrance was by a door on the north ; there was 1 also a door ou the east and another ou the west side ot the building,, and a private door on the south, near the j southwest corner, to communicate with the jail. The j second Story was eighteen feet in height, divided into a hall and four rooms, for the accommodation of the grand i and petit juries, ami for such other purposes as might be-! required. Ou the top of the building, in the center of j the roof, which was hipped on all four sides, was a eu- ! pola, surmounted with an iron spire, on which were two i balls of gilded copper. The height from the ground to j the uppermost ball was one hundred- and ten feet.

The contract price for building the court-house, as ! before mentioned, was 89,000. However, on the appli- | cation of the contractor, who alleged that he had lost j money on the job, the Legislature, at .their session of : 1817-18, passed a law authorizing the commissioners of i Butler County to make a further allowance to the con- ! tractor not exceeding one thousand dollars, if, in thenjudgment, on an examination of the accounts of his expenditures, it should appear that he had sustained a loss ou the contract. The commissioners, on an examination - f the account of his expenditures in erecting the building, made the allowance authorized by law, and accordingly, on tlm twelfth day of October, 1818, they paid ! him the further sum of one thousand dollars, making the j whole cost of the court-house 810,000. The sittings of ! the courts were transferred from the old stone building, I and the first court was held in the new court-house at j the April term, 1817.

Iu the cupola was suspended a fine-toned hell, which i was used not only for the assembling of the court, but | ou other public occasions, and tolled at the funerals of j respectable citizens. It was also, for a number of years, - rung regularly every clay at nine o'clock iu the morning, j at twelve o'clock at noon, and at nine o'clock iu the j evening, by a person employed for that purpose, who was regularly paid for that service from a fund raised by voluntary subscription of the citizens of the town.

considered inconvenient and not well suited for the accommodation of the court and those in attendance on that tribunal, the commissioners of the county, in the year 1836, resolved to make an alteration and improvement of the building, and for that purpose employed William H. Bartlett, a carpenter then residing in Hamilton, to superintend and carry into effect the plan of the alteration, which was immediately commenced by him, and completed, in the manner in which the building remains at present, by the termination of the year 1837. The courthouse, as at present modeled and arranged, is fifty tour feet in length from north to south by forty-four feet in width from east to west, with a portico of. teu feet projection in front ou the north, with four columns of brick, plastered with hydraulic cement. The columns j are of the Grecian-Ionic order, thirty-two feet in height, supporting a cornice and pediment of the same order.

On the north end of the building is a handsome cupola, surmounted by a figure of Justice, holding a sword and balance. The whole height from the ground to; tire top ; coroner and for grand jury rooms. The whole expense of the new modeling and alteration of the budding made under the superintendence of Mr. Bartlett amounted to | the sum of 815,919. Some remodeling and alteration j was done about teu years ago.

In the cupola is suspended a fine-toned hell, the same which formerly hung in the cupola of the old courthouse. Between 1830 and 1840 a fine clock was purchased and placed in the cupola, having a face ou each side of the square, pointing out the lapse of time, and 1 striking the hours ou a bell as they pass. The clock cost one thousand dollars, which was paid for by the voluntary contributions of the citizeus of the place.

In February, 182-0, the commissioners of the county contracted with Pierson Sayre for furnishing the materials and building two public offices ou the public ground for the accommodation of the county offices, to he erected, one on the cast and oue ou the west of the court-house, some distance therefrom, and iu line with the trout of that building; to be of brick, one story high; each forty feet long by twenty feet wide, with a stone foundation; each building to be divided into two apartments, and made fire-proof. The contract price for building them was 82,480. They were completed, ready for the r* ,-i -option of the offices, by the year 1822. The manner in which the offices were made fire-proof was by lating a floor of boards on the upper joists which supported the j ceiling. On this was laid a course of brick, which was 1 covered with a layer of sand or clay, six or eight inches | deep. The wood-work of the doors and windows was covered with sheet-iron. The floors were first laid with brick.

In the year 1836 an addition of twenty-three feet was built to the office on the west of the court-house, and the whole building raised to two stories in height. The work was done by Thomas M. Thomas, and cost $1,500. In the year 1837 a similar addition was made to the building on the east of the court-house by Jacob H. Eleriek, j at a cost of 81,820. Thus each building, as it stands at j present, is sixty-three feet long by twenty feet wide, and | two stories high, divided into suitable apartments on each floor. The whole cost of these offices, thus far, amounted to the sum of 85,806. Some additional sums were, necessarily, afterwards expended iu fitting up the rooms for the better accommodation of the offices. Iu the year j 1877 an addition was erected to the west building for the | use of the treasurer and county commissioners. The j foundations are of the best quarry stone, and the build- j iug is two stories high, of brick. It is about twenty feet | square. j

In 1858 the commissioners caused complete fire-proof | apartments to be constructed iu the interior of the build- ! ings, one for each - the auditor, treasurer, recorder, and j Probate Court.

The rooms on the first floor of the east building are i assigned to the clerk of the court for his office. The I rooms cu the second floor, over the clerk's office, are oc- ! copied by the Probate Court. The east room, on the j lower floor of the west building, is the county treasurer's i office. The west room is the recorder's office ; and the ; auditor's and commissioners' offices are on the upper floor \ of the building.

In the Summer of the year 1817 the public square j was inclosed with an open board fence made of mulberry \ posts and poplar plank. The materials were furnished and the fence put up by Daniel Keyte for 31.25 per panel of tea feet.

In 1838 the commissioners of the county had the j public square inclosed with a fence, of iron rifling, exccpt a small portion on the east and west adjoining the ! streets, which is left outside the inclosure. The foundation : is a wall built of limestone, sunk two feet blow the sur- ] face of the ground. Above the suifaee there is a wall built of large, well-dressed and cut limestone, brought from the quarries near Dayton, having a. coping of the | same material, on which is placed the fence, a neat and strung iron railing, with gates at the proper posit ions, | appropriately ornamented. The whole length of the inclo.'Ure is one thousand and >cvenfy-oue feet Daniel Skinner, of Hamilton, executed and put up the iron work ; Mr. Doyle, of Dayton, put up the stone foundation. -The work was begun in the Summer of 1S8S, but was not completed until June, 1839. The cost was 87,293.84. The square has bec-n graded and planted with ornamental trees, presenting a beautiful prospect, not surpassed by any in the State of Ohio.

Pioneer Life And Customs

The pioneers of the West three-quarters of a century ago, and more, were of a hardier and 'more self-reliant class than those who followed. They lived largely by the hunt; consequently, they were expert in the use of firearms. They began life anew in a dense wilderness tilled with gigantic trees, and, therefore, were skilled in handling an ax. Roads and bridges there were none, so that a close observation of the hark of trees, the stars, the breaking, of twigs and bushes, and the position of trees, and natural objects, was necessary to enable them to find their way from one 'house to another. They were compelled to be pupils of Izaak AVaTton in his gentle craft; for fish add much to the pleasures of the table. They must be vigilant and brave; for danger from Indians and wild beasts bad not yet gone. And they must be good farmers; for all their efforts were only preparatory to the clearing up of the soil. They made shoes, tunned their own leather, constructed their own household implements, and were obliged to teach their children, unaided by pedagogue or preacher. They were a strong, hardy race.

Those who came West, were rarely destitute of a little money, and if there were exceptions to this rule it was among young men with strong arms and invincible determination. Removal to their new location was most genera !lv from concerted action in neighborhoods.. Occasionally entire villages felt the impulse, and moved bodily. Some Churches were organi ed iu the East, elected their deacons and other officers, took up their line of march for the Yv'est, and the congregation drove their teams by day, halted at night, invariably offering prayer's at bed-time and at meals, and resumed their march the next day. stopping ou Sunday for a long season of religious worship. Such was the case with some of those who first went to the 'Western Reserve, and, to a modified extent, this will hold good for the congregation of believers whose descendants now worship at Paddy's Run. Land was not infrequently bought in the East; hut most generally the actual settler saw the ground before purchasing.

The projectors of the laud companies did not spare tiro, very adjectives when describing the good quanta - of the tracts they had to sell One of the first companies w is the fifoioto. It was represented m Eur qw !,v Joel Barlow, the poet, who spoke ol its merits as a poet should sing when describing an Arcadia. In his circular.

"A climate wholesome and delightful, frost even, in Winter almost' entirely unknown, and a river called, by way of eminence, the Beautiful, and abounding in excellent fish of vast size ; . noble forests, consisting of trees that spontaneously produce sugar (the sugar-maple), and a plant that yields ready-made candles (. Myrica cerifora) ; venison in plenty, the pursuit ofi which is uninterrupted bv wolves, foxes, lions, or tigers. A couple of swine would multiply themselves a hundred-fold in two or three years without taking any care of them. No taxes to pay; no military services -to be performed."

. Similar stories were published and told about the lands in the Miami Valley, although, as Judge Symmes and his associates were not poets, there was not so much exaggeration. Much of the laud hereabout was takey up in J New Jersey and in' New York and Philadelphia, largely i by persons who never intended coming out to Ohio, and j who bought simply because it seemed likely to become a ) profitable speculation. The very first who came had j most generally been in. the armies of Sf. Clair or Wayne. 1 The settlement of Hamilton was nearly entirely front this ; source. But the great covered, wagons began moving out I here with the first roads, and before that cattle and horses j were driven si owl v and laboriously over tlie moan tarns ! and down to the promised land. Pittsburg became the j center of an outfitting industry similar to that which St. ! Joe occupied for so long a time on the plains. Here the j emigrant met those who had been over the route and j knew its dangers and pitfalls; here the land-jobbers i congregated, and here were dealers with all the ini pie- I ments, gear, and articles of clothing likely to be needed in j the war against the forces of nature. - We have now con- j quered, but three generations have died since the contest

Pittsburg swarmed with life. So also did one or two oi the towns lower down the river, where boats could be bought and the passengers committed to the s 'ow-movii)*> stream. The boat was very plain and simple, it v.as large enough to contain six or eight tons of load; but that was all. Floating down the river would now be pleasant enough : but then there were stretches of t wen tv or thirty miles without a single house. The crack of a nlle might at any moment be heard, striking down the head of a famdy or wounding some woman or child, and causing dismay and sorrow to those who survived. By night and by day the' river bank must be watched. The boat must be pushed away from sand-bars, and steered s,) as to avoid contact with snags.

was to clear it. He was happy, who could get, some other adventurer to join him for the first few days, until he had made a beginning in the forest. To fell the trees was a colossal undertaking. Many of them were three or four feet in diameter, and some natch exceeded these figures. The spot for the cabin was usually picked out from its contiguity to a spring. Here, then, a space of thirty feet square having been selected, the axes rang merrily out, and one after another the monarebs of the forest fell. They were trimmed of their branches, the underbrush cleared away, and the first log, having been partially squared, was laid upon the ground in the place where the cabin was to be. Notches were cut near the

| ends, and in these notches other logs were laid, cue at a ! time, until the building had reached high enough for a i roof, which was at first only boughs and bark. Doors ] were 'cut in, openings for windows left, and the house was ; ready for its first occupancy. Daniel Doty, of Middlej town, lived out-doors for more than two weeks, cocking i and sleeping in the open air while his cabin was going up. j This was just over the border in Warren County, and the ' denseness of the woods w as the reason why he finally aban- ; donod that neighborhood, and came to reside on the banks i of the Miami. He was tired of the warfare against nature,

; and when he heard that there Was a beautiful natural prairie at the side of this river, he left his improvements, on which he had spent eight or nine months, and became, a dweller in what is now Butler County.

The cabin, windows were made by sawing out about three feet of one of the logs, and fastening in a few upright pieces. For lights they put in paper, and greased it with bear's-oil and hog-fat, pasting it on the upright pieces. There was then very sir tie glass made in the country, the only place in the West being in I'ittsburg, which is still the center of the glass industry ; and the high cost of transportation and the lack of money put it out of the power of the settlers to purchase this transparent material.

Housekeeping presented many serious discouragements. That civilization which is a multiplication of wants, our forefathers, happily, had not attained to. Bather they adhered to Goldsmith's dictum, tl Man wants but little here below." It is surprising how few are the things which are really indispensable. In the forest, without roads, with scarcely even a path, it was difficult to net any thing from market, and it was -till more difficult to take it thither; for the latter was likely to be the heavier commodity. It did not pay to transport Indian, corn, oats, or wheat; and a farmer can scared v raise any oid proceed overland. F« > conic to Hamilton va- often ; changed from tin back of a slu - "'** "r throe days' journey in unfavorable weather. The iehvi hiua having been liouunt, either from the Dnifod State.- coons, foxes and wolves, opossums and squirrels abounded. The man of the house left home before daybreak, and before noon often returned with a huge load of venison or wild turkeys. The stranger who came by was welcome. He represented the outside world to them. He was theater and church, school and fair, all in one. They heard nothing of what was going on except as lie echoed it.

Sometimes the pioneer began even more unpretentiously. With au ax be started out to fell enough saplings to build a rude hut, seven feet by four, and five feet high. It was open in front, where a place was left for a fire. A frying-pat: and a jack-knife would complete the equipment. Coals lingered the whole day. A piece of pork would be put in the pan and fried, and, with a piece of bread, borrowed, like its oleaginous neighbor, from a farmer of the vicinity, the woodchopiper made his hearty meals. Coffee and tea were not introduced at the beginning of the State settlement; indeed, the latter was not in much use until 1880. One of these pioneers has left us an account of his struggles to get a frock for the baby :

"I built a log-house twenty feet square - quite aristocratic in those days - and moved into it. I was fortunate enough to possess a jack-knife. With that I made a wooden knife and two wooden forks, which answered admirably for us to eat with. A bedstead was wanted. I took two round poles for the posts, inserted a pole in them for a side-rail ; two other poles were inserted for the end pieces, the ends of which were put in the logs of the house ; some puncheons were then split and laid from the side-rail to the crevice between the logs of the house, v hich formed a substantial bed-cord, on which we laid our straw -bed - the only bed we had - on which we slept as soundly and woke as happy as Albert and Victoria.

" In process of time a yard and a half of calico were wanted. I started, on foot through the woods ten miles to procure it; but, alas! when I arrived I found that, in the absence of both money and credit, the calico was not to be obtained. The dilemma was a serious one, and how to escape I could not devise ; but I bad no sooner informed my wife of my failure than she- suggested that I had a pair of thin pantaloons which I could very well spare, that would make quite a decent frock. The pants were cut up, the frock made, and in due time the child was dressed."

The house, after being first erected, needed many repairs and alterations to fit it for the residence of a family. It was always left, with great interstices between the logs, which needed to he lilted up with mud or cinv or with pieces of wood. As the means of the family increased and saw-mills were built, the rude structure was often enveloped with a frame covering; but underneath all was unchanged. I he house occupied by fu neral Harrison until his death, situated at Is'orth Bend, was an instance, (ieneraily the chimney was built up on the uui.'ide, and

! There were no thieves and no dishonest people. Credits j were long, and pay was taken in almost every thing to J be found in the country. Potash, hides and furs, cattle, l tobacco, and, later, wheat and oats, were merchantable nr- I tides, and often answered instead of money itself. But the .prices, as we should judge them now, were ruinously low. We give elsewhere, in the article on the National Armory, and in some of our local histories, the cost of .commodities as they were forty and sixty years ago. The currency was as varied as the articles for which they were given. There were notes of banks on half a dozen different .States in various stages of depreciation; thm United States currency of dollars, dimes, and cents; currency from New Spain, Cuba, and other Spanish Ameri- ! can countries ; British silver, raid French five-franc pieces.

i surrounding forests, and the insects which are now the i bane of the fruit-producer had not yet made their appeari ance. The smaller fruits- - the strawberry, raspberry, and | currant - were uncultivated; but the melon in its dirier- I cut varieties was abundant. The trees were deprived of ! life by being girdled, and then afterwards cut down ; but ! often they stood for many years, weakening and falling,

| a most deplorable sight. After the trees were felled I the stumps were burned out aud pulled out; the ground i was fertilized with the ashes and mold, and the crops that were obtained were in great abundance. There was no rotation of crops, no underdrainiug, scarcely any surface draining, and no manuring, except the small portion derived from the stable. Wh m one field was worn cut. another was got ready. There were few sheep, but hogs were numerous. They were of the genuine racer breed, and earned their own living. Chickens and turkevs were numerous, and the holiday meal always included one of these. Fork was the great staple. It had au adi vantage over the other products of the farm. The hog S could he driven from home to the market, aud corn i could in no way be more easily moved than in this eon- ! centrated form. Hot biscuits were the delight of the ' farmer, and cold bread was very rarely eateu. The ! maple-tree furnished an abundant yield of molasses and I sugar, and there was no lack of fruit to be put up in ! homely preserves.

Fanners worked their places with much l--> lalxc* I than at present. They rarely hired any help, "\cept at harvest, and the pioneer, with his wife and children, toiled on year after war with little assistance. lbcre was usually a cow or two, ami the duty of milking' ami ! making butter devolved upon the wife. So did that of 1 making cloth, and the garments out of the cloth. The husband made the shoes, except at the time when some wandering shoemaker sought shelter and a tew days' work. A dock was too expensive a thing to have prude dials answered every purpose on bright days, and on dark days they guessed as to the hour. The crockery was homely yellow ware, and was often eked out by pewter | and wooden dishes. Fine queensware and china were not to lie seen. The ovens were luige and capacious, and in them could be baked whole turkeys or sheep. So also were the fire-places of those houses which were constructed after the people became a little forehanded. Here and there may now be seen an ancient dwelling in which the Dutch oven is a prominent part.

It was a difficult thing, even after a family had some money, to get luxuries. Public sentiment frowned upon them as effeminate, and the shopkeepers did not have odd j and curious articles on hand. The chairs and tables were j at the beginning made by the stout hands of the farmer j himself; the beds were built in the house, and thongs of j deer or coarse ropes were extended across from side to 'j side, to give the requisite elasticity. Over this was a ' tick, filled with oat-straw, and the high structure was J surmounted by a feather-bed, loved by all who were | brought up to know its soft embraces, and contemned by j this latter-day generation, who have been taught that it ! is hygienical!)' bad, and makes man, woman and child too comfortable. The last of all were the sheets of linen, ! woven at home, and a counterpane, carefully joined to- j gether from twoscore different patterns of cloth - a true j housewife's delight. If there was a cradle, it was made { at home. Perhaps it might be half a barrel cut length- | wise, and furnished with rockers ; sometimes it was a J log hollowed out ; but generally it was made by some j handy man in the neighborhood. The floor was rough, as it must needs be when slabs or puncheons are used to lay it. There was no danger of dying fror suffocation, as there was a huge fire-place and chimney to make a draft, and innumerable chinks and crevices iu the walls and floors to admit the free air of heaven; and there were no needless pieces of furniture for the housekeeper ! to dust and, keep in order. What would she have said could she have seen the present craze for pottery and furniture '!

For the first score of years after the treaty of Green- j ville the hunting of wild animals formed an essential ! portion of the pioneer's livelihood. It is true that most ! men did not neglect tilling the soil on this account; but | until the wild animals bad been nearly exterminated his and crops wore not of much account. .Squirrels j wvunued iu wist numbers, and to them a corn-field was , a particular attraction. Bears had the same weakness, j it was a common plan for farmers to go on a Summer's | ffiglu to a corn-field, and there wait for t ho quadruped 1 to approach. If the field were fenced; the beast would find some place to climb over the rails. When at the i top, he would carefully look in every direction for an j enemy. After a time, seeing none, he would drop off the fence inside the field. He can not climb down, and so ! must fall. Having picked himself up, and waited, -perhaps, ten minutes to see if he was observed, he would proceed to the hills- of corn, pull down the stalk, strip the ears of the husk, and begin eating the succulent grains with the greatest relish. It was wonderful what devastation one bear would make in a corn-field in one ! night. If the plans of the hunter had been well carried j out, he would fire from his ambush as soon as the bear 1 was near enough, and enough meat would be obtained to last his family until the carcass could be no longer kept. The skin was worth a round sum, either to sell or to keep. The fat, tried out, made a pomade or ointment, and the dogs had a feast on the poorer parts of the. animal. These latter were an important part of every household. From one to six were to be found near each farmstead, and, if of "low degree" and not well trained, j they would make the night vocal by their barking. They ] were useful, however. They aided the farmer to discover ! any depredator on his fields, whether man pr beast;. they i .helped him in bis encounters with savage animals, and i they formed excellent playmates for his children. In all new countries men prizes the companionship of dogs. In j hunting wolves and foxes they were essentia.!, and were | the same with raccoons and opossums. The latter were ! largely hunted at night, and formed excellent roasts for the family. The furs and skins of animals formed the most compact and valuable of all commodities that the frontiersman had to do with. Offered at the shopkeepers', they brought cash, and iu dealings of one man with ! another they passed more readily current than any other property. A premium was paid on the heads of wolves by the commissioners of Butler County for a number of i years, and this stimulated die energies of the hunter. Many expedients were used to ensnare these animals. Large traps were made and baited, the mechanism being j such that the attempt to take the bait would result iu tiie fall of the gate, thus securely imprisoning the beast. Other hunters would take the ovary of the female wolf j at a particular time of the year, rub it upon their boots, and then walk across the paths whore the animal - were sure to come. They immediately left whatever thev were doing, and followed. This plan, while very successful, was attemled with great danger, a- the wolves became infuriated when they saw the deception that had been practiced upon them, and not infrequently attacked the backwoodsman. Often have hunters been obliged to climb trees to secure their safety. But so effectual were the attempts to exterminate wolves that few have been seen by any one now living, ami there i> probably no one resilient in the county who has killed one within >ts limit - It is impossible to give a description >f a school that shall entirely correspond to that which existed among j our forefathers. It was entirely sustained by subscrip- j tion, the wealthier men paying a little more than the | poorer ones. The schoolmaster was a man of considers- | tion. He ranked next in the community after the doctor, j the lawyer, and the minister,, and although his learning might not have been great, it was greater than that of the persons in whose society he found himself. Often he was some man who had traveled far afield, and knew j more of the world than his auditors. He generally wrote j a good hand, was familiar with the easier parts of arith- 1 metic, had a little knowledge of geography, English, j American and Roman history, and could read passably, j He only gave instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and if he taught these veil he satisfied his patrons. | The houses were , generally of logs, with a capacious fire- | place, and the benches and desks were of plain plank I or slabs, the flat side uppermost. There was no uniformity of books. Each pupil brought what he had, and all were in turn used by the teacher! One thing is undeniable : the pupils carried from the schools more that j they remembered, considering the extent of the curricu- i ulurn, than is now done in similar places-. There was j more concentration, and there was no study of a dozen . different branches, all of necessity imperfectly acquired, j It must not be imagined that all the inhabitants were j farmers. The hunter and trapper preceded them, and the blacksmith followed. Many of the articles which we'! now buy ready made were then beat out on the anvil, i Kails were among these; the point to a plowshare, the remainder being wood; bolts and bars, knives, sickles, I and axes were wrought out by ills labors. He was an i indispensable man. Something which is widely different from that found to-day was the multitude of innkeepers. Roadside taverns abounded everywhere. It was necessary for the traveler to stop over-night, and as he could only make from ten to twenty miles per day, often finding two or three miles too much, he was compelled to avail himself of their facilities. In the smaller kind | there was only a lower room and a loft, into which the j traveler mounted by a ladder. Here were three or four i beds, and if there were women in the party there was a j curtain to divide their part of the garret from the other part, in which the men slept. In the larger there were j two log-cabins, side by side, with, of course, additional j accommodations. Log houses were the rule then, not the j exception. When John Reily came to Hamilton, nearly eighty years ago, the cabins outnumbered the frame i houses, and the latter were very small, unpretentious j dwellings. The landlord in those days gave plentiful fare, but not what would now he considered as of the best quality. It was pork and potatoes, with corn-bread. Chickens were afforded as often as possible, and always j on gala-days ; but beef and mutton were seldom seen, I unless the former, salted, in 'Vinter-time. There was | game on the. table when the landlord or his guests were !

fortunate enough to shoot any, or when lie could make an exchange with a neighbor for some. Often the inns were full, and the wayfarer slept in Ids wagon or under a friendly tree. Expenses were low. The York shilling, or twelve and a half cents, was at that time considerably used in this neighborhood, and meals were generally charged tor at that rate, sleeping from six to nineteen cents, and the same for horse-feed. The bar had an abundance of whisky and rum, sold at three cents a drink, Ko beer or ale was used, nor were there any fancy drinks. Water and sugar were the only things ever put in the glass to modify the taste, except occasionally a little mint. The pioneers drank enormously, yet such was the strength of their constitutions and the bracing effect of living in the open air, they seemed to. suffer no ill effects from it. There were drunkards, it is true; but they had given up labor, and had no other thought than the bottle.

The taverns were frequently the scene of balls. Here gathered all the young men of the neighborhood who were not Church members, and the young ladies whom they had invited to accompany them. The largest room in the inn was cleared of all furniture, a couple of fiddlers found place in one corner, and some citizen with a sten torian voice, or perhaps one of the fiddlers, called off the figures. Dancing began early. By sundown, often, small parties might be seen on their way to the house appointed. and in the neighborhood every available place was used to tie the horses which brought the cavaliers and their fair charges. These dances were old-fashioned, and few persons now would know them. The minuet was never in vogue in this section ; it went out of date with hair-powder. But quadrilles, country dances, and reels were the order of the. night. There was no lauguidness. Few girls, were wall-flowers, and when they were on the floor they moved with vivacity. There was a careless and open enjoyment. Ko regulations were made as to dress. Few of the ladies aspired to silk or gentlemen to broadcloth; bat, instead, they wore plain linsey-woolseys and coarse wooieu clothes. The entertainment culminated at supper-time, which was near midnight. Here were roast and boiled turkey and chicken, boiled ham, any stray articles of game that could be got in time, biscuits, pies and cake, and preserves - a royal supper it seemed to them, but which our degenerate and weakened race could hardly digest. After another hour or two of dancing the party broke up, and Ethelberta was escorted home by her faithful Edwv.

Those who clad tire humau frame were people of consequence. Caps were generally made at home, and few men, except of the better sort, wore hats; so that this calling did not thrive. The milliner was not in request. Tin* decoration of b mnets was entirely a home ailair. Bui while most, men possessed mi clemoutarv knowledge of shoemuking, and some even owned a cobbler's kit, it was not generally found expedient to make shoes. So die journeyman cordwainer made his circuits, even as the dressmaker now does. In one house he might he kept a couple of days, in another a couple of weeks, busily at work repairing and making shoes and boots. These were firmly and substantially constructed, and had a weight in theta of leather which nowadays Is rarely seen. They were larger and roomier, and when new resisted the rain very well. It was not an uncommon thing to find those which had been worn the second year. There were, in a region like this, no thin shoes, or shoes got up expressly for show. Vanity or the length of purse was not great enough. Moccasins were worn here for many years after the first settlement of the country. They were soft and easy to walk in, and made without trouble. They were much affected by those with tender feet.

The tailor did not come in, at the very beginning, but he was here within a half-dozen years. There was then no ready-made clothing, and all material was cut and sewed in the neighborhood where it was used. Gentlemen wore broadcloth, which was imported and was very costly, and many of them were clad in it continually. Artisans or farmers never wore such an expensive cloth, except it might be -for a wedding-suit, and all professional men were to be told by it. The Methodist minister always had a very long-tailed coat, and lie could be distinguished as far as be could be seen on account of this garment.

An indispensable man was the saddler and harnessmaker. There was much riding on horseback, as the roads were poor when they existed at all, and it was a necessity not only to be a good horseman, but to be well provided with riding-gear. Tanners and curriers were also soon to be found in most localities. Deerskins were prepared during the last century for garments by those who followed a trade called skin-dressers, and their products were worn hv men of all classes. Others were known as leather-breeches makers. These callings have been superseded at the present day. Some trades have gone out of use. There were men who m ule spinningwheels and looms, and like machinery. Joel Collins made powder, which is now only manufactured by extensive establishments.

There was preaching of the Gospel in many parts of the country. Among these early missionaries the names of Criime. Mac Dill, Montfort, Elliott, and. others, rise up in the remembrance of those who attended upon their ministrations, or whose parents did. They preached everywhere - in private houses, hia Asm ith-s hops, groves, open spaces, or wherever they could attract auditors. Many of the early ministers were men without education, hut with strong minds, trained by experience and observation. They understood the nature of the men to whom Hay talked and what arguments would influence them.

Meetings Of The Commissioners

Ox 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 lie LI y , clerk of the Common Fleas, State prosecutions, certifying elections, etc., and one jury-box furnished, $27.25; Darius C. Oreutt, cleaning up the court-house and jail and furnishing a lock to each, S4 ; Mahlon B; ker, services as overseer of the poor of the township of Liberty, $5; Matthew Wiuton, assignee of George Swan, for seven grown wolves' scalps taken, $7 ; John -Greer, balance of his services a? 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.

Philip Hayle, keeping Martin llixeudoll, a pauper, for six months previous to the first Monday of Ma\ at $20, and from then until the 21st of June at $6.12, $26.12; Connor Ormsbv, 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', Util 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 Commi- loners ou the fourth Monday of August; August 27, 1804, George Lone was allowed for a wolf-scalp, $ i ; James Craven, lister of St. Clair Township, taking lists of laud. et>-., $21.2 v; Thos. Pot.tenger, appraiser in St. Clair Township, $1.25; Jas. Dunn, associate judge of the Court of Common Picas, $20.17 ; John Greer, an associate judge, $16.17 : James Malian, lister of 11 Township, taking ii-ts of land. etc. , $1 !.7-> ; Frederick Schal!', lister of Liberty Township, taking lists of la in I. $16... -; Dauai Nelson, appraiser of houses in Liberty Township, $1.25 ; George Harhm, lister of Fairfield Township, $20; John Tonvnee, appraiser in

Fairfield Township, $5; Garrett Vannest, lister of Lemon Township, §23.; John Carson, appraiser in Lemon Township, 82.50; 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 to collect for the year 1803, $594.49: credit, cash and orders paid into the county treasury. 8434.70; 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' of 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, 868.13. Total, $1,135.26.

They then made the following appropriations or distributions : Listers of the several townships for services, 8102.75; James Dunn and John Greer, associate judges, 836.34; John Dunn, making return of lands, etc., in 1803, $6.25; sheriff and clerk of the Commou Pleas, for j meet at the court-house in Hamilton on Thursday, the j sixth day of September, . for receiving proposals for the ! collection of State and county taxes.

On the application and complaint of Thomas McCullough, at their meeting September 6th, 1804, ordered ! that. the valuation of his mills be lowered from 83,000 i to 82,000, 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 81 ; Joel Williams's mill was reduced in the valuation j from 81,500 to $1,000, reducing his taxes $2.50; David

| Enoch's grist and saw-mill was raised in valuation from 81,000 to 82,000, increasing his taxes $5; the valuation | of Daniel Griffing's mill was raised from $100 to $200, j increasing his taxes 50 cents; the valuation of Sbobai i Vail's mill was" increased from $300 to $500, raising his i taxes $1 ; the valuation of Stephen Vail's mills was raised ; from $600 to $1,200, increasing his taxes 83; Samuel j Gregory's. mill was set at $300, increasing his tax $1.50. j These variations made an increase of $2.50.

At the meeting of September 19, 1804, an order was j drawn for Job Gee, for a wolf-scalp, $1; George Jlarlan j was appointed collector of the county taxes for the county j for that year, seveu hundred and seventy- three dollars 1 and sixty-three cents.

persons: Joseph Spencer, killing a grown wolf, $1 ; William Cooley, killing two grown wolves, 82; Matthew Winton, assignee of Benjamin Allen, killing a grown wolf, $1 ; Thomas Gooch, 4 grown wolves, $4; Daniel Doty, a judge of the election held in Lemon Township for county commissioner, '§1.25 ; "William Broderick, a

State and county services, $40 ; attorney prosecuting the pleas of the State, $80 ; associate judges' fees, 8100 ; j grand jury fees, $100; judge of. election ees, 830; sup- j port of paupers, $75: wolf and panther scalps, 850; j listers, for completing the lists of laud, agreeably to law, 1 $25 ; Board of Commissioners' fees, their clerk, and sta- j tiouery, $100; collector's and county treasurer's eommis- j sion, $70 ; outstanding orders drawn by the commissioners, j which remain unsatisfied, $100 : necessary for delinquen- i ties and. contingent expenses, $219.92. Total, $1,135.26. j

The commissioners ordered that the collector of the j 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 th- Board of Commissioners that he should not undertake the eni lection of the State of count v taxes, and no person offering to undertake the collection ol the same, it was ordered that the commissioners should the election held iu 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 bolding elections, and attending to receiving and certifying the elections of the first sheriff and justice of the peace for the count v and representative to Congress, each. 86; John .Rcilv, clerk of the Common Pleas, lor receiving and listing ike 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 thr- e copies, $32.16; John Roily, clerk to the Board of Commissioner.-, for services, including making out the duplicate of countv taxes, and books and stationery furnished the commissioners lor the use of the county, $37.16.

irruin- as they had respectively subscribed ; and also to receive from persons who had subscribed stones, lime, j brick, timber, mechanical work, labor, or hauling, or any ; kind of country produce which can or may be exchanged | fur cash. They were authorized to exchange the articles i which they might receive into cash, and deposit it in the ; county treasury. The clerk, was to furnish Benjamin I'itz | 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 woh-sealp, 50 cents ; James Patterson, the premium for five woll-scalps, $2.50. John Reily, clerk of the commissioners, lor services in' drawing ' copies of the order of appointments of B. F. Randolph j ami Celadon Symmes to collect the moneys subscribed ; for public buildings at Hamilton and making out and j certifying extracts of hinds entered for taxes in the j county, which were in the counties of Hamilton, War- j ron, Greene, Ross, and Fairfield, was granted $5.79 ; j and the following sum.- were also allowed: John Kirchel, ! associate judge, $39.67 ; John Greer, associate judge, j $8; Daniel Beaty, Isaac Stanley, and Dennis Ball, as j judges of the election in Fairfield Township, each, 50 j cents; Darius C. Greutt and John R. Beaty, clerks of the election iu Fairfield Township, each, 50 cents; John j Beaty, Ralph \V. Hunt, Joseph Cox, John Morrow, Isaac S. Swearingen, judges of election in Liberty Township; Henry Weaver, Ez kiel Bali, John Craig, Robert Ferris, Isaiah Morris, judges of election in Lemon Township; : Robert Wiiiton, Mr. Scott, John Orbison, William Rich- , ardson, judges of election for St. Glair Township; James Dunn, Isaac Gibson, James Elliott, Maxwell Parkinson, i -lames Malian, 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 I election in Lemon Township, iu October, 1804, $1.25; Samuel Beeler, a judge, of the election in St, Clair Town- ! ship. $1.25 ; Isaac Shields, for carrying an abstract of the voces given fir senator in the county of Butler, at the j October election, 1801, to the clerk's office in Warren j County, $2; Daniel Baker and Justus Jones, executors t of Edward Jones, deceased, for services in making return j to the clerk's office in Hamilton, of the election in Lib- | erty Township, in October, 1803, $2; William McClellan, j sheriff, for his service in proclaiming elections and summoning grand jurors, etc., $13.50; John Giver and j Celadon Symmes, for services iu attending at the clerk's j office in canvassing the votes t)f the comity, each., 81 ; | John Reily, clerk of the Court of Common Picas, tor his j services in receiving, canvassing, and certifying the votes 1 at the October .annual election, furnishing certificates to ! tilt* persons clotted, and Certifying the roll-hooks of tin* ; election of elector- of President ami Vice-president of the i 1 nited States, $8.75.

Samuel Walker, wolf-scalp, $1 ; Jesse Simpson, wolfscalp, $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 Ibx endoil, a pauper, from the 21st of June to the 5th of November, $18.38. 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 Myraeie, wolf scalp, $1; Isaac Wiles, work done for the use of the jail, and making irons foi the confinement of criminals in the jail, 88.72; James Young, wolf-setup, $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, tor a justice or 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 brandingirons. etc., for the use of the inspector of said count v, $12.50.

June 10, 1805, the foliowing 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 Relic, 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 (had body of Stephen Wilcocks, l4ih April, 1805, $11.00; 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 ja;f iu January, 1805, furnished from his company, $27.75 ; William McCiellan, sheriff, annual allowance bv law for failures iu 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 Fcrri-, lister of Lemon Township, $25 ; Moses Vail, appraiser of Lemon Township, $1.25; George. Harlan, lister of Fairfield Township, $*20 ; Isu.c Staule* npprai- r of Fairfield Town.-iiip, $2.50; jam- s Main n. lister of Ross Township, $12.50; William Mitchell, :.ppraiser in Ross i'ov.nship, $1.2->; George My rack.*, v.oll- scalp, $1 ; Peter Demoss, wolf-scalp, 61; Jesse Simpson, wolf-scalp, $1 ; Thomas Massie, wolf-scalp, Si ; John Denow, wolf-seal ?>, SI ; Aaron Van Camp, wolf-scalp, §1 ; Daniel Nelson, wolf-scalp, SI ; Samuel Beeler, 2 wolf-scalps, S2.

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, Rossvilie, and Middletown, the sum of twelve dollars annually;1 for each and every tavern licensed on any highwav in any township in the county (the towns of Hamilton, Rossvilie, 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 Rossvilie, 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 terries, 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 anti team, or a loaded cart and team, fifty cents; empty cart and team, or sled or sleigh and team, thirtyseven 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 «fc Si. 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 chaincarrier 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, 612.75; Henry Taylor, Jeremiah Beaty, and John Gray, for their services as viewers of the road from Rossvilie, by Beaty's, Cooley's, and others, to the State road at or near the ea-t side of the College Township, each, S3 ; John R. Beaty, for his own services, and the services of the chain-carrier and marker, in surveying and laying out the road from Rossvilie, by Beaty's, Cooley's, .and others, to the Slate road, at or near the east sale of the college township, 610.50.

On the 5th of August. 1805, it was ordered that the following shall ho the assessment of county taxes to he 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 1*04, not yet accounted for by the col-

) lectors, 8500 ; probable amount received from taverni keepers, $100; probable amount received from retailers of merchandise, $40 ; probable amount received from the county's dividend of the land taxes for the years 1-804 and 1805, $480; total, $1,982.34.

The following were the appropriations of county taxes: The listers, assessors, and others, $310.33 ; probable amount of outstanding orders on amounts allowed last year, $350; probable amount of the associate judges' fees, $100; attorney prosecuting for the State, 880 ; sheriff and clerk ! of the Common Pleas, $50; grand jury, 8100; judges of elections, $20 ; paupers, $60 ; Board of Commissioners, clerk, and stationery, 8100; collector's and count1, treasurer's commissions, $100; towards building a jail, 8500 ; contingent expenses and delinquencies, $212.01 : total, $1,982.34.

I'or 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 Mil lender. Joel Williams, Elias Baldwin, James Sutton, Benjamin Line, William Hayes, Abel Bell, and Thomas I Dillon, for two days' services as grand jurors at the Court - of Common Pleas, August term, 1805, each. $1.50 ; i Thomas Hunter, constable, for attending on the grand I jury, 6 1. -'>*).

Several errors were corrected in the entries of land, j and deductions made in the taxes, as follows: James j Barnet, 100 acres, to be changed from first-rate to secondrate; Jacob Case, 190 acres, second-rate: Joseph Eli, 600 acres, first-rate; Robert Ferries, 60 acres, first-rate; j David Fleanard. 300 acres,. second-rate; Sam. Ferguson,

| 102 acres, second-rate, clanged to third-rate: Tosenh I Hunter, 200 acres, second-rate: Aaron Huffman, Sen., j 5 acres, second-rate; George Isminger, 320 acres, seeond- | rate ; James Kennedy, 50 acres, second-rate.

: allowed to Isaac Shields, fur conveying an abstract J of the votes giyen for a senator in Butler, at the last 1 October electiou, to the clerk's office, in Warren County, 82; James Scott, William Cooley, and Daniel Perry, for their services as viewers of the road from Rossvilie to Scott's tan-yard on Seven-mile, each, $5 ; James Heaton, surveyor, and the services of the chain men and marker., in surveying and laying out the road from Ros>- i villa to Scott's tan-yard on Si von-tnile. 89.50 : William

Crooks, 1 wolf-scalp, SI : Israel S. Swearingen, making a return of the annual election in Liberty Township, 81; William Broderick, for making a return of the annual election in St. Clair Township, 81.25.

Accounts were allowed on December 2, 1805, to Philip Hayle,. for farming of Martin Rixendoil, a pauper, from the first Monday in May last to the first Mouday of November last, being Iris fees for the first half-year, 828.75; James McClure, one of the judges of an eleetiou held in Lemon Township, on the 16th November, 1805, for the election of a justice of the peace, 81.25; John Kelly, clerk of Common Pleas, for making transfers of land and a duplicate of the land taxes for 1805, 839 ; 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 Dry bread, 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 1.9th December, 1805, 88 ; George Harlan, fees for collecting the taxes in Fairfield Township, for the year 1805, 815.57,

February 10, 1806, the amounts allowed were: Jacob Lewis and John M alker, 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 ButJer County, on the second day of November, 1805, each, 75 cents; Celadon Syinmes, services at the office of the clerk of Butler Common Pleas, on the 11th of January last, to canvass 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. 81; Joshua Dclapiane, notifying Celadon Svmmes to attend at the clerk's office of Butler Common

April 7, 1806, the Board of Commissioners granted John Torrence and John Wingate, in part of and on die amount of the second installment for the building of the jail of Butler Counts , $200.

May 5, 1806, accounts were allowed to David Beaty, Benj. Bell, Jacob Whitenger, Joseph Walker, William Blackburn. Robert Moorehead, John Rpbisou, Samuel Dickey, Davis Ball. Abraham Huff, John Wingate, Thus. McCuuouv.li, ;>*' 1 lame Reed, rbr services as jrand jurors, cue!,, 81. ,>i); George Harlan, lbr attending o;t the annul fury, at Apii! term, 81.56; i'hilip Hayle. balance in foil h>r the fanning of Martin Rixendoil, a peup, r, for die year 1805, 828.75; John Keilv, eleik of the Board of

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, 81.25; John Torrence and John Wingate., in full cf the second installment for building the jail of Butler County, 8200.

At their meeting June 9, 1806, John Orbison was given commission on the collection of the county taxes in St. Clair Township, $16.94; 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, 829 ; James Marshall, appraiser in Lemon Township, $3. 1 2 ; James Craven, lister of Wayne Township, 81 1.25 ; Robert Scott, lister of Milford Township, $6.25 ; William Broderick, lister of St. Clair Township, 811.25; John. Gerard, lister of Boss Township, 813.75 ; George Harlan, lister of Fairfield Township, 826.25; John Wingate, appraiser of houses, etc., in Fairfield Township, 86.25; William McClellan, sheriff of Butler County, foes on State prosecutions, when the State has failed, and for summoning grand jurors, advertising elections, etc., $48; John Kelly, clerk of Butler Common Fleas, for Lis fees on State prosecutions, when the State has failed, canvassing and 'certifying election-, making transfers of laud and certifying the same, 839.50; Matthew Hueston, one of the viewers of the road from Rossville. by Crooks's, Richmond's, etc., to Isemiuger's mill, on the dry fork of Whitewater, 86; John McDonald, viewer, 86: James Watson, viewer, 86; James Heaton, surveyor, 87 ; William Mitchell, chain-man, $2.25; Israel Woodruff, chainman, $2.25; William Crooks, ax-man, 81.50; Andrew Christy, one of the viewers of the road from Smith A: St. Clair's mill, 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, 88 ; Samuel Gregory, viewer, 88; Garrett Van nest, viewer, 86: 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, eastwardiy to the county line, $3; John Carson, viewer, 83; Thomas Irwin, viewer. 81: Henry Weaver, surveyor, for his own service and the services of the chain-man and ax-man, 87.25; James Irwin, viewer of the road from John Yaunie's to the county line, in a direction for Beadle's Station, 81; Ellis John, viewer, 81 ; Michael Hildebrand, one of the viewers of the same road, 81 ; John Morrow, surveyor, for his own services, and the chain-men and markers. 85.25.

The premium >u- bounty on everv wolf or panther killed in the county was made for each wolf . r pautimr under six months old, 50 cents; and for each wolf or panther above six months old, 81.

The following was made the price of tavern licenses in the county of Butler: For each license granted to keep a tavern in the town of Hamilton, Rossville, or Middletown, the sum of 810; for each license granted to keep a tavern in the county of Butler (the towns of Hamilton, Rossville, and Middletown excepted), the sum of §6.

The prices of license to keep ferries on the Miami were fixed as follows: For a license to keep a ferry on the Miami, between the towns of Hamilton and Rossville, or at any place within a mile of either of the said towns, $4; and for a license to keep a ferry on the Miami at any other place in the county, except as above excepted, 82. The rates of ferriage at all public ferries on the Miami, for the ensuing year, was made as follows: Single person, six and one-fourth cents; man and horse, twelve and onehalf cents; loaded wagon and team, one dollar; any other four-wheeled carriage, seventy-five cents; empty wagon and team, or a loaded cart and team, fifty cents ; empty cart and team, a 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 sheen, hog, or goat, three cents.

July 7, 1 806, the Board of Commissioners allowed the following accounts: Thomas Hunt, judge of the. election for justice of the peace in Liberty Township, SI; Benjamin Thompson, a judge of the election of justice of the peace in St. Clair Township, 81 ; Isaac Gibson, a judge of the election for a justice of the peace, held in Ross Township, 2 1st of June, $1; Celadon Symmes, services in attending at the clerk's office to canvass the votes given at elections for justices of the peace, 81.25.

"Whereas, It hath been fully shown to the Board of Commissioners that the inhabitants residing in the original surveyed townships hereinafter mentioned, from their number of electors in each township, are fully entitled to the privilege of holding elections respectively therein for the purpose of electing three trustees and one treasurer in each of the said townships, agreeably to the tenor of the act. entitled 'An act to incorporate the original surveyed towpshipsJ

"Therefore, for the purpose of electing the said three trustees and one treasurer in each of the said townships, it is ordered that elections be held therein respectively at the times and places hereinafter specified, to wit:

"In township numbered one, of the second entire range east of the Miami (being Fairfield, a part of which lies in Hamilton County), at the house of John Maxwell, in .said township, on Saturday the second day of August next.

"In township numbered twm, of the second entire range east of the Miami « pari: of which lies in the county of Hamilton), at the house of William Orson, in said township, on Saturday the seeoud day of August next.

"In township numbered three, of the third entire or j military range (Liberty), at the house of John Beaty, j in said township, on Saturday the second day of August ; next.

"In township numbered two, of the fourth entire ! range east of the Miami (Lemon), part of which lies in the county of Warren, at the house of Joshua Davis, in 1 said township, on Saturday the second day of August ' next.

" In township numbered five, in the second range west | of the -Miami (Milford), at the house of Abel Stout, in said township, on Saturday the second day of August j nex t. .

"It is also ordered that written notices of the same i elections be set up in the said several townships respectj ively, agreeably to the requisitions of the above recited i statute^

August -1, 1806, the Board of Commissioners ordered j that the assessments of county taxes for the current year 1 should be as follows : Assessments on probable receipt? -

| County taxes, as per the lister's returns, §1,146.49: laud j taxes (the county's moiety), $400; licenses to tavern- , keepers, store-keepers, and ferries, 8200; fines (probably).,. 850 ; balance due from collectors, 8260. Appropriations - Residue of the second installment for building the jail, j 8200 : last installment for jail. 8800; lister's and other j accounts liquidated and allowed, 8330.56 ; probable amount of associate judge's fees, 8100; prosecuting attorney of the j Stale, 880 ; clerk of Common Pleas and sheritf, 340 ; i grand jury fees, 825 ; judges of election, 810; wolf-scalps, i etc., 830; collector's and county treasurer's commissions,

The following persons were appointed to collect the j county taxes: Fairfield, George Harlan, 8276.845; Lemon, Robert Ferris, 8306.695 ; Llbertv, Thomas Hunt, 8147.15; Milford, Robert Scott, 883.50; Ross, j John Gcrrard, 895.60; St. Clair, William Broderick, 8124.65; Wayne, Nathaniel Bell, 8116.23.

September 1, 1806, the following persons received i 82.25 each for services as grand jurors: B. F. Randolph, Henry Brown, Jacob Line, James McClure, Mediae! Pierce, James Stuart, William Ogle, James Martin, James Pearis, David Fleauard, Thomas Matthews, James Mills, Thomas Hunt, Thompson Maxwell. Torrence A Wingate received payment in full of their last installment, 81,800.

The following collectors were appointed to collect the State taxes: Fail field. Going-.* Harlan. §121.53; Lemon, Robert Ferris 8180.31; Libert v, Thomas Ilu:u. 8118.68; Milford and St. Clair, William Broderick, §50.53; Ross, John Gcrrard, 859.278; Wavne, Nathaniel Bell, 84L315.

September 2, 1806, James Blackburn, collector of bounty taxes for the year 1803, exhibited his accounts, as follows: Dr. - James Blackburn, ti> the amount of his duplicate of county taxes for the year 1803, 8594,49. Cr. - By amount. of cash paid into the county treasury, and per treasurer's receipts, 8542.71; by amount of deductions and delinquencies allowed, 817.19; by amount of commission for collecting and paying over, etc., 834.59.

October 6, 1806, James Heaton, county surveyor, for expenses incurred in ascertaining the southern boundary line of Butler County, was granted 829.25.

November 3, 1806, accounts were allowed : John Gray, appraiser in St. Clair Township, 81.25; John Nelson and George Howard, wolf-scalp, each, 81; Isaac 'Reed, making return of election, from Lemon Township, 81.25 ; Thomas Hunt, one of the judges of election in Liberty Township, $U James Scott, one of the judges of election in Milford Township, 81; Isaac Gibson, one of the judges of election in Ross Township, 81. Robert Tavlor, one of the judges of election in St. Clair Township, 81 , John : Patterson, one of the judges of election in Wayne Town- ; ship, 81 ; Joshua Ddaplaine,' carrying an abstract of votes given for senator to' the clerk's office in Warren County, i 82; Celadon Svmrnes, attendance at clerk's office, in can- ! vassing the election, 81; James Smith, for his attendance | at the clerk's office, at the cauvassiug of the election, 81; | Isaac Stanley, far attendance at the clerk's office, at the j canvassing of five different elections, and the drawing of ! three different juries, 84; David Lee, wolf-scalp, 81.

December 2, 1806, the followin'? accounts were allowed : ! Isaac Stanley, services as one of the viewers of the road ! from Rossville up the Miami, intersecting the road from | Hamilton up Four-mile, etc., at or near Hampton Ad- ! kins's, 81.70; Isaac Wiles, one of the viewers, 81.70; William Murray, one of the viewers, 85 cents; James Heaton, surveying, with the fees of the chain-men and ; markers, etc., 84.84; Samuel Kennedy, as one of the ! viewers of the, proposed highway from Cotton Run, bv Win- ! tons, etc., thence to D. Perry's, 81; John Yinnedgc and j Fai th Ball, viewers, each, 84; James Heaton, surveying, | including the fees of the chain-men and marker, 89.50; i Samuel Dick, one of the appraisers of damages on the proposed bighwaj from Cotton Run, by 5 Vinton's, to D. | Perry's, 81; Ebenezer Paddnx, James Cummins, Charles -Greece, and Thomas Pounds, for the same, each, 81 ; ! John Roily, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, male l mg out duplicates of taxes for the colleciors, and as clerk to the Board of Commissioners from 5th May, 1806, to j 4th November, 1806, 874.

January 5, 1807, the following amounts. were allowed : j -lames Dunn, associate judge, 816.50; Henry Weaver, ! a."1 mute judge, 81 6.50; ( leliulon 8y tunics, associate judge, c l-i.oO ; V> iiliuiu M 'Cl Ran, sheriff, tor stove hire and ha*, et.e., far tim court-house, at December term, 1806, ctiudle:?, and a lock for the. jail, 85; James Smith, Alex. ! .under \\ il.son, William Hays, David Williamson, Robert 1

! 811.32; Robert Scott, collecting the county taxes in Milford Township, 86.70 , George Gerrard, collecting I State taxes in Ross Township, 83.83 ; John Gerrard,

| William Broderick, collecting the State tax of Milford ; Township, and the county and State tax of St. Clair i Township, $13.89, Isaac Wiles, making a chain for the | confinement of criminals in jail, $4.50; Nathaniel Bell,

I collecting and paying over the- State taxes in Wayne Township, $2.95 ; George Harlan, collecting and paying j over the State taxes in Fairfield Township, $7.77; Davis Ball, one of the viewers of the road crossing the Miami at Baum's ford, thence "to the Greenville road, $3.40; Levi Jennings, viewer, $3.40; Jacob Bell, viewer, $3.40; Nathaniel Stubbs, surveying, including the chain -carrier's and marker's fees, 87.02 ; John Sample, services in making return of election of justices of the peace in Lemon Township, $1.

March 2, 1807, accounts were allowed to Charles Breece, services' as one' of the viewers of the proposed highway from 'Williams's mill, on. Indian Creek, to the highway leading from Hamilton to Cincinnati, $2.55 ; Joseph Walker and William Crooks, viewers, each, $2.55; James Heaton, surveying, 85; Israel Woodruff and Isaac Wool ver ton, chain-men, each, $1.34; Jonathan Woolverton, marker, 81.34; Samuel Kennedy, James Smith, James Cummins, John Wingate, and Isaac "N iies, assessors of damages, each, 85 cents; Levi Limpus, wolf scalp; George Harlan, collecting and paying over the county taxes in Fairfield Township, 822.06.

The Board of Commissioners, on March 30, allowed the following: Joseph Lee, 2 wolf-scalps,. 82 ; William McCMian; sheriff', fees paid for the apprehension of John Welsh, committed on a charge of robbing the United States, mail, 850; John Roily, clerk of Board of Commissioners, making out a duplicate of the State taxes from the lister's returns, a copy for the auditor of state, etc., and for services to the third March, instant, 839.75.

Accounts allowed at the session of May t, 1807 : James Dunn, associate judge, holding a special court, 827 ; Henry Weaver, associate judge, 819.50; Celadon Svmrnes, associate judge, 818; James Shields, Edward Bebh, Thompson Maxwell, Daniel Baker, John Vansieklo. Samuel Enyart, Peter Williamson, James Young, Robert Taylor, Junior, William Morris, Charles Stuart, Robert Taylor, James Mills, Lawrence Kavenaugh, and Andrew

Christy, grand jurors, each, §2.25; Thomas Hunter, 1 constable, for attending on the grand jury in Butler Common Pleas, §2.25 ; John Smalley, a judge of the ' election for coroner in Liberty Township, §1 ; William Swafford, a. judge of the election for coroner, held in Milford Township, §1.25; John Kichmoud, a judge of the election for coroner in Ross Township, 81.12; Robert Winton, a judge of the election for coroner in St. Clair Township, 81.12; Benjamin Van Oleif, a judge of the election for coroner in Wayne Township, 81.25 ; L /.a! Edward, assignee of John Garrison, wolf-scalp, 81; William Liston, wolf-scalp, 81; Samuel Eraser, wolf-scalp,

July 6, 1807, accounts were allowed as follows: James Smith., one of the viewers of the road from Hamilton, by Middletown, to the county line, in a direction for Franklin, in Warren County, 86.8,0.; John Torrence and Charles Breece, viewers, each, 86.80; Daniel Chambers and Smith Thompson, chain-men, each, 83.25; Henry Hosier, ax-man, 82.68; Henry Mason, ax-man, 67 cents; James Heaton, surveyor, 89.50 ; James Smith, one of the viewers of the highway from John Hamilton's to the north boundary of the county, in a direction for the town, of Eaton, including a transcript from the records of Hamilton County, of a survey, 85.50; John Torrence, j viewer, '81.25 ; David Beaty, viewer, and for furnish- ! ing a chain-man, 86.26; Thomas Edmunson. chain- j man, 82.01; Hampton Adkins, ax-man, 82.01; James j Heaton, surveyor, 86.50 ; Henry Taylor, one of the j viewers of the highway from Scott's' tan-yard up Seven mile Creek, $8.40; Samuel Davis, viewer, $2.55; Jacob Witt-nger, viewer, 83.40; Darius C. Orcutt and Israel Woodruff, chain-men, each, 81.67 ; Robert Scott, axlnan, $1.34; James Heaton, surveyor, 85.75; Solomon Line, one of the assessors of damages on the road leading from Hamilton by Middletown, and front John Hamilton's to the north boundary of the county, in a direction for the county of Eaton, 83.40; Andrew Christy and Isaac Stanley, assessors of damages, each, 83.40 ; John McDonald, assessor of damages, 83.40 ; James McClure, assessor of damages on the road leading from Hamilton by Middletown, 81.70; John Reilv, clerk of Butler Common Picas, 835.50.

Accounts were allowed, at the meeting of August 3, 1807, to John Dmieeu, wolf-scalp, 81 ; Y\ ill ia m Gard, wolf-scalp-, §L; George Roby, 4 wolf-scalps, 32.50.

A statement was made of the probable general receipts and expenditures of Butler County for the year 1807 : County taxes, 81, 395; land tax (the county moiety), 8330; tavern, store, and ferry licenses, 8200; Hues, 830.

The appropriations were judged to he as fellows: Listers* and other accounts liquidated and allowed, 8803.61 ; third installment of the jailer's house, 8500; associate judges' fees, 8150; attorney prosecuting the pleas of the State, 880; clerk and sheriff, 850; grand jury, 890; 1

The following persons were appointed to collect the county taxes: Fairfield, George Harlan, 8333.015; Lemon, Robert Brown. 8326.91; Liberty, Thomas Hunt, 8173.775; Milford, John Frazer, §104.80; Russ, Andrew Wilson, 8155.865; St. Clair, John Or bison, 8153; Wavnc, James Bartley. 8142.70.

At the meeting of the Board of Commissioners, September 7, 1807, accounts wore allowed, to James Dunn, associate judge. 819.50 ; Henry Weaver, associate judge, 821; Celadon $vrumes( associate judge, 819.50; Arthur St. Clair, attorney for the State of Ohio. 827 ; Ezekiel ! Ball, William Bn.rk.alow, William Murray, William Gray, j Jacob Piatt, Joseph Cox, Isaac Juhn~HemT Taylor, i Samuel Smith, John Halstead, Daniel Crume, Thomas : Pottengc-r, Solomon Line, James McClure, and Tliompj son Maxwell, grand jurors, each, $2.25; Brice Virgin,

1 constable, attending the grand jury, 82.25; Hugh Care, j wolf-scalp, 81; William Roby, 3 wolf-scalps, 82.50 ; Zachariah P. Pe Witt, wolf-scalp, 81; Samuel Leo, wolfscalp, $1 ; Samuel Crooks, wolf-scalp, 81 : Thomas Paine, wolf-seaip, 81.

September 8, Adam Dickey, one of the viewers of the highway from Middletown, by Thomas Hunt's, to the State Road, between Thomas Hill's and Isaac Swearengin's, $2.2-5 ; Abraham Huff and Joseph Williamson, . viewers, each, 82.25; Isaac S. Swearengin, surveyor, 85 ; Ira Hunt and William Hunt, chain-men, 82.61 ; Xa- ! thaniei Hill, chain-man, §2.01 , Isaac Hunt, ax-man,

1 82.01 ; William McClellan, sheriff of Butler, fees for I services in State prosecutions, where the State failed, ad- | vertising elections and summoning grand jurors, and locks j for the jail, 857.42; John Riley, clerk of the Board of i Commissioners, making out duplicates of county and State i taxes for the collectors, and stationery furnished, 858.37.

Accounts allowed, October 5, as follows: Samuel | Crooks, one of the viewers of the highway from uear J. Beaty's to the north-west corner of the college township, 83.40; Zachariah I*. Dewitt and Samuel Beeier, viewer-, each, 83.4c ; David Woolverton, chain-man, $2.34; Stephen Elkins, marker, 82.34; William Squire, rim second installment cowards building the iailerh house, §250; William Patton, taxes on a stud-horse improperly levied and collected in 1806, 84.

surveying the highway leading from near J. Beaty*; to j the north-west corner of the college township, S9; ! Elihu Line, one of the chain-men, 83.01 ; John MeClel- j lan, carrying the abstract of the election for senator in October, 1807, to the clerk's office in Warren County, 82; John Stow, wolf-scalp, 81.

Accounts were allowed, December 7, 1807, to Isaac Wiles, smith-work for the county, by the direction of the sheriff, 83.50 ; David Lee, George My rude, and John S Burns, wolf-scalps, each, 81; John Or bison, commission ! for collecting the State taxes in St. Clair Township, ! 82.50 ; James Bartley, collecting the State taxes in Wayne Township, 82.89; Robert Brown, the State taxes of Lemon Township, 810.82; John Frazer, the State taxes in Milford Township, 79 cents; Wiiliam Murray, j one of the viewers on the alteration of the highway lead- j ing from Kossville to Iseminger's mill, including fees of one day for marker or ax-man, S2.37 ; Isaac Wiles, viewer, including fees of one day of chain-man, 82.37 ; Robert Douglass, reviewer, 85 cents; James Heaton, surveying, 83; Davis Smith, chain-man, 07 cents; Will, iam Steel, viewer on the alteration of the highway from Scott's lanyard, up Seven Mile, 75 cents; Gilbert Marshall, viewer, 85 cents ; Thomas Simmons, viewer, 85 cents; Henry II. Jones, surveyor, 81.50.

James Heaton, commissioner of the highway leading from Hamilton to Cincinnati, having exhibited to the hoard his account and charges against the State c-f Ohio, for laying out and repairing, 875, it was allowed.

January 4, 1.808, accounts were allowed as follows-' James Dunn, associate judge, 821 ; Hc-ury Weaver, associate judge, 821; Celadon Syrames, associate judge, ! 821; Arthur St. Ciair, attorney for the State, 827; j Matthew Win ton, James Brown, Thomas Hues ton, Serring Marsh, S .pure Little, Jacob Miller, Joseph Stuart, Samuel Harden, .Nathan Stubbs, Samuel Davis, Peter' Voorhies, John Ayres, James Mills, Jacob Lewis, and John Yiimcdge, grand jurors, each, 82.25 ; Brice Virgin, constable, for attending the grand jury, 1807, 82.25; John Kelly, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, for making a duplicate of the State taxes from the listers' returns in 1897, 817.50; Thomas Hunt, collecting the county and State taxes of Liberty Township, 821.86 ; William Foster, wolf-scalp, 81; James Bartley, collecting the county taxes of Wayne. Township, 811.37 ; Wiiliam Squire, third installment towards building the jailer's house, 8500. It was ordered that all delinquent collectors of taxes should meet the Board of Commissioners at I Hamilton on the first Monday in February next, for the j purpose of settling up their respective collections.

' Accounts allowed at the meeting of February 1, as j follows: David Blackburn, a judge of an election in | I Lily Township, 81 ; Cornelius D-»ty, won' scalp. 50 'cuts; , John Wingate, survivor of Torrence oc A i limit \ extra j work iu building the jail, 840; George Harlan, collect- : eg and paying over the county taxes iu Fairfield Town* I