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South Grove Records 1850-1982

Page 7 | April 6, 1852

Records of the Town of South Grove, Page 7, 1852

At a town meeting held at the house of Jonathan Adee in the town of South Grove in the County of Dekalb [DeKalb] and State of Illinois on the sixth day of April in the AD 1852. Sylvester Sutton was chosen moderator and Stephen S. Adee clerk. The following named persons received the number of votes set opposite names for the following offices

For Supervisor William M Byers had Thirty one votes

For Town Clerk Stephen S Adee had Thirty votes

For Assessor Phineas Crandall had Thirteen votes

For Collector Sylvester Sutton had Twenty one votes

For Collector James Byers Sr. had Nine votes

For Commissioner of highways Matthew Thompson had thirty votes

For Commissioner of highways Jonathan Adee had twenty three votes

For Commissioner of highways Andrew Chapman had twenty votes

For Commissioner of highways James Byers had eleven votes

For Commissioner of highways John B Orput had seven votes

For Commissioner of highways John S Brown had one vote

For Overseer of the poor James Byers had twenty votes

For Overseer of the poor William P Deyoe had six votes

For Constable Augustus Thompson had twenty five votes

For Constable John S Brown had three votes

For Constable John William F Adee had one vote

On motion voted That their [there] be a pound master elected Lost

On motion voted That William M Byers be elected overseer of highways Carried

On motion voted That cattle shall not run at large after the fifteenth day of October Lost

On motion voted That the article in the town Law be so amended that any other fence than boards and posts shall be a lawful fence I equaly [equally] good Carried

On Motion voted That the Town laws remain as they were voted at a town meeting April the Second 1850 except in regard to fence which shall be four feet high constructed of three boards and posts or other material equaly [equally] good put up in a substantial manner Carried