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394 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY.

McPherson, Esq., resigned, James M. Reed was duly elected as a Justice of the Peace for Jefferson Township; then adjourned."
And on the following page we find this item, which mar be of interest to teamsters. it is in the proceedings of a meeting of the Trustees held the 24th day of August, 1816.
"Ordered, That each two-horse team, with fore wheels of a wagon, sled or plough, shall not be allowed more than 87 1/2 cents per day, and oxen at the same rate, four-horse or ox-team in proportion.
" THOMAS THOMPSON,
"Clk. pro tem
"Signed.
"ISAAC ZANE,
"N. NORTON."
By another entry on the same page, we learn that John Gunn was Township Clerk.
But why these entries in the middle of the book? We are only left to suppose that the first and second pages, which are entirely ,one, bare been transcribed at a subsequent date. It is to be regretted that, as the record carries us lack so near the commencement, we cannot have an authentic account of the organization of the township and the election or appointment of its first officers. The records show, however, meagre as they are, that on Monday, the ; 7th of April, 1817, at an election; of which Joel Smith, Isaac Zane and Nathan Norton were Judges, and Ralph Lowe and George Krouskop, Jr., were Clerks, Martin Marmon was elected Treasurer; Solomon McColloch, James M. Workman, Isaac Zane, Trustees; George Krouskop, Clerk; Isaac Myers, Lister of Taxable Property; John Tillis, Jr:, William Reams, George Henry; Sr., Supervisors; John Conies, Henry Shaw, Constables; George McColloch, Thomas Dickinson, Fence Viewers; John Tillis, Sr., William Tharp, Overseers of the Poor. The latter would not serve, and Henry Pickrell was appointed in his place. Thomas Thompson was appointed House Appraiser, there having been none elected.
Among the entries made on the record occurs the following, dated April 17, 1817: Ordered that John Collies, Constable, warn Eleanor Ward and her child to leave the town, or give security that she will no: become a township charge, likewise to warn David Reed to leave the township or give security that he would not become a township charge. It is not certain what Eleanor did, but David did not go for on the 2d day of March, 1818, the Trustees ordered that Martin Marmon bare an order to pay Dr. John D. Elbert $1 for visiting David Reed, and further, that Martin Marmon be allowed $12 for his attendance on said David Reed in his last sickness.
In August, 1817, Lanson Curtis was elected Justice of the Peace, in place of Ralph Lowe, whose term of office had expired. From this it would seem probable that James McPherson and Ralph Lowe were the first Justices of the Peace, but of their election we have no official record.
At the April election, in 1818, Thomas Sutherland and John Brown were succeeded by Solomon McColloch and Isaac Zane as Trustees, and at a meeting of the Trustees, held August 22d, it was ordered that Jarvis Daughherty be appointed Overseer of the Poor, in place of John Tillis; that Noah Z. McColloch be appointed Township Clerk, in place of George Krouskop, and that James Henry be appointed Constable, in place of James Hill, occasioned by a division of the township: This division here spoken of was doubtless the cutting off of Lake Township from Jefferson and its o organization, which probably took places about the time of the organization of the county in 1818. In confirmation of this the records show that, at a joint meeting of the Trustees of Jefferson and Lake held the lath of October following, Alexander Long and George Krouskop signed the record as Clerks. There is no record of Long's