Palo Alto County IA Archives History - Books ..... Appendix C - Request Sent To Assembly 1910
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Book Title: History Of Palo Alto County Iowa

APPENDIX C

   The following is a copy of a resolution adopted by the board of supervisors
of Palo Alto County and forwarded to Representative E. J. Hartshorn, Wednesday,
February 4, 1874:

To the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:—

   Your petitioners, the Board of Supervisors of Palo Alto County, Iowa, would
respectfully represent to your honorable body that owing to the extremely wet
weather and destruction by grasshoppers, a great number of the citizens of this
county are in destitute circumstances and are unable to procure food, clothing
or seed to sow for the coming season. Your petitioners would further represent
that they are without means or authority by law and are wholly unable to provide
adequate relief for such a widespread calamity and that unless aid is procured
in some manner, the prosperity and well being of this portion of the state will
be materially affected and its development greatly retarded. Therefore your
petitioners would humbly ask your honorable body to make an appropriation of
$5000.00 for the benefit of the destitute in this county, and to make such
enactments as shall enable the Board of Supervisors to distribute the same as
shall seem just and proper and for the best interests of the county or that you
will furnish relief in such other manner or under such other regulations as may
seem proper, for the relief of this county, and in furtherance of the future
prosperity thereof and to the honor and well being of the whole state. 
                                              Alexander Gownie, Chmn.
Attest: W. H. H. Booth, Auditor. [1]

[1] Minutes and Supervisors' Record,  Palo Alto County, no.  1, p. 347.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Palo Alto County Iowa
BY
DWIGHT G. MCCARTY

THE TORCH PRESS
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
1910


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