624 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

    Twenty-five years hence how many Clay County people will have
personal recollection of the block of coal weighing a ton, a cubic yard
in capacity, exhibited for several years on the National Bank corner,
Brazil?

Clay County Regulators’ Association.
    “‘We, the undersigned citizens of the places mentioned opposite our
names, being deeply impressed with the alarming increase of crime and
with the inability of those only who are acting as officers to protect the
property and persons of the citizens of this state, do, for the purpose of
protecting ourselves, our property, and for the good of society, associate
ourselves together under the provisions of the act of March 9, 1852,
page 318 of the Revised Statutes of 1852, and we do hereby agree to
adopt the provisions of said act, and to be known by the following name,
to-wit, ‘The Clay County Regulators,’ and we do agree that said associa-
tion shall exist for the space of ten years from this date, unless dissolved
by a majority of all the subscribers hereto, and we hereby agree to be
governed by the rules, regulations, constitution and by-laws which may
be passed and adopted by a majority of -this association within the provi-
sions of the act above referred to. In testimony whereof, we have here-
unto subscribed our names and designated our places of residence, this
September 7, 1853.”

1   Oliver Cromwell, Jackson township, Clay county.
2.  Obadiab Decker, Posey township, Clay county.
3.  Ira Allen, Posey township, Clay county.
4.  Joseph Hoskins, Lost Creek township, Vigo county.
5.  George Carpenter, Posey township, Clay county.
6.  Herod Peyton, Posey township, Clay county.
7.  John Osborn, Washington township, Clay county.
8.  Joseph Hulse, Posey township, Clay county.
9.  Martin Bowles, Fosey township, Clay county.
10. L. Corbin, Posey township, Clay county.
11. James W. Modesitt, Posey township, Clay county.
12. William Modesitt, Posey township, Clay county.
13. John G. Ackelmire, Posey township, Clay county.
14. Washington Modesitt, Posey township, Clay county.
15. N. H. Modesitt, Posey township, Clay county.
16. C. W. Bailey, Posey township, Clay county.
17. James M. Corbin, Posey township, Clay county.
18. P. G. Carter, Posey township, Clay county.
19. Joseph Huffman, Posey township, Clay county.
20. Jacob A. Carpenter, Posey township, Clay county.
21. William Cromwell, Cass township, Clay county.
22. Morgan Modesitt, Posey township, Clay county.
23. H. I. Hyde, Posey township, Clay county.
24. Marshall Beatty, Posey township, Clay county.
25. Henry Jacobs, Posey township, Clay county.
26. James A. Hyde, Posey township, Clay county.
27. Elisha G. Doyle, Posey township, Clay county.
28. Isaac S. Leabo, Dick Johnson township, Clay county.
29. A. S. Hill, Dick Johnson township, Clay county.
30. Peter Hulse, Lost Creek township, Vigo county.
31. Alfred Gibbons, Jackson township, Clay county.
32. Collin Carter, Posey township, Clay county.