Tipton County IN Archives History - Books .....Seminary And Library 1883
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Book Title: Counties Of Howard And Tipton, Indiana

SEMINARY AND LIBRARY.

   An early law of the State provided that certain fines and penalties in each
county should be applied, when the amount had reached $400, toward the erection
and maintenance of a county seminary. As fast as the fund accumulated in Tipton
County it was loaned at interest. In June, 1848, the fund amounted to $108.70;
in June, 1849, to $132.20; in June, 1851, to $199.56; and in June, 1852, to
$233.61. Soon after this, by legislative enactment, the fund was transferred to
the common schools.

   Another early law of the State provided that ten per centum of the proceeds
of the sale of county lots should be used to purchase and maintain a county
library. A special law of 1845 constituted the county board the Library
Trustees, and soon after this J. S. Ressler was elected Librarian, A. P.
Cassler, Clerk, and N. J. Jackson, Treasurer. In 1846, fifty-five volumes of
miscellany were purchased. Each volume was rented out for 10 cents per quarter.
The library was added to from time to time as the funds admitted. The total cash
receipts from August, 1853, to March, 1857, were $109.51, of which $55.62 had
been expended for books. Probably twice that amount of receipts had been
received previously. At this time there were about 300 volumes on hand; this
number was afterward increased to nearly 1,000 volumes. The township libraries
were first distributed in about 1855, and finally amounted in the aggregate to
several thousand volumes. These old libraries have lost their usefulness in this
age of newspapers and cheap books.


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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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