The Switzerland County, Indiana, Commissioners’ proceedings appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 18 Dec 1875 – Page 4, Column 1

Commissioners Court.

Among other business transacted at the recent session of the County Commissioners, was the following:

David Smith was appointed a Constable for York Township.

During the quarter ending Nov. 30, $10,967.02 Orders had been redeemed by the County Treasurer.—Interest on same, $25.07. They were burned in the presence of the Commissioners.

December 7th the Commissioners visited the poor farm. They took an inventory of the bedding in the poor house, and found twenty-two beds, eighty bed quilts, nineteen blankets, and fourteen sheets.

John Gurley was appointed a Constable for Posey Township.

The School Trustees of Patriot made a report, which shows that Oct. 18th they had on hands $1,358.05.

It was ordered that the quarterly allowance to Adrian Wolf for keeping Benjamin Barker, a poor child, passed December, 1874, be withdrawn;  and that if the said Wolf will not keep said Benjamin Barker for nothing that the said child be sent to the poor house.

A large number of orders were allowed, a full list of which we publish in another column.

The following order was placed upon the record, the design of which is to reduce pauper expenses:

“The attention of the Trustees of townships in the county is hereby called to the provisions of section 3 of an act providing for and regulating the relation of master and apprentice, page 431, 1 Gavin & Hord’s Statutes, and also to section 28 of the act for the relief of the poor, page 493, 1 Gavin & Hord’s Statutes, as to the course they should pursue in regard to binding out the children of any pauper supported in whole or in part by the county, or the children of such parents as abandon, neglect, or are unable to support them, so as to relieve the county as much as possible from the increased and increasing expense incident to the relief of the poor, and require that the provisions of said Statutes be complied with in all cases.”