60, in 1870 it was 91, and at this writing, 1874, it is estimated at 125.

The number of citizens living in all the towns in 1850 was 1,733, in 1860 it was 3,814, in 1870 it was 5,769, and at this writing, 1874, estimated in round numbers at 8,000.

The number of acres of improved land in 1870 was 133,190. The number of acres of woodland was 87,521; other improved land, 1,173.

The cash value of farms in 1870 was $9,399,441, value of farm implements and machinery $242,571, value of orchard products, $70,262.

Value of all live stock, $1,229,996. The number of horses was 7,677, of cattle, 12,882; of sheep, 22,820; of swine, 29,885.

The number of bushels of wheat was 541,669; of rye, 3,804; of corn, 1,028,150; of oats, 74,637; of barley, 2,650; of buckwheat, 904.

The number of pounds of tobacco was 4,930, the number of pounds of wool was 73.475, the number of bushels of potatoes was 62,184, the number of tons of hay was 10,385, the number of pounds of butter was 322,487, the number of bushels of flaxseed was 15,537, the number of pounds of maple sugar was 18,493, the number of gallons of sorghum was 30,782, the number of pounds of honey, 12,160.

In 1870 there were 2,288 farms of all sizes in the county. The number of farms over 500 and under 1,000 acres, was 1; over 100 and under 500 acres, 356; number over 50 and under 100 acres, 741; over 20 and under 50 acres, 965; number ever 10 and under 20 acres, 175; under 10 acres, 49.

The number of school houses in the county in 1872 was 132; the total value of grounds, houses, maps, charts, globes, etc., $93,430. The number of volumes in the township libraries, 3,733; the number of teachers employed, 115 at an average compensation in the primary department, male, $2.12; female $1.75; in the graded schools, males, $2.89; females, $1.87. The amount paid out to trustees for managing educational matters, $1,265.50; the number of school children in 1870 was 8,319.

The number of miles of railroad finished, 46; number of miles in progress, 48; the number of miles of pike, 200 at an average cost per mile of $1,400.

Number of Masonic lodges, 11, and total membership, 566. Number of Odd Fellows lodges, 6, with a total membership of 279. Number of Granges, 50, membership 1,200. Number of local preachers, 28.

Number of grist mills, 15, valued at $125,000, with a capacity for making 624 barrels in twenty-four hours. Number of saw mills, 60, valued at $160,000, with a capacity for making 240,000 feet of lumber per day.

Church membership, 6,000; physicians, 51; lawyers, 31; banks, 4; harness shops, 16; shoe shops, 29; carriage shops 5; wagon shops, 15; express offices, 5; photograph galleries, 4; dry goods stores, 31; drug stores, 15; hardware stores, 11; general assortment stores, 40; shoe stores, 8; marble shops, 2; chair manufactures, 2; founderies, 1; pump shops, 5; tile factories, 8; hotels, 11; postoffices, 16; printing offices, 3; precincts, 18; planing mills, 4; tanyards, 4; jewelry stores, 4; tailor shops, 5; warehouses, 12; woolen factories, 2; spoke and hub factories, 1; agricultural warehouses, 3.

The number of Sabbath schools, 60, with an average attendance, including officers and teachers, of 3,274; amount paid out for books, papers, etc., in 1872, $731.25.

The taxable property in the county is put down at $12,000,000, but its real value will fall a little short of $20,000,000, including railroad companies, corporations, etc. These statistics, of course, are general, and many of importance are left out. Enough is given, however, to give a general idea of our wealth and prosperity. We will dwell more minutely on some of the above under different subjects or heads, as this is only intended as a general outlook of the county.

FIRST COURT HOUSE IN ANDERSON.

(Copy.)

JANUARY SESSION, 1831.

Ordered by the Board that the agent of the County of Madison sell to the lowest bidder the building of a Court House, to be built on lot No. 17, in the N. E. square in Andersontown, to be bu lt on the following Plan, to-wit: One story high, thirty-six feet long and twenty feet wide, to be elevated one foot from the ground and underpinned with stone; the story to be ten feet between floors; the building to be well weatherboarded and covered with good joint shingles; to have a good brick chimney in the west end with a large fireplace therein; ten feet of the end to be partitioned off and the rooms to be partitioned as to make two ten feet jury rooms; all the partitions to be run of good seasoned plank-each of said jury rooms to have a door to open into the large room-the said house to have three twelve lite windows in the S. Side and three in the N. Side; the windows to be so placed that the large Room shall have four and each of the Jury Rooms one; the under floor to be laid in a good workmanlike manner, the upper floor to be laid of loose planks; house to have one door in the front to open near the partition; the windows to be in, the outside door hung and the house enclosed on or before the second Monday in May next, and the whole work completed according to the above plan on or before the second Monday in Nov. next; the sale to take place at Anderson town on the 3d Saturday Jany. Inst.; the said agent taking bond of the contractors in double the amount for which the work is taken, conditioned for the completion of the work against the 15 day of Nov., 1831.

At the Jan. Session, 1832, the viewers appointed to view the new Court House, make a report discounting the contractors $30 for failing to fulfill the contract.

FIRST DIVISION OF THE COUNTY INTO DISTRICTS FOR COMMISSIONERS.

ORDER MADE AT THE MAY SESSION, 1831.

1st District, Union and Adams townships.
2d District, Anderson and Jackson townships.
3d District, Fall Creek and Green townships.

Ordered by the Board of Commissioners at the September Session, 1831, that the license to vend wooden clocks, be six dollars per

annum.

At the January session, 1832, John Berry was appointed by the Board Agent to borrow $100 of the Commissioners of Marion county for a period not exceeding one year, with the privilege to Madison county to pay it sooner if so much money be in the treasury before that time.

SESSION SEPTEMBER 1ST, A. D. 1828.

1. "At a meeting of the Board of Madison County Justices began and held in the house of John Berry, in Anderson Town, on the first Monday in September, Anno Domini, 1828, Present of said Board, as follows, To-wit: William Curtis, John Busby, Amasa Makepeace, Jacob Hiday, Thomas M. Pendleton, William Nelson, Daniel Wise and William S. Penn."

2. "And the Board now proceed to appoint a president, and William Curtis is Elected accordingly, without opposition, to serve the following year."

5.

"Ordered by the Board that Jesse Lain, Dickinson Burt, George Hodgins, Abraham Adams, Stephen Corwin, John Wynn, (commonly called Short John Wynn) and William Perkins, be, and they are hereby exempted from paying a poll tax for the present year."

15. "Ordered that William Ramsey have a lisance to vend foreign groceries, for six months, for the sum of two dollars and fifty cents, he having complied with the requisitions of the law."

16. "Ordered that Samuel Cory be allowed the sum of five dollars as an additional allowance for whisky and crying the sale of lots in Anderson town."

(At this term they made an order for a new Court House, but revoked it in July, 1829.

ANSEL RICHMOND, Clerk.

WILLIAM CURTIS, Pes't.

NOV. TERM-IN SESSION, 1828.

""Present, William Curtis, William S. Penn, Amasa Makepeace, John Busby, Thomas M. Pendleton, Daniel Hardesty, Daniel Wise and Richard Kinnaman."

(At the same session the county agent was instructed to sell lot 12 in the S. E. sqr. of Anderson to Dickinson Burt, for five dollars, to be paid in three years or to revert to the county.)

(On the 13th day of December, 1828, Morgan Shortridge and Zenas Beckwith reported the route of a road running from New Castle to LaFayette. They were appointed commissioners to do that by the legislature of 1828.)

(Jan. session, 1829, Bicknel Cole was appointed treasurer of Madison Co. for the year ending on the first Monday in January, 1830.)

"Ordered by the Board that the agent employ a surveyor to survey the donation made to the county by Capt. Berry, and establish the east line of the donation and then to sell the remaining lots belonging to the county, on the 1st of April, 1830, and give notice by posting three written notices in the county and three notices in three adjoining counties."

"The clerk was ordered to make out and put up at the court house door of the county, a fair statement of the expenses of the county for the present year."

FIRST GRAND JURY.

"And the Board now selected the following persons from the assessment Rolls to serve as Grand Jurors at the October term of the Madison Circuit Court, for the year 1829, To-wit: Thomas Snider Jonathan Stanley, Collings Tharp, Robert Virtue, I. N. Elsberry, Henry Rees, Stephen Noland, William Stanley, Adam Elsworth, John Martin, Elias Hughs, William McCarty, John Cookman, Samuel Bodle, Elisha Layton, John Markle."

TRAVERSE JURY OF THIS SAME COURT.

"Peter Chodrick, John Shimer, Jesse Shelton, Moses Mills, Elijah Gardner, Samuel Lambert, Henry Russell, John Drury, Solomon Adamson, Charles McCarty, Henry Hughes, Joseph Carpenter, Samuel Shimer, Isaac Drury, Moses Shawl, Thornton Rector, Eli Hodgins, John Davis, Elisha Conner, Daniel Poe, William Williams, John Hoover, Samilton D. Boyle, Philip, Van Devender."

MAY SESSION-1829.

"Bicknel Cole was granted an order for $3.12 for crying sale and furnishing whisky at the last sale of Anderson lots."

JAIL.-The Board of Justices at the July session, 1829, ordered the county agent to let the contract for a Jail in Anderson, and agreed to appropriate $200. The rest was raised by subscription as the record shows-at least that was the agreement.

(At the September special session, 1829, Thomas McCartney, Henry Sybert and John Berry produced certificates of elections and were sworn in as Commissioners of Madison County, being the first Board of commissioners.)

"Ordered, that for the purpose of raising a County Revenue for the present year, the following rate of taxation be laid, to-wit: On every hundred dollars worth of Town property, exclusive of improvements, 0.75; on Polls, 0.37; on work over, 0.25; on horses, over 3 years old, 0.50; on land, at the rate of fifty cents on 100 acres of first-rate land 40 cts.; on 100 acres of 2nd-rate land, and 30 cts. on the 100 acres of 3rd."