The Court House Loan

In order that the citizens of the several towns of thia county may vote with their eyes open upon the proposed loan for a Court House we reprint a few facts and figures. The Board of Supervisors1 before ordering a vote, solemnly deolared by resolutiou almost unanimously - 17 to 0 - adopted : lst. That the county "in wealth and population has outgrown our Court House and County Offices." 2d. That the Court Houae and county offices do not afford anything like good or sufficient room or accommodalion for the court, jurors, and parties litigant doing business therein." 3d. That "the health, comfort, and wellbeing of the court, jurors, parties at law and members of the bar and county officers absolutely require belter accommodulions " 4th. " The dilapidated condition of the Court House and county offices is an indncement to incendiarism and crime." 51 h. That " by a fire in gaid officos the county would suffer not only a larger amount of loss in dollars and centa than it would cost to build a fire-proof building, bui would also suffer an irreparable loss M books, papers, and records that nevcr cotild be restored." 6th. That the county is abundantly alle to build the necossary fire-proof building, being wliolly and entirely out of debt." The Board also estimated the cost of a fire-proof building furnishing the necossary acconimodations for a Court House and offices at $99,000, and of this amount assurued so far as itcould for the county, $66.000, conditioned on a contribution of $33,000 by the city - the same to beraised by county and city loans respectively, bearing 7 per cent. annual interest. Now it can neither be denied that the Supervisors stated FACT3 in assigning the necessity for a new Court House, nor asserted that it over-estimated the necessary cost of such a Court House. And now how is the burden to be distributed and borne if the loan is " approved and ordered by the electora of the oounty ? Take the valuation of the county at $10,000,000- the sum atwhichthe real and personal valuation of the county was equalized last October - though it is really morethan three tima that figuro. Using the valuation named tho necessary tax on each $1,000 will be 3u& $(5.60, or in fact only about $2 per $1,000. Then each citizen having taxable property worth $1,000 will only have tooontribute $2 towards the new Court House, and in the sanie proportion according to good or ill fortune in obtaining more or less of this world's goods. What citizen of the county is unwilling to be taxed in that amount to secure proper accommodations for courts, juries, and officera. Apportioned aiaong the several town. ships on the basis of the last equalization already namod and each will have to pay of the $99,000, as follows : Ann Arbor City (douation), $33,000 00 " " u (share oí S66.000) 9,781 20 Ann Arbor Town, 2,838 00 Total A. A. City and Town, $15,619 20 Augusta, 1,310 10 Bridgowater, 2,211 Ü0 üexter, . 1,735 80 Freedom, 2,009 20 Lima, 2,211 00 Lodi, 2,778 60 -bynclon, . 1,204 00 Manchester, 3,352 80 Northfield, ï.848 00 I'ittsfield, 3,352 80 Salem, 2,508 00 Saline, 3,4U5 00 Scio, 4,039 20 Sharon, 2,158 20 Superior, 2,5G0 80 Syivan, 2,425 50 Webster, 2,(00 40 York, 2,560 80 Ypsilanti City, 6,091 80 " Town., 2,956 80 63,380 80 Total, 99,000 00 Ann Arbor City and Town will be called upon to pay $45,619.20, and the othor nineteen tonus with the city of Ypsilanti but $53,380 80. Apportion tho $99,000.00 equally and justly and Ann Arbor City would be oalled upon for only $14,671.80 instoad of $42,781.20, so that the contribution levied upon her will bs .f 28,309.00. This ought to satisfy the out towus and stop tho clainor of half a dozen journals whioh Beek to thrive and fatten on local jealousies and strife. Every citizen of the county - if a property holder - is directly interested in the building of a new Court House with fire-proof offices, and each citizen will be benefi-ted more than the amount he will bo eallcd upon to pay. It ia not a good reason for voting agaiust tho loan that the elector does n't axpect to hold a covmty office and occupy one of the offices, or that he never has been. called upon to servo on a jury, or that he seldom or never come to. Ann Arbor. He is a citizen of the county and his title deeda and those of evory man in his town are now in imminent danger, both, thn Supervisors aver, from fire and robbers. Kent oounty suffered by fire, St. Joseph by robbers, and Washtenaw should take warning. Then lay narrow local prejudices aside and vote for the loan. On Friday last, refusing the courtesy due to its committee of investigation the necessary time to make its report, or to Col. Grant who was sick and unable to bo in his seat, foroed through the bill providing ' for the appointment of two professors of homeopathy in tho department of medicine of the University of Michigan," Tho bill was passed by a voto of 56 to 23, many of its opponents haviug left the Ilouse in disgust. An attempt was inado to amond the bill by prohibiting tho drawing of any moneys from the State treasury on appropriations until tho act was complicd with, which failed, for the stated reason that a separato bill was pending in the Senate designed to accomplish tho samo end, but for tho real reason that the fanatical supporters of the bill dare not risk it back in the Senato. The Legislature does not seew to bare learned tho lesson that wbnt it has taken jrears to tmild np may bo desiroyed in ia instant, and so for the benefit of a doubtful good tö bo c'onferrud upon the home- opthiu branch of the mcxlioal profoBsion they hare evidenced a rfelerminatioft to try " mixed modicine" which will proVo as distasteful to all partios concerned, after the first peeana have been sung as tlie old prescriptions of calomel anl jalap. The bost that can result- or it 80 Bfieui to the coolost observers of both parties - is the destruction of tho present school and the building up on its rnins of a honicopathio school, which will bo thu work of many years of hard labor for BOine one. All this could havo been avoided by tho establishment of a homeopathie branch of tho Univnrsity. - Mr. Cook, of this county, votod for the bilí ; Mr. Noyes against it; and Col. Quant was sick and absent.