Are After Capt. Manly's Job

Are After Capt. Manly's Job

Capt. C. H. Manly, who went to Jackson from this city to make a set of abstract books for that county under a contract with the board of supervisors, may have to defend his rights in the courts. He has made the abstract books, doing very successful work. The board of supervisors, under the authority of an act of the legislature, made a contract with Capt. Manly, employing him as county abstractor and giving him control of the office for two years to come. A ripper bill was slipped through the legislature last Thursday designed to take the business out of Capt. Manly's hands and to place it in the hands of the register of deeds, who is made county abstractor and who is to receive as compensation half of the fees. Capt. Manly says he will vacate his office only after the courts say he must. His contract was duly signed and executed.