[Hosea Stout Diary] Monday July 5th 1847. Staid in. Sent out 7 men. Today the police drew their portion of good taken for Beech & Eddys tax.
The Picket guard met this evening to adjudicate on the case of Daniel Russells cattle 22 head which had been taken in the corn field and he rather than to pay the 100 [$1.00] pr head appealed to the council & they refered it to us to settle, so we left it to his own conscience & magnanimity to say what was just as he was one of the council and helped make the law. He decided to pay 10 bushels of corn & 10 of Buck wheat which we accepted.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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