JANUARY 1833 TERM

Buckner Dickerson & Richard Walden were allowed $4.32 1/2 each, as chain carriers.

Nathan Burchfield was allowed 90 cents for marking state road from Spencer to Terre Haute.

Jesse J. Burton was allowed $3.12 1/2 for surveying the State road from Spencer to Terre Haute.

James M. H. Allison was appointed agent for the Owen County Library, and required to give bond in the sum of $450.

A map of the State road from Spencer to Bowling Green is recorded on page 21 of the order book, signed by John Dunn, Jesse McIntire & Henry Allen Commissioners.

A ferry boat was ordered built for the county of the following dimensions; " The gunnels to be 47 feet long and of good sound yellow poplar timber and 2 feet deep and 7 inches thick at the bottom and 2 1/2 at the top; pins to be of white oak, stern and bow pieces to be of oak sufficient size, framed in the gunnels, one wide streamer bottom, to be covered with yellow poplar plank two inches thick; floor to be laid with poplar plank one and one half inches thick and one foot wide; three good ash oars.