MARCH 1836 TERM

Present: Thomas Dunning, James Boldon, David Fulton, John Hudson, George Mayfield, Messer Secrest, Samuel Oram, Joseph Landrum, Thomas Harvey, Henry Littlejohn, James W. Haltom, David Crockett, Francis Ashbrook, Joseph Whiles.

John Hudson was elected President.

It was ordered that "when any member of this board has a motion to make that they arise to their feet".

Ordered that Robert Wooden the Sheriff of Owen County be fined $5 for a contempt of this court, and that he stand committed until fine and costs be paid or replevied. Notation is made that the said Robert Wooden was such a person that even though he was jovial and genial, if you but touched the dignity of his official position that he would not stir a step for the President of the US much less this court. However, mention is later made "by order of the board, the $5 fine above is set aside and remitted for good cause" so apparently the problems were resolved.

Basil Champer is re appointed Treasurer

Joseph Cochran files the receipt of Isaac Westfall, Trustee of the County Seminary fund for $1, it being a fine collected for assault and battery on the body of Moses Carter by Jackson Reynolds, August 3 1835

Thomas Allen was appointed "to select as good a half quarter section of land as he can find suitable for erecting a Public Asylum for Owen County, as near as may be practicable to the county seat and that $108 of the estray and road moneys now in the treasury be and and the same is hereby appropriated for said purposes" It was further ordered "that he be authorized to purchase a pre-emption right, if any such can be had on a reasonable term"

Isaac Westfall Trustee of the Seminary fund, receipts for a fine of $1 from William Scott, for "profane swearing" and another fine from the same person of $23 for "aiding and abetting an affray"