Alachua County  Est Fla

          Order 1st   It is ordered that the Sheriff Assessor and 
Collector of the State tax, assess and collect for County purposes 
fifty per cent on the State taxes and pay the same unto the 
County Treasury. 
    Order 2nd   It is hereby ordered that the County Treasurer 
pay to G.L. Brown, Samuel B. Colding and C.F. Fitchet 
Judge and President of said Board of county Commissioners 
two dollars each per day for this service in attending on 
the Board of Commissioners --- 
        There being no further business before the Board it is 
therefore ordered that the Board stand adjourned to an indefinite 
time ---                            Charles F. Fitchet 
                                           President &c

State of Florida  } S.S.  We the Subscribers and Judge of Probate 
County of Alachua } for said County, and inhabitants of said County 
having the qualification of voters therein, and selected by the said Judge 
of Probate to assist him im Canvassing and Counting the votes given 
for the Office of County Commissioners and two Justices of the Peace 
for the 1st Justices District of the County, as shown by the returns 
filed in the Office of said Judge at an election held at the several 
precincts in said County on Saturday the fifth day of April 
this instant 1851, in consequence of a vacancy occasioned by 
the resignation of David Mizell and John B. Standly and the removal 
of the Justices of the Peace from the District --- 
          After having Carefully Canvassed and Counted the votes 
hereby certify the following as a true Statement of the votes at 
said precincts, Viz. 
          The whole number of votes given for the Office of County 
Commissioner is nineteen votes (19) and that of these votes Elija 
Barrow received nineteen votes (19) and John M. Geiger received 
nineteen votes (19) and the whole number of votes given for the 
Office of Justices of the Peace is fourteen votes (14) and of these votes 
Samuel W. Burnett received fourteen votes (14) and Benjamin D. 
White received fourteen votes (14)--- 
                       In witness whereof we have hereunto set 
                          our hands this 14th day of April A.D. 1851
                              Charles F. Fitchet Judge of Probate 
                              J.C. Dell 
                              John C. Hately