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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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            Alachua County  Est Fla
And Isaiah Thomas received seventeen votes (17) and Samuel R. Piles received 
six votes (6) --- 
          The whole number of votes given for the Office of Justices of the Peace
for the 2nd Justices District was thirteen votes (13) And of these votes Joseph 
G. Bell received thirteen votes (13) and James Bevil received thirteen votes (13)- 
          The whole number of votes given for the Offices of Justices of the Peace
for the 3rd Justices District was Sixteen votes (16) and of these votes John 
M. Geiger received 8 votes (8) And the number of eight votes was 
given for John N. Robinson. --- 
          The whole number of votes given for the Offices of Justices of the Peace
for the 4th Justices District was twenty six votes (26) and Arnold 
Thigpen received twenty six votes (26) and William H. Carpenter 
received twenty six votes (26) --- 
                             Witness our hands this 15th day of October 
                              A.D. 1851 
                                         Charles F. Fitchet 
                                               Judge of Probate 
                                          Lemuel Wilson 
                                           Tho's J. Prevatt 
Newnansville October 29th 1851 At a Special Meeting of the Board of County Commissioners --- Present the Hon' Charles F. Fitchet President of the Board of County Commissioners, Elija Barrow and George L. Brown Commissioners a quorum being present proceeded to business --- Order 1st Charles L. Wilson Sheriff and tax assessor and Collector appeared and presented his accounts for examination and asked for a release from a double tax on John H. Lewis and Mary F. Lewis his wife the Board of County Commissioners on examination find an overcharge on Lands actually owned by John H. Lewis and Mary F. Lewis his wife to be a difference of two hundred and seventy six dollars and twenty two cents ($276. 22) overcharge on John H. Lewis and Mary F. Lewis his wife, it is hereby ordered by the Board of County Commissioners that the said C.L. Wilson Sheriff, tax Collector and Assessor be and he is hereby released from the aforesaid amount of two hundred and seventy six dollars and twenty two Cents ($276.22) passed unanimously by the Board --- Order 2nd It is further ordered by the Board that the Sheriff Assessor and Collector be released from a double tax of eighteen dollars and thirty two Cents on lands owned by D.S. Corbut ---
Transcribed by Jim Powell Jr 23 February 2002
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