. History of Lafayette county, Mo. , carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns, and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and state of Missouri; a military record of volunteers in either army of the great civil war .. . oqo « « « « « 1879 7,000 « 1881 7,000 1883 MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP. $17,000 Bal. to stock Aug 20,1870 Aug 5,1876$ FREEDOM TOWNSHIP. Lex. & St. L. R. R. $ 25,000 Sub. to stock April 3, 1871 April 3, 1876$ DAVIS TOWNSH
. History of Lafayette county, Mo. , carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns, and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and state of Missouri; a military record of volunteers in either army of the great civil war .. . oqo « « « « « 1879 7,000 « 1881 7,000 1883 MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP. $17,000 Bal. to stock Aug 20,1870 Aug 5,1876$ FREEDOM TOWNSHIP. Lex. & St. L. R. R. $ 25,000 Sub. to stock April 3, 1871 April 3, 1876$ DAVIS TOWNSHIP. Lex. & St. L. R. R. $ 10,000 Sub. to stock April 3, 1S71 April 3, 1876$ The total combined debt of the county, as shown by this official report,(which included some other debts not of railroad, and therefore not given. in our table,) was $1,384,099. And the total assessed valution, includingreal estate, personal property, merchants stock, etc., was at that time$7,845,371. The bonded debt, therefore, was 17^ per cent of the entirevaluation: and most of the debt a swindle on the people besides. Themap given above shows the different lines of railroad which were at thattime promised. {Interest ten per cent payable semi-annually. 320 HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY. THE R. R. BONDED DEBT COMPROMISE Through a series of Taxpayers Conventions it had been shown beyonda question or a quibble that the railroad bonds both of county and town-ships, were essentially fraudulent; but they had been foisted upon themarket under such cunningly devised seemings of legality as to give thema status in the courts, and therefore some chance for judicial enforcement,even after long and costly litigation by the county in contesting them. Inview of this state of facts, it was thought best to propose such com-promises as the cred
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