Glasgow Weekly Times

Pursuant to adjournment a large and intelligent meeting of the citizens of Howard county, convened in the Court House, in Fayette, on Monday, the 6th inst., to take into consideration the question of constructing Plank Roads.

G. ROBINSON, Esq. was called to the Chair, and Andrew Cooper, Esq. appointed Secretary; when W. F. Birch submitted the following proposition:

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to memorialize the General Assembly to grant authority to the County Court of Howard County, to incorporate any number of Citizens who may desire to construct a Plank Road, from any point, to any point, in said County, and that upon said company satisfying said Court that they have subscribed and secured an amount of money sufficient to build one half, then the Court shall order an election to decide whether the county shall subscribe the residue.

F. A. Savage, submitted the following as a substitute:

"As the sense of this meeting, that application be made to the Legislature to incorporate a Plank Road Company from Glasgow to Fayette; a company from Fayette to the county line, in view of its termination in Rocheport; and a company from Fayette, to a point on the river near Boonville, and to provide that the sense of the voters of the County be taken by the County Court whether one half the stock in said companies shall be subscribed by the county, upon the other half being taken and secured by individuals."

Which was rejected, and J. W. Henry, offered the following:

" That it is the sense of this meeting that the people of Howard county would be benefitted by a Plank Road from Fayette to some point on the Missouri river, convenient to Boonville, and that we will petition the Legislature for a charter for said road."

Which was rejected; and then the proposition of W. F. Birch was adopted.

W. F. Birch, Abiel Leonard, and R. T. Prewitt, were appointed a committee to memorialize the General Assembly, and the meeting adjourned.

G. ROBINSON, Chairman.

ANDREW COOPER, Sec'y.