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gives the whole number of members as 161, and the value of property insured by the company as $189,940. Received on admission of members $310.(79; incidental expenses, $268.41; cash in hands of secretary, $42.28. The first loss sustained by the company was the burning of two barns and sheds, estimated at $1,100. Amount paid as mutually agreed upon, $930. The number of members has increased year by year, until it nearly reaches 3,000, and the value of property insured exceeds six and a half millions of dollars. The company insures no property within the limits of any city or incorporated village. The officers of the company are required to present their claims against the company certified under oath. The entire business of this company is mainly conducted by the secretary and the board of directors, at an expense annually falling below $2,000. The prompt and fair adjustment of all losses has long since dispelled all doubts of the feasibility of a
cheap and safe mutual protection association. The officers of the company have always been among the solid men of the county, who have cheerfully and almost gratuitously given to it their time and attention. Withee, Esq., is the present energetic secretary.
For most of the facts connected with the history of the judiciary of this county, I avail myself of the address delivered by the Hon. George Woodruff, at the formal opening of the lately erected court house.
The first circuit judge appointed for the entire state out of Wayne county was Hon. W. A. Fletcher, who held his first term in this county at the school-house above mentioned, in the month of November, 1833, Judge Eleazer McCamley as associate judge;
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