of Dresden voted almost to a man in favor of the scheme, while most of the voters against it were farmers throughout the township. The original idea, which predominated among the farmers, was that they would have the township divided, and thus escape paying any portion of the bonds. Although the succeeded in their efforts to be cut off from Dresden, the law decided that that act did not release them from paying their portion of the bonds as they became due. Before these bonds were finally all paid, they cost the taxpayers of the two townships—Cass, the new one formed, and Jefferson—about $200,000. A New Township is Created On Tuesday, 6 Sep 1853, the Commissioners resumed the consideration of the matter relating to the erection of a new township out of the territory comprising Jefferson township, and ordered that a new township shall be erected out of said territory, to be known by the name of Cass township, and to contain territory agreeably to the petition in relation to the same; which petition included the whole of Jefferson township, excepting the district included in the following boundaries, viz..."Commencing on the Muskingum River, below Dresden, at a point where the southeast corner of Charles Dickenson's land, and the northeast corner of Thompson Ferrell's land unite, being on the east boundary of Jefferson township, running thence west on the line between said Dickenson and Ferrell's land, to the southeast corner of George W. Lane's land, being lot number seventeen; thence north to the center of Wakatomika Creek; thence down said creek, in the center thereof, to the eastern boundary of Jefferson Township; thence along said eastern boundary, down the Muskingum River to the place of beginning." "The commissioners caused notices to be written and sent to them by Jas. Morgan, with directions to put them up in three of the most public places within the new township of Cass; which notices appointed the 19th day of the present month for the electors to meet at the school house, in sub-district number five, in part of Jefferson township, this day formed by the Commissioners of Muskingum County in the aforesaid new township of Cass, for the purpose of electing persons having the qualifications of electors, to fill the several offices of said newly formed township." Commission's Journal, 1853, the 28th and 29th pages, although the pages are not numbered. Government The township