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The source of the Board's income is not clear, except that it was limited. We know that taxes were being assessed. They were usually calculated as a percentage of what the state was collecting. Warrants for payment, perhaps more like lOUs, continued to be made for salaries and reimbursements. In some cases, particularly in the case of judges, payments were made in arrears. In one example, a probate judge was paid $300 for his services during the years 1863 to 1866.
The pauper fund remained in use. An interesting item is included in the April 1866 term. It was ordered by the Board that "a special Freed man pauper tax of one dollar be levied upon each male Freed man between the ages of 18 and 60." While it is noteworthy that these folk were being considered, it is also curious that the term "Freed men" was still in use after the war.
Some substantial warrants that were made in war years were still carried on the books. In order to wipe them clean, appointments were made to certain individuals, giving them the authority to pay off the outstanding amounts, but only if they could be settled for fifty cents on the dollar. It is not clear whether Confederate monies had been involved, but new money was obviously more valuable than the previously written warrants.
While the organization continued with periodic activity, it is difficult to discern the regularity of that activity. Board meetings fell into two categories: regular and special. Most regular meetings were held in January, April, July and September. However, that is not to say that there were meetings in each one of those months. In fact, sometimes there was no regular meeting for periods of several months. Other meetings, called "Special," were sometimes held on those months which would have been "Regular" in the normal sequence. Sometimes Special meetings were held back to back, and in one instance, three months in a row.
Overseers were appointed in the months of April in 1866,1867, and 1868. For at least the next three years, that pattern ceased being followed.
The term of office for president also was not regular. In the beginning, the first set of minutes being for October 1866, Joseph Martin appears as president. He continued in office through the October 1867 meeting. The next meeting was in the following January, and Sam White was then heading the board. Curiously, an examination of the October meeting discloses nothing about an election of a new president.
Sam White continued as president through June 1870, and in that month was re-elected but this time as president of the "Board of Supervisors." In July 1871, White resigned and GW Holloman was again elected president.