Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-12-03

TO be done by the lowest bidder. The most i'm
porant matter to be printed is the list of lands 10
be sold for taxes. The public, every tax payer is
personally interested in this Now, Sir, shall this
important document be printed by a paper with a
circulation of 1000 copies, or by one printing 100
copies That is the real question. more especial
ly, when the Statutes has fixed the price at 10 cts
per lot. (2) think, Sir, if l were the Coun-
ty Treasurer, l should put it where the public
would be most benefited, and pay the legal rate,
this honorable Board to the contrary, notwith
standing A TAX PAYER.
REMARKS BY THE EDITOR.
l. Whatever Judge Whiton's opinion may have
been, whatever has been the action of the board
in regard 10 these cases. it is certainly matter of
justice thUt a man should have pay for his time
whether he is working for a county or an individ-
ual. 1t is as mean highway robbery, for an
officer of the county to 90 TO a man and take him
from his business and keep him from it, one or
ten days, and then discharge him and insult him
with an offer of two shillings for pay. And the
individual who should do such thing; would be
justly incarcerated in States Prison for five years
But the county, forsooth, can do it with im2unitv
We do not believe in such law.
g. AS far "a the instructions of the last County
Board with reference to the printing are concern
ed we look upon the "labor of love- as a work
OF supererogation altogether. When the price
has been fixed by the highest Legislature Of the
state, 1t is not for county Board to alter the
rate. And however smart they might wish to APP
pear in SHINING the printer for the public good we
think they have not shown as much sagacity as thew
might have done For, supposing the printing Off
ceS should combine, and make as the lowest bid
four times the price of the Statute F.; Does any
body think they would pay it : They would hv
back to the Statutes for Succor in that case. 1t
was pretty small act for the Board and nobody
thanks them for it. And all this to save a little
money, not to the tax payer, but to Il few spccua
tors who will not pay their taxes to the town trcasu
rer, but who let them be returned in order to save
the per cent due the town collector, And the
County Board think this is not quite favor enough
to these spectators in Land, who are growing
rich on tn, improvements made by the Tar Pdy
er'S, Improvements around them, and so they pro-
pose in the face and eyes ofthe Statutes, to sponge
a few dollars out of the Printer, in order that the
Treasurer may be able to pay back according to
their descriptions, few to each of these non
resident harpieS and spectators in land, who are
the only curses of he county and the whole West.
1t is the least charity that extend to the be-
sotted Board, to suppose that they did not know
what they were about.
Tbo from tho N
much in point that we copy it.
The advertising Of the Treasurer and Clerk of
the Board ,c0s not Il cl0rge 05ai"sthte IaIPogcrS.
When the taxes are not paid on lands, they are
advertised and sold by the Treasurer-to bidders
if there are any; if not to the county The own
cr has three years TO redeem in. If the lands arc
not redeemed, the Clerk of the Board advertiscs
them, and makes out deeds Of the same TO bidders
or TO the county. And the lar specifies that the
costs Of advertising shall not be charge upon the
Taxpayer, ba shall be lien upon the lands
"1he fees of publication shall be apportioned
equally upon the several parcels of land advcrts-
ed, and all costs, charges and interest imposed by
the provisions of this chapter, and paid upon any
land, shall be lien thereon Until paid equally
with the unpaid taxes. "-REvIsED STATUTES,
Chap. Is, Section l33 last clause.
This shows ConcluSiyelv feat the lands --,aot the
Taxpayers Of the Co'0sty-pay the costs of adycr-
Using.
These lands arc owned by spectators, living
out ofthe country, and when they donot pay their
Just taxes It IS o,y Justice to the co,tnfy NOT a
burden 70 the Taxpayers to make them pay the
NECESSARY costs, arising from thar o,cn deiia-
qaencieS, The law makes them their lands paw
it, and not the county.
The same statutes saw
The county Treasurer shall cause such state
ment and notice TO be published in a newspaper
printed in his county. R S., Chapter Is, Sec.
81.
The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors in
each county shall cause TO be published in a news
paper printed i'll his county a list of all unredccm
ed lands R 5. Chap Is SEC 100
This shows that the Treasurer and Clerk-not
the County Board-shall get this work DONE
Therefore the Board has no power over the mat
ter.
The same Statutes further say
There shall he allowed:
To the printer who shall publish any notice for
sale of taxes for each lot or tract ten cents for all
the insertions
To the printer who shall publish any notice of
the time when the redemption of lands sold for
taxes shall expire, for each lot or tract of land
twenty cents for all insertions.-R. s. Chap. Is
part Of Sec 1873.
Thus the law gives the Treasurer and Clerk ey
elusive control over this matter fixes the price that
shall be paid, and 10 preue,a the county from beag
bEdei'ed 'psth erpsnSe, MAKE THE LANDS PAY THE
COSTS.
The surveyor general of California puts that
state down as containing 10000 square miles Of