The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-02-24
REPORT OF. PROCEEDINGS
Of the Board Of: County, Commissioners

REPORT or; PleOCEEDINGS
Of the Board of; County: Commissioners.
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.!.s=zst WORTHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1876.
Board OF County Commissioners met In spe:
cial session on call OF the Auditor ut the request
OF Commissioners Mills and Robinson. III ,=:
Prcsent-A O. Condo, First District. s.t., ...,f :.
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VIM: N. Bear, Auditor. ,.<s -:
Minutes OF last meeting, held Feb. Z, read aud
approved.
The attention OF the Board was called by Mr..
Condo to the recommendation OF Sheriff Town in
tile matter of personal property tax now delin-
quent against John Anscolnb for the years 1873
and 1874 and In the hands Of tile Sheriff for col
lection; and, OH motion of A. o. Condo, the
above taxes were abated as not being collect.
able. III -
The application Of Rev. c. Otis. Thatcher was
presented to the Board setting forth that the as
scssment Of his personal property for 1875 was
excessive and asking that said assessment be re.
duced to the sum of s49O 90 with a correspond
ing abatement of taxes. ....n
The request was granted and the Auditor d.
rected to make the correction. -,
B. W0olstencroft presented to the Board a
sworn statement setting forth that this assess
ment of personal property for the year 1873 was
excessive, (see statement on file, and asked that
five hundred dollars he deducted therefronl.
His petition was lgranted and the reduction
made.
BILLS PRESENTED AND ALLOWED.
Liberty Bowen, one duplicate case for ~. ~
A. p. Miller, printing for county, q IS
MOTIONS. i.
A. o. Condo moved that the Chairman of the
Board be and Is hereby authorized to procure a
suitable room and make the necessary prepare
ton to hold the District Court in March next
Motion carried.
PETITIONS.
+, The following petition (see petition) was pre-
sented to the Board asking the Commissioners to
call election of the county to vote on the SUBJ
ject OF bonds III aid of the Southern Minnesota
Railroad.
The petition was received and ordered on file.
THE PETITION.
TO the Board Of County Commissioners of the
County Of Mobiles, State Of Minnesota:
We, the undersigned, legal voters and tax pay
e:s Of said Mobiles county, do hereby petition
your honorable board, to submit to the determ-
nation OF the legal voters of said county, the
question OF issuing the bonds Of said county to
the amount Of Forty Thousand Dollars to tile
Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, upon
the following terms and conditions, viz:
The bonds to be issued in denominations as
provided by law, to run twenty years, and to
bear interest at the rate of seven per cent. per
annum, payable annually, provided that all ill.,
(erest which shall accrue on said bonds up to the
time of deliveri & them to said Railroad Compa-
ny, shall he cancelled or endorsed Oh said bonds
us paid, before said bonds are delivered to said
Company; said bonds to be deposited in escrow
with the State Auditor to be delivered to said
Company upon the following conditions:
That said Southern Minnesota Railroad CON-
pany shall, in extending its road west from its
present ter minus to the State line, build said
road through the village OF Wortlington in said
county Of Mobiles; that said road shall be built
and the cars running thereon to the corporate
limits OF said village Of Worthington on or before
the first day of September A. d. 1877, said road
to form 4 continuous line Of railroad from Win
nebago City, its present terminus, to the corpor-
ate limits of the village Of Wortliington aforesaid
said bonds any Of them in no case to be deliy-
cred to said Company until said road shall reach
said village rs aforesaid, and if said Company fail
| to build its road Us above specified to said Wor
Ellington by the said first day Of September 1877
said bonds shall not be delivered to said Compa
| ny but shall be cancelled by the State Auditor
| and returned to the Auditor Of said Mobiles coun
ty said bonds and the interest thereon, when the
same shall become due to be naid at the Office nj
the County Treasu: er Of said Mobiles county.