Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-07
COUNTY CONCERNS.

The Regular Monthly Meeting of the Board
of Commissioners--Bonds for Fort SHELL
ing Bridge Ordered to be Issued-=Tiie
Auditors Annual Estimate>-A Reduction
of Taxes of $4,000 Over Last Year.
The county commissioners held their regular
monthly meeting yesterday, when Commission
ers Lindeke McGrath, MAYNARD. Miner, Wag-
ner, Hunt, Mr.. President, and County Auditor
Davis were present.
communication was read asking that no
action be taken in the matter of forming new
school district out of parts of Nos T. 10 and 20,
and referred to the committee on education.
A communication from. tax payers,
re DEMONSTRATING with the board for their
action in the matter of school district
No. 20, Ga motion of Mr.. Hunt, was laid over
for one month to enable those concerned to
attend the meeting of the board.
petition from John Grace, referring ii q
barn which he built and was not paid for, was
petition frons c. 4. Morton, stating that he
had purchased certain tax titles from one E.
s. Page, paying therefor $63.31 which he
afterwards found to be covered by Goose lake,
The petition asked that the money be refund
ed. Referred to the committee or ssays and
means, and the committee en takes.
Petition from Fort aneiling bridge commit
tee asking that bonds be issued. The petition
! was "a follows:
GENTLEMEN: / am Instructed by the com
| mssioners of the Fort Smelling bridge to no
| tlfy you that in their opinion bonds to the
amoent of $50, 900 should be put in such con-
dition that they could be issued at any time
| they may be needed Some expenditure of
| money has already been made and further ex-
penditure will become necessary almost 1mme-
dlately, making it advisable that bonds should
| be issued, at least to some extent, without de-
| lay Very respectfully yours,
THos. COCHRAN, Ja,, Secretary.
| MIR. Wagner wanted to kntW if the bridge
was to be finished or the first of December.
| he understood the engineer could stop the
WORK and extend the time. He should not like
/ to issue bonds to draw interest a long TINE
ahead of the time the money migts Be wanted.
1t was explained to Mr. Wagner by the chair.
who is also president of the bridge com mission.
that it is the intention of the board to have ali
| the masonry of the bridge finished by Deem
! Der 1st. The work could only be stopped on ac-
count of the weather and with the consent of
| the bridge commission.
| The following resolution was then intro
duced:
| Resolped, ahat the county auditor of Ramsey
county be and he is hereby instructed to issue
I the bonds OF said county in the sum of $4,000
| tor the construction of the Fort Smelling
bridge, as authorized by special act Of the
legislature, approved March 2, 1878. Said
bonds shall be in Sums Of 81 900 each with in
terest coupons attached, bearing interest at the
rate OF per cent. per annnm, payable semi
annually. Said bonds shall be made payable
| III twenty years from the date thereof and the
said principal and interest shall be payable at
| the financial agency of the county Of Ramsey
| il the city of New York. The bonds shall be
dated Septembec l, 1873,
| communication was received from Asses
s s Beaumont asking that the plat maps of
! the city be made in ink, they now being in
| pencil. By resolution offered by Mr.. Magnan,
the matter was referred to the committe on
| taxes with power to act, and with instructions
to add any county maps which are in pencil.
| Auditor Davis then submitted the following
reports
To the Hon. Board of County Commissioners
of Ramsey county:
| GENTLEMEN:-I respectfully submit for your
consideration the following estimate, showing
the amount required by taxation, upon the as
sessed valuation of 1878, for the support of the
county government for the year 1879:
TAX LEVY FOR 1878.
| Topaz bonds falling due in 1879 $4,000
10 pay interest coupons due In l879... 1850
For roads and bridges. observation-disclosures. $500
| for support OF the poor. 5000
For salaries. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000
For printing Observation-Disclosures. $500
| for incidental. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000
| ror !nquests. observation-disclosures. 800
For jail. neutrality-suspicious.. $500
TOT pupnc buildings. $500
Total levy for 1873. .$65, 600
| The tax levy made last year l87O by your
honorable board was 100000.
In the above estimate have included lin the
interest account) 800 to pay interest on Fort
will be issued, and the interest upon the same
| should be provided for in your tax levy for
| 1878.
| The bonded debt of the county, at this date.
! is $l47 600. Of that amount $4,000 are bear
| ing per cent. interest," and 1884. 900 are bear
| ing per cent. interest. The total annual in
| terest upon that debts $l1 l3O. The amount
OF bonds falling due in 1879 is Sc, 1000, making
| an Indebtedness against the bond and interest,"
account falling due next year, of $17, 100, to
which have added. as above stated So, 500 for
| payment Of coupons upon the bridge bonds,
making 800 $50, for the payment of which l
have provided for in the foregoing estimate,
have recommended no levy this year for the
expenses of either of the courts, or for the sew
! eral accounts of constable and justice, in
sane sane. reform f school or stationary. AS the
county has no floating debt, think, with
proper economy, those departments can be run,
without any detriment to either, with what
| funds we have on hand, together with the
amount we shall receive from the tax sale of
the presentyear. Respectfully submitted,
s. LEE DAVIS, County Auditor.
The levy as recommended was adopted and
sworn to.
The annual report of the directors of the
aims house and hospital was received and re-
terred to the committee on ways and means,
with power to publish it if they see proper.
MI. Getty, of White Bear appeared before
the board in the matter of school books and
school fund. His object was to keep the fund
intact, SO that he might know what money
| they had to work with. Only those districts
which order books can be charged for them, and
very few, if any, districts will order books
fhov 4
to the store and get them cheaper.
The matter was referred to the committee
! on schools, with the county attorney.
The following resolution was passed:
Resotved, That the sum of 300 be, and the
same san u.s. hereby appropriated to the board of
the support of the poor aims house and hos
pltal Tor the month of August.
Inc usual batch OF bills were considered and
ordered paid, after which the board adjourned.
Judges for the Field Trials.
The following gentlemen have accepted the
invitation of the Minnesota Kennel club. to
act as judges at the forthcoming field trials of
settlers and pointers over prairie chickens:
John Davidson, ESQ.,, Monroe, Mich: G. J.
Butler, ESD. Saltwater, Mimi; VIM. Mulliken,
Esq, st. Cloud, MINI. They are all thorough
gentlemen and practical sportsmen, and from
their well known impartiality, they will prove
no doubt, satisfactory. The committee are pc.
culiarly fortunate in securing the services of
Mr. Davidson, as he has been frequently invited
to act in that capacity. As a bench show Judge
he has no equal on this continent. He will
Judge the dogs alone at the bench show. Mr..
Lart, of England, the great 'all round" Judge
when Judging the dogs at the last New York
show. paid Mr.. Davidson very high compli-
melt, by informing the club that, as MANY
judges as he had been associated with in En-
gland he had never met with one who DOS
sessed the thorough practical knowledge that