Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-02
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

COMMISSIONERS
A Batch OF Petitions for Road Improve
ments-Condition Of the Treasury and
Fort Smelling Bridge Fund-Annual
Statement of Auditor Davis. Showing As
sets and Liabilities of the County-Elec-
tion of the "Globo" as the Official Paper.
The board of county commissioners met in |
regular monthly session yesterday forenoon.
Mayor Dawson in the chair, a full board being
in attendance
PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS.
Petitions were presented as follows From
citizens of White Bear township for change
in the st. Paul and Bald Eagle road. Granted.
The following were referred: New Canada
and White Bear, asking an appropriation of
81 900 to complete the st. Paul and Centreville
Bear for $1,000; Hudson road, $500; for the
completion of the Lake Como and Phalen ave-
nue. road from Rice street out, $500; for q new
road in Rose town, from Mounds View to Lake
Josephine, $500; and for new highway in
Mounds View, to be known as the Josephine
Road
A communication from Assessor Beaumont,
recommending the abatement of 5000 on an
assessment in Rose town, was read and con-
CURED in.
The committee on ways and means submitted
statement of vouchers returned at the March
settlement, an account of which has previously
appeared in the GLOBE. Ordered printed.
A communication from ]. S. Hough, asking
the abatement of personal tax assessment for
1873, was read and adopted.
COLLECTIONS
communication was submitted from the
abstract clerk embodying statement of the
amounts collected during the last quarter, the
total collections being $672.8O, in addition to
which $3.50 back Collections were received. Re-
ferred to the committee on ways and means.
CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.
The report of County Treasurer Rice was
submitted showing the receipts and expendi-
lures from Oct. l, 1878, to Feb. %, 1873, inclu-
sive, as follows:
Total receipts $3.50, 291 81
Total disbursements l39.412 II
Balance on hand March l. 1879. .$14O, 1873 "a
Placed on file.
FORT SMELLING BRIDGE FUND.
communication embodying statement of
the Fort Smelling bridge fund was also SUBJ
Receipts from the sale of bonds up
to September, 1878, to be. ....... $3.50, 1872 As
Total disbursements. Observation-Disclosures. 30, 1884 IL
Balance on hand March l, 1879. 81, 538 81
| Referred to the appropriate committee and
auditor.
COUNTY SCHOOLS.
The quarterly report of Mr.. E. A. Hendrick-
son, county superintendent of schools, was
submitted. showing that seventeen school dis
tricts had been visited, all of which were found
in very fourishing and progressive condition.
Referred to the committee on education.
| AIMS HOUSE.
A resolution appropriating 300 for the cur
rent expenses of the aims house and hos
pital for the month of April, was read and
adopted.
INTEREST AND DEPOSIT ACCOUNT.
! A resolution instructing the county treasurer
to transfer $4, 443.6l of the interest on deposit
account to the county interest fund, was also
read and adopted.
OFFICIAL PAPER.
A resolution making the GLOBE the officia
paper for the ensuing year was read and unani
mously adopted.
An appropriation of 300 was allowed County
Treasurer Rice to defray the expenses of EN-
ploying competent person to take the annua
census of property owners who had changed
their place of residence during the past year.
NEW SCHOOL DISTRICT.
The committee Ga education reported in ia
vor Of the formation of new school district
in the townships of Rose and Mounds View
Adopted.
i REFUNDING A TAX.
The following resolution was unanimousl,
. adopted:
WHEREAS, Certain towns at their annual tow,
meetings in March, 1873, voted that no roa,
tax on personal property should be levied bu
neglected to notify the county auditor. as
road tax was levied on personal property in sal,
towns said levy being illegal; therefore,
! RESOLVED, That SAID illegal tax be refunded t.
all persons applying to the proper town official
and that the county auditor be and is instructe
to furnish list of such illegal assessments, 8
that town officials may comply with the pro
visions of this resolution.
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.
The annual statement of County Audito
Davis, showing the assets and liabilities o
Ramsey county on the LIST day Of March, 1875
2 and of its receipts and expenditures from Jar
uary LIST, 1878, to March LIST, 1879, togethe
with the tax collections as submitted at tn
quarterly settlements, was submitted, fror
which was. obtained the following information