The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-03-25
PROCEEDINGS

report, RS. " $3.50
Received to Jan. LIST, 1880 1475
Total receipts 1925
EXPENDED FOR WHAT PURPOSES.
Desk for the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court s24.oo
Locks and repairs on dvors 600
Book cases and shelving for fire
proof vault 400
and presented 4 bill for balance
due 27.5O
The report was accepted and bill al.
lowed. .
Com. Bloom presented report &C.
counting for poor fund placed in his
hands. Report accepted and placed on
file.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
Payment of sundry bills for Medical
attendance, Supplies, Medicines, etc.,
amounting in the aggregate to $179.72
| upon which action had been deferred,
was refused.
PETITIONS
Were presented from F. A. Stephens
and others asking for an appropriation
! of one hundred dollars for material to
| build bridge across the Champepedan
creek in the town of Leota.
On motion one hundred and fifteen
dollars were appropriated for that pur-
pose, on conditions that the said
| bridge be made sixteen feet wide in
stead Of fourteen feet as proposed, that
iron straps or bands be used to stay
the foot of truss braces instead of
| bolts. The bridge to be built substan-
TALLY as repres. nted in plans presented
and on file with Com. Crosby at Adri-
an. Same to be completed and ap-
proaches made on or before the Goth
day Of June next. Com. Crosby was
appointed to Inspect and report
on it to the County Auditor.
The Auditor WAS authorized to
draw an order OH the County Treasur-
er for the amount above mentioned, on
receipt Of Mr.. Crosby's certificate that
the work is completed as above
stated.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
s. J. Lewis and others petitioned for
4 change in the boundries Of School
| District No. So to detach the n. E. t
| Of Sec. IS and attach the same to
School District No. G2, (adjoining
districts in Westside township.) No.
tices were ordered posted and time and
| place fixed for 4 hearing on Tuesday,
the Goth day OF April, 1850, at the
Auditors officer.
\ petition was received from Denry
Holmes and others asking for a:change
| in the boundaries of School District No.
80, Seward township, SO rs to include
| the nw4 Of Sec. 80, town 1O4, range
| 80, Graham Lakes. Notices were or
,lereu posted, and time and place fixed
fer u hearing as above.
| Recess to II O'Clock p. m.
All the members present
| \ petition was presented from e.. J.
Johnson and others asking for the
formation of /, School District in the
town Of Willmont, to be comprised of
sections one, two, three, ten, eleven.
twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen,
town 104, range AZ. Notices were Or
derrtl posted, time and place fixed for il
hearing as above.
| \ petition was received from Emil
Graf and others asking for the formal
ton of Il school district in the town of
Wilmont to be comprised of sections
sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
twenty, twenty one, twenty-five. twen-
ty-seven, twenty-cight, twenty-nine,
thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty
three and tllirty-fonr town 1O4, range
49, Notices were ord red posted, time
AMI place fixed for hearing same AS
above.
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
Samuel Brooks. Of Westside. came
before the Board and asked for AL
abatement Of taxes Of 1870 on personal
property. Granted and tax of ST. so Or
dered Cancelled. Affidavit Oh file.
II. NJ. Ludlow represented that he
was assessed on a valuation of 1923 in
1878 and by mistake III Dist. No. 43, in
which the rate of taxation was 20
mills. That he ought to have been as
sesscd III School Dist. No. IL, where the
rate was only st mills. That he thus paid
| $4.76 in excess of the amount Justly
due, and asked that it be refunded. 1t
was SO ordered. Affidavit on file.
John Upstrom represented Ivy afiida-
Wit that his homestead in BigeloW
township was assessed and taxed in
the yea: 1878, that the title of said land
was vested in the United States ut the
time the assessment was made. Oil
cial reports from the U. s. Land Office
substantiated the fact. The Board Or
dered that the tax, judgment and sale
of said lands be Cancelled. Also that
the amount paid by II. u. Winters for
an assignment Of said lands, $38.13, be
refunded.
Petition Of T.. E. Kimball was pre-
srltetl asking for an abatement Of road
tax Of 1879, to the amount of $4..9, as
the stock of goods on which the tax
was based was not in his possession at
the time the tax was levied. Abate-
ment ordered.
Representations were made by Peter
Thompson. ExTreasurer, corroborated
by books and records Oh file, showing
that Mrs. Mann had been enormously
and illegally assessed and taxed i'll 1879,
and that she had paid S15.G4 in excess
Of the amount justly due The Board
ordered that the excess, $3.50, be re-
funded to Mrs. Mann.
Board adjourned to 81 a. m., the 18th
inst,