The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-29
Protest Against the Bonds.

The undersigned Taxpayers Of School Dis
trict MOL hereby enter our protest agains
the voting of the additional ten Thousand
dollars called for by the Trustees of this Dis
trict at the present time, for the following
reasons
The two former levIes have exceeded the
amount Of two per cent. on the taxable prop
erty Of the District which the law author
ICES, and any further levy would be illegal
but IL issued and in the hands Of innocen,
parties we would have to pay them whether
receiving any benefit therefrom or not The
$4,000 voted at former elections was amply
sufficient to have completed the building &C.
cording to the advertised plans, as has been
shown. The bonds have been sold contrary
| to tdw, at discount, and the last lot of about
$1,000 were sold at discount Of Is per cent
Should We vote the $40, 900 more called for
and permit them 10 be illegally peddled out
by til" managers of the present Board of
| Trustees, We have no assurance that they
| would realize more than half their face value.
BY rrirr.nce 10 the records of the District,
We find that only 81 300 have been disposed
OF at par AMI these We're traded for material
for the building. Every dollar of the So, 900
has been expended and we have nothing but
the shell Of building, without a roof, and
built upon a block to which the Trustees
have received no title to three of the lots In
ce ntral part of block and imme diately in
rear of building, to say nothing Of the in
debtedness which we will have to pay before
we can set up any claim to the shell.
The contract for the carpenter work at
81 800 does not include even the laying of the
floor in the upper story, and the present vote
OF $4,000 would certainly not give us a COM
pleted building. Taking all these facts to-
gether, considering the reckless and extrava-
CANT manner in which the liabilities of the
District have been incurred, necessitating a
further lien on our property Of from ten to
twenty thousand dollars, and as the mana
gers OF the present Board hold that there is
no limit to the amount of taxes they can
levy if bonds be voted, and as there is no
telling whether even $4,000 would enable
the present Board to complete the building,
we think it time to call an immediate halt,
and learn, If possible, what is best to be
done and how 1t can be done, and then pro-
coed in careful, business way, according to
law, and at the least possible expense.
We have the building on hand and until
completed it will be of no use to us, and with
this end in view, we would approve the sug.
gestions made in the New NoRTH-WEsT of
last week, o.wit: That the call for the ten
thousand dollars bonds be withdrawn; q |
careful estimate of present Indebtedness, cost
of roofing and enclosing the building be
made; then call an election for bonds to |
cover this amount aud suspend all further |
work until we can get title to or bond for |
title to lots, and an act of the Legislature |
legalizing the over-issue of bonds and au- |
thority to issue enough more to complete |
the building Then require the work to be
let to the lowest respon BILE bidder.
Should these reasonable requests, made in |
the interest of economy and law, be denied,
we respectfully ask the voters of the District
10 unite in helping to defeat the vote for
SIC, 900, on Friday, the 10Th inst, today, as
Ihould they be voted to be handled and
disposed of az heretofore, measures will be
aiken to enjoin their issue which may raise
The question as to the validity Of the over