The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-05-23
TIMELY TOPICS.

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TIMELY TOPICS.
In territorial days it was customary
for the territorial officers to allow counties
such attachments, refundments and can
collation. of taxes as the various boards
of county commissioner saw fit to allow.
There was no law for it, simply a time
honored precedent. The present admin
istration will not accept this territorial
inheritance, and the auditor has issued
a circular to county auditors calling
their attention to a recent opinion OF the
attorney general on the subject, in which
he says that county commissioners have
no authority in law whatever to abate,
cancel or refund a tax when once levied.
Their only authority or control owe the
assessment or collection Of taxes is that
when sitting as q board of equalization
they may correct the assessment. When
their duties as such board have been
completed and the assessment rolls
placed in the hands Of the county audi
tor and the taxes levied and extended,
there is no power to stay the collection
OF such taxes, penalties and interest ex-
cept in a court of competent jurisdiction.
The only attachments or cancellations
that will be allowed on taxes levied for
1890 or subsequent years, will be those
ordered by the court or under the pro-
visions Of section Sc, chapter 1872 of the
laws of 1890. The state auditor also
holds that 5000 exemption, provided in
the 18th subdivision of the 1891 amend
ment to section s Of the laws of 1890 will
be operative this y%ear-after July LIST,
and the 5000 mentioned will be exempt,
and should be deducted after such as
sessment has been reviewed by the town
board of review, the village board or city
council (as the case may be) and equa-
lized by the county board of equaliza-
ton.
SUPT. OGDEN announces an examln-
alton of candidates for state certificates,
to be held at the times and places here
designated: Biemarck, June IL; James
town, June IL; Fargo, June Is; Grand
Forks, June Is; Devils Lake, June 18;
Lisbon, June 10. Each examination
will continue three days. No candidate
will be admitted for examination after
noon the first day. Another examination
may be held at Bismarck during Decem-
Der 1891, if there are a sufficient number
Of applicants to warrant holding an ex-
at that time. If not, no other
examination will be Leld before June,
1892. A fee of five dollars will be charged
each applicant for a state certificate,
which must be paid at the beginning of
the examination. The fund accumulating
from these examination fees will be used
to aid in the establishment and mainten-
.nce of the State Teachers Reading
E. I. SMITH, who for the past eight
years has been the guide of the able
Mayville Tribune, has sold the same to
Messrs. David and Eugene Larin. The
new proprietors are said to be newspa-
per men of experience and will undoubt-
eddy maintain the previous high stand
ard of the paper. Mr.. Smith closes his
vale in the following words: MAY all
our friends have long years Of health
and prosperity in this glorious land Of
North Dakota, and when the final sum-
comes to Join the innumerable
caravan that moves so mysteriously to
bourne whence no traveller returns
may Saint Peter with a smile Of welcome
be ready at the Golden Gate and hand
every North Dakotan a check good for
all time to come and the freedom of the
home over there"
The first annual meeting of the North
Dakota State Dairymen's association
will be held at Grand Forks, June 25th
and 18th. A very interesting and in
programme has been arranged
and includes most of the prominent
of the state. All the topics of
will be handled by able speak
ers. The session should be we'll at
The Great Northern has received crop
from 1851 points On its main line
md branches. With but one exception |
hey are of a most favorable nature and
Indicate an abundant harvest. The aver.
.ge of wheat is about IL DER cent. greater
han last year on al average. Reports
made from many stations along the North.
I'm Pacific covering we'll the wheat terri
Dry of that road, present the same
lattering probabilities.
Ed. I. p. Staede, who recently failed
It Devils Lake, states that he and Mr..
.hipple will each bring a libel suit for
10000 against Senator Honsbrough, who
8 proprietor at the Inter Ocean, and on
lis return from Washington in June will
AVE him arrested for criminal libel.