St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-14
OFFICIAL.
Proceedings Of the Board of
County Commissioners OF
Ramsey County.
COUNTY AUDIToR's OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, Mimi. July .. 1914.

COUNTY AuDIToR's OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, Mimi. July D 1871. !
Board met at l. o'clock a. IN. -
Mayor Smith in the chair.
Present - commissioners DAILY, Lavallee.
McCarron and Chairman Smith.
Communication from the County Auditor
ST. PAUL. Mimi. July ., lS.4
Hon. Robert A. Smith. Chairman, ana MEM
beers of the Board of County Commissioners
OF Ramsey County. E\>
Gentlemen: So
In assuming the duties of County Auditor,
i find IL necessary to communicate with your
honorable body touching the condition of
the AUDITORS office. Upon very brief ex-
animation | iud that the record of the tax
sale which took place on the first Monday in
May has not been completed. there being al
least one thousand sales for which no certii-
Gates have been issued. No entries We're
made in the judgment books showing &the
disposition mace OF some fifteen thousand
descriptions OF real estate. lead pencil nota-
tons being the only indications when prop
erty was sold to an actual purchaser. These
certificates OF sale must be issued and the
tax Judgment record Completed AT once, thus
necesSitatlng about twenty thousand post
lngs. The records of daily receipts and dis
bursements are behind no entry has been
made IN the cash book, journal or ledger
S nee the Both day of April, the last balance
having been taken off on that day. The
bond and coupon registers have not been
posted for year; 1OU state assignment GER
tIhcates, some of which were paid for last
December by the National German American
bank, have not been issued. would re-
specially call your attention TO the recon-
mendation of the grand jury relative TO the
transcribing OF the records of the tax leyles,
and also kits recommendation 10 open tax
register, showing The amount due TO each
separate fund from the several tax lists of
the county. g.
rhe poor fund has been exhausted, and
some temporary provision must be made for
the maintenance of the hospital aud aims
house and TO care for the poor of the county.
In 1858 the Board of County Commissioners
passed Il resolution directing the County
Auditor TO levy $50, 666 for the benefit of this
fund. That officer. however, levied only
forty thousand hve hundred and nineteen
dollars, and by this unlawful act deficit of
about twenty thousand five dollars will exist.
Mess some temporary means can be devised
10 raise this money our hospital, almshouSe
and the poor will be Obliged TO look else
where for maintenance.
am obliged to call your attention to the
fact that no provision has been made for the
payment of fifty thousand dollars in bonds
which were issued March first, 1875, due and
payable March first, 1872, ana that there VIII
also be a deficit OF ten thousand dollars in
the interest fund on January Fl st next.
During this time of financial depression l
would deem it hardshi to increase the tux
levy over that of the present year but IL Will
be impossible to provide for the payment of
these bonds i'll next years levy without
u.
As the greatest part of the taxes are not paid
until the end of May, and the bonds are pay
able on the first of March, L would suggest
that authority be obtained from the legtsla-
ture next winter to renew these bonds Tor
thirty years.
At the next meeting of the Board l will
submit estimates for the tax levy OF 1891,
and If possible an temized statement show
ing the exact condition of each county fund,
also q statement of the disbursements for the
first six months of the present year With
these statements before you, trust that you
will he able to make provision for the exist
Ing deficits ana the current expenses OF the
county government.
The County Assessor upon returning the
real estate assessment books for 1894. states
that one of these records was not handed TO
him by The Auditor until May -. thus giving
HIM but forty-tv days in which to complete
his assessments
AS it is impossible to make IN accurate and
proper equalization of values in that short
time. it is highly important that the matter
be looked into fully by the Board. and proper
adjustments arrived at. Respectfully.
NJ +. KAHN.
County Auditor.
Accepted and placed on file.
ST. PAUL, Mimi. July Q, 1894.
From Committee on Taxes
TO the Honorable Chairman and Members
of the Board OF County Commissioners
Your committee 10 whom was referred the
delinquent lax list for the year 1893 beg leave
TO recommend that the list OF names hereto
attached be stricken from said list, and the
County Auditor be aud is hereby instructed
10 notify the proper officer Of this county to
obtain judgment against all persons not
stricken from said list.
PAUL A. LAvALLEE,
Chairman Committee on Taxes
Report of committee adopted by the fol-
lowing vote:
Commissioners DAILY, Lavallee, Nc
Carron and Chairman Smith.
NayS-None.
The following is the list attached hereto: