Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-01-18
Time to Call a Halt,

! MSSSiSs ! l|' al NSt "iN j. -
Van Winkle for the making OF a
set of present ownership maps tor
the county, whatever they are.
The contract has never been placed
on file in the county clerk 5 office,
but an order was made by the judge
to the effect that inas much as such
a contract had been made that the
clerk was to give the gentlemen
, naned the use of any and all coun-
! ty books and records they might
wish, and the further privilege OF
taking them out ofthe clerks office
into any part of the court house
The contract had not been signed
! last Friday, but we understand that
the contract has since been sigued
BY two members. We did not get
> to see the contract but the terms OF
4 the contract as told us by one OF
= the commissioners are as follows:
\ Messrs. Parker aud Van Wnkle
# are to make q set of present owner
5 ship plats or maps for the county
D ana their remuneration for the same
y Is 70 be four mills ON the assessed
valuation OF the property tounI ON
II the maps not assessed, and also the
l. same amount on the valuation ol
e the property just discovered IN
|, them on the supplemental roll which
& they are just completing, There is
A. no limit in the contract to which
~ the amount might run, and the
S; board of commissioners claim to be
~ wholly ignorant of the probable
10 cost.
go go 1t is time to call halt. The
go go county will not pay less than So, ,ooo
- for this years assessment II tins
Mt contract is made and carried out,
i'll That the contract is vicious is amply
" proven by the fact that the com
es missioners journal does not show
st one line, letter or syllable OF the
~ terms of the contract nor the re-
ye motest allusion to it except in the
e. order mentioned above giving then
lis the unheard of privilege OF taking
or records out of the clerks office a
On will.
IN Our objections to the whole bnsi
We ness are in the interests of the tax
MT PAYERS and are as follows;
~ Mr.. Parker was hired and pai'
& by the county once for making tn
up assessment of Lincoln county, an'
dis the price was set by law at So pc
all day. He is not an eligible perso
ill to contract, to, correct apd complet
an his own work. .rctL
he BY a contract with thei count
Mr.. Parker has just finished
, is supplementary tax roll in which h
ent was supposed to have all the prof.
lies ertv not on the original roll.
ire pay for this he and Mr.. Van Wink
all are to receive the state taxes on
erv discovered property not on Il
less original tax roll. AS both Il
nse original roll and the Supplemental
ade were made by the same perso
inst comments are are wholly unnece
ors sary. This contract is not
Who record in the clerk Office nor els
rive where, that we are able to fin
While this work was being pc
formed, which was wholly priva
E' III its character, the contractors q
axe their work in an Office OH which
=. . county paid the rent, bought wo
w for their fires, and when they wor
=, ~ ed nights furnished oil Tor tn
-. lamps.
Itseems that the property is
90 yet all discovered and so a contr'
no, rs made with the same parties
~ make a set OF present owner m'
'o' and the same liberality on the p
"S Of the county in the way OF re
.a.a "o fires, etc, are to be repeated,
lao presume.
-. The county does not need a
CON. Of present owner maps. ii Il
had them, there is no one to X
them up and in six months Il
',e.. would be absolutely worthli
'''e And again, we do rot believe I
the commissioner court are c
WI" justified in making a contract
% expend county money that they
y :" afraid or ashamed to make a II
''e tel Of record as both law
"s''' custom direct, and we are absoll
"" ly sure that they have no legal q
N''' to expend or contract to exp
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