Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-10-11
Commissioners Proceedings.
STATE OF NEVADA, &C
COUNTY OF ELKO,

The Board of County Commission
ers met pursuant tn adjournment.
Present-Stanley Rigsby, l. P. Wool
verton and A. M. McAfcc.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
The contract betwees r. r. Miller
and the Board of County Commits
sioners, ordered to be drawn by the
District Attorney, was examined and
found satisfactory.
The following bill was laid over:
John Doherty for SO; and James
Huey's for SO was rejected.
The Clerk of the Board was ordered
to write r. E. Miller, of Caldwell,
Idaho, that all work on the high
school building must be according to
the plans and specifications on file,
except that no Turing is to be used,
for which Il reduction from $50 to S75
will be made on the accented bid.
The plastering to be done directly on
the brick work.
By order of the Board the Treasur-
er and Auditor are hereby authorized
to transfer from the General Fund in
to the Columbia Road Fund Sl5; and
into the Salary Fund, 500.
The following official reports were
examined, approved and ordered filed:
j. Eggers, Assessor: T.. Bilkcy, Aud
itor; John Henderson, Clerk; j. NJ.
Mateer Sheriff and Jailer; w. III.
Armstrong, Hospital Steward; and S.
M. Henley, j. p.
The bond of r.. e. Miller for the
construction of the high school build.
ing was examined, approved and or
dered filed.
A petition daily signed and filed for
the construction of IL public highway
IN North Fork road district, was
granted and John Burns was appoint
cd to superintend the construction of
said highway.
\ petition duly signed by forty one
residents and frecholders of Elko
township, requesting the Board to
close and vacate the crossing over the
road of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company Immediately west of the
Elko Touring mill in said township,
and to remove said crossing to point
on said railroad about one hundred
yards west of said mill; and also re-
questing that crossing be estab-
ished over said railroad track at
point one hundred and fifty yards east
of said mill, was granted.
The money in the county treasury
was counted and found to agree with
the Auditors and Treasurer's books
1t appearing to the satisfaction Of
the Board, after the equalization of
taxes in this county, that the levy
previously made by this Board on
February 4th, 1895, of taxes for coun-
ty purposes will result in the collcc-
tion of taxes which will fall short of
the requirements of the county for
the current year, it is ordered that the
levy Of 20 cents fer the General Fund
on the one hundred dollars valuation,
be increased to % cents, the other
levies already made for tho other
funds to remain the same.
The Clerk is ordered to notify Mr..
Harris to discontinue the delivery of
ice to the county.
The Clerk is hereby ordered to
have printed 25 Autographed bonds
of $500 each, for the purposes of the
high school; and 1t is also ordered
that $1,000 worth of said bonds be is
sued as soon as blanks are received.
And the chairman and Clerk OF the
Board are hereby ordered to sign and
sell mt private sale said $4,000 worth
of bonds as authorized by an Act Of
the Legislature, approved March 13
1895, authorizing and directing the
Board Of County Commissioners OF
Elko county to issue said bonds.