The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-03-19
E L Bishop, dep elk court

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: The following claims were dis.
allowed.
Columbus Hospital, Great Falls,
Tor care OF VIM. Lyon, deceased,
tifty-five dollars and seventy-five
cents, as not properly chargeabIe
to Teton county.
j. u Wamsley, deputy clerk SER
vices 3 months, six hundred dol.
lars, for the reason that the board
OF commissioners have heretofore
determined the number of deputies
allowed the county clerk and fixed
and allowed the salary for the
same, ana further that the board
now determines that the county
clerk is not entitled to the deputy
or the salary claimed.
The board then adjourned to
1.30 p m.
1.3O p. M, board reassembled,
all members present.
Report of Sterling Mcdonald;
clerk of the district court, of fees
collected for quarter ending Feb
ruary 29, amounting to ss1.O5
was examined, approved and or
dered filed.
Report of J. E Wamsley, county
clerk, of warrants issued in paw
ment of salaries of county officers
during quarter endlng February
29, amounting to $3,594.O4 on
con ntingent fund, was examined,
approved and ordered filed.
Resignation of the county sur
veyor, A. T. Goodspeed, was re-
ceived, accepted and ordered filed.
A petition was presented from
residents of Dupuyer asking for.
the construction Of Jail building,
and the appointment of deputy
sheriff &C that place. After dis
cussion it was ordered that the
sheriff be authorized to appoint
deputy at Dupuyer at q salary OF
forty dollars per month The ap.
plication for jail building was
denied.
Ordered that the clerk advertise
for proposals to purchase the old
Jail building and lot in Choteau, to
be submitted at June meeting.
Petition presented from G.. E.
Davis, jailor, asking for an in
crease in salary from eight hum
drcd to one thousand dollars, per
annum, and stating reasons there
for. After consideration it was
ordered that The salary of the
jail0r be increased to nine hundred
dollars. per anntun from March /.
On notion the clerk was In
structed TO insect in the county
paper a notice Offering reward of
fifty dollars for information leading
to conviction of parties retailing
whisky under wholesale license.
On motion It was ordered that
warrant be drawn on the sinking
fund, in favor of c. L. Bristol.
treasurer, for $1804 so, amount of
January interest coupons.
The board then proceeded to ex-
anime the report of the county
treasurer for the quarter ending
February 80, 1896, and to count
the cash on hand.
In accordance with recon- menda-
ton made by county treasurer, the
several amounts assessed to the
following named parties were
stricken from the assessment book:
Wareham Bros. g. Perkins, no
property in Teton county.
Geo. w. Hathaway, no property
in Teton county,
Phil White, paid 1895 poll tax
in Choteau county.
Ordered that a warrant be drawn
on poor fund for two dollars in
favor of Richard Crockford, rebate
of poll tax.
On motion the treasurer was in
structed to transfer the sum of
six thousand, five hundred collars
from the general to the contingent
fund.
County warrants paid during
quarter, amounting to $50, COS, 81,
were checked with lists and can
celled.
The board having finished the
examination Of the treaSurer's re-
port and found it correct, the same
was approved and ordered filed.
On motion it was ordered that
the county attorney be requested
to obtain the opinion of the attor-
ney general of Montan concerning
the authority of the board Of
county commissioners over boards
of school trustees
S. NJ. Corson presented his con-
tract for the county printing for
the ensueing year, accompanied by
bond in the sum of two thousand
dollars, with Geo. Adlan and Sam
uel L. Mitchell as sureties. After
} examination contract was signed
and bond approved.
The CLERK was instructed to
= notify all butchers in the county
that they must comply with the
} requirements Of Section 2945,
J Political Code, IL relation to re-
} porting h"ae0s n all cattle