St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
FOR A NEW ASSESSMENT.
The County Commissioners Appro.
pirate the Necessary Funds.

AT the meeting Of the board of
couAty commissioners yesterday 1t was
voted, on resolutions offered by Com
missioner Allen, to appropriate $4,000,
or as much thereof as may be neces-
sary, in addition to the $11,500 allowed
the assessor by law, for making the
assessment this year. This action
was taken On the advice of County At
torney Butler that the constitution
provides for just and fair assessment,
and If the allowance by law is not
sufficient to permit a fair assessment
to be made, an appeal to 1.-THE courts
would doubtless, sustain the COM
missioners in making such additional
appropriation as might be necessary.
Mr.. Butler did not submit any written
opinion, but told the board he had
carefully considered the question, and
had consulted with Attorney General
Childs upon 1T. He was satisfied that
the limit of the allowance to the as
SCISSOR could not exceed $11, 800 for doing
the work, but If the assessor would re-
port from month to month the amount
Of his necessary expenditures, the
board could allow the claims of the
persons employed to do the extra work.
In response to suggestion on the
part of Mayor Smith that he should
like to know something about how the
assessor proposed to do the work, Mr.
Seng said he intended to give each
assistant a map containing a brief des-
cription of each piece of property in
the district in which he was to work.
The assistant would then view the
premises and make a return to the
office. This plan seemed to meet with
general approval by the members of
the board and number of assembled
property owners. In response to a
suggestion that the assessor might not
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Mr.. Seng said he would gladly. The
resolutions offered by Mr.. Allen were
then adopted unanimously. They
read as follows, after the preamble:
Resolved, First that the county assessor
of said county be and he Is hereby required
to report to this board the amount paid by
him for deputies and assistants in performing
the duties Of his Office for each month of the
year 1885,
Second That it is the sense Of the board
that sufficient number of deputy and assist
ant assessors should be Immediately appoint
ed by said assessor to fully examine and fair
ly assess all Of the taxable property in this
county, and should 1t hereafter appear from
said reports of the assessor that the COM
pensation fixed by law is not sufficient to
adequately compensate said assessor and dep
uties and assistants, this board will ALLOW and
pay claims of such assessor, deputies and as
sistants for such sum or sums as may be
imperatively necessary, not to exceed In the
aggregate the sum of $40, 900. in addition to
said sum of 81 500; provided that no more
than said sums shall be expended to account
of said assessors office during the year of
1896. sI
Third That all claims for such additional
amount shall be presented in due form of
law to this board for examination and allow
ance by the persons rendering the service"
The question of assessors salary was
referred to the committee an ways and
means. To the committee on roads
and bridges was left the matter Of
sending delegates to the good roads
convention, to be held in Minneapolis
on March 81.
Gearge Walsh addressed the board
on the necessity. for "a conference with
the judge of probate as to the in
stitute to which patients are to be COM
mitted by the county under the jag
law" the commission appointed by the
court selecting one institution and the
county commissioners another A
con ferenca WAS agreed unOn.