The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-28
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COUNTY BUSINESS.
ogden, July %.

The board of county commissioners
met yesterday and transacted business
as follows:
The clerk reported that he had re-
ceived a letter from the state auditor
notifying him that all fees except pro-
bate fees collected by him prior to
June should be turned into the state
treasury, but that these fees had al
ready been turned into the county
treasury. He requested the board to
take some action in the matter.
On motion of Commissioner Wilson,
Francis Clark, sr., was appointed JUS
tice of the peace of Eden.
The monthly report of the superin-
/ tendent of the poor farm for the
month of June was read and ordered
filed
A petition signed by David PEBBLES
and fifteen others was read. They
asked that the boundaries of the Roy
! include the south half of sections 10
and II, township 5 north, range 2
west. Referred to Commissioner Child.
David PEBBLES and fourteen others
petitioned the board to have a sluice-
way to carry away the waste water
made through the grade of the Rio
Grande Western railway near Roy sta
ton. Referred to Commissioner Child.
A. Hartenstein, an Australian, domi-
ciled in the Weber county poor-house,
asked the board to assist him to Sc
cure railroad passage to ST Louis. The
petition was referred.
A quit claim was ordered executed
and delivered to Robert B. Wilson for
three and one-nalf acres of land in
section q, township 6 north, range /
west, which was enormously sold to
the county for taxes of 1898.
j. l.. Loar appeared before the board
asking that fees to the amount of
$3.50, which he claims to have over
paid the sheriff in a civil case, and
which the sheriff has since turned into
the city treasury, be refunded. Re
ferred to Chairman Wade.
In the case of County Surveyor
Washington jenkins. whose appiica-
ton for a leave of absence was re-
fused, notwithstanding which he was
absent from the county two weeks, the
county attorney advised the court that
the law says he shall not be absent
more than thirty days without permits
sion from the board; and, as it is not
claimed that he was absent more than
thirty days, the county attorney
could see no reason in law why the
surveyor should not be paid his sal
airy.
In regard to the order of the board
requiring Collector Hurlbut to furnish
a new official bond, the county at
torney advised the court as follows:
I'm answer to your question of re-
cent date as to whether the county
collector should give a new bond, L
would say:
while it is a questionable and de-
batable proposition, 1 am of the opin-
ion that the present bondsmen could
not and would not be held liable for
moneys collected by the collector dur
ing the ensuing year. To say the
least it is doubtful whether the present
bondsmen would be liable. I therefore
advise that the board of county COM
missioners require that the collector
give a new bond
Collector HurIbut notified the board
that he had appointed the following
persons as his deputies and clerks:
J. S. G. Langsdorf, chief deputy; Alma
D. Chambers, deputy; e. D. Hurlbut,
clerk, D. W. Ellis, clerk. He asked
that their salaries be fixed from jan
uary Is, 1896. Action deferred.
J. P. Anderson presented claim Of
SS7 80 for care and attendance on Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Hanson, the old couple
who were injured in returning from
the old folks picnic on July 16. Re
ferred.
The pay roll, amounting to $2,173.51
for work on the Ogden canyon road,
was allowed
The board then adjourned for one
week