The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-16

Annual Meeting Of the Board OF SUPERVISOR
Held During the Past Week.

The annual meeting OF the board oi
supervisors was quite an important
affair the board remaining IN session
several days. The meeting was called TO
order Monday aftcrnoon with all the
members present except Mckinmon uf
Iron River, who arrived atcr la the day.
The ilrrt matter To he taken mp was
mill upon the nsscsscd valuation of the
county FOR the benefit OF the old Hol-
dicts. This tax is provided for 10y law
but has never been raised before. The
law calls for commission uf
three members Ia he appointed. A
commission WIS appointed hst week
consisting ~ Martin Bach. Z. g. Camp
bell and A. j. Boyington.
Those interested ia the formation of "a
new township Ia tl,e west end of the
county appeared before the board aud
presented their arguments. The board
was not favorably impressed with the
idea. it seems, inr ON the question OF
such II township being set off every mem-
bcr voted no"
The question Of reaasessing the taxes
| that had been rejected by the courts
was IA knotty one. Attorney +. d..
| Meads was present in the interests uf
his clients, the Metropolitan Lumber
company, and he was very pronounced
Ia lis stntemcnis TINT the board could
not reasscss such a tax that hid been
declared void 10y the court That view
was also taken by IL number oi our people
and by some IL The bonrd But the
sticker was that each description
against which taxes were TO be reassess-
eel had to be specifically mentioned in
the resolution with the amount Of tax
so t,wssessed against IL. There was be-
lore the board "A yoluminous report
from the Auditor General containing
many hundred descriptions. No effort
had been made mt separating them aud
the board did not think il advisable To
delay the matter by adjourning until
tlmt work could bc performed Some OF
the momb1rs were IN favor oi reasscssng
the whole of the tax and more wanted
to ussess only the state AMI county tax.
The question WAS finally disposed OF by
all the members voting 10 the negative
when the question of rearsessing any
part of IL cnme mp
| The next matter taken up was the
poor commissioners report This was
substantially the same as the one which
appeared in these columns llst August
and was satisfactory to the board. The
question of supplying the poor came up
nnd poor commissioners Binder reported
that he hal made arrangements with
The Plrhs MeIcantIle company to fur
nisl supplies ilr the poor but that un.
lczs some arrangement wns made 60
take care OF the orders issued ON that
account us suou ms the taxes cnmc in,
| that company would shut of supplying
the poor nt once. Tie matter
was adjusted by eneh supervisor promis.
ing to use hu influence with the town
ship treasurer ia his respective
township To take np 500 Of the orders
issued lor this account. The matter Of
exciting poor commissioner tn tnkn
the place ot Andrew Young, whose term
expired, was next taken up. There
were bat two applications That OF W.
W IIrndlicks, ui Crystal Falls and
Frank Erickson. ol Bates. On "a vote
being taken Erickson received "a nniur-
ity aud was declared elected.
The next in order was the clrclinc oi u
school examiner to succeed Il. H.
Abbott There were no applications b..
lore tile board and Mr.. Abbntt WIS
elected to succeed himself
A report wis then asked oi the county y
treasurer and considerable time war
taken up in mn endeayor upon the part
~ the board 60 ret a. the nctuat con.
dition ~ the county ns regards out
standing orders. a rrport WIS finally
submitted that gnva The Information
, required. We have spoken ol this NJ
port at length in another column Of thin
paper.
The work OF auditing and allowing III,
| DhiS lllhl Neie lhe1thtcu WHY ihcH l'ihti
up and all oI them, with n couple %
insignificant exceptions were allowed, a.
read.
The board then attacked tho rolls oi
the different townships IN an effort "a
cut out all Of the lands that wcrt
not asscssnblc. This WIS hrg,
undertaking bat il was a valuable ou'
for on an Of the rolls were many deacrip
tions that were worcestershire and th'
checking over oi the rollsby the board hn
saved the county considerable money.
The mex tquestion WAS to determine th'
amount of county tax that should b'
raised this year The board seemed q
be unit in the opinion TINT more tn'
should be raised this year than during tb