Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-08
COUNTY AFFAIRS.
Off ciaI Report OF the Proceedings OF
the County Board of Com
mIssiOners.

Santa Fe, Jan. 2. 1S97.-The board o
county commissioners of the count,
of Santa Fe met for the pur
pose of organization and for the transac
tion of other necessary business.
Present: Charles W. Dudrow, j. T. Nc
Laughlin, Jose Amado Lucero, commits
sioners; Atanasio Romero, clerk of ths
board.
1t appearing from previous records Of
the board that the foregoing had beer
duly elected to the offices named at the
general election held November 3, 1896
and it further appearing from proper evi
dence that the bonds and oaths of office
equired by law had been filed by each of
tho newly elected officers named and that
the bonds had been duly approved by le-
gal authority, the board proceeded to or
ganize by the election of Charles w. Dud-
row, commissioner from the 1st district
as chairman.
The resignation of Facundo +. Pino al
county sheep inspector was presented, &C.
cepted and ordered filed.
The official bond of Facundo Pine,
newly elected superintendent of schools
for the county of Santa Fe, was present.
ed, approved and ordered filed.
The bond of Felipe Mares as road ov-
erseer for precinct No. was presented,
approved and ordered filed.
There being no further business the
board adjourned to meet in regular SEES
Mnp1nv Ia
CIV. DupRow,
Chairman.
Attest:
ATANAsIo ROMERO, Clerk.
Regular meeting of the board of conn
ty commissioners, Santa Fe, N NJ, Jan
uary s. 1897, 2 p. m. The board met pur.
snant to law. Present: Hon. G. W. Dud-
row, chairman; Hon. j. L. Mclaughlin,
commissioner; Hon. Jose Amado Lucero,
commissioner; Atanasio Romero, clerk.
The minutes of the meeting of January 2,
1897, we're read and approved. On mo-
tion Of Commissioner Lucero the follow
ing resolution was then adopted:
Whereas, The tax books and other
papers of the collectors office have not
yet been turned over to the new collector,
and whereas, under the law and under the
approved bond filed by the new collector;
Mr.. Fred Muller has been collector of
taxes OF Santa Fe since January l, 1897;
therefore be it
Resolved by this board, That the tax
collector for the past two years, Mr..
Solomon Spiegelberg be called upon by
the new collector for the turning over of
the tax books and other records of the
tax collectors Office of this county forth
with and that after receiving the said
public records the new tax collector, Mr., |
Fred Muller, be and he hereby is author
lied and directed to employ competent
person to examine said books and rec
oTds thoroughly and to prepare for the
use of this board and for the use of the |
tax collectors Office complete state
ment, showing, first, the total amount of
uncollected taxes for each year to be
charged to the new collector; secondly,
the total amount of taxes received by W.
2. Cunningham as collector and how ac.
counted for; thirdly, the total amount of
taxes received by Solomon Spiegelberg
as. collector. and how accounted for; |
fourth, the total amount taken charge of |
BY j. H. Crist, district attorney, how col
ected, in what condition and how &C.
counted for; fifth, the total amount of
reduction on assessment, etc, made by
,he board or in cases of settlement or
under order from the territorial board of
equalization. In short complete state
nent of all taxes levied, collected, and
otherwise disposed of and remaining to
be collected during the years 1898, 1894,
1895 and 1896 and for this purpose the
board hereby appropriates the sum of
BIS to be paid out on proper vouchers
20 the person 40 employed by the SAID
Collector Fred Muller for the purpose
above set forth. Said amount to be
paid out of the different funds.
I'D. Hughes, business manager of the
New MEXICAN Printing company, ap-
pearad before the board and asked the
of certain approved ac-
,ounts in favor of that company for
blanks furnished the county to the
amount of $50, in order to enable that
company to submit new and corrected
account. Request granted.
In accordance with law the period of |
;wo days was fixed as the time for work |
IN public roads in the county by all per-
IONS required to do so or to furnish teams
or such purpose during the year 1897
ind the clerk was instructed to 80 in
'truot the road overseers of the several |
precincts.
The board then proceeded to the ex-
animation of the accounts for the year
1896 Of H. B. Cartwright, county treas
irer. The examination was in progress
vhen the board adjourned till 2 p. m. on
Tuesday, January 5, 1897.
Attest: G. w. DUDRow,
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