The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-08
COMMISSIONERS Pr oo3golNas
An UaevenifJl Meeting except on the
Proposition Of "Scrp".

Proposition Of "Scrp".
The July meeting Of the board Of
County Commissioners falling on
Monday, the day on which the nat
ional holiday was generally celebrat-
ed John Simpson. member, met with
the County Clerk on that day aud
adjourned the meeting over until
Tuesday.
On that day, with Chairman Luke
Syphus and member John Simpson
present, the Board proceeded to
business at o'clock p. M.
After reading and approving the
minutes of last meeting the Board
proceeded to the County Auditors
Office, where together with the
Auditor and Treasurer, they opened
bids submitted for the surrender of
certificates of Indebtedness against
the General Fund, submitted under
the Treasurer's published notice.
The bids were found to be at 10, rs,
IS, 81 and SO cents. A division of
opinion at once arose and after con-
siderable discussion Chairman
Syphus expressed his belief that the
bids having come in regularly and
from SO many different sources
it was the duty of the Board to accept
the lowest bids as the Redemption
law provides and to pay out money
thereon. Member Simpson thought
that better bids might pephaps be
secured by re-advertising the funds
as the law also provides may be done
and favored that course.
Each member voted according to
the convictions thus expressed and
in the absence of full Board 1T look
ed ''as though the matter must neces-
sarily lie undetermined until the
August meeting, when, on request
of bidders, Chairman Syphus chang
ed his vote, and all the bids submit
ted were rejected and the County
Treasurer was ordered to readvertise.
The regular order of business was
then resumed.
The bond of Jacob Bauer in
$4,000 as Justice of the Peace of st.
Thomas township was approved. st.
Thomas thus possesses the only JUS
tice of the Peace in the southern
part of Lincoln County.
The officers salary bills for June
were allowed and an order entered
authorizing u transfer of funds from
the General to the Salary Fund to
make up any deficiency that might
exist in the latter fund.
1t being a regular quarterly meet
ing the reports of the various county
officers for the quarter year
were read, including the Sheriff's re-
port of licenses collected.
The quarterly report of the Audit
or and Treasurer, of cash received
into and paid out of the County
Treasury for the quarter year ending
June 30th was read and will be pub
lished in full i'll the DeLamar Lode.
The list of general claims against
the county was taken up and dispos-
ed of after considerable loss of time
in ascertaining details which should
properly appear in the bills them
selves. The fact that members of the
Board are frequently absent; that a
large number of bills originate out
of town, and the growing practice
of sending in bills notproperly item
lied, determined the Board to re-
quire that hereafter all bills sub
mitted must conform to the provisi-
ons of section No. 1850 of our gen.
eral statutes, the latter part of which
section reads "No demand shall be
approved, allowed, audited, or paid
unless each several item, date, and
value composing it be Endorsed up
on the same, by the order of the
Board of County Commissioners, to-
gether with a reference to the law,
order, contract, or authority, by title,
date, and section, authorizing the
same"
The Clerk of the Board was direct
ed to publish a notice to this effect
and twill be found elsewhere in this
issue.
The money in the county treasury
was counted and found to be correct
upon which the Board adjourned
until Monday the End day of August.