Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-04-22

on county bridge, claimed $79.-
SO; rejected.
AUDITORS report of fees collected was
examined and approved.
Resolution ordering old indictments
not to be prosecuted adopteda as follows:
Now on this 9Th day of April, 1897,
+. T.. Brainard, County Attorney, ap-
peared before the said Board of Super
visors and represented to them that nu-
merous indictments had heretofore
been found by the several grand juries
of Audubon county, Iowa, against va
rious persons, and that the Judges of
the District Court of the Fifteenth
Judicial District of Iowa had directed
that the said indictments be
either prosecuted to a judg-
ment OF that same be dismissed;
and that said County Attorney having
represented that prosecution of many
of such indictments could not be sue
cessfully undertaken unless money be
appropriated out of the public funds
for the purpose O finding, locating and
extraditing some of the several defend
ants against acknowledgements existed
and the said County Attorney having
asked that the Board of Supervisors
express their views as to the advisa-
bility of such appropriation; therefore
be it
Resolved, By the Board of Super
visors of Audubon county, Iowa, that
none of the public funds of Audubon
county, Iowa, be appropriated for the
purposes aforesaid. This resolution,
however, shall not affect or apply to
indictments hereafter found by the
grand juries Of this county.
III fl&n ,Son%knu ~ sk11A e
Mulct Tax against lot two w of block
two ~ of the town of Extra, Iowa,
the following order was made:
Now, on this 9Th day of April. 1897,
the matter Of the assessment of Mulct
Tax against lot two, ~ of block two
(2,) of the town of Extra, Iowa, came
on the petition of Peter Peters, the
tax, or a portion thereof. The said APP
RRi hs attorneys nppsal ana = T. r. B B. nnRsiaa tho,
County Attorney, for Audubon county,
Iowa, and the Board of Supervisors
having inspected said petition and
heard and examined the evidence ad-
duced, finds that liquor was soldin the
above described premises to the knowl-
edge of said applicant, for q period of
time during the year 1896-less than
six months, and that a tax of Three
Hundred Dollars should be and the
same is hereby levied and assessed
against the above described
property therefor, and it APP
pearing to said Board of Supervisors
that the County Auditor has heretofore
certified the tax to the Treasurer of this
county in the sum of Six Hundred
Dollars, previous to this levy and
assessment. 1t is, therefore, ordered
that said certitication be treated as null
and void, and the said Auditor is here
by directed to certify this levy and
assessment of Three Hundred Dollars
against the above described
property to the Treasurer of
this county, aud the said Treas
urer is hereby directed to collect the
same, without the statutory penalty,
If paid by October l, 1897.
TO all of which the said applicant,
Peter Peters, excerpts and it is ordered
that the appeal bond herein, if appeal
is taken, be fixed in the sum of Fifty
Dollars.
On motion the board adjourned until
n o'clock p. M.
THOS LOHNER,
Auditor.
One O'CLOCK p
Board met pursuant toe
On motion fees VIZ
nesses before Crane
witness book r.