Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-01-09
COUNTY CommrssroxERs.
The New Board Effects an Organix-
alton and rransacts . Consider
able Amount Of Business.

The New Board Effects an Organic
alton and Transacts . Consider.
able Amount Of Business.
The Board of County Commissioner
met on Saturday, January 2. 1897.
Present. Commissioners Fletcher, Fra.
ser and Broy.
The minutes Of the last meeting were
read and approved.
IL was ordered that the sun of $500
be transferred from the General Fund TO
the Salary Fund.
The bonds OF the newly elected officers
were examined and approved.
No further business appearing, the
Board adjourned.
EUREKA, January 4, 1897.
The newly elected Board met to-day
and organized.
Present, Commissioners Alex. Fraser,
c. L. Broy. Oliver Benson and County
Clerk Hoegh.
On motion Of Commissioner Benson,
seconded BY Commissioner Fraser, il was
ordered that Commissioner Fraser be,
and he is hereby declared the Chairman
Of this Board, Commissioners Benson and
Fraser voting Yes, and Commissioner
Broy voting No.
The Board reported that ID and the
Auditor had counted the money in the
County Treasury and found the same to
agree with the Auditors books, to wit
s2S, 554. l3.
1t was ordered that l40 anne be Sc.
lected from the last poll-list Of Eureka
county, to serve IS trial jurors in the
Third judicial District Court Of the State
of Nevada, Eureka county, for the year
1897.
1.-THE names selected will appear in
next weeks SENTINEL.
The Board then adjourned until Tues
day ct 10 A. NJ.
EUREKA, January 5, 1897.
The Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
Present, Commissioners Fraser. Broy,
Benson and Clerk Hoegh.
In the matter Of the recount be-
tween Robert Rsftice and M. G.
Foster, for Assemblyman, at the last
election held in Eureka county, Nevada,
the Board proceeded to recount the said
votes, and found that Robert Raftice re-
ceived 265 votes and NJ. G. Foster re-
ceived 273 votes 1t said election.
las will be noticed, as q result Of the
recount, Foster gained six votes and Raj.
tice increased his vote four, as compared
with the figures Of the official table pub
lished on the fourth page of the SENTI.
NEL.-Rep.1
The Board made the following tax levy
for 1897:
Ordered, That an advAlorem tax Of
ninety cents on each one hundred dollars
value Of all taxable property in Eureka
county, including the net proceeds OF
mines and mining claims be, and the same
is hereby levied for State purposes for
the fiscal year 1897, to be known as the
| State tax.
Ordered, That an advalorem tax Of
| one dollar on each one hundred dollars
value Of all taxable property in Eureka
county. including the net proceeds Of
mines and mining claims be. and the same
is hereby levied for general county pur-
poses. for the fiscal year 1897, to be
known a. the General Fund tax.
Ordered, That an advalorem tax oil
City cents on each one hundred dollars
value Of all taxable property in Eureka
county, including the net proceeds oil
mines and mining claims be, and the same
is hereby levied for school purposes. to
be known a. the County School Fund
tax for the fiscal year 1897.
Ordered, That an advalorem tax oil
City cents on each one hundred dollars
value Of ell taxable property in the towr
Of Eureka. Eureka county, be, and the
same 10 hereby levied for the benefit Of
the Fire Department in said town. fol
the 6scal year 1897, to be known ~ tbs
Fire Fund tax.
Total tax, inside Of town limits, 50 80
outside, 50 40.
Ordered that the Board adjourn unit
Monday, January IL. 1897, ct 10 A. N.
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