Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-15

for the years 1895, 1896 and 1897 as
sessed against lots 1 and 2 block 20,
Minnekahta addition to Hot Springs,
provided the penalty and interest is
abated and provided further that the
said property be released from the
lien of the personal tax of DIR. w. e.
Dodds was on motion accepted.
The proposition of L. s. Ellsworth
for the settlement of his personal tax
for the years 1893. 1894, 1895, 1896 and
1897 was laid before the board. It ap-
pearing from the said statement that
the property was unjustly assessed for
some of the said years audit appearing
further that the said Ellsworth has
twice suffered severe losses by fire
during the said years for which the
said personal tax is due and that a
large portion of the said tax is uncol-
lectable by process of law it was moved
and carried that e167.6O be accepted in
full payment of the said personal prop
erty tax.
The following resolution was pre-
sented and on motion unanimously
adopted:
Whereas. It appears from a state
ment made to this board by r. r. Juckss
EFT, as attorney for the Western Dako-
ia Loan and Trust company, that the
said Western Dakota Loan and Trust
Company is DESTROYS of paying up the
the delinquent tsxes or four thous-
and acres or more of farm lands in this
county, provided a satisfactory CON-
promise of the said taxes is made, and
Whereas, 1t appears from the tax
lists of the county that the taxes as
sessed against the said property "a list
OF which has been presented to this
board) is delinquent for seven or eight
years, that much of the said land has
been excessively assessed for some of
the years for which said tax is delin-
quent, the said land SO excessively as
sessed being of very poor quality, and
Whereas, 1t appears to this board
that it is for the best interests of the
county to make a just and reasonable
compromise of the said delinquent tax
in order to effect the immediate col
lection of the said tax, and it appear
ing further from inquiry made among
the resident tax payers of the county
residing i'll the vicinity of the said
lands that such a compromise will
meet with the approval of a large ma
jority of the said resident taxpayers,
it is hereby
Resolved, That the tax on the said
lands for each of the years for which
said tax is delinquent be based on a
valuation of $4,000 for each quarter
section and that the penalty and in
terest on the said delinquent tax be
abated, provided that the terms of this
compromise shall apply only to taxes
on the said lands paid within sixty
days from this date.
1t appearing from a statement made
to the board by Mrs. W. H. Wood and
from the assessment books on file in
the Office of the auditor that lot 4,
block %, Cascade Medicinal Springs,
ments in the years 1892, 1893, 1894 and
the said lott it was moved and carried
that the auditor be instructed to abate
the tax SO erronously assessed for inn
provements.
James Holenbeck having filed a
statement with the board to the effect
that he had recently purchased the
swA of section %, township II south
range 4 east on which the county had
made a loan of school funds, that he
had paid the interest in full on said
loan and that he is now DESTROYS of
paying the delinquent taxes on said
land and will do SO at once, provided
the interest on said delinquent taxes
is abated, the treasurer was on mo-
ton authorized to abate said interest
provided said delinquent tax is paid
within thirty days.
Application of Payne M. Davis for
license to sell malt and spurious
liquors at retail in the town of Del
richs, and accompanying bond in the
sum of two thousand dollars were laid
before the, board. On motion the bond
was disapproved and application re-
liected.
1t wa moved and carried that the
penalty and interest be abated on the
delinquent taxes on the following de-
scribed property: Lots 1 aud 2 block
Is, Fargo and Prentice addition; lots
8 and 8 block So, Sulphur Springs ad-
dition and the e1a neI and e1a seA
section q, township z south range 8
east, provided the said delinquent tax
is paid within thirty days from this
date.
The resignation of E. d. Babcock, of
Edgemont, as county justice of the
peace was laid before the board and
was, or motion accepted and ordered
fled.
The report of w. B. Dudley, police
justice of the peace, for the quarter
ending April LIST, 1898, q on motion
approved after reducing justices fees
from 5000 to 5000.
The report Of H. E. Pomeroy, Jus.
tice Of the Peace for quarter ending
April LIST, 1898, was on motion approx.
ed.
W. E. Sawyer, county surveyor pre-.
scented to the board his plat Of the
Mailer highway. It appearing to the
board that the survey had been made