The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-08
BUTTE NEWS.
MONEY IS NOT AVAILABLE
The Bounty Claimants Must
Wait Their Turn.
MAY TAKE SEVERAL YEARS
Claimants Under the Old Law Hit the
Hardest-The Statement Made
by the Board of Elk
aminers.
MAY TAKE SEVERAL YEARS

j. E. Moran, county clerk and re-
corder, yesterday received from the
clerk of the state board of examiners
the following communication relative
to the payment of coyote and wolf
bounties, which will be of interest to
ing for the money due them from the
state. There is not enough money
available to pay bounty claims as they
are presented, and claimants must
await their turn. From the present
outlook large number of claims filed
years, but those filed up to the LIST of
next month may be paid by the first of
next year, and they may not. The let
ter from the clerk of the board, which
was written in reply to one from Mr..
Moran asking for information, is as fol-
lows:
Bounty claims are paid in the order
in which they are filed in this Office
They are now paid up to June IS, 1898
This month another payment will be
made, which will pay up to July s, 1885,
Payments are made four times each
year-in January, March, June and
September. The September payment
will probably pay to about the LIST of
August. The March, June and Septem-
Der payments are small, as the only
revenue of the state bounty fund for
these payments is 5 per cent. of licenses.
The largest payment is made in Janu-
airy. when the taxes have been collect
ed and paid in. I cannot give very cor
rect figures as to what the January
payment will be until after the meeting
of the board of equalization, which fixes
the valuation on live stock l believe.
however, that next January the state
will be able to pay about $4,000 for
bounty. The last report of the board
of equalization gives the total value of
1.-Two csfI 1Jr flI ~,
the general opinion here that there will
be decrease in the value of live stock.
! estimate that all claims filed up to
the 1st of July of this year will be paid
next January. The unpaid claims on
file in this office June 1, 1899, was $685.,
519. This does not include about $4,000
which was filed under the bounty law
of 1892, for which there was no pro-
vision made for payment until such
time as there is a surplus in the state
bounty fund after paying all claims
filed under the bounty law of 1895.
could not give an estimate as to what
will be paid further than next January,
for the reason that it will be impossible
to arrive at the amount claimed that
will probably be filed under the amend
ed law. During the month of May there
We're filed claims in this office amount
ing to $685.. 1t is safe to say that two
thirds of the claims filed last month
were issued unueF the law as IN luTce
before April 49, If all had been issued
under that law the amount would have
been $6,144 A bounty warrant is as
good as cash, as a warrant is never is
sued until there is money in the fund
TO pay it. Just before each payment I
find out from the treasurer how much
money is in the fund, and then from
the auditor how much there is out
standing in warrants that have not
been presented for payment to the
treasurer, and then I have the amount
available for payment. Claims are
then taken from the files equal to the
amount approved by the state board of
examiners and sent to the auditor and
warrants are drawn annd mailed to the
parties"