The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-18
Commissioners Proceedings.
Rapid City. S. D.. !

pursuant to adjournment, all members
and county auditor present.
BY motion the personal assessment
of Homer Charles. amount 81, 1000, WAS
transferred to the real estate OF the
Rapid City foundry.
BY motion application of Chas Bel.
knapp for correction of assessment was
granted per statement Of petition,
BY motion board adjourned as board
ot equalization to act us board of coun-
ty commissioners.
by motion board of county commits
sioners convened to take action on bids
for bonds.
BY motion all bids for bonds were re-
jected, bids not complying with call for
I per cent interest on bonds.
BY motion board adjourned as board
ed as board of equalization.
BY motion board adjourned to meet
at . o'clock a. N. July s, 1899.
Attest: A. j. Mccain,
y. f. Mcmahon, Chairman,
County Auditor.
Rapid City, S. D..
July 8, 1899.
Board as a board of equalization met
pursuant to ad~ journment, all members
and county auditor present. Occupied
during entire day examining assessors
returns.
L Ranney, manager of the Holy
Terror Mining company, and Attorney
} w Fowler We're present to protest
against raising the assessed valation of
said company's property.
BY motion board adjourned to meet
at 9 o'clock a IN July 10, 1899.
Attest: A. J.. Mccain.
p. e. Mcmahon, Chairman.
County Auditor.
Rapid City, S. D..
July 10 1899.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
all members and the county auditor
present.
by motion board adjourned as board
of equalization and convened as board
of county commissioners.
BY motion, as board of county COM
missioners, tie proposition of the Pen
nington County Bank for the purchase
at par valne of SIS, 800 bonds of Pen
nington county due in twenty years,
interest at 8 per cent per annum paya-
BILE semi-annually, dated July /, 1899,
and issued under an act authorizing
the funding Of bonded and outstanding
indcbtedn SIS of counties, approved
March s, 1891, for the purpose of re-
funding q valid and subsisttng indebt-
edness of the county of Pennington and
state of South Dakota, consisting of it's
10 per cent bond due July |, 1899, such
action being in conformity with filed
opinion of states attorney.
BY motion the form of bond at pre-
scented by the states attorney. was ac-
cepted by the board.
BY motion the auditor was instructed
to have blank bonds engraved in con-
formity with form presented by states
attorney and approved by the board.
BY motion board adjourned as board
of county commissioners and convened
as a board OF equalization.
Board was occupied the balatce of
the day in examining assessors re-
tnrns.
BY motion board adjourned to meet
at 8 o'clock a m july II, 1899.
Attest: A.. J.. Mccain,
p. f. Mcmahon, Chairman.
County Auditor.
Rapid City, S. D..
July II, 1899.
Roor1 mot DC q boar of nunoli,u,iop
pursuant to adjournment, all members
and county auditor present.
BY motion board was resolved into a
board of county commissioners.
Py motion the following bills were
allowed on the current expense fund:
Otto Anderson, deputy assessor, $2l.
E Flynn, same, $l5.
,Chas Swanson, same, $21.
Thure Swanson, stamps, 81.
By motion application for abatement
of taxes of Patrick O'Keefe and Frank
Kleeman were each granted in part.
BY motion road petition of w J Will
Hanson was granted and road ordered
surveyed and plated.
BY motion board &C adjourned to meet
as a board of equalization at 8 o'clock
a. m. July y, 1899.
Attest: A. J. Mccain,
p. F. Mcmahon, Chairman.
County Auditor,
Rapid City, S. D
July ~, 1899. {
Board met pursuant to a~d adjournment,
all members and county auditor pres
ent.
BY motion board was resolved into a
board of county commissioners for the
purpose of ~transacting the following
business:
BY motion the following resolutions
were adopted: BE it
Resolved, by the board of county
commissioners of Pennington county,
state OF South Dakota, that inasmuch
as it is impossible to comply strictly
with the rules and regulations govern
ing forest reserves, established under
section "a of the act OF March ), 1899,
as to the cutting of public timber and
stone for the construction and repair OF
public roads in SAID county as provided
by section 8 of said rules, that Fred j.
Gross, county commissioner, be in
structed correspond with the honorable
secretary of the interior and arrange
in some satisfactory manner to allow
the cutting of public timber and the
use of stone for the construction and
repair of public roads and bridges ip
said county, said cutting OF timber etc.
to be under the supervision of the
county commissioners.
Application for abatement of taxes
of Joseph Poor by motion rejected.
Road petition of w D Rounds by mo-
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