Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-26
HOARD PROCEEDINGS.

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. Board met. all members present.
Samuel johnson in the chair.
Minutes of last days session read
and approved.
Reports of j. A. Ballard, Justice of
the peace, and e. NJ. Campbell, consta-
bic, Center township, approved.
Petition of Josephine Wachtler was
then taken up and treasurer instruct
ed not to sell for taxes as long as prop
erty remains the homestead Of petit
toner.
The following was then adopted:
Be it Resolved, by the board of SUI
peryisors of Wapello county, Iowa,
now in session, that the following tax
es be levied on the taxable property of
said county, as returned by the asses
sors for the year 1899, as follows, to.
wit:
County, 4 mills; state, 30 mills;
county school, / mill; bridge, mills;
poor farm. mill; insane, II mills;
bond and interest, 3s mills; soldiers
relief, BIO mill; state university, ITO
mill; county hospital, CLIO mill; to-
tai, 1874 mills. On male dogs, so cents
each, and on female dogs; $500 each;
poll tax, so cents on male adults; and
the county auditor is hereby instructed
to extend upon the tax books the
taxes herein levied and to ascertain
the percentage to raise the various
sums which shall have been certified
by the several secretaries of the school
districts and levy the same upon the
properties of the independent and
township districts SO certified accord
ing to law; also all other taxes that
may be certified according to law;
also so mills on the dollar of all taxa
BILE property in Richland wnship and
Kirkville. and Is mills on the dollar on
all taxable property in the city of OF
tumwa for railroad purposes as per the
following:
. TO the Auditor of Wapello County,
Iowa:
II, Fred McNair, township clerk of
Richland township, Wapello county,
Iowa, do hereby certify that a spec
ial election was held in said
township at the usual voting places
therein on the ed day of April, 1899,
to vote upon the following PROPOSE
tons, to-wit:
."Shall tax of per cent upon the
assessed value of the taxable property
of Richland township, Wapello county,
Iowa, be levied to aid Ottumwa e.
Northern railway company Ia company
under the laws of Iowa)
to construct line of standard or four
feet S1s inches guage railway from OF
tumwas Iowa, in a northerly direction
through the town of Kirkyille, Iowa, to
some point on the Iowa Central railway
or the Chicago & Northwestern railway
in Mahaska county, Iowa, by tax of
five per cent upon the assessed value
of the taxable property of the town
ship, one-half of said tax to be col
lected the first year after said line of
railway is completed and the other
half the following year.
No part of said tax to be collectible
or payable until said railway is com
pleted and the cars running thereon.
from Ottumwa, Iowa, through the
town of Kirkville, Iowa, to the juno
tion with the Iowa Central railway or
the Chicago & Northwestern railway
in Mahaska county, Iowa, and depot
is built within eighty rods of the bust
ness center of said town of Kirkville,
Iowa..
No part of said money to be drawn
from the county treasury until said
railway has been completed from OF
tumwa, Iowa, to some point on the To-
wa Central railway or the Chicago &
Northwestern railway in Mahaska
county, Iowa, and trains are running
thereon from Ottumwa, Iowa, through
said village of Kirleville to said Juno
ton point in Mahaska county, Iowa.
and depot is built within eighty rods
of the business center of said town of
Kirkville, Iowa.
Nor shall any of said money ever
be drawn unless said railway is thus
completed and trains thus running
thereon within twenty-four months
from the date of the election at which
said tax is voted"
, That the result of said election was
as follows, to-wit:-
Four hundred thirty-one .(43D votes
We're cast of which two hundred and
twenty-three (223) We're in favor of
said proposition. One hundred and
ninety-sjx 6196) were against said
proposition and twelve G2) were de-
fective and not counted either for or
against said proposition and that a
of the votes cast at said cleo
ton were in favor of the adoption of
said proposition and said proposition
was adopted. That the rate per cent of
tax voted at said election was
five ~ per cent upon the assessed val
ne OF the taxable property of said High
land township, Wapeno county, Iowa.
The name of the company to which
said tax was voted is "Ottumwa and
Northern Railway Company and said
TAX was voted to aid said company in
the construction of line of standard
or feet So inches guage railway
from Ottumwa, Iowa. in Il northerly
through the town of Kirkville,
Iowa to some point on the Iowa Cen
trail railway or the Chicago and North
Western railway in Mahaska county,
IOWA. one-half of said tax to be col
iected the first year after said line of
railway is completed and the other half
the Following year. Said tax when col
iected is TO he paid; TO the said railway
fompanv when the following terms
and conditions are complied with, to-
sit: No part of said tax TO be collect
bic or PAYABLE until said railway is