Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-07-15
Commissioners Proceedings.
De Smet, S. D., July 5th, 1904.

members present.
The minutes OF the last meeting
were read. and on motion approved.
On motion q refund order, was
ordered drawn in favor of Thos. O.
Mogan for $l31s, said Mogan hav-
ing paid a tax on the wrong descrip
ton.
On motion the liquor bond of Theo-
dore Hamm Brewing Co., at Lake
Preston, was not approved.
On motion the statement of r. A.
Rounsevllle. assessor Of Mathews
township, for 1903, that assessment
OF l.. f. Collins for two wagons,
$4,000 goods and merchandise, aud
$1,000 credits other that those of
banks, was an error on the assess
ment books, and that the same
should be assessed to T. M. Collins,
was accepted, and the auditor was
instructed to correct the same on the
tax list.
On motion the claim of HI. l..
Phelps, to have the assessment Of
$298.00 against Bell Phelps CANCEL
ed from the tax list was not allowed.
On motion a refund order for $1.00
was ordered drawn in favor of Homer
Dwight, for illegal school poll tax,
said Dwight not being Fl years old
at the time of assessment.
The committee appointed to view
the proposed bridge site on the sec.
ton line between sections 5 and 6,
Twp. 10, range 81, Manchester
Twp, reported favorably, and on
motion it was ordered that said
bridge be built, and the county
auditor was instructed to advertise
for bids for the construction of said
bridge,
On motion the petition Of citizens
Of Lake Preston and Baker Twp,
asking that the road extending north
from the Lake Preston creamery to
the opposite side of Lake Perston be
declared a public highway was grant
ed, aud said road was declared a
public highway.
The committee appointed TO meet
the committee of commissioners OF
Beadle county and view the county
line road north of lroquois reported
that said road needed grading, and
recommended that the arrangement
made between the two committees
be approved; that each county would
expend $4,000 for grading said
road. On motion said report was &C
cepted, and the grading ordered
done, Said road to be graded q
distance of two miles, intermittent
north from the railroad; said grade
to be about two feet high, and about
eighteen feet wide.
The county commissioners and the
county auditor, after being duly
sworn, organized as a board o.
equalization, and proceeded tx
equalize the assessment of 1904.
On motion board adjourned til
tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock, July
9Th. Board reassembled as per ad
tournament of July 9Th; all member,
present. After carefully examining
the assessor books from the severa
districts of the county, it was founC
that the assessments had been mad;
according to the Instructions giver
the assessors at the April meeting
and there being no complaints en-
tered, the assessment vas left as re
turned by the assessors.
On motion the board of equaliza
ton, was dissolved, aud the board
proceeded as a board of county
commissioners.
On motion it was ordered that the
county auditor be instructed to draw
a warrant on the county general fund
for $ll. ia in favor OF the De Smet
Natl Bank to redeem tax certificate
on lots 4 and 5, block 2, Of brakes
addition to the city of De Snet, sale
of 1902.
On motion it was orde red that a
warrant on the county general fund
for S5.84 be drawn in favor j.. G..
Gipson to redeem tax certificate on
lots A and S, block 2, Drake's add
ton to the city Of De Smet, sale Of
1901.
Bids to furnish the necessary coal
forthe court house aud poor farm for
the ensuing year We're opened AID
recorded as follows,
Robinson CO., 50 so per ton.
G.. w. Van Dusen & Co, SI005 per
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