The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-10-20

journment OF the Oregon Press Asso-
citation, we, your committee, caused to
be prepared an amendment to the tax
bill which the legislative assembly then
had under consideration, which required
the assessor to prepare list by pre-
| cincts Of the names and total value of
the property OF each person assessed in
such precinct and requiring such list to
be published at least fifteen days prior
to the meeting OF the board of equaliza-
ton of the respective counties. But
owing to the fact that there seemed to
be a great strife between the members
of the different political parties to get
home first, we did not consider it adyis-
able to present it TO their consideration.
We believe this law to be good one,
and one that is Of great interest to the
public in general. This law is drafted
after the Illinois law which has prac-
tically solved the problem of attaining
fair and equal assessment of property
The Illinois law requires a printed des-
cription of the property and is more ex-
pensive than the one we have caused to
be prepared, which will, therefore, be
great economy over the Illinois law
and will cost the counties but little.
The cost, of course, will depend upon
the number of taxpayers in the county.
The cost will be from $50 to $3.50 per
county.
We recommend the following:
l. Publication of all taxpayers and
the amount of their assessment prior TO
the time of the meeting OF the county
board of equalization.
2. Publication OF city ordinances.
3. Publication OF general acts of the
legislature.
4. Publication of sales of personal
property under execution, administra-
ton or judicial sale.
5. Publication of description of de-
ceased with time and place of death in
cases where there are unknown heirs.
6. Publication of probate docket with
brief summary of the character of the
proceeding or application and order de-
sired of court
7. Publication of the receipts and ex.
penditures giving the names Of the
claimants and amount of the bills as
presented and allowed of cities, towns
and school districts and other public
corporations.
s. Publication of statements and re-
quiring sworn statements to be made
under oath by all banks doing business
in the state.
8, Publication of the issuing of any
bond, or borrowing money by any school
district, county or other public corpora
tion.
10. Publication of warehousemen of
schedule rates.
IL. Publication of the formation or
the assessment of drainage district.
II. Publication of the finding of
money or other personal property.
l3. Publication of the sale of person
al property under chattel mortgage.
IA. Publication of desire to change
name.
15. Publication for bids and requiring
bids to be had for all supplies for all
public institutions.
l6. Publication of dissolution of part
nership.
II. Suitable and reasonable laws
regulating billboards, posters, sign boards
advertisements and other unsightly mat
ters that disfgure buildings and mar
the lanscape and public thoroughfares s.
We would further recommend that a
suitable law be enacted upon the aub-
jeCt of libel so that newspaper which
has been misinformed as to facts may
publish retraction upon learning its
mistake so as to be bar.
S. T. Richardson,
r. J. Hendricks,
J. G. Hayter,
d. M. G. Gault,
W, ]. Clark,
National Committeeman for Oregon.
J. G, Jones, Of Portland, agent for the
ROYAL Furnace, was in town Monday.