The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-06-21
OFFICIAL
Of the Board Of County Commission
ers, Yellowstone County.
Regular June Meeting-Fifth Day.

0IlIluSS, MOuL., June III, lJU4.
The board met this day at 10 o'clock
a. M, pursuant to adjournment. There
were present Chairman ". o. Parker,
Commissioner S. X. Deverill and
Clerk j. w. Fish.
The minutes of the previous day
were read and duly approved.
The following property standing in
the name of the county for delinquent
taxes was sold to the parties named,
they being the highest and best bid
ders:
H. Barr-Lot y, block 81, Park
City; lot 20, block so, Park City,
$14.52.
Maggie Greenwood-Lot 6, block
142, Park City, $3.50.
Joseph Pope-Lot 4, block 81, Park
City, $1.00.
w. j. Comstock, Lot z, block SO,
Park City, $14.44.
The clerk was directed to prepare
the usual quit-claim deeds covering
same.
The following claims were audited
and allowed in amounts named:
Henry White, refund taxes, dou-
BILE assessment ........... $16.93
Otis e. Pearsall, refund taxes,
double assessment .......... $50
p. H. Holman, repairing road
o -. ...... -. ...... 1913
s.. K. Deverlll, per diem and
mileage, county commissioner 127. 90
w. O. Parker, per diem and
mileage, county commissioner 1860
E. B. Carter, salary deputy as
oSSSUI ... .... .... ...... ll0.UU
E. B. Carter, commission on
special poor tax collected... 1S.4T
The following officers reports were
presented, examined and ordered filed:
County clerks quarterly fee report.
County clerks quarterly report of
sunurJ receipts.
County treasurer's report of delin-
quent licenses.
The following transfers were Or
dered:
General fund to bond interest fund,
$ 100000.
General fund to state examiners
fund, $4,000.
A petition signed by w. r. West
brook and others was presented to
the board, praying tor the vacation
OF streets and alleys in the original
town OF Laurel.
1t appearing to the board that the
site OF said original town OF Laurel
has been abandoned as a toWnsite;
that the consent OF all parties inter
ested in the ow' ership of the lands
affected by said petition is filed with
said petition; that all taxes due the
county on property affected by said
petition have been paid; that the
town Of Laurel having been moved to
a new location and the original site
abandoned the realty is no longer use.
full as a townsite but is OF more value
as acreage property, the board, act
ing on the advice of the county at
torney, decided to grant the said petit
ton, and the streets and alleys OF the
original townsite OF Laurel as plated
and on file III tie Office of the county
clerk and recorder are hereby declared
vacated and abandoned as routes OF
public travel.
The clerk was instructed to pro.
cure the necessary registration and
election supplies for the general cleo
ton November 8, 1904.
The board then proceeded to divide
the county into eleven registration
districts and fourteen election pre-
cincts, as follows, towit:
Registration District No. ALI that
portion of Yellowstone county, not
included in any Indian allotment or
tract of land reserved for Indian al
lotments embraced in the following
boundaries: Beginning al the inter-
section OF the east boundary of Vel
loWstone county with the Yellowstone
river and running thence in a west
erly direction along the mid-channel
of said Yellowstone river to a point
where the range line between ranges
% and 20 intersects said river; thence
north along SAID range line to the
summit OF the main divide between
the Yellowstone and Musselshell riv-
ers; thence in an easterly direction
along the summit of said divide to
its intersection with the east boundary
of Yellowstone county; thence south
on said boundary line to the place of
beginning; together with that portion