The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-03-12
PROCEEDINGS OF COMMISSIONERS
Considerable Business Transacted by
the Board at Its March Meeting.

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the Board at Its March Meeting.
The regular monthly meeting of the
the Board of County Commissioners
was held Monday, March z.
Observation-Disclosures Fraser, Pa
roni and McNaughton; also the Clerk
and District Attorney.
The Commissioners and Auditor
counted the money in the Treasury and
found the same correct.
A list of the bills allowed will be
found in another column.
A communication was received from
Stephen Naples of Pine Valley asking
that certain work be done on the county
road near the Stone House, so as to
make the road passable during the
Spring months.
A communication was received from
T. r. Weber of Beowawe stating that
George w. Grayson was willing to give
the county permission to build the new
Jail at Beowawe on his land, provided
the Jail was built by the county, and
not by the district.
A deed was received by Eureka
County from the Central Pacific Rail
way for the recently abandoned road
bed in this county. The County in
tends to utilize a part of this roadbed in
building q wagon road to Gerald and
Beowawe from Palisade, if possible, as
soon as Spring opens.
A petition and communication were
received from citizens of Palisade and
Pine Valley requesting that Robert
Raine be allowed the sum of $40 to fix
the road from the j. P. Raine ranch, on
the Eureka and Palisade wagon road.
to the Elko County line. The Clerk
was instructed to write Mr.. Raine and
inform him that the Board considered
it too early in the season to do such
work. and that in case of a washout
during the next two months it would
have to be all done over again.
A communication was received from
Mr.. Barclay, Assistant Engineer of the
Southern Pacific Construction Depart
ment at Reno, in regard to the wagon
road between Beowawe and Shoshone.
Complaint had been made that the
Southern Pacific in the construction of
its new roadway between those points
had ruined the old wagon road. Mr..
Barclay stated that if the Board would
mention any person who would be
willing to point out where they had
interfered with the wagon road, that he
would gladly send one of his assistants
to look over the matter, and if they had
done n damage they would certainly
place the road in as good condition as it
was formerly.
The Board ordered that WI. Hooper,
Assessor of this county, pay to the
Treasurer of this county within four
weeks from this date the sum of $50,
for twenty uncollected poll taxes, due
the State of Nevada and County Of
Eureka for the year 1908, which poll
taxes, in the opinion of the Board. could
have been by ordinary care aud dill
gence easily collected by the Assessor.
The Board has been lenient in the mat
ter because it has been claimed that no
such action has been taken against any
previous Assessor, but it now calls upon
the Assessor for a more strict enforce
ment of the law in the future, to the
end that all who are liable to pay a poll
tax should be treated alike.
1.-THE attention of the Assessor and the
public is directed to Section 1884 of the
Revised Statutes of Nevada. which
reads as follows
1t shall be the duty of the Assessor
to keep a roll of the lanes of all per.
sons who shall pay a poll tax in each
year, and the date and amount of each
payment; also, in a separate column of
said roll, the names of all persons liable
to such tax, from whom he has de-
manded such tax, who have refused or
neglected to pay the same. with the
date of such demand. This return shall
be certified by him as a true and full
return of all persons from whom he has
made such collection, or on whom he
has made demand, and shall be verified
by his oath or Affirmation
"Ordered that the Clerk of this Board
furnish w. ]. Hooper, Assessor of this
county, with a copy of the above order"
Death of j. b. Decker.