The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-27
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS

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liz per cent, while Brookings city and
White were left as returned.
On motion the board adjourned to
8 o'clock a. M, Monday, July 10th.
Monday July 10th, 1905, board met
as per adjournment, all members and
clerk present.
w. c. Foster, representing the
Western Town Lot Co., appeared be-
fore the board asking for a reduction
of the valuation on out lots B. & G.
Bruce to $1,000 per acre, the board
after fully considering the matter on
motion granted the reduction asked
Yfor.
In the matter of taxes for the years
19O2-19O3 and 1904 on parts of out lots
A B G & d Elkton, Mr.. Foster on be-
half of the Western Town Lot Co.,
rendered the taxes for the above named
years on an assessed valuation of
$35 90 per acre, which tender was on
motion accepted and the treasurer in
structed to that effect.
The board then took up the sched-
ule of goods and merchandise and on
motion the following stocks at Volga
were reduced 20 per cent S. N. Blair,
H. p. Hanson, ]. G. Hammer, Mar
tinson Bros. Geo. Rude, Stromme &
Co., NJ. p. Thompson, A. E. Whitney.
The board adjourned as board of
equalization and convened as board
OF county commissioners, and pro-
ceeded to settlement with the county
officers, the following committees be-
ing appointed by the chairman.
On settlement with Register of
Deeds, James Pike and Ole Erickson,
County Auditor and County Treasurer,
F. w. Newton, Lewis Johnson and
o. G. Oyloe. The balance of the day
was spent on the settlement with
county officers and on motion the
board adjourned to 8 O'Clock a. M,
July 18th.
Board met as per adjournment, all
members and clerk present, and the
day was spent in settlement with
county officers, and on motion board
adjourned to 9 O'Clock a. m, July -.
Board met as per adjournment, all
members and clerk present, and con-
tinued the settlement with county
officers, and on motion adjourned to
8 O'Clock a. M, July 18th.
Board met as per adjournment, all
members and clerk present, settle
ment with county officers was COM
pleted and the committees on such
settlement made the following report.
Report of committees on settlement
with county officers.
We, F. w. Newton, Lewis Johnson,
and o. G. Oyloe, your committee on
settlement with the Auditor and Treas
urer, respectfully report, that we have
carefully checked over all vouchers as
recorded in the voucher records, and
have compared all stubs with the
claims as allowed by this board and
find that the amounts as allowed on
said claims agree with stubs of war
rants, and the record as kept of the
commissioners proceedings.
We have also checked all tax and
miscellaneous receipts, which receipts
we have found properly entered on the
cash books and that amounts of same
accounted for on the ledgers. We
have also checked up the accounts as
kept with the book concerns doing
business with the county, and find
that the claims as filled by these con-
Germs, and the warrants drawn in pay
ment of same have been accounted for,
and find that all receipts, both tax
and miscellaneous, and all payments
as shown by voucher have been prop
erly accounted for for the the six
months ending June 30th, 1905, and
that the balance in the hands of the
County Treasurer at the close OF busi-
ness on June Both, 1905, was $49, 229.-
43 which sum was accounted for by
certified statements from the cashiers
of the several banks, by cash in office
and cash items as follows:
First Natl Bank, Bookings .$12 $50 IS
Bank of Brookings. ........ 7G6 93
Farmers NATL Bank, Bkgs.. +. 397 "a
Farmers NATL Bank, White. 179 Is
First State Bank, Elkton u. :. l 920 30
First Natl Bank, Elkton. 80. 9S4 SO
Bank of Aurora ........ TT SO
First Natl Bank, Volga.:.... l ISL 80
Bank of Bruce. .......... 2 500 81
First NATL Bank, White. -. 222 50
First State Bank, Volga. -. 215 16
County Claims etc. ..'........ 900 So
Cash on Hand. ....... 761 60
Total $40 229 43
- F. w. NEWTON