The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-28
COUNTY AUDITORS
COMPLETE
WORK
Will Prepare Splendid Bills
for Session Of Legis-
lature.
NOT TROUBLE cHAsERs
So Did Not Attempt Private
Car Taxation Scheme
Other Matters.

The County Auditors association
closed its work yesterday evening and
adjourned. At the conclusion of the
address of States Attorney Wineman,
the several propositions which ne had
outlined and discussed were taken up
and were either referred to the states
attorneys association, or to some
member of the auditors association
for the purpose of preparing a bill
to be presented to the legislature after
the same had been passed upon by
the legislative committee of the as
ISOLATION.
The matter of county official bonds,
which Mr.. Wineman recommended
should be recorded at length in the
Office of the recorder of deeds before
being filed with the county auditor,
so that in case of the loss or destruc-
ton of the original bond a certified
copy should be obtained, was referred
to the states attorneys for considera-
ton.
The proposition of changing the
taxation scheme of the state by Great
ing one county assessor in lieu of the
township assessors as the law now is,
was also referred to the attorneys.
The matter of taxing private cars
which Mr.. Wineman suggested, should
be reported to the county auditor by
the station agents of the railroads in
the several counties and by him re-
ported to the state board of equali-
cation; the number Of cars belong
ing to private car companies which
were at his station during the month
of April of each year, was laid on the
table 1t was thought that legislation
on this matter was too comprehensive
to be considered by the auditors, as it
would in all probability run into the
interstate commerce law of the United
States.
The matter of the issuance of tax
deeds was referred to the legislative
committee for the preparation of
bill to cover the matter.
In the matter of allowing the pur-
chasers Of tax certificates to pay sub
sequent delinquent taxes, it was pro-
posed to have the present law changed
so that it would read November 1, in
stead of March /, as at the present
time.
The building and loan association
tax matter was referred to the states
attorneys, while the auditors will have
the law SO amended that copies of the
North Dakota Reporter will be pro-
vided for the several county auditors.
The president suggested the adj
visibility of inviting the state auditor
and the public examiner to meet with
the association at its next annual
meeting, and this was amended and a
resolution adopted making them ex-
officio members Of the organization.
p H. STEVENSON moved that a vote
of thanks be extended to County Audi
tor Hans Anderson of Grand Forks
county for his assistance in making
the meeting success, to the Herald,
the Evening Times and the Evening
Press for courtesies extended the
members. to Attorney ]. B. Wineman
for his splendid address, and to the
Commercial club for the use of the
club rooms for the meeting of the as
sociation. The motion was unani-
mously adopted.
The time and place of the next
special meeting, should one be deemed
advisable, was left to the discretion of
the president, secretary and the exc
cutive committee.
1t is thought that meeting will be
held at Bismarck during the session
of the legislature and probably in
conjunction with the meeting of the
states attorneys association, when
the several bills which have been de-
cided on will be gone over carefully
and presented to the legislature for
action.
The meeting was strictly a business
one, and the work done was not only
we'll done but it was of such kind
that it will benefit not only the audi
tors themselves but the taxpayers of
the state at large. The auditors were
the guests of the Exening Times at
the Hotel Dacotah for both dinner and
supper, while the delightful cigars
which were enjoyed by the crowd were
the courtesies of the Evening Press.
The theater party was the courtesy of
tho Herald.