Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-24
Proceedings Of County Fathers.

court house. Motion carried.
J. Stoddard voted in the negative on
the above resolution.
Medora, North Dakota, Dec 80, 1906,
office of Register of Deeds, Billings county
n. Oak.
To the Honorable Board Of County
Commissioners.
Gentlemen:
take this means of calling
your attention to the present condition of
this Office in the matter of safe and vault
room, it has been found necessary during
the past few months to order dozen new
rec ord and index books. it will also be
necessary from time to time as older books
fill up to order more, the present safe is
now practically full these new books con-
tanning records of deeds and mortgages
and other instruments that are intrusted to
the county and this Office for safe keeping,
under present arrangement must be lett
lying around loose on desks or shelves
entirely without protection from fire and
persons inclined TO mutilate or NEEDLE
with records OF this kind. do not wish
to dictate to your honorable body in this
matter but under section No. 24lS OF the
1905 Code. it is clearly your duty to provide
this Office with sufficient vault room for the
safe keeping of these records. and think
the Register of Dedds would be lax in his
duty in not calling your attention to things
of this kind and request that you furnish
this office with vault of sufficient size and
construction for the safe keeping of its
records.
respectfully request that you spread
this letter together with your action upon
the same at length upon your records SO
~ <,f 1<,rr r,f oC t1,a rac0r6
books of this office that the responsible
ity will rest with you where it belongs,
and not with the Register of Deeds.
| Yours Respectfully,
Gro. L. BURGESS,
| Register of Deeds.
Report of Secy. and and Treas. Of Bill
ings Co. Live Stock association received
and on motion approved. Expense Of
association for 1906. 81 5000, ordered paid.
The attention of the board having been
called to the condition of the county
offices and court house by Geo. E. Burgess
Register of Deeds and requesting that
suitable vault room be provided for the
protection Of the county records, it was
moved by the chirman. ]. B. Stoddard,
that the Auditor be instructed to provide
storm windows for the office room. that
the plastering be repaired in the office,
that the court house be we'll banked up
with earth to exclude the cold, and that
the siding be nailed down on the east side
of said building, and any other necessary
repairs be on the Auditors Office to the
end that it may be made more comfortable
than at present, and that the Auditor be
further requested to advertise for bids for
the erection of suitable vault be at
tatched to the present court house at a
point that the board may determine, said
vault to be ten feet square and to be built
with brick and morter or cement. with
suitable iron work. including doors, and
to be fire proof. work to be under
taken at once, or rs soon as the we eather
; will permit; that the present building be
we'll cared for and made to do as in the
past until such times as the voters of the
county authorize the Board by their votes
that they are willing to bond the county
for the erection of suitable building.
This motion, not having a second, was lost.
The following bills were allowed and
warrants ordered drawn.
Il. +. Gorham four days service
:, County Commissioner S 1000
"a miles travel 1.2o
l.. +. Crawford Agt. officers bonds 224.oo
!, T. f. Roberts five days service
!. County Commissioner 1000
90 miles travel 4.5o
]. b. Stoldard, four days service
County Commissioner 16.oc
, so miles travel 2.5c
Oath of office of Levi Burkey. County
!, Surveyor, was on motion approved.
There being no further business te
> come before the board at this meeting
,, they adjourned without date.
: ]. A. McGREGoR,
rourtv Auditor