The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-01-25
Milbank, S. d., Jan. 9th, 1907.
G. n. PINCkNEY.
County Auditor.


Board of count, commissioner con- !
tinued in regular session with all !
members present and the following |
business was transac
Board of county commissioners |
MADE their semi annual visit To the
county farm and found every thing in
very satisfactory shape, all the in
mates are we'll cared for and content
ed.
In the matter of designating the Of
fetal news papers the following mo-
tion was name BY Commissioner Fen
ner.
In as much as five papers of the
county have been named official
papers for the past two
the county (the five papers haying
divided equally the legal rate) and
WHEREAS S more people will be reached,
l THEREFORE, moye that all five pa
pers of the county be appointed official
receive an equal share of the legal
rate of all county printing.
Voting Yes, Julius Fenner.
Voting No, r. A. Berkner, John
Erickson.
The motion being lost the following
motion was made by commissioner
Berkner
Resolved, by the board of county
commissioner of the county of Grant,
and state of South Dakota, that the
rald-Advance apd the Grant County
Review published in Milbank, and
the Big Stone Headlight published
in Big Stone, and the Weekly Item,
published in the town of Revillo, be and
the same are hereby designated and
appointed as the official newspapers of
the county of Grant for the year MIN
teen hundred and seven( 1907 and un-
til their successors are appointed, in
which shall be published the official
proceedings of said board of county
commissioners and also other legal
notices and publications which by law
are required to be published b. the
several county officers of said county:
and the price to be paid to each of the
said official newspapers tor publishing
the official proceedings of said board
of county commissioners shall be
three fourths of the legal price
named by law for publishing aid
proceedings where three newspapers
are esign ated.
Voting Yes, r. A. Berkner, John
Erickson.
Voting No. Not commissions
Fenner refusing to vote.
Motion carried.
The states attorney salary was fixed
at 5000 per year and he to furnish Of
fee, and heat the same at his own ex-
pense.
L. L. Conright was reappointed
ianitOr at $45 per month.
.. S. Lockhart was appointed at
torney for the board of insanity for
the term of one year to fill vacancy
of George S. Rix.
An abatement was ordered in favor
of Henry Rabine in Madison town
ship for the year 1900, being school
poll assessed in error.
w. S. Nixson was appointed pur-
chasing agent subject to the follow
ing resolution;
Resolved, that w. S. Nixon shall
be, for the year 1907 ending January
2nd, 1908, the purchasing agent for
and on behalf of Grant county, and he
is hereby authorized and empowered
to make the following purchases, for
and on behalf of said county, to-wit:
all supplies of every kind, nature and
descrip ption pertaining to county mat
ters, and shall purchase for all Of
the county officers, stationary, sup
plies, blanks, postage stamps, postal
cards and all other material necess AIRY
for the use of the county officers re-
spectively. And that each and all o.
said county officers shall apply t6
said w. S. Nixon for all such sup
plies and stationary so needed by
them for the performance of their OF
fetal duties, nd that it shall be tn,
duty of said purchasing agent to pur
chase reasonable supply of sucl
blanks, stationary, pOst-ge stamps
etc., as shall be needed for use of eacf
of saidcounty Offices from time to time
That said purchasing agent shall b.
and is hereby, the only person 81
|, authorized to maxi such purchase
hereinbefore enumerated, and tha
said county officials shall not max
anv purch ases or give any order fo
the pu, chase of supplies, stationary
postage stamps and postal cards TO
use in their Offices only to such pur
chasing agent, unless they shall pre-
fer to pay for such supplies and sta
tionery in person.
And said purchasing agent shall pa,
all freight bills and oil express bill
, that may be incurred for freight an
express received bv such county oi
ficers upon request being made to sal,
purchasing agent to pay the same
and that no freight bills or expires
oils will be paid by the county excep
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