Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-02-23
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Business Transacted at Regular Meet
ing Of Board in Dayton Feb. ID.

ing o. Board IN Layton FeD' IL
The Board of County Commissioners
held its regular meeting in Dayton on
the 14th inst. and transacted the follow
ing business, full Board being present:
The minutes of previous meeting were
read and approved.
The list of bills examined and allowed
will be found published elsewhere in this
issue.
H. E. West, deputy County Recorder,
appointed by E.. T. Powers at the meet
ing January 7, 1907, to re-write and
straighten out the Auditors books for
the years 1905 and 1906, announced that
he had rewritten the journal and ledger
and completed the work. whereupon the
Board, with the assistance of the Dis
trict Attorney, examined the books and
found that all the revenues due the
county for the past two years had been
accounted for and that the books agreed
with the books of d. w. Melarkey,
County Treasurer The report filed by
the Treasurer on January 5. 1907, showed
a cash balance of $40, 636 SO in the sew
eral funds at that date, and the balance
sheet furnished by the said III. E. West
corroborated the exact figures of the
Treasurer report and the total balance
of $19, 636. 81.
1t was ordered that Mrs. E. T. Powers
be paid SIS as assistant to the County
Recorder for the month of January,
1907, and that she be continued in SER
vice for the month of February, 1907.
That the Clerk be instructed to purchase
new book typewriter for the Record
er's Office, and that upon the arrival of
said typewriter Mrs. w. j. Thompson be
employed to operate the same at a salary
of SIS per month.
The bill of Mrs. L. E.. Lancaster for
ST. was reduced 81 and allowed for S16;
also bill of F. E. Robinson for IS re-
duced $40 and allowed for so cents.
Monthly reports of Clerk, Recorder
and Tailor read and ordered fled
The bonds of w. H. Slingerland, as
Constable of Mason Valley Township,
and w. M. Fuller, as Justice of the
Peace of Ramsey Township, as also the
additional bond of E. T. Powers as
County Recorder were approved.
A map of the townsite of Randall was
presented and filed, and, after examina-
ton, it was ordered that the townsite of
Randall be approved confirmed and
filed in the Office of the County Recorder
of Lyon county.
In the action commenced in the JUS
tice Court of Mason Valley Township
against the county for the sum of S181
for labor performed in Eldorado Canyon,
it was ordered that the District Attorney
be instructed to not defend said action
in order that judgment may be taken
for the said amount of S181 against Lyon
county together with costs. Commits
sioners Flaws and Martin voted yea, and
Commissioner Turner voted nay.
Upon the motion awarding the county
printing to the LYON COUNTY TIMES for
the month of February, 1907, the follow
ing vote was cast: Ayes Commissioners
Flaws and Martin; nay Commissions
Turner
On motion it was ordered that the sal
airy of Geo. Ambrose, as superintendent of
the Poor Farm, be raised SIS per month,
and that he be continued in Office as
said superintendent until April /. 1t
was also ordered that persons having
bills for supplies furnished the poor
farm must hereafter file them the first
of each month with the Clerk of the
Board.
1t was resolved by the Board that any
persons found dumping any refuse upon
the county roads in the town of Yering-
ton or elsewhere, will be punished ac-
cording to law
The Board then adjourned until April
1907 at n N,