The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-04-16

Proceedings,
Official Proceedings Of the Board
of County Commissioners
OF Steele County.

vi oVCClG NVutuNs
Sherbrooke, N. D., April 9Th. 1908.
The Board of County Commission
ers met in regular session at 8 O'Clock
A.. M. All members present. Minutes
of the meeting of January Sth 1908
read and on motion.approved.
The Auditors statement of warrants
drawn in payment of county officials
salaries, clerk hire, & etc. for quart
er ending March 3lst 1908, was on mo-
tion approved as follows:
S Mcpherson, auditor .-$ 400 90
J M Johnson, states attorney. 300 90
A G Miller, supt. of schools. 2S7 so
Adam S Moote, county Judge. $50 90
Adam S Moote, county judges
additional salary under the
prohibition law Is "a
P Satire, clerk of COURT. 275 90
G o johnson, treasurer.... 400 90
H J Rindy, register of deeds. 400 90
z A. Cochrane, clerk forregis-
ter of deeds $50 90
Ethel Stansbury, clerk for
al ~
h A LaMoure, Supt., care and /,
maintenance Of Gunhild and
Marie Hadland at hospital
for feeble minded at Grafton
for six months beginning
Jany. 1st OS. .... 100 90
Bills were on motion allowed as fol-
lows:
J o Collins, care of gas plant
three months, draying and
work around court houses 16 80
P 0 Sathre, cash advanced for
postage 4 90
Treasurer Riverside twp ap-
preparation for grading on
line between sections l and II Is 90
w M WEIGH Mfg. Co. books. 81 90
HI Rindy, cash advanced for
postage,. Is Is
Walker Bros & Hardy, books
and stationery ........ :. Is "A
The Herald, books and sta
tionery, $SO.75 allowed at 70 Is
The Herald, assessment sup
plies, books and stationery. al SIS
On motion the board adjourned un-
til l:3O p. NJ. same day.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Board of County Commission
ers reconvened at 1:30 P. M. All
members present. The following re-
solution was on motion adopted all
members voting aye:
Whereas: In. conformity to a re-
solutions adopted by the County Com
missioners Association of North Da-
kota at their meeting held in Fargo
March 9th O8, and,
Whereas. Believing that a certain
responsibility for. the Inequality of
assessment falls upon the Individual
tax payer through lack of attention at
the proper time, l.. e while being as
sessed and equalized by the local
authorities, and to attempt to correct
this evil, be it
Resolved: That hereafter no petit
ton for abatement of assessment and
taxes, which contains nothing but the
question of equalization of values, be
considered by this board except dur
ing the time they are in session as a
board of equalization.
The following order of %Incorpora-
ton was adopted by the Board:
The petition and application. of
Ohas. Ellingson, L L Rinde, T S
Hunt, co Halgrims and others pray
ing for the Incorporation of certain
territory in the County of Steele and
State of North Dakota, and therein
described as tho Village of Sharon, as
provided for by Chapter 81 of the Re-
vised Codes of the State of North Da-
kota of 1905, having been presented to
the board of County Commissioners of
Steele County at their regular session
this 9th day of April 1908, and upon
examination of the application, cen
sus, petition, map and survey and the
afidavits thereto attached verifying
the facts set out in said application
and the board being fully satisfied
that all the requirements of said Chap
ter having been fully complied with,
upon motion, duly ordered that the
territory described in said petition,
to-wit: Sections 25-26-27-34-35 and SO
OF Sharon Township, Steele County,
State of North Dakota, be an Incor-
porated Village under the name of
the "Village of Sharon, which is a
name different from that of every 9TH
er village in the State of North Da-
kota, provided the resident voters of
said territory shall SO vote at the
election which is hereby ordered to be
held at the Sharon Town Hall q place
within the territory proposed to be in