The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-06-11
COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
Official Proceedings OF the Board
OF County Commissioners.

Of County Commissioners.
Monday. June I, 1909. 10 O'Clock m.
The board Of county commissioners
met in regular adjourned session.
Present, c. W. White, chairman:
W.T.. Johnson and F. W. Sherman,
commissioners: W. H. Pound. county
attorney and Norah B. Redford, clerk.
John G. Mowbray having been ap-
pointed water commissioner in and
for irrigation district No. 81, OF the
state OF Colorado, by the governor. the
following motion was made:
w. 7. johnson move d that, Where
as, the governor having appointed
John G. Mowbray of Sedgwick coun-
ty. water commissioner for
water district number four,
it is ordered by the board of
county commissioners of the county
of Sedgwick, that the amount of the
bond to be given by the said John G.
Mowbray, as such water commission
er. to be in the sum of $500, to be
approved by the governor and state
engineer.
Motion seconded by F. W. Sherman.
Motion put to vote and carried.
The county clerk was directed by
the board to prepare a certificate
showing the amount fixed by the
board of county commissioners for the
bond to be given by John &. Mowbray
as water commissioner.
The county treasurer appeared be-
fore the board and asked that such
action might be taken as the law pro-
vided for in case OF lost certificates.
S. II. Carlson being duly sworn
stated on oath " the board of county
commissioners in session. that he was
the duly elected and acting county
treasurer and that all tax certificates
owned by Sedgwick county were kept
in the Office Of the county treasurer:
that tax certificates Nos. 81, SO and
1854 of tax sales of 1898 were lost or
mislaid: that he had made search In
his office and could not find the
same; that the record of tax sales
showed that certificate No. 81 OF 1898
sale was issued to Sedgwick county
for lot ten (lO) in block thirteen tl3:)
that No. l64 Of 1898 sales was issued
to Sedgwick county for lot eleven 1l)
in block thirtssn (l3), s.d No.. sS--0t
1888 sales was issued to Sedgwick
county for lot twelve ny in block
thirteen (l3), all in the original town
of Denver Junction, now Julesburg,
and that the record in his office
showed the same to have been as.
signed to J. W. Jones.
That W. H. Pound, being duly
sworn, testified that some years ago
he acted as attorney for the county
treasurer in an action brought in the
county court and appealed to the dis
trict court, by the treasurer, or by the
board of county commissioners to re-
cover from J. W. Jones the amount
necessary for the purchase of tax sale
certificates Nos. 81, 68 and l64 of 1898
sales for lots TO- II and II in block
l3 in the original town Of Denver
Junction, now Julesburg; that in said
action said J. w. Jones denied that
he purchased such said tax
certificates, and the district court
held that the entry on the tax sale
record and the signing of the certifi-
Gates by the county treasurer. before
said J. w. Jones had paid the money
necessary for said certificates, did
not constitute a sale.
After considering the evidence sub
mitted to the board it was decided by
the board of county commissioners
that Sedgwick county was the present
owner of said tax sales certificates,
and that the same were lost, and on
motion of F. w. sherman. and second
ed by William T. Johnson. the coun-
ty clerk was instructed TO make a
certificate of the proof and finding of
| the board in relation to the owner
ship and loss of said tax certit-
Gates and to properly attest such GER
tificate under the seal of the county,
and to deliver such certificate to the
county treasurer of Sedgwick county
for he county Of Sedgwick, and to
make a record Of the proceedings re-
lating to such lost tax certificates.
f. w. Sherman moved that whereas
Sedgwick county was the owner Of
tax sales certificates Nos. 81, l64 and
6S Of the sales of 1898 for lots 10, IL and
II in block Ii in the original town o.
Denver junction, now Julesburg, and
that said lots 10 and II were sold in
1905 while the county was the owner
of tax certificates Nos. 81 and l64
issued on said lots and that said sale
of 1905 being evidenced by tax Ger.
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