The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-08-15

"OAS 40 AOAAO"o' WV ouS IA VIC
year 1911 and $780, due in the
year 1916: that said last named
bonds are known as Floating In
debtness bonds and were issued
by said Belrrami county for
the purpose of bonding its floating
debt at the time said bonds were
issued. That said last named
bonds bear interest at the rate of
S per cent per anum, interest pay.
able semi annually; that said sum
of $50, 900 reduced proportionately
by the appraised value of said
county buildings left a remainder
of $21, 461 to be apportioned be-
tween said counties of Beltrami
and Clearwater according to said
last assessed valuation of each,
and that the proportion devolving
upon said Clearwater county to
pay amounts to the sum of $5,412.
That the fourth of said bonds is
sued amounts to the sum of $4,000,
which last named bonds bear date
June 2, 1902, and bear S per cent
interest, interest payable semi annu-
ally, and are by their terms payable
on June 2, 1917; that said last named
bonds were issued for the purpose of
building the county court house of
said Beltrami county. That deduct.
ing from said sum of $4,000 a pro-
portionate part of the present value
of said county buildings. as fixed by
said appraisal as aforesaid, there re.
NAMED the sum of $29,8O7, to- be
apportioned and paid by the said
of Beltrami and Clearwater
according to the aforesaid assessed
of each, and that the pro-
portionate share for which said
county was and is liable
to the sum of $7,516.
VIII. That at the time of the.
division of said territory and the
creation of said Clearwater county,
said Beltrami county had in its
treasury the sum of $9,469.83, the
same being a sinking fund to meet
the payment of the aforesaid Becker
County Indebtness bonds at the
maturity thereof, upon which said
sinking fund said county of Beltrami
derived 3 per cent interest until the
maturity of said bonds.
TX. That the aforesaid bonds
are now outstanding and unpaid.
with the exception of the said Becker
County Indebtedness bonds which
were paid by said county of Beltrami
at the maturity thereof, to-wit, on
the 30th day of June, 1907; that the
interest upon the aforesaid bonds,
and all of them, has been paid by
said Beltrami county at the maturity
thereof. +
X. That by reason of the pro-
visions of law in force at the time
of the division of said territory, it
became the duty of the commits
sioners of said Clearwater county
as such, to make provision for the
payment of said Clearwater
county's proportion of said bond
ed and floating indebtness by levy
and taxation upon the taxable
property in said Clearwater county
at the time fixed by law for doing,
in the same manner that the
county commissioners of SAID Bel
trami county would have done had
said county not been divided, and
to meet the interest and principal
of said bonds: that notwithstand-
ing their said duty as such COM
missioners, the said respondent
and each and all of them, and
their predecessors, in Office have
wholly neglected, failed and refus-
ed to perform their said duty, or
in any manner to provide for the
payment of said Clearwater
.county's proportion of said indebt-
ness and the whole thereof.
XI. That because Of the failure
Of the commissioners Of the said
county of Clearwater to make pro
vision to meet said Clearwater coun.
TVS proportionate share Of said in.
debtedness or the interest thereon