The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-04-14
COMMISSIONERS
PROCEEDINGS
COUNTY BOARD HOLDS REGULAR
SESSION.
MANY BRIDGES TO BE BUILT
ASSESSORS MEET WITH BOARD
AND FIX ASSESSMENT.

G 49,
1910. Board of county commissioners
of Brookings county, South Dakota,
met in regular quarterly session at
the office of the county auditor at the
court house in the city Of BrookingS
at II O'Clock p. m. Tuesday, April
4, 1910. Members present were: G..
+. Hoch, chairman, District No. /; j.
l.. Jarvis, District No. 2; Ole Erick-
son, District No. 3; Lewis Johnson,
District No. 4, and +. w. Newton, Dis
trict No. 5. o. J. bitterness, county
auditor being present as clerk.
This being the day set by law for
the meeting of the assessors of the
county with the county commissioners,
the meeting was called to order by
Chairman Geo. +. Hoch. n on motion
j. II. Simmons was elected chairman
of the meeting and the county auditor
was elected secretary. The auditor
gave a report of the meeting with the
state board and the various county
auditors of the state, and a report Of
the schedules as adopted for assess
ment purposes for the year 1910. After
a discussion of various subjects in re-
gard to the duties of the assessors
in making assessments of the county
for the year 1910, a motion vas made
and carried that the classification Of
lands for assessment purposes for the
year 1910 be the same as for the year
1909, viz:
Class "a" lands to comprise the
townships of Alton, Argo, Aurora, Par
nell. Elkton, Sterling, Trenton, Alton,
and sections /, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, II, IL, Z
13, IA, Is and 16 of Brookings town
ship.
C1,c, sDv JanI. 20 nnp,r;,n Tho
townships of Volga, Preston, Eureka,
Sherman, Lake Hendricks, Winsor.
Lake Sinai and Richland.
Glass "C" lands to comprise the
townships of Laketon, lakewood, Oslo.
Oak Lake, Medary. Bangor and that
part Of Brookings township not includ-
ed in Glass "A"
On motion the following schedule
for assessing lands was adopted, viz:
Glass "a lands to average $11.0O
per acre.
Class "B" lands to average $1,000
per acre.
Glass &c" lands to average $500
per acre.
On motion, the following general
poses was adopted in conformity with
the instructions of the state board:
Class "a horses to average $500
per head
Class "B" horses to average $500
per head.
Stations and jacks to be assessed
at twenty times the service fee.
Glass "A" cattle to average $500
per head.
Class "B" cattle to- average $1,000
per head.
Class &C" cattle to average $500
per head.
Sheep TO average $3.50 per head.
Swine to average $500 per head.
Wagons and carriages to average
$500 each.
Automobile one-third of their value,
assessed under Class No. &c.
MelOdeons and Organs to average
$500 each.
Pianofortes to average $4,000 each.
Goods and merchandise to be assess
ed at SO 1870 of. invoice price.
Shares Of bank stock to be assessed
at 400 of its value and the value of
bank stock to be determined by add.
in the capital stock, the surplus and
net undivided profits, the assessed val
ne of the real estate carried by the
bank to be deducted from the assessed
value of bank stock.
Structures on lands and lots to be
assessed at one-third of their actual
value according to the assessors best
Judgment.
Gold watches and gold and silver
plate to be assessed according to the
valuation of other property.
Money and credits to be assessed
at 33 1-3%.
There being no further business to
come before the meeting. on motion,
the same adjourned.
The board then convened as a board
of county commissioners and on mo
ton adjourned to 9 o'clock a. m We'd
nesday, April G., 1910.
The board met pursuant to adjourn
ment with all members Of the board
and the county auditor, as clerk, pres
ent.
The board was called to order by
the chairman and proceeded to read
the minutes of the regular January
meeting and Of the adjourned meet
ing of February %, 1910, and to- check
the warrants issued with the claims
allowed at said meetings. after finish
ing which the minutes, with a few cor
rections, were on motion approved.
The committees appointed at the
last meeting to investigate and in
spect proposed bridge sites as petit
toned for, reported and recommended
that the following bridges be built the
ensuing year, viz:
One 40-foot steel truss" bridge
across Medary creek on section line
between sections No. Z and No. 8, Elk
ton township.
One 30foot II" beam steel pile
bridge between Sections No. 81 and
No. % Richland township.
! One 2S-foot pan 81" beam steel pile
bridge on the west side Of Section
: No. 10 Sherman township.
One 60foot span steel "truss'
bridge on south side of Section No.
10 over Six Mile creek. Oak Lake
. township