The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-03-24
commissloner's Proceedlnos.

IduJOuIHlueuJ, iTeSeul, OOIuHlSSlOu
ers Burr Taft and Henry Sunderman
The minutes of February Z, 1911,
were read and approved as read.
The time having arrived for the
opening of bids for the erection of
an addition to the Jail, the matter was
taken up and the bid of William j.
Cores was opened and examined and
not being in conformity with the plans
and specifications and 1t being the
only bid 1t was rejected and the coun.
ty clerk was instructed to readyertise
for bids for the erection of brick
addition to the county Jail according
to plans and specifications on file in
the Office of the county clerk, bids to
be received up to 12 o'clock, noon, of
April II, 1911, said bids to be opened
at 2 o'clock of said day, April II,
1911.
p. w. Ruth, county assessor, made
appointments OF precinct assessors to
fill vacancies as follows: William
Riggert, Norfolk precinct; John w.
Overberg, Shell Creek precinct and
Frank Scheer, Schoolcraft precinct,
and on motion the said appointments
were duly approved.
| On motion the public road petition.
ed for by F. X. Murphy and twenty
three others. commencing at the south
east corner of section 8, township %,
range 2, and terminating at the south
west corner of the southeast quarter
of section 3, township 90, range 2, was
ordered established and the clerk Or
dered to plat the same, and also the
clerk was instructed to draw a war
rant on the general fund of the coun-
Ity for $4,000 in favor of Paul Rem
ner, said warrant to be delivered
when MIR. Renner delivers the deed to
the county for land used in said road
| On motion the following official
bonds were examined and approved:
Dan Scheer, jr., road overseer, road
district No. %; Thomas Reigle, road
overseer, road district No. 10.
| On proper representation the board
instructed the county clerk to correct
the 1910 tax list by changing the valu-
alton assessed against lot IL, block IS,
Railroad addition to Newman Grove,
| Nebraska, to lot II, same block, and
also changing the valuation now as
sessed against lot IL, same block, to
lot II, in same block, the same having
through error been wrongly assessed.
On motion the clerk was instructed
to correct the 1910 tax list by striking
out the personal taxes of S4.51 asses
sed against Edwin d. Kline, of Nor
folk city, on account Of double as.
assessment.
On motion the clerk was instructed
to correct the 1910 tax list by striking
out the item of $500 poll tax assessed
lagainst Hirsch Bros, Norfolk city, be-
,cause of double assessment.
On motion the application of j. S.
lStewart of Jefferson precinct to have
his taxes reduced on account of err
|roneous assessment was refused
On motion the application or J. A.
IZeigler of Madison precinct to have
his personal assessment reduced on
account of over valuation was refused.
On motion Commissioner Henry
Sunderman was authorized to pur-
chase two wheel scrapers for use on
the roads.
The soldiers relief commission
made partial report of the money re-
lceived and expended for the year 1910,
which was, on motion, accepted and
placed on file.
On motion Herman Barney, chair
man of the soldiers relief commission,
was allowed the sum of $4,000 for the
use Of the commission.
A petition being presented for the
appointment of a stock inspector for
Madison county, on motion the clerk
Twas instructed to publish a notice that
at the meeting of April II, 1911, the
board would take this matter up and
Iappoint a chief stock inspector for
Madison county, according to law.
On motion the following bills were
laudited and allowed:
Davey ODER. work road dis
trict No. 3 ................$ 500
Battle Creek Hardware Co.,
hardware for r. D. No. L.. 4.32
w. r. Snyder, shoveling snow
r. d. No. 20. .............. 9.76
Albert Imhoff, work, r. D. No.
| 20 o.uU
Nick Dohman, work r. ID. No.
| 20 ............... O.OU
NJ. A. Wagner, work r. D. No.
| 20 ....'..'... ..''.......' SUI
II. H. Wagner, work r. d. No.
70 ..'.............., o.oU
Ed. Schwartz, grading C. d.
| NO. L lU,OU
B. B. McGinnis, work bridges. 200
IL. T. Moore, work bridges, as
signed to Nebraska National
bank .,................ 1000
j. T. Moore, floating roads, c.
D. No. 2 .................. 1900
j. T. Moore, work BRIDGES. 400
Fred Byerly work BRIDGES. 900
Fred Byerly, floating roads, C.
d. No. 2 ................ 1900
Peter Emig, bridge work. 80. 1926
Balser Werner, bridge work. 100.51
L. NJ. Johnson, work r. d. No.
10 ...................... 1926
L. NJ. Johnson, work bridges. 7.50
Walter Sunderman, grading G..
ID. No. 3 .................. 600
Hume Robertson, Wycoff Co.,
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