The La Jara chronicle., 1911-01-20
CONEJOS COUNTY'S NEW
OFFICIALS TAKE CHARGE

cent campaign, each of whom had
claim Of some sort or other for
valuable services rendered and
figured that the opening day of
tie new regime was the Oppor-
ture time to make it known.
The officials-elect were check
ed in and assumed the RESPONSE
bilities Of their respective offices
with all the nonchalance and
matterof-fact assurance of con
quering matador. In fact, so
strong did they go that one
not posted on political history
must naturally have taken it for
granted that Democratic victory
was more common in Conejos
county than big crops and pros
pcr:ty, never imagining that this
is the first time since the county
was named that the Democrats
have made a clean sweep.
Commissioner X. NJ. Haynie wa
sworn in to succeed Hon. Luther
!. Norland and the new board
organized by electing Hon. II. C.
'!ullins, chairman. r. X. Brown
was appointed county attorney;
County Clerk Carroll, purchasing
agent; II. Il. Potter, deputy coun
ty clerk: NJ. W. High, deputy coun
ty treasurer. The Alamosa In
depcndentJournal was selected
IL, the official organ and the com
missioncrs were then ready for
business. Only routine matters
were considered at this meeting
The new officials are all men
of high character and ability and
there is no doubt that they will
give an administration of public
affair the equal of any in the
past and if they do, they are en-
titled to the commendation of all,
irrespective of political faith.
The accomplishment of the of
ficials of ,onejos county during
the past four years have been
most remarkable. Their admins
trations have been clean, able
and progressive and they retire
with honor to themselves and to
the respective positions they fill
ed with such signal ability. As
an illustration of what has been
done we will cite the progress
of the treasurer office.
The experts congratulated Mr..
Russell upon the fact that no
corrections were necessary in his
books, no errors occurred in the
accounting for moneys collected
and disbursed and the books
checked mp to a cent. The cash
was TUNED over to Mr.. Kendel
and receipt given for the same
amounting in total to SAT, ,694,SS.
A journal has been introduced
showing in detail every single
transaction of the office in the
one book and every days tran
sactions upon the one page, Civ
ing complete balance of the
books at and day, or at any
time of the day, and giving as
well a double check upon all tran.
sactions, enforcing accuracy with
little extra labor. All tax rolls
have been closed as pertains to
real csta c, leaving no tax s"hed-
ule unattended to, and no tax
payer who can honestly say he
has been allowed to settle with
out the full payment of interest
as required by law. The law re
qulrcs tat the tax roll OF the
current year be closed and that
property not paid on be converte
into tax certificates. In check
ing up rolls for eighteen years
back, as to the payment of taxes,
the method has been used of
checking the amounts collected
against the amounts assessed,
necessitating months of painstak
ing labor. a treasurer who allows
the taxpayer to lapse in his pay
mcnts or delay the payment be-
yond a reasonable time is doing
the taxpayer an actual injury
which the taxpayer does not real
izc at the time, perhaps, but
which he sees later when he
has to pay the excessive interest
required by law. He can well