The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

Poor farm accepted at an ,apnrassa
valuation of $5,5000O
Total, $43,500.00.
br G;Sounty property, not including
| prIuges, to be apportioned as follows:
stevens county, 1886 per cent.
Pend Oreille county, 31O5 per cent. 3
SUMMARY OF GENERAL ASSETS.
Cash, $30,765.O9.
| Bridges, $14,475.00. h
buildings and fixtures. S43 500 90
Total to be apportioned, SSS74OOs
SUMMARY OF SPECIAL ASSETS.
cash balances in road districts de
quoted from Indebtedness before tn
distribution of warrant indebtedness i
made.
Road district No. 2,$3,143.2S.
Road district No. 3, $5,O59.71.
Iotal deduction on account Of dis
trict Indebtedness, $8,2O299
NINTH
EXHIBIT sH,o
"a
showing the net condition of fund.
entering into the liability side of tn,
account after deducting the cash bal
ances Tor the outstanding bonded ant
warrant Indebtedness as shown in FIX
hibits e. and 3D." -
Bounty due, taken as cash, cash bal
ance, $500.
Current expense, indebtedness. s5a..
ziI.Z9; cash balance, $9,398.05; net liza
bility, $42,756.24
General road and bridge indebted
ness, SIS, 4O5.53; cash balance. s3,11s.61
net liability, $12,291.92
Sinking fund and interest. Indebted
ness, $24O, 5l3.O5; cash balance, Sill
1888; net liability, $22S,76O.6s
Total Indebtedness, $308, 13O.87; total
cash balance $24, 322.19; total net liza
bility, $283,S08.68.
showing the net condition of funds
after deducting all outstanding war
rants from the cash balance to the
credit of the funds ai
INDECENT soldiers, cash balance. S254-
OF; outstanding warrants $4,000: net
resources, $234.O2.
Horticultural. cash balance, s2,O3S.-
A; outstanding warrants, $19S.S5; net
resources, $1,839.59.
standing warrants, none; net resources
$1,000.
Game protection, $3,45O.97; outstand-
ing warrants, $1,000; net resources, So
440.97.
County fair, cash balance $31.s7; out
standing warrants, none; net resources
$3197.
Trust funds, cash balance, 1855. so;
outstanding warrants, none; net re-
sources, $555.50. ,.
Total cash balance. $6.442.9O; total
warrants outstanding, $228.85; total net
resources, $6,214.05. f
OTHER ASSETS.
Block fourteen, city of Colville, $685.
10000.
Poor farm, $5,500.0O.
County bridges, 4,475.0O.
Total miscellaneous assets, $685. 90.
TENTH.
EXHIBIT al"
GEN NERAL SUMMARY OF ASSETS
AND LIABILITIES.
Miscellaneous county property, assets,
$57.975.00.
Net balance county funds, assets,
$6,214.05.
Total assets Se4 189O5
Warrant Indebtedness, net liabilities.
$55,048.16.
Warrant Indebtedness. net, $55,O48.-
Is.
Net bonded indebtedness, liabilities,
$228.760.52.
Total liabilities, $2s3,8Os6s.
Excess liabilities for superintendent,
$219, 619.63.
Stevens county apportionment. $685.
per cent.
Pend Oreille county apportionment.
81. O5 per cent.
Stevens county. $21s,619.63 at $685.
per cent superintendent 1851. 427.73.
Pend Oreille county, S21s,61s.63 at
31.05 per cent apportiOnment, $68.l91.90.
In re the reimbursement to Stevens
county for the collection of delinquent
taxes now on the rolls of Stevens coun-
ty, we submit that section of the act
under which the county of Pend Oreille
was created is capable of more than
one construction, any one of which
seems tenable under the reading. and
in view of such ambiguity the exact
meaning of the law is obscure. The
further contention is made that when
the law passed it was intended to carry
an emergency clause, which would nave
put it into immediate effect. Had this
been done, all personal taxes would
have gone to the credit of Stevens coun-
ty, and Pend Oreille county would have
had no interest in the distribution or
ownership of the said personal tax.
Owing to the fact that the settlement
was made as of June 10th, the date I'M
der which the law went into effect, the
funds were distributed along with other
funds and Pend Oreille has received her
proportion of the personal tax, as I'M
der the law there is practically no de-
linquent personal tax on the rolls after
May 31st of any year, or II there be,
the difficulty and expense OF COLLECTION
practically dissipates the tax as rae
tor in making up the assets or the
county. We agree that 1t was the In
tention of the residents of both counties
as now establish ed that the law should
carry an emergency clause which Woulo
have put it into immediate effect, and
in that event Stevens county would
have been legally entitled to withhold
from the general distribution the
amount collected on account of person.
al taxes. This has not been done, ana
Pend Oreille county has benefited In the
the amount so collected. Common sense,
based upon fairness and equity, rather
than an ambiguous law, which may
mean something or nothing. according
to the interested bias or prejudice or
the reader should be taken as the rae
tor in determining what is fair. ~
With this purpose in view. we mu-
tually agree that 100000 Is fair ana
equitable allowance, and Pend Ofe1tle
county agrees to pay, and Stevens coun.
ty agrees to accept, the further sum OF
100000 as full and complete satlsfac,
ton and remuneration for collecting all
delinquent taxes due Pend Oreille coun-
ty, and the said 100000 shall be I'M
derstood to mean a payment In aool-
ton to the amount of the general ila-
bility of Pend Oreille county under the
distribution of general Indebtedness
and shall be paid in the same manner
and at the same time as other payment u
affecting this division are made.
1t is further mutually agreed that
Stevens county shall pay the full coun-
tv portion of the salary Of the Hon. u.
H. Cary, Judge of the superior court TOT
the months of August. July ana Two
thirds of the month of June, ana that
Pend Oreille county shall re-lmDurse
Stevens county for such payment IN
the amount of 100000 and that sucn
payment shall be considered In addltloh
to the amount due on the general settle
ment. and shall be paid in the same
L. 1rHan