The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-05-05

Collections. :. :. :. :. -. .$2417.9l
Disbursements. :. - ...... 764.95
Balance. :. :. :. -. ..s1652.96
Building Fund
Collections. :. :. ;. :. :. .$3174.9S
Disbursements. :. :. :. :. 311O.4S
Balance. :. :. :. .......S 64.55
County Proper
Collections. 49,. :. .$2659.19
Disbursements :. :. :. $50. 2594.95
Balance. 49,. -. -. IS 64.S4
Total balances. . -. :. .$2006.45
Read and filed.
Commissioner Carmichael made re-
port on claims of Johnson and Bal
loon for damages, account of moving
dirt for fill ON Ocala and Gambler
road
On motion of Commissioner Proc
tor it was ordered that claim be re-
fused.
Tax Collector Colbert filed report
showing $166S.S4 due the city of
Ocala account half of the road tax
collected within the corporate limits
of Ocala for the year 1909. On mo-
ton of Commissioner Proctor it was
ordered that warrant be drawn in
favor of the city of Ocala for that
amount.
Mr.. J. r. Moorhead appeared rela-
tive to error in assessment of c. E.
Baker on lands at East Lake On mo-
ton of Commissioner Proctor it was
ordered that the tax collector be au-
.thorized to receive the taxes on a
valuation of 5000 against $500, and
report the balance as error in assess
ment
On motion it was ordered that the
chairman be authorized to execute
quite claim deed to J. Frank Math-
ews.
Mr.. J. r. Moorhead, civil engineer,
appeared and filed report as follows,
which was ordered received and filed:
Ocala, Fla, April Is, 1911.
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners, Ocala, Fla:
Gentlemen-In response to your re-
quest of recent date that | proceed
to make a survey in verificataion of
the line dividing sections 20 and Fl,
of the Arredonda survey in township
IL, south, range 81, east, l beg to re-
port as follows:
After procuring copy of the field
notes of the sections in question,
from parties in Gainesville, and which
notes were acceptable to all parties
interested, 1 projected my survey
from the northeast corner of fraction
al section 20, u. S. survey verifying
same by the field notes of the original
survey, and which point is two miles,
or $50 chains, east of the range line,
while the corner to sections 20 and 81
in the Arredonda grant are reported
as being located at a point $3.50
chains east of the range line, approx
imately 1.50 chains east of the point
from which | commenced my survey
Running west from said point of
beginning, and at 1874 chains l iden-
titled the witness trees to the corner
of sections 20 and 81, in the Arredon-
da grant, and which witness trees
agree to the calls as given in the
field notes, as closely as we usually
find them.
Continuing west in further proof of
this point, | closed the measurement
to the west on the range line with a
continuous distance of 1909 chains.
and on we'll established corner.
| returned to the starting point,
that is. the corner to fractional sec
lions 20 and p, according to the Z.
s. survey, and ran east to the mar
gin of Orange Lake, a distance of
5S.27 chains, and at which point r
found lone cypress tree, agreeing
closely with the one in the field notes,
and which l accepted as being the
one and only witness with which this
post at margin of lake is located.
Having identified the southwest
corner of section 20 in the grant as
being 1874 chains west of my starting
point, and adding to this my measure
ment of 5S27 chains from starting
point to the lake, have a total of
1901 chains as against 1860 as Civ
en- in the field notes of the Arredonda
survey for the south lines of sections
length $500 chains. and section 81
being recorded as so chains, thus
showing an excess of 81 links to be
proportional between sections 81
and %, as so is to $3.50, and which
proportion makes the south line of
sec q, $3.50 chains, and the south
line of scotch %, is 56.S1 chains, pro-
portion measurement.
BY applying this proportionate
claiming to the line as previously To-
Gated, find the point to be two links
to the west of said corner.
BY ignoring the witness trees at
the southwest corner of section 20,
but which l accept as positive proof,
and adopting a proportional measure
ment for the entire length of sections
10 20 and 81. the measurements as
then proportional would make the
point three links to the east of said
corner.
Either one of these methods are
sufficient to prove the correctness of
the present position of the corner to
sections 20 and 81. and the slight diff
ference of two or three links in meas
urements are admissible, and it is not
the custom to move an established
corner. when measurements check so