The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-01-06
COMMISSIONER PROCEEDINGS
Road Matters in North End of
County and Other Matters
Receive Attention

Board of County Commissioners was
held Tuesday. Jan. 2. Present. Com
missioners J. B. Bale. A. Fraser and
Otis Fulton : also the District Attorney
and Clerk. The following business was
transacted
The Commissioners and the Auditor
counted the money in the Treasury and
found the same to agree with the County
Treasurer's statement.
A lis: OF the bills allowed will be found
in another column.
The several county officers reports
were read, examined and ordered placed
on file.
The joint report of the Auditor and
Treasurer showing the condition Of the
finances of Eureka County for the
quarter ending December 81, 1911, ap-
pears on the irst page Of to-day's SEN
TINEL.
On motion it was ordered that the
Auditor draw his warrant in favor of
7. j. McParlin for the sum of $128 so.
the same having been laid over at the
last monthly meeting of the Board. it
being for board and lodging between
August 10 and September IA at Reno
and Carson while attending on the Su-
preme Court in the habeas corpus cases
of o ]. Smith ct al. Commissioners
Bale and Fulton voted aye. and Com
missioner Fraser not voting.
In the matter of the witness fees Of
Judge Breen and Commissioner Fraser,
and of the hotel bill of the District AT.
torney in the habeas corpus cases of o.
J. Smith ct al, an opinion from the
Attorney General Of the State was re-
ceived and ordered placed O. file. where
in the Attorney General stated that the
above bills were a legal charge against
the county. The District Attorney
stated that he fully CONQUERED in the
opinion of the Attorney General.
1t was ordered that 1. II. Rogers be
appointed and employed to examine
~ hOPOAs aPOh II OOOhb 1uu dCCOuut-
ing of the various county and township
officers of this county from July |. 1911.
to January 1, 1912, the compensation
not to exceed $l25.
Ii was ordered that the Auditor draw
his warrant in favor of Joseph Flynn
for the sum of $1790, $3.50 Of the same
being paid on the principal, and $240
interest at the rate of eight per cent per
annum on $1,000, borrowed from Joseph
Flynn for emergency road purposes at
Buckhorn and Palisade. one year ago,
to be charged to the Emergency Road
Fund.
The Board received the following COM
muuication from Palisade:
We, the undersigned, asked to inspect
the road through Williams canyon, as
per contract let to Joseph Flynn. beg to
say tina we have made a careful inspeo.
ton of the same aud find the road to be
completed according to our understand
ing Of the specifications in a good and
workmanlike manner, and would rec.
olnmend that the same be accepted by
the county as a good aud sufficient road.
M. E. THOMAS,
H. +. EBERT.
Conference.-The above was done at
my request ON the authority you gave
me. From other sources I learn that
Flynn has done . good job, and trust
that my action in appointing the two
representatives is satisfactory to the
Board.
Pardon the intrusion, but I wish zach
Of You gentlemen q very Happy and
Prosperous New Year. Very truly yours,
A. R. RANDOLPH.
On motion. duly seconded. the FORE
going report was unanimously adopted,
and it was ordered that the road be ac-
cepted and declared open for public
travel.
DIR. W. f. Burnett appeared before
the Board and verbally rendered his
resignation as local Health Officer of
Eureka County, to take effect on the
first Monday in February. 1919. The
Board accepted the resignation and ap-
pointed DIR. G. M. Roberts to the posi-
ton at a salary Of s25 per month. said
appointment to be from month to month
at the pleasure of the Board.
The Board adjourned to January 10,
when it will meet for the purpose OF SO.
lectlng a list of trial jurors for the year
1912. and to transact any other business
that may come before it.