Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-11-26

NONAOJ "
has prepared the following statement
in reply to the above claim, which
shows that the errors were of no real
Importance to the public and were
caused by adding certain columns of
figures twice into the togals, and their
rectifcation as ordered will in no way
invalidate the levy. Mr.. Brennan's
letters follow:
To the Taxpayers and Citizens of
Grant County
Owing to the circulation of a re-
port, that the Committee on Equali "a
tion of the County Board. equalized
the property within Grant county at
500, 033 456 and that $15. 000, 900
of that amount is an error, 1 wish to
correct any false impression left on
the minds of the people by such re-
port.
There was a clerical error, made by
the Committee on Equalization, or
rather, by those members of the COM
mittee, who had charge of computing
and adding the figures and it was
done in this way:
1st. The equalized values of the
cities and villages as determined by
the committee and the assessed valua-
ton we're by error added together to
make a total. This was dUne by
thuse of. the committee having the
matter in charge of the placing of
figures, because they did not under
stand a blank tabulated statement
sent out by the State Dept. or the
State Tax Com to be filed out which
takes a ''Philadelphia lawyer to
understand.
End. The value of improvements
on farm lands after being determined
and added to the real estate values.
was placed in a separate column and
was again carried into the total, con-
stituting an error which was caused
by the blank 1 have heretofore re-
ferred to. In order to explain this,
take as an example the town of Bee
town. The farm lands and improve
ments in this town were equalized by
the committee at $52. 90 per acre. AS
shown by the town clerks report to
the County Clerk there are 30, $50
acres in the town of Beetown; this
number Of 80. 256. multiplied by 80
gives the sun of 81. 573, 312 as the
total value of farm lands and i'm
provements in this town, but the
blank asked for the value of the lands
and improvements separately, and
those of the committee having the
placing of the figures in this blank
put in 1922, 2O5, as the value of the
improvements and carried the two sets
of figures into the total column, there
by, adding the improvements twice.
the same thing was done with each
of the other thirty-two towns in the
county.
3rd. The bank stock in the county
was equalized by the committee as is
shown by their report, but it was
omitted from the total.
After the county board adjourned
all of these clerical errors were dis
covered and they have been corrected
in accordance with a resolution
adopted by the Board at it's session
Saturday morning, a copy of which
resolution is as follows:
Resolved, that the County Clerk be and
is hereby authorized and instructed to cor
rect all clerical errors in the proceedings of
the Board at this session and that he have
the proceedings of this session of the Board
printed in pamphlet form and send a copy
thereof to each member of this Board and to
such County Clerks in the State for the
County he represents as desire to exchange
a copy of its County Board proceedings for
1913"
Everyone of the foregoing obvious
clerical errors have been corrected
and the report is now in good shape
and the County Clerk will, according
to the statutes of this state, mail to-
day to each town, village and city
clerk the tax apportionment, based on
the p0ua1iZad valuation Of @5e $50 !