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

the day when the State Tax Commits
sion and many other needless commits,
sions now existing in this state will
be eliminated from the Statutes of
the State of Wisconsin this is not
only my own expression. but it is the
expression of thousands Of citizens
Throughout the state.
Six towns have filed, with the
County Clerk, notices Of appeal to the
State Tax Commission, from the
equalization made by the equalization
committee Of the County Board. This
will not affect the apportionment for
1913, in any manner whatever.
The County Clerk is required by
law to apportion the tax and mail
certificate of same to the several
town, village and city clerks, within
ten days after the meeting of the
County Board, and this will be done
and mailed today.
After the appeal papers, properly
made up and certified to by the
County Clerk, are received by the
State Tax Commission, an order will
be made by this Commission setting a
time and place for the preliminary
hearing and a certified copy of this
order will be forwarded by the COM
mission to the County CLERK to file in
his Office. The county clerk must give
to each member Of the county board
at least twenty days notice Of the
time and place of this preliminary
hearing. At this time the issues, IF
ANY, are made up and a time aud
place is set for the hearing. Now
here is where, l consider, the law as
bad. 1t is not the county which Up
poses or takes issue with the appeal,
but any town, city or village in the
county which desires to employ at
torneys at its own expense may APP
pear and oppose the appeal. What
town, city or village, cares to do it 2
None of course therefore the appeal
goes by default and is a farce.
Another of your State Tax Commission
laws
One word in regard to the County
Board of Supervisors of Grant county.
which held its sessions from Nov. IL,
1913, to Nov. Is. 1913, inclusive.
We are all human, thus liable to
err,-but in my opinion any errors
which have crept into the delibera-
tions of the sessions of that board
were perfectly excusable, owing to
complex laws enacted by recent
legislatures.
l have been associated with a great
many County Boards and I have never
seen a session in which every man
edeavored more earnestly than in this
to do his utmost fearlessly and con
scientiously for the welfare of the tax
pay ers of Grant county.
Dated November 25th, 1918.
WALTER J BRENNAN.
Chairman of the County Board of
Grant County, Wis.
Chairman Brennan has also issued
the following letter to t%heseveral men,
bers of the board:
November "a. 1918.
Dear Sir: On Saturday evening /.
received a letter from our Supervisor
of Assessments which appears to be a
general letter to members of the
County Board. I that the
statements made will not be misleading
to the members, but I deem it advis.
able to briefly state the facts regard
ing the equalization made by your
board.
After adjournment it was found On
examination of the report and figures
of the equalization committee that
certain clerical errors had been made
in carrying out the determination of
valuations made. Those errors were
the following: First the equalized
values of the cities and villages as
determined by the committee had
been twice added to the total. Sec
ond, the value Of improvements on
outside real estate after being deter
mined and added to the real estate
value in the towns was a second time
carried into the total. Third, while
the bank stock had been equalized as
shown by the report, it was omitted
from the total.
Under the resolution authorizing
the clerk to correct all clerical errors
in the proceedings of this session,
these orv us clerical errors we're
corrected by him and 1 have no doubt
he will Immediately certify the taxes
as required by law.
Yours very truly
WALTER j. BRENNAN.
Chairman of the County Board
Stock Shipments.