New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-01-14
Nothing But Ordinary Rou.
tine at Semi Annual
.s..s
~ Meeting.
Time Of Commissioners Spent
On Bills and Yearly
Reports

IHOSt "a t1S "dtteiS COOSlNSTSU 81
tn Q semi-annual session OF the Board'
of County Commissioners held at the
Court House January 9th were routine
business. All of the members of the
Board we're present. Immediately
upon semoling, they organized b.
re-electing Herman Polkow, Chairman
and William Steinke, Vice Chairman.
The first business to be transacted
was the examination OF the books and
funds Of the County Treasurer as re-
CURED by law. In their report which
was fled and recorded In full, the
Board says that there is on depesitin
the various banks OF the County, the
sum OF $50, 5U7. 66 and that this agrees
with the several accounts as they ap-
pear on the Treasurer's books.
The report of Arnold Gulden, Over
seer of the Poor Farm for the year end
ing Dec. 3lst was read and ordered
fled and the report of the Board of
Audit was read and ordered recorded.
From the report Of said Board Of
Audit it appears that all of the banks
sub mitted offers to pay ~ On daily
balances on all county funds and ~
On time deposits with the exception Of
the State Bank Of Golden which Of
Tered only 10 on time deposits. The
bonds presented by the various BANKS
were approved and the several banks
Of the County we're designated as
County repositories TO the extent Ut
tone-half ofshhe anoans nfthe bahd
filed by them and no more.
,Cn;y one bid Was received for the
county printing and shat was submit
ted by Philip Liesch, owner OF the
Brown County Journal. and by u
motion unanimously carried, the
Brown County Journal was designa-
ted the Official paper of Brown
County 10 publish the Delinquent tax
list, financial statement and all other
matters that by law must be published
His bond was fixed at 81, &C., 90, WHICH
he furnished and which received the
approval of the Board.
The Board Of Audit reported that
they had spent four days in checking
the Treasurer's receipts with the tax
books Tor the purpose Of ascertaining
the amount Of funds that should be in
the Treasury. Their report shows
that a total of S212, 1928 had been col
lected, that Sl0O.l7 of taxes had been
abateu and that on November LIST there
remain cd .uncoilected 1852 go, most OF
which was for prior years. From
their report it further appears that Oh
June l, 1913 there was a balance on
hand in the Treasury of 1854, $50 50
to which were added re-
ceipts from the following
sources:
From Tax Collections. =. 8 80, 1876. 81
From Mortgage Registry
Lax 4S3. ~
From Collections on Pub
lac Ldnds. 64O.S
From Collections on Pri-
vate Redemptions. -. 1883
From Interest on County
uAoo 1924
From Collection of Fines
aud Licenses .-. 1889. Sc
From Collection of Ditch
Assessments. .-~. 4,524 SO
From School ApporIion-
nent and State AID liz A21 Ia
From Inheritance Tax. l5,77O.16
From Refund, Support and
Sales. ....... 22o.25
From Sale of Products
Poor Farm). .... $1,000
Total Bal. & Rcpts. -. 1864, 435.2l
OF this amount all was disbursed by
October 3lst except the sum of S1O4,-
$685. All of this was deposited in
the Banks with the exception of 49,.
174 %. OF the amount deposited $40
OOO,O 90 was deposited ON time cer,i6-
Gates and is drawing 4% interest per
annum.
In the afternoon session the Board
selected the names of II persons to
serve as grand jurors during the year
1914 and similar number to act as
petit jurors and the names were fled
with the Clerk Of Court.
Philip Liesch appeared before the
Board and asked for an allowance Of
5000 for publishing the personal
property tax list and the list OF moneys
and credits in the Brown County Jour-