Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-04-21
REFUSE TO
MAKE REFUND
Boundary County Cleared Over 81, 900
On the Job OF TRANSFERRING
County Records
BOUNDARY NEEDS THE MONEY
Commissioners May Ask the Courts To
Decide the Question

In accordance with the bill pro-
viding for the division of Bonner
county and creating Boundary
county, Boundary county paid Bon
ner county at the rate of 8 cents per
folio for the transcribing of the
county records and the total
amounted to over $4,000 more than
the work cost Bonner county. Ac-
cordingly the commissioners of
Boundary county recently requested
Bonner county to return the surplus,
the reque st being made as II TVS;
ain as much as there is a balance
over and above the cost of tran
scribing the records for Boundary
county;
"And in as much as it was not the
intent of the bill providing for the
creation of Boundary county and
the transcribing of the records for
the said county that Bonner county
should make a profit out of the work
of transcribing said records;
"And in as much as it is not per-
missable that one county enter into
a contract or agreement with an
other county whereby the one may
receive money from the other with
out having rendered service suf-
ficient to justify;
"And in as much as it is not right
that the taxpayers of Bonner county
should receive the benefit of a sum
of money, paid from the funds of
Boundary county unless the taxpay-
ers of Boundary county shall have
gotten value received therefrom;
"And in as much as Bonner county
did file a claim against Boundary
county for transcribing records which
was in excess of what it actually
cost Bonner county to do the work,
which claim was allowed by Boun-
Diary county in good faith, and under
the impression that the last named
county was getting value received;
"And in as much as Bonner coun-
ty did receive from Boundary county
the sum of $2,111.44, more or less,
according to the records of the COM
missioners' proceedings under date
of October 18th, 1915, over and
above the cost of transcribing rec
ords for Boundary county;
1--WE, therefore, the authorized
and acting officials of the said coun-
ty, ask you in all fairness to the
county of Boundary, which we rep
resent in the claim herewith en-
closed, to grant the allowance of the
above mentioned amount.
Yours respectfully,
Board of County Commissioners,
Boundary County, Idaho"
The action taken thus far by Bon
ner county is related in the follow
ing extract from the Standpoint Pend
d'Oreille Review:
GAS an after event in connection
with the cost of transcribing the
county records for the new county,
a communication was presented to
the Bonner county commissioners
from Boundary county demanding
in the name of justice and right
that the sum of S2,111.44, which this
county had 'pocketed' as profit off
the job, and which had been col
lected from Boundary county over
and above the actual cost of the
work, be returned to that county.
The Bonner county commissioners
promptly turned down the claim.
This case Of the charge for tran
scribirg is a peculiar one. Accord
ing to the act of the legislature in
creating the new county, it was or
dered that the county auditor of
Bonner county do the transcribing
and the pay for the same should be
cents per folio. Naturally at first
thought it was believed that the
auditor personally should receive
his compensation, regardless of what
the work might have cost him; but
later the Mcbride majority found
that Auditor McCrea was entitled
to receive only a fair compensation
over and above the expense he hac
actually been to in the work. This
according to Mcbride, amounted t.
sum S2,111.44 less than the jol
would amount to at s cents per TO
lilo. McCrea was therefore deprived
of the velvet off the job. Neverthe
less a bill for the full cents pc
folio was presented to Boundar.
county for the work, and since tn
law prescribed that that was wha
should be paid, that county issued