The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-09-11
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
PROCEEDINGS
Monday. september |. 1g1g


Grady county, Oklahoma, held on tbs
first day of September, 1919, at thu
county clerks office.the same beini
a regular meeting.
| Present: J, A. Temple, chairman
Ira M. Johnson, commissioner; w. M
Pursley, Commissioners, and r. S. Cox
county clerk.
The following proceedings was had
The reports of the county officers
was presented and approved as fol
lows, to-wit:
Edna T Watkins, court clerk, for
August, 1919, amount $12O5.5O.
r. S. Cox, county clerk. for Aug
ust, 1919, amount $4,000.
Matt sankey. sheriff for August,
1919, amount $1l1O4.
The reports of justice of the peace
was presented and approved as fol-
lows:
M. e. Bunnell, of district No. 13,
amount $3.50.
7. P Moore, of district No. 1S,
amount $4,000.
The bond of C. C. Williamson, as
justice OF the peace in and for dis
trict No. as principal, and ]. w.
Bond, JAS M. Hanna as surety, was
presented and approved.
The abstractor bond Of the Washi-
ia Valley Abstract company in the
sum of $5,000OO as principal, and the
American Surety company of New
York, as surety, was approved.
The erroneous affidavit of w. j.
Mcintosh, who, being first duly sworn,
deposes and says that he is men,
Der of the firm Of Mcintosh & Shull,
and that we are the owners of a GER
tain barber shop located in Chickasha
Oklahoma, that in the rendition of
the taxes of said firm for the year.
1918 the assessor enormously enter
ed upon the tax rolls against said
partnership the sum of $4,000 for a
certain note and that the taxes upon
said note for 1918 have been paid;
that said firm did not own a note for
the sum OF $4,000 or any other sum-
but were the makers of and owed
certain note for the said sum of
$4,000 at the time the taxes for
1918 were rendered and that through
an error the said note OF $4,000 was
assessed for taxes against said firm
Of Mcintosh & Shull, that by reason
thereof said firm has been assessed
with said sum OF $4,000 and paid
the taxes thereon and is entitled to
a refund of the sum of taxes so paid
on said $4,000 in the sum of $14.6O
as the law provides, and on the rec
ommendation Of the county attorney
on motion regularly made and second
ed the refund was allowed for the
amount of $14,60.
The affidavit of erroneous assess
ment Of Joe Hegner, who being
first duly sworn, deposes and says:
that he is the owner in fee simple
of the following described real es-
tate in Grady county Oklahoma, to-
wit: SW 9.91 acres of lot 2 and lots
3 and 4 and WIZ of Sc IA of NV
Ia and WIZ of E 10 Of SW Ia of
section 81 in township 8 north of
range west Of the Indian meridian,
that said land was formerly unallott-
ed land and was sold to Richard -
Huntington, and A. ]. Smelser, and
was subsequently purchased by this
affiant; that patents thereto were
issued October 3Oth, 1917 and Nov
ember goth, 1917, that said lands
were assessed for taxes for the taxes
for the years 1916 and 1917, and that
Geo. L. Rose, acting as the agent of
this affiant and without the knowl- |
edge of this affiant, and not knowing
that said lands were taxable paid
ouOll LolACo W lAlG 0Ounly llCdoultl
of Grady County, Oklahoma, amount
ing in 1916 to $61.9S and in 1917 to
$54.94 that such payments should not
have been made and such taxes were
void, and ask that he be refunded |
the amount of $12S.61 as the law
provides, The taxes having been paid
more than one year prior to the fill
ing of this petition, and the Board of
County Commissioners has no power
to refund, on motion regularly made
and seconded that the affidavit be
denied.
Resignation of D. M. caveness
To the Honorable board of county
commissioners:
l hereby tender you my resignation |
as county attorney Of Grady County,
Oklahoma, effective on September
1st, 1919, and ask that ftafass rresitgynna.
ton be- acceptea and The 07wa,a vacancy
filled promptly III 5fder that the
business of the office may be proper