Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-01-20

by law. we recommend tnat TIM
matter be watched closely in the future
and the law strictly adhered TO.
We recommend that in the matter O
: deputy hire between the County
Clerks office and the Poyer System
be left to the discretion OF the County
Commissioners.
We recommend that all original bills
must be attached TO the vouchers and
filed in the office of the County Aud
itor.
We recommend that the party ir
charge of the Mineral County Power
System be placed under five thousand
dollar bond
! We recommend in the matter OF
fixed deposits for guarantee of power
bills that this be left to the discretion
of the County commissioners. provid-
ed however that any regulations made
shall be uniform in the case If all
consumers.
We wish to commend Mr.. Bean very
highly upon his management of the
Mineral County Power System, and
recommend that the County Conlmis-
sioners retain him at his present sal
ary.
In the matter of County roads, we
recommend that the County Commits
sioners shall adopt a system where
under all roads shall be identified
either by name or number and that
thereafter all bills for labor, material
or services affecting such roads shall
be designated by the proper name or
number and that same record shall
be kept so that thereafter any person
may be able ascertain any time the
total amount which has been expended
upon each and every road for given
year.
| Commissioners be requested to practice
every economy in the matter OF hiring
private automobiles, used i'll trans
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work.
We recommend that the County
Commissioners promptly serve notice
upon the Simon Silver Lead Mines
Company, to take steps, before re-
suming mill operatfona that their
tailings and water will not flow into
any section Of any county road.
We recommend that the use Of
county trucks or csrerpillars by any
individual or company, for their own
use is improper and should cease.
We recommend that joint agree
ments between county commissioners
as a body, and individuals or COM
panies for the construction of roads or
other construction enterprises should
be guarded with every care, that i'll
every such case the agreement should
he entered into at open sessions and
that the individual or company con-
cerned should not be represented by
any county official, and that the
agreement be entered upon the mill
utes i'll detail and made a matter OF
public record; that the practice of ali
Individual Commissioner, acting for
the county, and also for such individual
or company at the same time is ques-
tionable and may be properly criticised
We recommend that in all such joint
enterprises hereafter en- gagged upon.
a written estimate of its costs be first
presented and an estimate Of the
length of time necessary for such con-
atruct;on, and that there upon the
Commissioners first demand and re-
quirc that such individual or company
shall pay into the County Treasury
either his share of such cost or pay
such amount monthly in advance as
will be necessary to cover his share for
each month.
We find that the Practice OF hiring
teams. for county use, which belong
to a partner OF any County Commits
sioncr is one open to misunderstanding
and misconstruction, and we recon-
mend that il be discouraged: further,
that the same reasoning and recon-
mendation applies to the hiring OF men
obligated to a Commissioner by loans
or credits given.
We find that loose and question
able method OF rendering bills Tor
| tsam ard man hire upon county roads
has been hahtually followed among
the commissioners. We recommend in
al cases the actual owner of the team
or the man who actually performs the
services should attend to the making
Of his own bill, and the Commissioners
hould abandon, i'll every case possible.
the custom OF preparing bills for Others