Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-06-28
Commissioners
Proceedings

1928. the Board Of County Commits
sioners met in regular Session, all
Members of the Board and the Clerk
present.
Several Parties from different parts
of the County appeared before the
Board with Petitions for new Roads
and graded Roads in their respective
Districts. The Board discussed the
different projects and promised TO do
as much Road work as could be done
this year.
AS a request had been received ask
ing that the Polling Place in Dagmar
Precinct No. % be changed from the
Old Store Building to Upstairs in the
new Store Building, on motion, the
change was ordered made, and the
Clerk instructed to have notices post
ed.
The Polling Place in Precinct No.
Is was also ordered changed from
the Herald Building to the Sample
Room at Grand View Hotel at Plenty
wood.
AT 500 o'clock P. NJ. the Board adj
journed unit 900 o'clock A. M. June
9th, 1923.
At 900 o'clock A. NJ, June 9Th,
1923. the Board resumed pursuant to
adjournment made, all Members Of
the Board and the Clerk present.
Re-Classification of Lands
The County Assessor appeared be-
fore the Board with a list of those
who had applied for re-classifcation
of their lands, and the Assessor was
instructed to examine the lands and
make his recommendations to the
Board.
Re: County Fair
At this time a County Fair Com
mittee appeared before the Board and
asked the Board to make a donation
towards having a County Fair this
Fall, and after discussing the propo-
sition, the Board agreed to donate
100000.
Leave of Absence Granted
On motion, the County Coroner was
granted a Leave of Absence for a
period of 80 days, beginning June 9Th,
1923.
On motion, the County Treasurer
was granted a Leave of Absence for
a period of 80 days, beginning June
10th, 1923.
On motion, the taxes assessed
against Christian N. Moller for the
year 1918 on Lots CT and NWA, So
2S-57, were ordered cancelled as this
land was w owned by C. N. Mol
Ter.
On motion, the taxes assessed
against James f. Sandy for the year
1916 on SEASEA, 1851, were or
dered cancelled as j. E. Sandy never
owned this land.
BE 1T RESOLVED, by the Board
of County Commissioners of Sheridan
County, Montana, that whereas, it APP
pears from the records of Sheridan
County, Montana, that real estate
taxes, in the Name Of Virginia Aiken,
have been levied against the North
west quarter of Section Eleven (11),
in Township Thirty (30), North of
Range Fifty-eight (5S), East of the
Montana Meridian, Montana, now sit
uated in Roosevelt County, Montana,
for the year 1917, in the sum of Twen-
ty7two and $4,000 ($22.56); and
whereas, the said taxes appear as a
lien upon and against the above de-
scrlbed real estate, and therefore is
a cloud upon the title thereof; and,
whereas, it appears that Virginia
Aiken was never the Owner of said
land, and that United States Patent
to said land only issued on the Bird
day of January A. D., 1918, and that
the said real estate was not subject
to taxation until the year 1918, and
that all taxes levied upon said real
estate prior to the year of 1918, is
void and should be cancelled; 1T is
HEREBY ORDERED, that the said
taxes mentioned above, in the sum of
twenty-five and $1,000 ($22.56) as
sessed against the above described
real estate for the year of 1917, by
Sheridan County, Montana, be, and
the same is hereby cancelled and dis
charged, in so far as the same affects
the real estate described above, and
that the County Treasurer of Sheri-
dan County, Montana, be, and is here
by authorized and directed to cancel
the said taxes upon his records.
BE 1T RESOLVED, by the Board
of County Commissioners of Sheridan
0sAN At&hat
County, Montana, that whereas it ap-
pears from the records of Sheridan
County, Montana, that real estate
taxes, in the name of Peter Thorpe,
have been levied against the North
east quarter of Section twelve (12),
in Township Thirty (30), North Of
Range Fifty-seven (57), East of the
Montana Meridian, Montana, now sit
uated in Roosevelt County, Montana,
as follows, to-wit: Taxes for the wear
of 1915, in the sun of Nineteen and
27-1O0 ($19.27) Dollars; for the wear
of 1916, in the sum of Nineteen and
27-1O0) Dollars; for the year 1917, in
the sum of Twenty-one and 54-1OO
($21.54) Dollars; and for the wear
1918, in the sum of T~wenty-three and
68-1O0 (S23.68) Dollars; and
WHEREAS, the said taxes appear
as a lien upon and against the above
described real estate, and therefore
is a cloud upon the title thereof. and
WHEREAS, it appears that Peter
Thorpe was never the owner of said
Real Estate and that the same was
an Indian Allotment held by one Eliz-
abeth Poitras, a Turtle Mountain
Chippewa Indian, and that the Patent
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