The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-10
COMMISSIONERS
PROCEEDINGS

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16, 1929 the board of county COM
met in special session,
Iverson and the Clerk |
present.
AS this meeting was called for
the purpose of considering increas-
es of budgets as stated in resolu-
tons adopted at meeting held De-
cember A, 1929, and which resolu-
ton had been properly advertised
as provided by law, the following
resolution was introduced and a
dopted.
RESOLUTION
Whereas, on the 4th day Of De-
cember 1929, in regular session,
the board of county commission
ers of Sheridan county, Montana,
declared that a public emergency
existed by reason that no suffi-
cient appropriation or levy was
made in August 1929 to pay for all
the work contracted to be perform
ed by Fred Ibsen in April 1929, in
preparing registers showing land
acquired by tax deed, tax sale GER
tificates and redemption certifi-
Gates, and that it will in all proba-
bility require approximately two
thousand dollars to complete said
work in accordance with said con-
contract; and,
Whereas, it was resolved in said
resolution that notice be publish
ed by the clerk of Sheridan coun-
ty, Montana in the official news
paper of Sheridan County, Mon
tana, as required by Sec.~ vi of
Chapter 148 of 1929 session laws
of the state of Montana, giving
notice that public hearing will be
held at the commissioners room in
the county court house at Plenty
wood in Sheridan county, Montana,
on the 18th day of December 1929,
at which time and place any tax
payer may appear and be heard
for or against the expenditure of
money for such alleged emergency,
and,
Whereas, said notice was pub
lished in The Medicine Lake Wave,
the official newspaper of Sheri-
dan county, Montana, as provided
by law, and said hearing was held
on the 10th day of December 1929,
as provided in said resolution, and
no taxpayer or other person ap-
pearing at said hearing in any
manner, either for or against the
expenditure of money for such al
legged emergency, and no complaint
or contest being made or filed a
gainst the expenditure of money
for such alleged emergency;
1t Is Hereby Ordered, by the
board of county commissioners of
Sheridan county, Montana, that an
emergency exists, by reason that in
April 1929, a contract was entered
into between Sheridan county,
Montana and Fred Ibsen wherein
and whereby the said Fred Ibsen
was to do and perform all things
necessary in order to comply with
the state examiners instructions
relative to the preparation of reg
listers showing land acquired by tax
deed and tax sale certificates, and
that the said Fred Ibsen has been
engaged in preparing the same, ac-
cording to his contract, and that it
could not reasonably have been
foreseen that the performing of
such work would require the pay
ing out of so much public money,
and that the fund from which said
contract is to be paid has been ex-
hausted and that it will in all re-
quire approximately two thousand
dollars to complete said work in
accordance with said contract; it is
hereby ordered that the expendi-
ture of two thousand dollars to
complete said contract be authoriz-
ed for that particular purpose.
Dated this 18th day of Deem
Der, A. d. 1929.
FRANK FRENCH,
Chairman of the board of
County Commissioners.
Attest: Niels Madsen,
Clerk of said board.
Edward Iverson,
Commissioner.
At o'clock p. m. the board ad-
journed until December II, 1929
at 9 o'clock a. m.
At 9 o'clock a. m. Dec. II, 1929
the board resumed pursuant to re-
cess taken, French, Iverson and
the clerk present.
The following resolution was in
PRODUCED and adopted:
RESOLUTION
Whereas, the District Court of
Sheridan count Montana, has Just
been in session and said term con-
tinued longer than expected and
the expense of holding court for
said term was greater than antici-
pated, and the District Court funds
as provided in the county budget.
has been exhausted, and more mon
ey is necessarily required to nav
off the bailiffs, jurors, witnesses
IN criminal cases and other expens-
es, which must be paid as requir-
ed by law, and there is no way to
dodge such expenses or anticipate
the amount required; and,
Whereas, an emergency exists
and it is necessary to have more
funds to meet mandatory expenses
which are required by law;