Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07

action of the county board shall be
necessary to authorize the extension,
assessment and collection of such
tax. The county auditor shall keep
a register in which shall be entered
record of the aggregate amount
of such bonds authorized, the ag-
gregate amount issued, the purpose
for which issued, the number, de-
nomination, date and maturity OF
each, the rate of interest, and
time of payment thereof, and place
of payment of principal and inter.
est, and the amount of taxes levied
for the payment thereof in each
year, and shall extend and assess the
tax so levied. Any surplus result
! ing from the excess levy herein pro-
vided for may be transferred to the
revenue and or poor fund after the
principal and interest for which said
tax was levied and collected has been
paid. Nothing herein contained shall
be construed as limiting the power
| of the county to levy taxes to pay
the bonds issued hereunder, but the
county board shall have the power.
and it shall be it's duty, to levy any
taxes necessary to provide revenue
to pay the full principal and inter-
est of such bonds.
| Sec. a. So long as any bonds
! issued pursuant hereto remain out
standing, unless a sum equal to the
full principal and interest to matur-
ity thereon be held in the sinking
| fund for the retirement thereof, the
maximum amount of obligations in
CURED and expenditures made in any
year shall not exceed $4,000 for
revenue fund purposes nor $4,000 for
poor fund purposes, and the county
board is authorized to levy during
such period only such amount of
taxes for such purposes as will pro-
duce such sum. In the event that
taxes levied for such purposes shall
exceed such sum for said respective
funds. the excess shall be carried
over and go to reduce the taxes for
the next ensuing year for such pur-
poses.
Sec. 5. The county board shall an
nually. at its meeting in July, 1881.
and at its meetings in January in
each succeeding year, determine the
amount of funds which will be avail
able during the current year for
revenue fund and poor fund purposes
from the proceeds of the tax levy
made therefor in the preceding year
and from other sources. if any,
known to be due and payable into
the county treasury for such pur-
poses during such year, and shall
thereupon at such meeting make and
spread upon it's minutes a definite
budget of the expenditures made and
to be made and indebtedness incurred
and to be incurred for the purpose
of such respective funds during such
year, which expenditures and indebt-
edness shall in no case exceed the
aggregate amount of revenues so de-
termined to be available for such
year. Such budget shall allot the
sum authorized for each institution.
department, division or purpose
charges bic TO such fund. AS nearly
as may be a specific program of ac-
tivities shall be determined upon and
no change shall thereaft be made
which shall cause to be diverted to
any other purpose any item so de-
termlned upon. except by unanimous
vote of the county board at a regu-
lar meeting after at least three weeks
published notice of a hearing there
on; provided, however, that at least
10 per cent of the total sum au-
thorized for each such fund shall be
allotted to AMI carried as a reserve
for emergencies, and such reserve
for emergencies may be expended by
the county board by unanimous ac-
ton without such hearing for any
purpose specified in said budget
when the sum previously allotted to
such purpose has been expended.
Sec. 6. The county auditor shall
keep record showing accurately the
amount allotted to each item of the
budget for each year and the
amount incurred and expended from
time to time on account of each of
such items, which records shall be
presented and examined at each meet
ing of the county board and show
the true condition of affairs at the
date OF such meeting. No indebted
ness shall be incurred by the county
for revenue fund or poor fund pur-
poses except pursuant to action of the
board while in meeting assembled
specifying the purposes and amounts
thereof.
Sec. Z. All claims against any such
county for services performed or ma
terial furnished chargeable to either
said revenue fund or said poor fund
must be filed with the county audi
tor of such county within sixty days
after the same were incurred. and
if not so filed the county shall not
be liable therefor. 1t shall be the
duty of the county auditor. after any
claim has been filed with him for
any such purposes, to present such
claim to the county board at it's next
meeting for it's audit and allowance,
and it shall be the duty of the coun-
ty board at such meeting to act up
on such claims.
Sec. s. Any member of the county
board or other county officer or en-
ploye knowingly participating in or
authorizing any violation of this act
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor pun
ishable by fine not exceeding 500
or Imprisonment in the county Jail
not exceeding three months for each
.offense; and every contract attempt
ed to be entered into or indebtedness
or pecuniary liability attempted to be
incurred in violation of the provisions
OF this act shall be null and void in
regard to any obligation thereby
sought to be imposed upon the coun-
ty, and no claim therefor shall be
allowed by the county board, nor
shall the county auditor issue nor
the county treasurer pay any war
rant issued on account thereof. Each
member of the county board or other
county officer or employee so par
ticipating in or authorizing any vio-
latlon of this act shall be individually
liable to the county or to any other
person for any damages caused there
by; and for the purpose of enforcing
such liability, without impairing any
other remedy, one-f fourth of the sal
airy of each such officer and employee
shall be withheld from him and ap-
piled toward reimbursing the county
or any such other person for such
damages until all claims by reason
thereof nave been fully paid. Each
member of the county board present
at meeting of the board when any
action is taken with reference to pay