Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-05-25

F. w. Stepan.
Chairman County Board and
Board of Audit.
Andrew P. Edin
: County Auditor.
William Mista,
/ Clerk District Court and
} Clerk of Board of Audit.
The County Auditor reported that PHI.
$12,912.OO as aid for State Aid Roads ana
the sum Of $50, 10000 Gas Tax. Of which
$4,000 is for cutting down the so-called
Shuey Hill on State Road No. Is and
penses incurred in building bridges in
Keene Township.
DR.. Cotton. Secretary of the State Live
Stock Sanitary Board, appeared before
the matter Of testing cattle for tuber-
culosis in Pine County. After consider
able discussion. Commissioner Ethel Of
fered the following resolution and moved
its adoption
WHEREAS. a petition signed by a ma
1ority OF the persons owning cattle in
the County Of Pine. as shown by the
1928 assessment roll in the auditors Of
to this Board. also a second petition oil
more than one hundred resident cattle
owners pursuant to Chapter $50. Laws OF
of money equal to 25c per head of cattle
in the county as shown by the 1880 as
payment Of indemnity for tuberculous
vided by law. for assistance from the
Minnesota State Live Stock Sanitary
Board and the Federal Bureau of Animal
Industry for the purpose of eradicating
said Pine County from tuberculous cat
tie. as provided by Chapter 269, Laws
1923 as amended. and also requesting that
this Board agree to appropriate like
expense of conducting each additional
tuberculin test that may be necessary,
which will be administered until the per-
centage Of tuberculosis in cattle within
requirements Of Modified Accredited
Tuberculosis-Free Area. and
WHEREAS, Litigation arose in con-
nection with the said petitions and the
whereas said litigation is still pending in
the District Court in and for said Pine
County and it is the desire of the par
ties concerned to make an amicable and
just compromise OF such litigation, and
to avoid any undue delay in having the
necessary tests made and in order that
said County of Pine be made a Modified
earliest possible date;
AND WHEREAS. The Live Stock SAM
tary Board has adopted a resolution
reading as follows:
1T was regularly moved. seconded and
carried that If Pine County would con-
tribute two thousand dollars ($2OOOOO)
In cash and furnish the assistants for the
AuOcICuiIH eSlS anu TeteSIS, contingent
upon the rider this Board has requested
the Legislature to insert in making pro-
vision for the appropriations Of this
Board and which would release the bal
ance in our Indemnity Funds to be used
to assist the counties In making the tests
prior to the accreditation. the Minnesota
Livestock Sanitary Board will make the
necessary Tuberculin tests and pay the
additional expense of such tests until the
County Is officially designated as a Modi-
fled Accredited tuberculosis Free Area
AND WHEREAS. The said State Live
Stock Sanitary Board does now offer to
enter into an agreement with said County
or Pine to carry out the terms of said
last mentioned resolution:
NOW. THEREFORE,. BE 1T HEREBY
RESOLVED, That this Board appropriate
the sum of Two Thousand Dollars
($2.OOOOO) to create a special fund to be
known as the Pine County Cattle Tuber-
culosis Fund. for tuberculin tests and for
carrying out quarantine rules and regu-
lations as provided by Chapter 269, Laws
1923 as amended, and that the Chairman
of this Board and the County Auditor of
said County are hereby expressly author
lied and instructed to execute an agree
ment with the Minnesota State Live Stock
Sanitary Board pursuant to this resolu-
ton and the laws herein mentioned.