AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTY J I i I GRAB CONTRACTS OF SQUIRES AND EMERY CONSIDERED The School Tax Refund Bids For Furnishing Drugs and Prescriptions Prescrip-tions Rejected and New Bills Called ForRoutine Business The grab contracts executed by the old board to Colonel George B Squires and C F Emery came in for a brief consideration at yesterdays meeting of the board of county commissioners com-missioners Attorney Frederick Garfield Gar-field Waite appeared in behalf of these two gentlemen and gave notice that they were ready to proceed with V the work and fulfill their part of the agreement Mr Waite said he understood under-stood County Attorney Van Cott had declared both contracts valid and I there was therefore no legal reason why they should not be permitted to proceed at once with the copying of I the records as the contracts call for ARMSTRONGS VIEW I was very evident that Attorney I Waites notice was not wholly welcome Mr Armstrong speaking for himself said he was not so sure he would take an attorneys opinion in every question ques-tion coming up He intimated also that until the question of last years debt limit had been settled the board would take no action relative to the contracts But interposed Mr Waite these contracts were entered into on the 2nd of January this year and would not be affected if the county even had exceeded ex-ceeded the debt limit last year A FINE POINT I Commissioner HallI understand the law says the fiscal year shall be from Jan 1 to Jan 1 the following year but 1 the point comes up what is meant by the current year I take it to mean an official year covering the period I from the installation of an officer until his successor takes charge I the old I board on Jan 2 1897 could enter into a contract for 1000 they had just as much right to enter into a contract I for 150000 and thus incur a liability I to the amount of the revenue for the I year before the new board could be installed Such a proposition is certainly cer-tainly contrary to common sense and I believe the courts will so decide I n u Mr Waite upon request filed his notice in writing and it was taken under consideration V MISCELLANEOUSV County Treasurer Lynch drew the V I boards attention to the fact that the l interest on county bonded indebtedness amounting to 8750 becomes due on I Feb 1 The matter was referred to the attorney I Deputy Clerk Loomis made a requisition requisi-tion for some supplies for immediate use Granted The InterMountain Electric company com-pany offered to sell the county 16 candle power lamps in barrel lots at 22 cents each Filed The American Towel Supply company com-pany offered to furnish the county offices of-fices with towels at the rate of 2 cents each or sufficient tovels for all the I offices on the countys side for 10 per month The latter offer was accepted for one month with privilege to continue con-tinue at the same rate if service proves to be satisfactory SCHOOL TAX REFUND ExCounty Collector Spencer appeared before the board and formally turned over two hooks containing a complete list of all the people who were entitled to a refund of the illegally collected school tax He also exhibited the treasurers receipt for 6317065 the amount to be refunded I A number of residents petitioned to have the Crescent and South Jordan road OH the Crescent side reduced to a lower grade WANT A DEPUTY SHERIFF A large number of residents in the southern part of the county petitioned for the appointment of a deputy sheriff to protect the people at large in that I locality I think we have two many deputy sheriffs now suggested Armstrong Hal thought so too and the petition was denied for the reason that it did not appear there was any necessity for such an official Charles J C Gulbransen who under I the tutorship of Kid Smith has been manipulating the elevator in the I I capitol building during the past few days sent in a letter stating he has passed a satisfactory examination in elevator operation and felt competent to take charge Feb 1 Mr Gulbransen was then appointed operator at a salary of 25 per month Smith has been getting 45 V ALL REJECTED The bids for the furnishing of drugs and compounding of prescriptions for the county were all rejected and the clerk instructed to readvertise forbids for-bids based upon Salt Lake City wholesale I whole-sale prices in the matter of furnishing I I all supplies and a stipulated price for the compounding of each prescription II The offer of the Salt Lake Lithographing Litho-graphing company to furnish a 610 i page record of auditors deeds for 15 was accepted I Upon request of Assessor Quinn the sum of 300 or so much thereof as I necessary was appropriated to cover I the expense of sending out and delivering I de-livering about 10000 taxpayers blank statements The hoard expressed a desire to have the assessor employ only needy persons but took no action I in this matter I TOO MUCH LUXURY I While auditing a batch of claims Hall came across one as follows To Saddle Rock restaurant Case of J R Morris vs state Jan 19Ten jury supper 7 50 Jan 20Ten jury breakfast 750 Total 15 00 I Why that is at the rate of 75 cents per meal declared Hall The county cant afford such luxury as that Someone suggested that the Saddle Rock was a 25 cents house and the claim was laid over for investigation STUBBS ASKS FOR WORK John Stubbs is in a hard row of stumps He filed an application with the board asking for some kind of work so tha he might be able to keep body and soul together Stubbs said he had been compelled to mortgage mort-gage his home sell many of his books I and personal effects in order to obtain the necessaries of life and unless he could get something to do would have a difficult time keeping his head above water Accompanying the letter was a lengthy disquisition on contract labor and this was supplemented by a batch of newspaper clippings containing contain-ing all the letters he had written on this subject during the past few years These Stubbs submitted to show that he had been consistent in his advocacy advo-cacy against the construction of public works by contract noon The board will meet again this after