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Show OUTSTANDING BOUNTY CLAIMS TOBE PAID I State Auditor Sends the Fol-I Fol-I Iowij;ng Letter for Publication. June 201b, 1923. Editor of Herald : This office bus tabulated nil icounty claims outstanding since February 4th, 1924, and has worked out an equitable distribution of bounty claims on hand at this date. The outstanding bounty claims on file In the Auditor's office amount to $17,070.00. The money available to pay these claims amount to seventy-five cents on the dollar, or $12,-800.09. $12,-800.09. This distribution will leave u balance of $4,209.01 yet to be paid but we hope at some later date the balance can be paid in full. At the last sessiou of the legislature legisla-ture I used all my ' influence to have the legislature appropriate sufficient suf-ficient money to allow my office to pay all claims in full ; hte bill was introduced but killed. However, the legislature passed a new bounty law increasing the tax on sheep und goats to five mills and on cattle and range horses, two mills. Basel on the 1924 reports from the various county auditors as to the number of sheep and goats, range cattle and range horses in the state, the revenues derived from this new tax should be ample to pay the bounty claims after this year. I would appreciate any publicity you can give this announcement to forestall the writing of letters in reference to the bounty. Yours very truly, JOHN E. HOLDEX, State Auditor. |