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Show " " ' . THE RITE OF TAX Hxefl 'by tk Miri ef Eteitfon, KOIl THE ESSDIX6 KVtt. It Will be Oae 14 a Ulr JUlIy.t- Ktport or tfce Finfeace Corn- mlHcc-Olher Bnlnss. Tlio Board of Education rerl last evening in reguUr reion at 7:30 The followiefc inembers weroprcsl ent: Armstrong, Colbath", Johnson Kelson, Pfke, Snow and Voucjr' PresIdentScolt in the Uitr Williams report-d jiat the amount ot taiM enj.ined in the tax cans wag $1900. He expected itrtt the question would be Je-terminedat Je-terminedat the coming session of the Supreme Court The claim of Taylor, Roainey k Armstrong representetl that they held a note for $5000. riven bv the trustees of the Eleventh School District, Dis-trict, 'and they wanted the rauli. Kererred to the rjalallttee on finance Miss l.lUie Keim, oneW the public pub-lic nhool teachers, tendered her resignation re-signation on account of HI health. Accepted. - The buHdthg comniiUee reported that the Fourteenth Ward school building nas been Anally completed anJ Uitre was due the contractor about $7000. Acccnipanyiug this was a conwwnkatioa from Architect Archi-tect Munhelm, in which he rtcora-mended rtcora-mended that the building be accepted accept-ed and that the penaitv asaiust Contractor Baldwin for "dUav be not enforced, as the delay could not bu avoided octi Ihe contractor had lostbrtrTcnJfWOandSWJon the builuing because of the advance in the' price of material. Mr. Pike thought it might be well to find out whether there was any mechanic's Hen on the building, but on Mayor Scott's statement that a lien would not hold against a city building, litis was dropped. Mr. Johnson stated that iic knew there had been a great difficulty la obtaining building materiil. Other members stated that, ou investigating in-vestigating tile matter, they had come to the conclusion that Mr. Baldwin was cot to blame for the delay. A motion lo pay the coiitrac'or, accept the building aud not enforce the penalty, wa9 carried. Attorney Willi"jSs, to whom was, referred the claim of Ilanlon A Benson, who w ere awarded a con-trsctforcrectingthe con-trsctforcrectingthe Fifteenth Ward school bjilding and did not get a ihance to carry it out, and wiio therefore ilaimed damages $1,700, the amount of profit they would have mpdc, reported that the jnities were entitled to some compensation, but lie thought a few hundred dollars would satisfy tiicm. As a matter of law, the measure of damages dam-ages would be the profits they might hae made if the contract had been performed. Itcfcrrcd to the committee com-mittee ou buildings. P. J..Mornn ottered to put in the Fourteenth Want building a 50-gallon 50-gallon boiler and heating apparatus forSUO. Referred to the committee on building. Mr. Armstrong, of the committee on furniture, reported that another carload of desks had been ordered from the Grand Itapids Company. Tne tw o school bells had arrived and were ready to be bung. Adopted. The com.niKee ou teachers reported re-ported that another room in the.Ex-position the.Ex-position Building had leen fitted up for fcciiool purposes. They had Instructed In-structed the superintendent to extend ex-tend the holidays from Friday util the first Monday in the New Year. Tht committee recommended that Harper's teries for supplemental readers be adopted; that east and L--t side high tcliools be consolidated consoli-dated into bebool Fourteen, and that the superintendent utilize in that school the teachers now cm-ployed cm-ployed in the east side school, the consolidation to take effect immediately immedi-ately after he holidays. Adopted. On motion of Mr. Pike, tint committee com-mittee on buildings was authorized to nuke such disposition of the east side high school building as might lie deemed bcs-t,ns soon as it becomes vacant. The committee ou tlnauce, to whom was referred the matter of compensating P. !. William?, as attorney at-torney of the board, recommended that the compensation lie not fixed, but that Mr. Williams be reipjlred to furnish bills for services from time to time. The committee also rel-oried several sev-eral accounts referred to them. The same committee eut in the following report: In accordance irjlfc tbc provision of ecs lion Kl. cnaptex 71, Laws or Hub, IK. jonr committee on oainoe be? leave to fubro't their esUmaie-ejid nn&nciil cute mem as therein rtqmred. The revenue estimated to be araiuble for iho tchoo'a f this nty for the current year ending Jnne 33 next arc aa follows From the dutnet taxes, as ir Collector Hardy's rreloninjr. leaving ont amount fa litigaUon )lW.(v) TerritonlJ Mhiol fend apjwruon- dent. q00 ToU! JM.COO The expense will be follow.-Current follow.-Current eot of rannlnr t ehoo'f . capen-es of board, officii aala- nes,etc JIM.OOO nnihinjr luurteesui dulrkl tcbool .pan already paid.. "K.noj Furniture . Old ditnct lialnliuts (probaUy psraUe Ihla year) S.TM ToUl fi:o Leavinja surplus this jearof..... 3ji.11 for the succeeding Tear, beinrunx July 1, 1531, our efUmatca are Current eapes" " ';3'ffl'5 Extraordinary expecs 'SJQ3 Toal iH)V) To meet this vie recaon upon as ranch territorial at portionment as me ahall receive re-ceive this present year, which would have been V.VOO, to be raised by taxation. A sa of IS mills on the dollar will almost exactly ex-actly be the ion required, and we therefore rccommeud that our levy be raido at that rale. Wji. "S clmis Caainrun. Jtntv x. rice llLW. InuVu. II IRA JonA'tOf'. The fudowUf; bills were allowod V. auerbach X tiros S 171 "- A. U Williams 177:o K. L. toll A Co 5 W W. O Caby. - Kl So KeUy.f.Co 'Jl Adams i llrorrn Oso lUchel Cunnlnehan 3 00 Joseph Tremayne........... 21 CO leeret'SewsCo 5 51 Tribune Co - IS 50 W. J. ewmaa, 37 10 W. . Emery. ai Joslin rark X TO r.C Annsxron;.. 73 01 Ceonce uw.... 31 sa Jacob vVeiler.......... ts 20 J. II Walden 7 SO Alex HcBae MOT t . (.. Uattbewa .. ti CO J. K. IMolv 1.075 oj M. S. IVoolley 4 OS William Fooler.. 4 CO j Tout limits The board theu adjourned until the second Thursday in January. |
