Show BOUNTY ERROR MEANS 3 YEAR 3 YEAR PAYMENT HALT Various Funds Over and Underpaid Underpaid Un Un- in- in State Auditor Informs Clerks s Incorrect distribution n o of ot the state stat bounty fund will prevent any further bounty payments to hunters for three years State Auditor Julius C. C Andersen Anderen Ander Ander- sen en announced Saturday County clerks were advised of this ruling in a circular letter from the auditors auditor's office The bounty fund was overpaid 20 as of December 31 1933 while the rabbit and rodent control fund was underpaid and the extermination extermination extermination exter exter- of wild animals fund underpaid underpaid under under- paid 15 85 Andersen report reported d. d Since that date net bounty collee- collee lIons Ions have been only Under the law the first of oJ this fund is assigned to rabbit arid and rodent control and the the remainder split plit between bounty payments and animal extermination Decrease in the state bounty tax collect collections ons makes it nearly certain that hat it will require three years to straighten out the bounty funds and until that is accomplished no bounties bounties boun bourn ties will be paid Andersen said He pointed out that during the last administration the state auditor spent of ot the bounty f fund nd for salaries of officials who disbursed the Since Andersen took office however not one cent of such expense ex- ex peruse pense ense has been charged against the bounty fund the appropriations com corn tag ing ng from front the regular auditors auditor's fund The bounty payments suspended Include include in In- clude elude 15 for each wolf pelt 10 for a abear a abear bear ear 6 for lor a coyote and 3 3 for a bobcat |