We find that on the assessment and tax…
source date: 1890
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pon the labor of a man who did the work. Before making such a liberal al- lowance— and especially advancing 60 per cent of it — the commissioners should, in the opinion of the grand jury, have made some effort to ascertain what it would cost the clerk to get the work done. We find that on the assessment and tax rclls of 1889, a rebate in favor of the Carpenter- Stanley Cattle Company, of which S. P. Car- penter was at that time the manager, amounting to $615 of the taxes charged and $30,000 of the valuation returned, was entered, and after deducting this rebate, the balance of the taxes charged were paid on December 12, 1889. A ( 36 ) rebate of $500 in taxes and $25,000 in valua- tion, is also entered in favor of the Mimbres Mining Company, Thos. B. Pheby, manager, and the balance of taxes paid on the 7th of January, 1890. The most diligent search of the record of the proceedings of the board of com- missioners fails to show any order of the board allowing such rebates and they are clearly un- authorized and unlawful, and the grand jury recommends that action at law be at once insti- tuted against these parties for the collection of taxes remaining unpaid.