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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYI.,VANIA
J ELMER JOHNSTON, JAMES W WALKER, W H ECKER, COMMISSIONERS
The following resolution was presented:
Resolved , that upon due consideration of the estimated ' '
expenditures presented by the County Controller and in accordance with- tily'
provisions of the 5th Section of An Act approved May 6th. 1909, P. L. 436#
the rate of taxation upon the valuation of the property of the county,
in order to raise sufficient revenue to meet &aid estimated expenditures
for the year, is fixed at Seven and one-half ( W mills.
The yeas and nays were called as follows:
Yea: Johnston Nay:- None "
Walker
Faker
All the Commissioners having voted in the affirmative,
the resolution was unanimously adopted.
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No further business appearing,, the Board adjourned.
(SIGNBD)
County Commissioners,
Office of the County Commisslonera.,
February 24th, 1920
Board of County Commissioners in regular session, all
f members present.
Minutes of previous meeting read and signed.
! The following resolution was presented and on motion
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regularly made and seconded was unanimously adopted:
Resolved: that the County Inspector of Weights and
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Measures be and he is hereby authorized and directed to inspect all weights,
a and measures in Monongahela Cite and to continue to make such inspection
from time to time, the same as to now or may be here-after required by law
in Borough and Townships , until further directed by, this office.
It appearing from the report of the County Treasurer "
that the General Fund, in the treasury, was practically exhausted the
following resolution was presented and by motion regularly made and seoo4dsd
was unanimously adopted:
"RRSOLYBD that the County Treasurer be directed to
transfer, with the approval of the County controller, the sum of Fifty
Thousand ($50,000) Dollars from the Road Improvement Fund to the General r
Fund and that the amount so transferred be returned to the Road Improv t
as soon as sufficient taxes are collected to meet the said amount. "
Motion by Mr. Eoker, seconded by Mr. Johnstobg that exonseation
lists filed by delinquent collectors for 1919 taxes be accepted and f ilod'i
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}lotion carried.
MINUTE BOOK
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
J ELMER JOHNSTON. JAMES W WALKER, W. H ECKER, CommissioNERs
No further business appearing, the Board adjourned.
County Comativel-onere
Office of the County Commissioners
March let , 1920.
Board of County Commissioners in regular session, all
members present.
JAnutes of previous meeting read and signed.
The following Resolution of the Board of County Commissioners
of the County of Washington, relative to the issue by ,the said county
of One Hundred sixty ( 160) Road Improvement Bonds of the denomination
of One Thousand 41000. 00) Dollars each, was presented:
At a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of the
County of Washington in the State of Pennsylvania, duly called and hold
at theoffice of said Board of COUnty Commissioners at the Court House
of the said County of Washington,' in the Borough of Washington,
Pennsylvania, on the let day of M&rch*, 1920, all of the member* of said
Board., to wit,, T. $. Johnston* J. *W. Walker and W. H. Baker, being present,
the following Resolution was, an inotibn duly made and seconded, unanimously
adopted by, said-Board, to wit:
MORHAS, By proc*edifige had in the Court of Quarter Sessions
of Washington County,, Pa, , in accordance with the provisions of the Act of the Ger-
cwtlAnsembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved on the llth
day Of 31AYS' 1911 (Pamphlet Laws, page' 244) and the amendments thereof
0;W su"lements " thereto, the impiovemient , construction and maintenance
under the said Act of divers sections of the main public roads- in said
eouaWkae been -authorized and ordered and decreed to be done; and
WHRFMAS, the County Commissioners of the said County
0 to proceed, during the year 192V, to build, improve,, repair and
maintain a part of the roads, the improvement, construction and mainte-
nance of which has been authorized and directed as aforesaid,, and in order
to provide for the cost of the building,, improving, repairing and main-
taining the same, it is
necessary to borrow upon bonds to be issued by
the said county the BUM Of On# Hundred Sixty Thousand 4160t004.00) Dollars,
the fuipdo now In the treasury of the said county, and those to come in
during the said year (from sources other than such borrowing j not being
sufficient to defray such cost,