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r-370 and Chas. Kersey -be appointed a committee to view, mark and lay out said road and repo to this Board. G.R.Olmstea.d, Tax Collector, appeared before the Board regarding collection of personal property tax assessed on the 1930 tax roll. The Board ordered that no interference will be made by this Board in collection of these taxes. It Was ordered that no County convicts be worked on any public work in this County. R.G.Anderson` and others of Fort Pierce appeared respecting the employment of County Agricultural Agent and County Home Demonstration Agent jointly With St. Lucie County. It was moved by Commissioner Hamilton, Seconded by Commissioner Yongue that 1/4 I mill tax be levied in the Agricultural Fund, and the sum of $400.00 per year be appropriated for County Home Demonstration Work. Upon being put to a' vote the same Was carried. It Was further ordered that the General interest & Sinking fund millage for 1931 be reduced 1/4 of wMill. It was ordered that the Clerk prepare advertisement for approximately 509000 feet of lumber for Vero Bridge District. Bond of A.O.Greynolds, Inc., a corporation in the sum of $22000.00 With 'United States Fidelity & Guaranty Companyq a corporation of Baltimore was received and accept Such bond being given in.connection woth Work of re -oiling roads in Special R & B Dist It Was ordered that the following .tax sale certificates be sold for the amount indicated upon the approval of the State Comptroller: Cert. 873 sale of 1928 for the sum of 032.12 Cert. 611 sale of 1926 for the sum of $95.54 Cert. 1228 sale of 1927 for the sum of $21.49 The several bills and accounts against the County having been audited, Were examine and found correct, Were approved and warrants ordered issued in settlement of same. The Bills and accounts being on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court. The warrants so issued, from the respective funds, being listed completely in the County Finance Record as provided by law, reference to such Record and the list so recorded being made a part of these minutes as fully and completely as if the said warrants Were set out herein in detail. The County Depository filed its monthly report showing receipts and -disbursements of I the various funds, which having been checked were all found to be correct. The Chairman announced that at this regular meeting the Board would consider and act upon and adopt the estimates of the -expenses for the fiscal year commencing October lst 1931 and ending September 30th 1932, which estimates were prepared and entered upon the minutes of the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, held on the 12th doer of August 19312 and to fix the rate of taxation for the year 1931. A copy of the advertisement containing the estimates or budget made by the Board County Commissioners at a meeting held at the.Court House on the 12th day of August, 1931, With the publisher's affidavit annexed as presented to the Board and ordered spread upon the minutes and is in Words and figures as follows: I 9