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• • E. E. Carter, Superintendent of Roads, made a report on the County Zonin Permit sales for the Month of February. Notary Public Bonds in the sum of $500.00 each were approved for the fol r by Douglas Baker, Clerk as required by-law: C. T. Walker with Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company as surety. Chas. E. Smith with American Surety Co. of New York as surety. 1 Berta H. Brookfield with American Surety Co. of New York as surety. David R. MacArthur with American Fire & Casualty Co. as surety. Dora Belle Holman with American Surety Co. of New York as surety. Alex J. Snow Vith American Surety Company as surety. Ruth J. Hodson with American Surety Company as surety. Florence L. Ogsbury with American Surety Company as surety. Mr. Troy E. Moody, County Tax Collector, appeared before the Board with respect,. to the Audit Report of the Tax Collector's Office #4504, a copy of which was filed with the Board by the State Auditing Department of the State of Florida. Mr. Moody tendered to the - 'Board his check in the sum of $1344.60, for the year 1955, and $247.59 for the year 1956, with,., the statement that these checks represented compensation paid by the Tax Collector to Mrs. M. L Moody during the period of time from April 1955 to February 1956, insofar as the total sums ;'',paid to her during that period of time are prorated between the Board of County Commissioners " H ;and the School Board. Mr. Moody advised the Board that he gave the School Board his check in the sum of $275.40 for the year 1955, and $67.41 for the year 1956, which represents their prorata share. These four checks being in effect repayment for all of the compensation paid to Mrs. Moody during that period of time. Mr. Moody further advised the Board that all salaried compensation paid to Mrs. ;M. L. Moody during the period of that Audit report was paid to her for services actually 'rendered to the office and which payment was commensurate with the compensation paid others for e esimilar services. With respect to the statement of the Auditor dealing with Special Drainage ,,Districts, the Collector advised the Board that to begin with, these are really very small i lin so far as money is concerned and that he has set up a system of prorating and charging to ;income received from drainage districts what he considers as its prorate share of the expense of the office. Mr. Moody advised the office that with respect to the audit dealing with auto- mobile expenses, that they were actual sums paid out by him for use of his automobile during the period of time in the course of business of the office, and that the same statement is correct with respect to the amount charged for travel, hotel and transportation expense. With respect to the use of the validating machine, the collector reported that 6 ;the machine has always been used on the collecting of county taxes since its installation, but 'that drainage taxes of all districts until the Indian River Farms Drainage District began using the County form of receipts were hand written receipts because the forms used could not be used in the validating machine, and there are other instances of receipts of the office which are not on forms for use on the validating machine. i Upon Motion made by Commissioner Macdonald, seconded by Commissioner McCullers and unanimously carried, the Board accepted Mr. Moody's statement and the checks, and considers ,the matter closed.