Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1899 — The County Council. [ARTICLE]

The County Council.

Will Soon Begin Its Official Duties. The county offices will on September the first go under the control of the county council. The new law requires that before the first Thursday after the first Monday in August every county officer shall prepare an estimate, itimized with as great particularity as possible, of the money required for his office for the ensuing calendar year. The county commissioners shall prepare a similar report, setting out all the moneys needed for all purposes by such board. The county olerk will estimate the proposed expenditures for the circuit court and the county com missioners for all other purposes. To each estimate must be appended a certificate verified by the oath of the officer that his estimate is as near correct as possible. The county Council will then meet and fix the tax levy to meet the requirements as evidence! by the respective requisitions. When these requisitions are placed on file they shall be advertised briefly in two papers of opposite political faith and any taxpayer may have the right to appear and make such objections as he deems necessary. The' county council will meet the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September and will organize and enter upon its duties. The auditor is required to frame an ordinance and present it to the county council for passage, fixing the tax levy and making the neccessary appropriations. The appropriations shall be speoific, and no moneys can be paid out beyond the amount appropriated. The first meeting of the county council will be next Monday—the first Monday in August—when they meet at" the Auditor’s office for organization.