Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1903 — Ferrit Contracts Sustained Again. [ARTICLE]

Ferrit Contracts Sustained Again.

The hiring of the tax ferrite by county commissioners has again been held legal by the higher courts of this state. The Appellate Court decided Thursday that a contract by which the commissioners of Parke county agreed to pay tax ferrets a sum equal to half of all taxes paid on concealed or omitted property was not illegal nor void, and that a taxpayer could not successfully dispute an allowance of such amount from the county treasurer for services performed under the contract. In this case the same objection was raised that has lately been made the grounds of an attack on the tax ferrits’ contract in this county, namely that the county fund has to pay all the expense, while the townships and the state get most of the benefits. Judge Wiley, who rendered the decision, held however that that question was not properly in the pleadings, so that it is still undecided.