218 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 



President Estell : That is quite a big (juestion, gentlemen. Inde- 

 pendent acts I presume is what is meant. I believe this largely refers 

 back to the discussion we had previously and if it is satisfactory with 

 the gentleman who asked the question we will take it for granted 

 that his question has been answered. The next question. 



Mr. Bacon : "What does this body think of asking the legislature 

 to levy a one-half mill tax to be used to help the county fairs of the 

 state ?" 



Mr. Barber : I wonder if I could explain a law that Cerro Gordo 

 county and Marshall county were instrumental in having passed last 

 winter. In Marshall county and Cerro Gordo county acting under a 

 law on the statute books which permits boards of supervisors to levy 

 a half mill tax for the building of buildings or payment of debts on 

 old buildings, our board of supervisors have levied a tax for this 

 year and it has gone on record for three more years, and we have 

 anticipated that levy and spent about six thousand dollars of it this 

 year, building a fine barn and borrowing some more money and to 

 make it sure the members of the board of supervisors are on the fair 

 board and also on the notes. 



A Member : This question has been worked on for four years. 

 We have had it in our board of supervisors, I don't know how many 

 men have gone and presented that, farmers, merchants, bankers and 

 all have got the same answer. What I would like to have is this, 

 that instead of "may" the law shall be "shall". There is a law on 

 the books of the state of Iowa where the Farm Bureau money if 

 they can show so many signers, how many it is I don't know. There 

 is a law to that effect in the state of Iowa and why may we not have 

 something along that same line. If you know how hard we have 

 worked with our supervisors, how bad \\t needed this. 



A Member: We are getting $2,000 from the state. I am afraid 

 if the legislature would insist on every county levying a tax to pay 

 us, they would take back that $2,000. I am in favor of not killing 

 the goose that lays the golden egg. 



A Member : Which would raise most ? 



A Member: I will take the $2,000. A bird in the hand is worth 

 two in the bush. 



A Member : I think there is a lot in the board of supervisors being 

 directors in the county fair. We got a thousand dollars last spring 

 from the board of supervisors but I had to circulate a petition and 

 get two-thirds of the taxpayers in Humboldt county and present that 



