AGENCY: Duchesne County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 23207
TITLE: Bounty books
DATES: 1946-1974.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological.

DESCRIPTION: These books document the payment of county and state bounties for the killing of various predators. To receive payment hunters completed appropriate forms and filed them with the county clerk. The clerk then issued "a certification under the seal of his office stating the number and kind of skins involved and stating the sum person entitled" (UCA 4-6-8 (1953)). The county clerk was also required to "keep a record in a bounty book of all county certificates issued by him" (UCA 4-6-11 (1953)). In 1975, the law was repealed and the responsibility was given to the Commissioner of Agriculture. OBSOLETE RECORD

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is proposed and has not yet been approved.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office until administrative needs ends and then transfer to State Archives with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This disposition is based on the record's secondary informational value. These volumes inform policies of predator control, issues of extermination of predators, and the livestock deaths on range areas.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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