AGENCY: Tooele County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 3488
TITLE: Bounty record and index
DATES: 1943-1975.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological.

DESCRIPTION: These two 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 certificate 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 In 1975, the law was repealed and the responsibility was given to the Commissioner of Agriculture. The books include the date, hunter's name, address, book number, affidavit number, the number of each species killed, the amount of the bounty paid per animal (coyote, lynx, wolf, and cougar), the total bounty paid, and any remarks.

RETENTION

Permanent. Retain for 5 year(s)

DISPOSITION

Transfer to Archives.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the State Records Committee.

APPROVED: 06/1990

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 5 years and then transfer to State Archives.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This disposition is based on the record's secondary informational value. These volumes may be used by researchers to examine policies of predator control, issues of extermination of predators, and the livestock deaths on range areas.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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