AGENCY: Millard County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 83725
TITLE: Rabbit bounty records
DATES: i 1921-1924.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by warrant number.

DESCRIPTION: This small volume contains 69 redeemed warrants for bounties paid for rabbit scalps with ears. It was used to document the payment of authorized state bounties by the County Treasurer. The warrant stub contains the warrant number, the date, the name of the person receiving the bounty, the number of rabbit scalps with ears redeemed at 5 cents a piece, and the total bounty paid. The redeemed warrant, which contains the same information, has been reattached to the stub.

Copies of reports from the County Clerk to the State Auditor are filed inside the volume. These pages serve as a master listing of all bounties paid. They contain the warrant number, the date issued, the name of the person to whom the warrant is issued, the district where the rabbits were killed, the number of scalps, the amount paid, and the period totals.

(NOTE: An earlier bounty record [1917-19] for jackrabbits, gophers, ground squirrels, and prairie dogs may be found on pages 50-59 of volume one [1913-30] of the predatory animal bounty record SERIES NUMBER 83327.)

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

APPROVED: 03/1989

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 20 years and then transfer to State Archives with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

Although this volume is obsolete, it is important historically to document the intense problems in Millard County and throughout the state that resulted from jackrabbit infestations during the severe agricultural depression of the early 1920s. The increased rabbit populations at the time threatened the harvests of farmers and the rangeland of stockmen.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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