Courts of Record:  County Courts - Destruction of Papers
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Source:  Laws of Missouri passed at the session of the Forty-First General
Assembly begun and held at the City of Jefferson Wednesday, January 2, 1901
(Regular Session) [By Authority] Jefferson City, MO: Tribune Printing
Company, State Printers and Binders, 1901

Courts of Record:  County Courts - Destruction of Papers -  An ACT to amend
section 1795 of article 5 of chapter 14 of the Revised Statutes of the
state of Missouri, 1899, entitled "Destruction of certain papers after five
years."

Section 1.   That section 1795 of article 5 of chapter 14 of the Revised
Statutes of the state of Missouri, 1899, be and the same is hereby amended
by adding after the word "warrants," in the ninth line thereof, the
following words: "settlements of county treasurer, settlements of
superintendent of poor farm, canceled school district warrants, justice of
the peace papers, estray papers, appointment of deputies, reports and
receipts of collectors of the revenue, certificates of fines, statements of
campaign expenses, quarterly statements of fees received by county
officers, income tax reports, birth and death reports, settlements of
village school district treasurers, road overseer's reports, road
commissioner's reports, poll-tax lists;" so that said section, when so
amended shall read as follows:

Section `1795.  The county courts of the several counties in this state are
hereby authorized to direct the sheriff of their respective state are
hereby authorized to direct the sheriff of their respective counties to
destroy, by burning, during the session of and in the presence of the
county court, the papers hereinafter designated, after a period of five
years after the filing thereof, to wit:  Assessment lists, dramshop
petitions, dramshop receipts and statements, dramshop bonds, merchants' and
manufactures' statements, school enumeration lists, school estimates, poll
books, annual settlements and bonds of road overseers, canceled county
warrants, settlements of county treasurer, settlements of superintendent of
poor farm, canceled school district warrants, justice of the peace papers,
estray papers, appointment of deputies, reports and receipts of the
collectors of the revenue, certificates of fines, statements of campaign
exp4enses, quarterly statements of fees received by county officers, income
tax reports, birth and death reports, settlement of village school district
treasurers, road overseers' reports, road commissioners' reports, poll tax
lists and accounts and bills allowed against the county.  Approved March
22, 1901.