Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-07-03
THE ANSWER OF MILES KING,
Late .Nncy .fsent az IVoJoh.
To the Report of the Fourth Auditor upon the CRIB
srss.ss.sn'. iect of his accounts "a Al...

lect al his accounts
(coNTINUEp.)
Anev the we have general and sweeping condcEl-
nation Of oil the Of this whole lot Of accounts of
various irformaiies, originating, Tor the most part
in tho simple md single tact that they had been owe,
looked ut the time oftheir origin, already stated.
Hence the signing by au administrator IN one case,
aud by agent in another. &C. &c all. things That
occur every day in tho settlement OF al. long
of any staining, but which Auditor would fain 7
represent as altogether monsrous in mine In all ut
them observe, the justice of the charges themselves
il BY evidence that must satisfy every ra-
tiona unders andng Yet they rejected; and not !
only re;crtd but absolutely reprobated they had
5een actually tainted with fraud. ought to add also,
that presented this class Of accounts to the AUDI
tor, not exactly certain ca'ps, but as probable
oAsissioas in my account; and requested him accor-
dinghy to examine his books ninutely to ascertain
whether any of 'sm had been passed to my credit
ut any time before. He admits. indeed himself that
I dad So but colouriag tire fact. usual with his
own dye, he ar,faly mud falsely represents me as
wishing him to s'examine the proper quarters DC
count" only aud nffsctedy asks ''wh these changes
of dates, throwing them into other quarters, ana
sometimes into other years, with changes IN captions.
items, receipts, and even amounts carried out, with
one, two, or ,hreo bills made out of different
parts OF old how it possible to trace them
in this Office and ascertain whether they had been
PASSED 10 his crdp mott" All this is gross and
Sciiful ex operation The formal changes in the
counts, his own selected specimens have showed.
very trfling the differences in the dates usu
nlly few days only, and fthey did occasionally run
into different quarters, years. it would still
have been quite possible for him, any his host
of clerks, with only little PATIENCE to have traced
oil the leading articles in them the books In point
of fact indeed, the must thorough search was made
for them, Though not perhaps exactly with to
do justice, but for different purpase and if hey
were not found on the books It was most assuredy,
only because they not there ,und had been
passed my credit all. And this conclusion more
over was yet further confirmed by the fact, that the
Navy Storekcepers book showed that they had never
been certified Ivy him, and therefore could never have
bcon presented by me-; but TINT they must have been
supposed altogether ovcrtooeed
The vouchers ma led from li4l to iG0l were
jecied because OF their age, or their toruahty,
their Deficiencies in proper evidences OF authority,
&c. that Ii for the same again which
have already C, nsdered. and showed 10 be Insult
Client Some ofthsm too, not Gerry old. No. 90.
for Instance, Is dated Jan. 49, 1927, and No. 100,
Nov %, le28 In some also, the ''informali,y" Is
very slight, and in Others not even perceptibe.-
'Some, indeed, he says, have not the Storekeeper
receipt; but 1t only Us he was informed because
they had been overlooked the time of their origin
and the subsequent death OF the Storekeeper Dulton
had made it impossible to obtan his signature But
in the absence of that his boks with the certificate
of his successor Gait showed clearly that the articles
had been receiced and certified. In other a
ses. the evidence of that fact yet complete.
For example. no. 46, TO which ! beg the readers
attention, Is an account of Edward 8 Waddey dated
Bee &C. 1873 for tierces of rice, furnished for the
ship Congress, weighing 1884 lbs at 7a: $5il 03
Mr.. Waddeys recei pit for the money is here oi
the da;e with tho account; and this account has
not been recently written" over again by bIr Muir
den, which might haye spoiled it perhaps, hut it
all fair and formal, far see, to u letter.
II has not, however, acknowledge, the receipt Of
the Storekecper Duton or the approval Of the Com
manding Officer, Cap. Henley, because having been
overlooked at the origin, the deud, and the
other of the country when I oterwards present
cd il to the Auditor But the Auditor himself did no,
rst to think that this deficiency ought 10 de
stroy my claim for it, for he goes very properly to
examine his books TO whether had ever been
credited with it before. and not finding that had,
: nc writes letter to Mr.. a. P. Darragh, in which he
says:-'Lcarnlng that you Purscr of the
Congress ct that time, and not being able to
trace this voucher in your account have to request
that you will state whether you have any know.
ledge recollection of the delivery of this rice or
board ofthat ship, elsewhere, for the of The
Navy'-Oi course, il must be presumed that he in
tends to allow for the rice if be only be sure
of the fact that the article has been 'deliverd on
board Of that frgate elsewhere. for he Of the
Navy" Now Dir Dariugh, in his answer, dated Nor
folk. January 3D. $3.50, referring the Auditor TO his
Pursers books and accounts which he had deposited
IN the .4ditors Office his return from the voyge on
which he hal sailed in the Congress in 1921, und
particularly 1ut book inches long, and contain
ing perhaps two qures. in which,, he saws "was en-
tered in approprIa columns all the provisions taken
on boa'd, with the time. place, and from recei-
vcd," &c goes q TO add from his own memory awe
certainly took on board large quantity of rice, pre-
sumo about much is charged in Mr.. Waddey's
bill, which would supply the ship about six months
He says further'I have examined the abstract book
and accounts OF MIR. King from october 1918, TO
June 1919, which embraces all the time the Coo
gress was here IN commission, and believe that two
terees Of rce 1891 pounds furnished Oct. 1918, is
the whole quantity charged in Them either 10 the
Congress, or Navy Yard The Of H1r. Wad-
dey's is MOI charged" Pbs surely sufficient to
establish al hat was wanted, it showed clearly
that had bought the rice for the service and actual
ly delivered it, but yet had charged for on
my books. But, besides this, exhibited to the Au-
ditor the Monthly return ofthe Storekeeper for Jan
nary, 1919, in which the two tierces Of rice mention
ed BY Darrah as charged on my books, (cmbraced
in The account Of Seynour) and also 6,594 lbs of
rice, corresponding exactly with the weight of II
tierces embraced in the account Of Waddey are no.
ted received for and deferred board me Bigae
Congress Here then is full and perfect proof of the
faclto say nothing Of that fiat book 10 inches long
&C INTO which our Auditor has probably looked be-
fore this, aud found the same thing proved over
gain and now then, this claim must be allowed
But NIT is rejected!!! (See documents q RI
Our Auditor proceeds: many OF ihcm appear TO have
been based upon private traDsectons"-the fact 10
that two or three only made against rue ind.
viduay for articles furnished for the service: for OK
ample, No 50, for two barrels Of Irish pork by j
WillougbbY, and they presented. mt To ha al