Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-03-01
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

The 18th Section of the of 1872 relating public accounts
which experience shall prove to be necessary eXPedent order to
In of the "boos accounts provided and
cdental of the courts have been paid and orders
BEEN promnV yo U b Pe ne Sv d itn @ ru v
has been experienced in the transition from the old the
ne" system winch very bei practice would not overcome Should
however, be remarked that in two cases has occurred that the
presiding Judge has been called leave before the term had closed
and the clerks
lowed by the court might be eXPeen provide for such conn
votes as enacted in the Statute approved October a. 1910 The act Of
1911 entitled ian oc relation the states Prison. requires the Doc
tors to meet on the first day October make inventory epop
nonden7 &C. should be thought expoIon to settle the accounts of
the Superintendent annually before the termination of the fiscal year, those
accounts might appear the report Of the general finances of the State
1t believed that the labor ana expense of paying for the
Of The county clerks will be the old SYSTEM drawing
for ten Fifteen and twenty-five In individual would
have eight or ten orders at one term Of court amounting all to less than
fifteen twenty dollars Still added nd
a M H so s b TO e @ % is" oon ne 5
debt and credit in which the State debtor by dispensing with
tation will simplify accounting the Treasury by substituting from
twenty to thirty thousand dollars money N place OF court orders t
to meet court orders could not be asceaned but with great difficulty
y rnaGF a9 SS. p" of the courts each county may be
"a faithful accountag the public funds will secure just proportion
between service and compensation tariff Of fees designing do equal
justice to all rendering for the State far services could be
act, though nicely adapted dispense equal justice will like sm
b1 g pgo2 ' I yayg mode Of dong business
OF cmlna constantly pressing against the barriers of legal restraint
Encochmens be resisted the beginning all the au pro-
visions of the above referred will be swept is necessary
in the Of private life that resist the Entertainments of
hobnt claimants but much
ont that the OF the State be vgOnty guarded the
important other This
individual Of the Legislature instance, called
recye has been adopted the then emergency and in years
the palliative has lost its efficiency and all has Ieasod into its former
disorder The progress Of society and modes of dong business
occasion law become obsolete and suited the public
The law remains stationary society progressive The question
what be done the the varying condition
ETY. and business? There want of disposition in the Leg
ato to adapt The laws to every emergency requiring its aid whenever
Il evil is known to exist.
Any system which shall bring default and expense
government before the Legislature such that the proportion be-
and compensation be and understood will
for and delinquency their ewad
Until them cocctes will be @ and violent in their operaons abuses
will long unedessed dsoporonote will be admins
tered for and Inadequate others will drive
the best from the public service The general object of the of
1912 relating public exhibit the Legislature the
cuar and disbursements of the public particular
jet bring together all discretionary allowances
formed for the State the end that uniformity
and annual accounting might be secured
1t could have been expected all the perfect
OF public accounting should passing
act OF 1872 1t is however, with great satisfaction that permitted
to know that the general outlines Of the system have disappointed
pectaton ALSO to believe that WILL from time
dictate every modification which the condition of society
| business require