The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-01-15

cheaper than any other, expensive as it has
seemed to be, and recommends itself as the
best means Of Furnishing malefactorse by its et
fcacy and its humanity.
BENZ g. Weir, esq, resigned the supetinton-
dency Of the prison in May last. The execu-
tive appointment was rendered tot W.. Wade,
Of Holmes county, who entered Immediately on
the duties Of the office, and has continued to
discharge them to my entire satisfaction.
Attention is respectfully chilled to the man-
ner Of keeping books in tho AUDITORS Office
The plan is radically defective. The business
is rendered complicated and difficult to under
stand. Accounts are 50 intermingled that a
proper Investigation Of them is almost %impossi.
Bile. Charges are made under general heads,
as the Legislative, Executive, ~JudicialS &C., and
no individual ec0uEis are kept. tits fespect-t
fully suggested that a debit and credit account
has monied transactions with the Office, on
one side Of which he may have credit for what
is due him: and be charged on the other with
the amountpaid him thus, exhibiting at a single
view, the condition Of each mans account
1t would he well to open an account with each
county In the State, crediting each with all that
is received from il, and charging each with all
that is paid to il or its citizens, Salaries Of the
State Officers might be charged pro, rata To- the
several counties, according to their population,
and those Of District Officers, according to the
number Of days service rendered to each. Such
accounts would be easily kept, and would be
useful as matters for future statistical refer-
ence.
The habit Of paying members Of the Legisla-
ture, Judges and other officers, and indeed Of
paying almost the entire sum that goes out Of
the Treasury without any special appropria-
. ton, seems to me to conflict with the Z Sec, Z
G Art. of our State Constitution. The language
3 of the State and Federal Constitution on THU
/, point is precisely the same, shat no money
: shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in con
8 sequence Of an appropriation made by law
: Congress has deemed that specific appropria
S tons were necessary to pay the stated salaries
II or Judges, Cabinet Officers, and Foreign Minis
teras the salary Of the President, and even thei
: own per diem allowance, Not a dollar goei
! out Of the National Treasury without first pas
' sing the ordealo Of Congressional appropriation
! 1t will be admitted that this construction Of
!. the Constitution is the safe one; and as it vii
require but little trouble and no expense Z
! conform to it strictly, it ought 70 be done
l. we should in future require estimates from tn,
i Auditors Office for the annual expenditure o
II the state. Appropriations should made for ever
dollar that is to be paid out, and the issu
should be strictly within the appropriations
4 BY this means, the people would at least see
9 point beyond which their annual payment couIt
Y not be made to go.
The attention Of the Legislature is agail
v called to the immediate and pressing n~ecessit'
\ for a Lunalic Asylum in this State. II is
r. reproach 10 any Christian yeople, that lunatic
and insane persons should 60 at large, unprc
~ tected by the care II their fellows, constant
exposed to danger themselves and putting i
eminent peril the lives and property of other
An appropriation of three thousand dollars
d. udiciougly expended, would remedy this Ion
I, neg ected and crying evil.
.g Our statute furnishing retailers OF spirituou
and vinous liquors is defective in this; that
st imposes an indiacriminate penalty Of thirty day
i'm risonment and FIVE hundred dollars fine
/ every case Of conviction. There are degree
rs in the magnitude of this offence, as in all oth'
ia cases. The quo amino should be strictly r
,e garded, and the man who, by accident rath'
Id than design, i~nlringes the law, should be pun
ished in a less degree than one who aagrnntl
"A and perseveringly sets the law at defanc'
VI The ends Of justice will be subserved b
90 leaving it discretionary with the court, befol
N Which a conviction is had, TO punish Offender
n, Of his clpss, say from one days imprisonmel
g. and TWENTY-FIVE dollars fine, 70 me IN }ntbs' in
n prisonment aud Ave hundred dcllars fine,
The law is defective on the subject Of pull
u isling burglars, No penalty is affixed by q
ID statute to this offence when committed by
N Stare; and it is doubtful II punishment can I
inflicted, or TO what extent + at all, Man
ee testify It is an omission in the law, which shouI
be applied without delay,
be- In obedience to legislative requirement, 9
b. forts have been made by me to collect the SUI
ID Of six thousand one hundred ana twenty-f'
q dollars, expended by this State IN 1916, in GO
~ ling out Volunteers in compliance with the r
QUESTION of Maj. Gen, T., P Gaines, US. 4
he The accounting officers at Washington hay
q, declined paying the claim, and assign the va
le Of lawful authority as the reason. An appe
IL las been directed to Congress, but thus {
re without success.
J. In conformity with the Legislative direction
suit has been instituted on the Bonds Of Il
II Newton and Lauderdale Turnpike Company.
y it is still pending in the Circuit Court Of Cla.