The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-07-13


] We have on one ur two former occasions ex
tPiliu'l to the people Of this county the manner
ia which their own money IS used to draw more
from their pockets by the depreciation Of county
Iorlcr~ and how very handsome little specua
,tion can tins he made BY the collector, who, in
smanagiuy the business need set aside, anuul, or
srgPsai only one section of the statute law of thi.
Estate Rev. Stat. p. ii3, sec ~ which sad sec.
fin requires the collector to pay over at the end
Sof each month, all the money collected by him foI
zthe county during such month We now propose
to write another chapter of the history of our no
ynest and patriotic collector Mr.. Hurlbur. and show
[how, with the same facility, sharp fellow can
sexract coppcrs from the satchels OF the barefoot
scl school children Of this county whose parent,
Scan't afford to send them to select schools
Section so Of the school law of this state, lSess
Laws 1919 P l7G) reads as follows
"On the first Monday in January in each and
scyery year next after taking the census Of the
s-tate, the auditor Of public accounts shall, under
gthe supervision Of the commissioners ofthe school
ScAdren IN each county in the state under q wear.
Rof age, and shall thereupon make Il dividend t.
Reach county Of the interest due upon the school
lco.iege, and seminary fund, in proportion to the
Number Of white children IN each county. under
Ethe age aforesaid, and issue his warrant TO the
sschoo! commissioner Of each county upon the col.
Injector thereof Aud upon presentation of said
swarunt 10y the school commissioner to the collec
flor Of hiS county ,aid collector shall pay over t.
the school commissioner the amount Of SAID war
srant out Of the first specie funds which may be-
COLLECTED by him. and not otherwise appropriated
3by law, taking said commissioners receipt there
iior; and on settlement with the auditor said col
hector shall be credited with the amount specified
gin said receipt in the same manner As if it had
5been paid into the treasury PrOridcd
that ii said collector shall file an affidavit with the
fschoo commissioner, that he is not and has not
: been able to Collec. enough in gold and silver
lover and above one and one halfmills in act hirty
nine IN the appendix to the revised laws specified
80 pay otf said warrant, nor more upon it than he
has paid, then and in that case, the school com
missioner shall receive auditors warrants for the
balance not paid in specie"
Now the duty Of the collector under this law
Isimpy is that II he has been able to collect specie
enough on the state sax, over and above the II
6mllI specie tax pledged to the payment of interest
ION the state DEBT TO pay all Of this school money
Swarrant, he shall pay it in specie; but il he has
4not been able TO collect specie enough to pay il
I'LL, then he shall pay as much in specie as he has
been able to collect, and the balance in warrants.
Did Mr. Hurlbut pay this school money in spe
Gle Mol Did he pay part Of it in specie No
1Hs paid erery cent Of il in auditors warants
3Dd he collect no specie whateyer-nut single
6dclar-on the state tax, applicable on this war
srant, in specie Ask the Shavers, PARIS Mill
kens, Masons, and hundred. of other wealthy far
mcrs IN this county whether they paid their state
tax in specie or warrants, aud our head on it nine
out Of ten will tell you they prid their tax in
specie Yet the chldrens school money il paid
: in warrants,
What comes Of this specie Can't tell. W,
know OF one school treasurcr-perhaps there are
others-who drew his warrants, and then sold
them To the Collector at a shave Of per cent ii
currency What did Hurlbut buy warrants fol
himselii OF course not 70 have bought then
for himself would have been direct violation o
the following section of the revenue law of thi,
state:
Sec, los. No collector shall, either directly OF
ndlrectly, be permitted to take, buy, shave, or re
ce.ve, by himself or agent, any auditors warran
or warrants Mt less than the full sum due thereon
TO the holder of such warrant or warrants" Rev
Stat. p. 452.
So he bought them for Mr. -
4 Well, Mr. H. is conscientious man, aud doubt
less would not have taken the required oath be
fore the school commissioner il he had been abb
to collect any specie, or paper money at shave
which is, of course the same thing; but it doc
snnrn tn,rv.Iln,,l,, g,.,n,,, that ~,