Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-02-10
" The Tax-Payers Of Chic, an Attempt
TO deceive tho PeOplC,N

we cup tne lOllOWInB from Tue OlnClnndti
Gozene. Read and ponder well the facts as
stated in the Treasurer's report.
The following article from the State Jour
nal Of Tuesday, speaks for itself, and a terri
bic tale it relates. There can be no doubt
that the Board Of Public Works in their an
nual report, set about deliberately to deceive
by dating drafts upon the Treasury, 10 the
amount OF over one haadrsd and seven hOus-
md dollars. 50 that they mi sht not appear in
their annual report
h'his one fact speak volumes; it shows that
they dreaded an exposure of their own work,
and imagined they would escape detection
by the Legislature. One of the Board has
been nominated for reelection, and thu pco-
pie owe it to themselves to rerudiate the nom
ination BY giving hun an emphatic defeat
Here is the article from the Journal:
THAT SlO7325!!
Treasurer BrcsIn, in response to a reso.u-
ton OF the House Of Representatives, has made
a Report, and the same is in print, showing
thai between the l4ih day Of November, and
the lGth day of January, on account of drafts
from the Board of Public Works one hundred
and sevea MouSand three hundred and twen.
tyfre dollars and twenty fire cents. This, be
1t observed, al season OF the year of all 9TH
ers requiring the smallest expenditures for re-
pairs. There had been no disastrous floods
or 9th proyiden!ial calamity causing dam
age requiring large and unuSull outluys
TO repair. The year passed had been signal
ized, perhaps beyond any other since the con-
snuclion -four Public Works. for exemption
from disasters of the kind. The fiscal year
| cl,cnc III, ba ldtl Of Nnuoo,bor 10 o,,l,; ,;ob
time the accounts are made up for publication
as information 10 the people. The show ing,
as thus prepared was bad enough. in all con-
science But resolution of the House calls
S forth the lurking fact that in the sixty days
t from the closing of that account, and while
the forces on the Public Works serp, OF
should have been dsbanded for the winter
the enormous sum Of more than one Hundred
: and sCpen Mousond dJlIors has been drawn
from the Treasury on account Of tie Public
Works. Thus reducing the net proceeds o
these works to less than forty eiyht Mousano
dollars for the year; while the State is pay
ing all annual interest on the cost of the con
i struct;on of only part of these works (fo
l.. the National Road was constructed by authori
ty of Congress of nine hundrrd and nine
teen thousand fee hundred d,NaJs! Shown!
e n loss to the State of eiyht hundred and Seren
y iy-One thousand fire hundred dollars per year
On the 7th day of January, inst, Conven
ton was held in this city, before The resclu
ton of the House had called Out the mySteri
ous facts of these heavy winter drafts upor
= the Treasury; and one of the present mem
n bcrs Of this famous Board of Public Work.
:. was nominated for re-election. Will that can
:, ddate explain to the tax-ridden people of tn,
" State the necessity for exhausting the Who'll,
q of the proceeds of the Public Works. in the
y most favorable season; and the propriety O
- hiding Sl07 900 from the public view until at
ter the nominating Convention? or will h.
send in his declinalion
The items constituting this sum of $l07
325,25 were apportoned among the diiferen
Public " orks as follows:
- Miami and Erie Canal SO 907 S
Ohio Canal Is S2S Z
% Muskingum Improvement IA 8
'r Hooking Canal 3 356 !
e Western Reserve and Maumee
q Road 600 o
National Road 279 5
~ Contingent Fund of Board ! 240
a. $lo7 325 2
,e T0r payers Of Ohio. stick pin there!
If the people OF Ohio desire to have thei
public works, which cost them so much monel
ever to pay the interest upon the debt whic
they cost. they should take good care tina
is the control of them should never be investe
S, in Board composed of nen OF one politics
d party. All parties should be represented
1, the Board. Let one watch the other, and i
!" this way the people and not the party will b
"a subserved. The recent development at CO
y umbus will, we believe, convince the peopl
lt that there exists great rottenness somewhere
aud that the time has come for radical reforr
in the Board. Let il be done at the mex
election, and those who have attempted {
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