Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-10-07


stead Of needing care and attendance Yet
Edwards charges the county 1SS cents a
day for waiting on each one of them. He
has been employed by the Clerk to take
some persons to tho insaneshospital. The
distrnce As ia miles, and hc is allowed
eight cents mile. and fifty cents per day
for board. He may take an assistant II
necessary, and the assistant IS allowed sev-
ten cents per mile. His own fees would be
SlS "a and the assistants fees would be
SIS 90. He took George Fall there, took
his own brother Elijah for an assistant-
he returned the writ under oath, and charg-
ed for hinaself and for the Assistant servi-
ces S4T %, making the distance about one
kindred and fsceHty-sir miles. lie kept
Fall about Il day and his whole lnli was
$50 l9 He kept Mrs BIoxam IL days;
and charged SO 90 R-r Corbaley was
going 10 indianapolis Oh visit and he
took her to the hospital alone. Edwards
returnrd the wit as though he had tslren'
her, and charged 32l 10 for his own ser
vices, and SIS 90 for an assistant. wsez
he atser wcRt from komc-and if he Fad,
he needed no assistant, and had he taken
one, the fees would have been only S54 20
for both, instead of $50 so He was en-
titled to one county ouler for S2I00. The
Auditor By mistgke filled ont two-but
they were .iysf alike. for the same scrrices
Of the same RuBlber, da,e and anoHlt.--
/ They hal to be rcceipiel for a Took. op-
posife the R'znsbcr that was Oh the order
/ He took the two orders from the Desl-re-
ceipted for one on the book, fthcre was no
/ place to receipt fer the ether for there could
be but one order Of number. and he had
no right to take both without receipting
for them. and took array both. Traded
one to Palmer and the other to Wester-
velt. They were presented for protest, and
the mistake was then discovered, and he
was notified, and hal the extra order de-
stroyed. lie certainly kacw when he took
the orders that he must receipt for both,
and that he was entitled to bnt one and
did he not also know then. that two hail
been issued by mistake Yet he keot both.
and said nothing about it. These arc a
fer of the charges, and allowances he has
made and taken, and among those that
make up the enormous sum of over Serc,
Hundred dollars, and more than dny Officer ~
tke state gets. In four'yc it would amour.
to nearly sir thousand dollars, and every
voter would have to pay about one dollar
ard forty cents per year TO keep him in Of
flee Hc says that if the Commissioners
see fit to allow it, hehss a right TO take
it. The Lac says that if he even rcce,pes
more than the compensation allowed Ly
law. and NOT the commissioners, he shall be
liable for extortion, and the allowance by
the Board of unlawful fc s. cannot make it
honest in him to receive them lie is act
ing aader cath. and the preyumption is.
that when be makes returns they arc tru-.
and the commissioners have no right to dis
pate a return that he had delivered Mrs.
Bloxam at the hospital, aud paid an assist
ant. the Auditor has no right TO dispue
it, although he knew that Edwards did
not go. For the law requires him to issue
the order on certificate. of the return being
made to him, and the Board have nothing
to DO with IT,
We deem it our duty to let the people
! know the facts. which they can find by call
ing at the Auditors office, without taking
any body's word for it. We have heard
, all of his explanations. and they do not
clear up the matter in the least We have
) no feeling against Mr.. Edwards or any
: one else, but if he has acted wrongly-he
should be prohibited from SO doing in fll-
: ture, and as these things are true his elep-
, tion by the people would be unlimited H.
cense to do as he pleased, aud he would
be at liberty to so receive it. If there
things are not go why did he NOT nuhliSh a
list of his charges; and show that tho re-
ports were false
. Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servants,
GROVE POMEROY.
ID. VINNEDGE. Sen.
GEO a DEMONT