The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-09-03

tee submit his account with the Stale, OF
which the following is synopsis;
! Total amount collected by Bur-
ton as Commissioner Of Inter-
nal Improvements, s5+,5l7 4s
Total amount paid by him into
the Treasury 1858 81
Balance due the State, S35,S23 81
Burton, as Secretary of State,
also received from the various
Railroad Companies for the
engraving of bonds, done at
the expense of the State, 713 90
Total amount Of deficit, $36,536 81
An act passed January 26, l84s, makes it
the duty of the Governor to require the See
retary Of State, before he enters upon the
discharge of his duties MS Commissioner of
Internal Improvements, to execute bond,
with good and sufficient security, in the sum
of 100000, conditioned to account for and
pay over all moneys as provided for in said
act. The committee would state that they
have carefully examined the registry of bonds
in the office of Secretary of State, and the
papers and books of the Circuit Court of
Davidson county, where the Secretary's bond
is required by law to be deposited, and have
not been able TO find the bond of Mr.. Burton,
as Commissioner of Internal Improvements,
and are satisfied that The Governor failed TO
take the same.
MosBy's POPULATIONS.
In regard TO Thomas +. Mosby, the COM
mittee would state that Mr.. Mosby con fessed
to them, as before incidentally stated, that he
had taken and appropriated to his own use,
FIVE bonds belonging to the Bank of Taze-
well, of $1,000 each, four of which were
Nashville and Chattanooga (Railroad) bonds,
and one city of Memphis bond, also, from
the Bank Of Trenton, two city Of Memphis
bonds. The committee would further state,
that Mr.. Mosby sold two coupons to II. Nc
Lain, Esq, of Nashville, and he appears 10
have received, January, %, 1858, from the
Merchants Bank of New York, payment for
fifteen coupons. Gen. b. F. Cheathan, in
his deposition, states that "sometme during
the winter of 1878, while in conversation
with Thomas Mosby, on Cherry street, near
his room, Mosby took from his vest pocket
small package that took to be coupons, and
remarked, there raS t,oenty: fire hundred dol
lars" He further states that 81 once after.
wards saw him with a small quantity in bulk
he did not state the amount, but from my
knowledge of coupons, at once supposed
they were coupons in his hands officially for
collection"
The committee would state that for sete.
raj years, while Mr.. Alosby was clerk in The
ComptroIler's Office, the coupons paid upon
the warrant of the Comptroller, were very
carelcssly kept in n fig box in that office,
without being cancelled, and that il would
have been an easy matter for these coupons
to be abstrabtrG from the office, and again
presented for payment, and the Comptroller
be unaware of the fraud. Holders of cou-
pons often delay their presentation for pay
ment for one or two years, consequently the
interest varies so much yearly, that the coma
mittee are unable to determine at what time
and 10 what extent coupons have been taken;
but they are satisfied that coupons have been
purloined by some one, presented again to
the Comptroller and again paid by him.
From the fact that the annual interest due
and paid in 1853, and the aggregate due and
paid in the years 1851, 1852, 1853 and 1854,
nearly balances, they are induced to believe
that the loss occurred after the 1st January,
1866.