Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-09-21


 treasurer or the Responsibility of the trea- surer and his securities, but there uas e treasurer of the county who had executed bond as such, which was perfectly good, and he was the only indicidual of the coun ty authorized to receive the county revenue after the collector made his settlement with the county court, under the following law: (Gould's Digest, Chap. 147, sec. 6, :, and s, page 9l1.)
 SEC. 6, Every collector of the county revenue, having made settlement according to law, of the county revenue received and collected by him, shall bay the amount found due from him into the county trea- surv, and the treasurer shall give duplicate receipts for the amount received, one of which shall be filed by the collector in the office of the clerk of the county court"
 SEC. '. The county revenue. due each county shall be paid to the county treasurer by the collectors as soon after the twenty fifth day of May, in each year, as the con " court may determines
 SEC. s. Every collector who shall fail to make payment of he amount due from him on settemcu, ia ho time and manner prescribed in tha preceding section, shall forfeit and pay to the county the sum of five Der ccntUm per month on the amount wrongful'y withheld, 10 be computed rom the time payment ought to have been made untilaetual payment, which may be recover ed by suit on his official Lond."
 Judge Davis knew this law-the collector knew it--both had taken an oath to sup port that law, and by reference to section F. of the above chapter the treasurer is elected for two years, and holda his office uRtil his successor is elected and qualified The people of the county, was and is, in need of herrevenue, and 1t was as much the duty of the county collector to have paid the county revenue unto the county treasurer ! for the benefit of the whole people as 1t was to settle with the State treasurer at the seat of government, but it has not been done, and the collector when there is suit insti. tuted on his official bond, will fail to pro- duce his receipt from the county treasurer for the $6664 II. which Judge Davis has been using and enjoying since the 9th day of last June The record shows that Judge Davis executed no bond to the county or her attorney to guard and protect her in- tereot agliust uncertainties What be- comes of tie above amount of money ii Judge Davis dies? il goes to his a1miuis- trator or eXecutor, and thence to his heirs is the answer of every lawyer.
 But return to the above order, and Judge Davi, plan fproluction and obtain ment Judge Davis ii themonth- of last April wanted funds, and announced to tht county court that the trtasuIcrof the county would prove dcfaulter to large amount This was an iguominous report, and being put ip circulation by Judge Davis whil, holding countv court it wore the garb O yerity, and produced the alarm in the mind, of the members (magistrates) of the cour and the people. which was essential before hc could ask for the above order in hi favor. The report of dedication was no verified, and never will be, as the treasure and his securities are good for $500 coo
 June the 9th, 1859, the alarm hell of l" falcation in the treasurer was sounded il the month of April previous-.Judge Davis the magistrates, (only a few of the county, the county collector, and the county Urea Surcr, assembled at Lake Village, the sea of justice. Judge Davis first takes th, collector (who did not account for som S600 of road scrip,) and has a long inter view-he tlen takes the treasurer and afte communing with him some time, takes hi seat upon the bench-the sheriff opens court and Judge Davis, with the county collecto by his side on the bench. stated that th collector by error of his deputies, could no account for the amount of road scrip abov mentioned, and wanted the court to eXcus him and not hold him to account. Tn magistrates upon Judge Davis statemen or motion released him (no law for thi release Judge Davis then farther stated that the treasurer (whom he had denounce, as detanlter, in order that he might keeI the collector and the members of the cour from allowing any funds of the county t, go to his hands, did not want to incur tn, responsibility Showing 4 disposition f, protect him now of receiving from the col Icctor the amount he would be owing tn, county treasurer as county revenue, anc called on the treasurer to make his state ment. The treasurer then rose and reiterated what Judge Davis had just said upon the matter, and closed his oration by hoping the court would relieve him of his respon sibility-the treasurer having closed his ora ton Judge Davis thus bcgan-''I thnl the collector had better pay the S6GG4 [ due the county into court, and then su" gestcd that an order De made for that bur pose'-the order was made (but does no tvr y,-l lo+
 son as the orderabove copied from the coun ty court record would have one believe. Judge Davis then moved the court to le him have the S6664 74, and he woulC hold 1t in trust for the county, and the orde for his benefit was made and no doubt witt an eye to the virtues of the Judge Every thing goes to show that this plan of Judge Davis to get six thousand, six hundred and siXty-tour dollars and II cents of tho county revenue, was formed in one o1 the back chambers of his brain. How did he know the wants of the treasurer and col lector without previous interview? Was it the business of the county court (JudgC Davis to release the collector and relieve his deialting treasurer? The law does not recognize any such proceeding. The judge of court should have no favorites and ali his acts should be perfectly unset fish. Who ever heard tell of judge O a court, having an order made for his be nefit, Tn the court of which he was tn, iudge?-no one; the order shows that Judg, Davis was to make his report at the Jul, term of the county court, and show how he had executed his trust. The recorC shows that he made no report-his name i not on the books in any manner that show. 1t; and this is all we can rely upon to prove a settlement with the county. The abov, IS Judge Davis work from June 9th. 1859 to the adjourned term of July-which wa closed on the Sth of August; and now fo his county scrip speculation which is founC on the 3olSt page of the same record, an, was conducted in court in this wise: Lat, in the adjourned term August, (only six o seven people present. Judge Davis unroll, a large bundle of county scrip. and inform ed the court that gentleman of St. Louis Missouri, had put in his possession six hun . l 1ral IOl1arc yt-cr+l ,f n AL .I