The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-08-28

nthe column of receipts, in the account
for 1856, there is an entry, in the very
words of the entry of $40, ,l23, in the
column Of receipts for 1859; yet you did
not, in your statement for 1856, add the
amount of that entry to the sum total of
expenditures. 1t was curious freak of
memory, that III the short space of time
occupied in writing your letter, what you
understood when you referred to the
Treasurer's report for 1856, you forgot
before you referred to his report for 1859.
You have, therefore, overcharged to
the cost of construction in South Carroll
ma and Georgia, the sum of S149, ,123,
when you added that amount to the sum
total of expenditures.
By your own statement you admit that
the cost of the work done in Tennessee is
included in the sum total Of expenditures
which you have charged to the cost Of
the road in SoutlECarolina and Georgia.
You make your own estimate of what
was the cost of the work in Tennessee and
state it to be S166,GGG. This amount you
accordingly deduct from what you charge
to have been tho cost of the work in
South Carolina and Georgia. You should
have deducted 100000, which was, at
least, the cost Of the work in Tennessee
1t may be more, but from an examine
ton Of the books am sure it is not less
than that sum- The difference of what
you do deduct from the cost of the road
in South Carolina and Georgia, and the
actual cost, which should be deducted is
$4,000. This is another overchargc in
your statement.
Your mode of attaining the cost of the
road in Tennessee cannot be passed with
out remark You say the Trcaslwer's
report does not state the amount. But
you assume two-thirds Of S250,000, the
County and individual subscription in
Tennessee, which is S16G,GG6 to be the
cost of the work in Tennessee. Tho Re-
ports would have shown you that, in Or
der to comply with the conditions Of the
Tennessee charter and Of the Act grant
ing State aid, seventeen miles Of the road
out from Knoxville had been nearly fin
ished You might have seen in the Re
port Of 1856, Col. Gwynn's estimate of
the cost Of the grading in Tennessee
to be $4,000, and Of the whole road in
Tennessee 81, ,537 900, and also that the
section of seventeen miles, which was
nearly completed, While it is only thirty
per cent Of the length Of the road. is cs
timatcd to cost .torty-oae per ceat. of the
entire cost. Forty-onc per cent. of the
grading would be $4,000. If you had
used these Reports, you might have made
a nearer estimate than you have done.
When to S242, 900, the amount of over
charges, before stated, arc added sl49,-
OO0 and $4,000, they exhibit an aggre-
gate Of errors and ovcrcharges Of S527, :
600, i'll your statement Of 100000 as the
excess Of cost over the estimate Qor
South Carolina and Georgia. UP to Dc
eeMlc", 1889"
If Col Gwynn's estimate, in 1850, OF
the cost Of completing the road from An
dcrson to Clayton did not include the
Whitmirc fill, your estimate Of the cost OF
completing the road from Clayton to
the North Carolina line may be correct
But if the Whitmire fill is included in
that estimate, it is probable $4,000 pei
mile will complete the road for the gra
ding from Clayton to the North Carolina
line is very light, and so nearly finished
that the cost Of completing it must be
very inconsiderable. IN this case, Sis;
900 more must be added TO the sum O.
your errors.
expect you to reply that my exhibi
ton of errors does not apply to yom
statement; that what you intended t(
show is not that the actual cost Of tho
work in South Carolina and Georgia cx
ceeded the estimated cost, but that the
expenditures for and about the work il
South Carolina and Georgia exceeded the
estimate Of the cost of the road in thos'
States. 1t is precisely Of that I have
right to complain as unfair. You profes:
to make statement of the cost Of th'
work compared with the estimate, ano
yet you charge to the cost of the worl
not only the expenditures for its construc
ton, but, also, the sum total of all tho
extraordinary and contingent expenses