New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-03-22


Adam Drum " Cons't. $3.50. $3.50
Wm, Buckland " $3.50. $1,5O
H. Gage, IS. 85
w. Blackburn, :" sl,75. sl,75
Moses NJ, es'Sfi1s., Niles, Committee.
S. W. Seely,
On molten of Mr.. Ostrander, the report was
received. ....
On motion Of Mr.. Salmon the report was
adopted.
Mr.. Radford from committee on Justices
and Coroners accounts, offered the following
report.
To the Board of Supervisors of Howard
County, Iowa. Your Committee on Justices
and Coroncrs accounts, would respectfully
submit the following report.
We recommend that the claim of A. J.
Garnsey for Justices fees be allowed.
On motion Of Mr.. Carey, the report was
received.
On motion of Mr.. Ostrander, the report
was adopted.
Mr. Carey from the committee on Clerk of
the District Court accounts, offered the fol-
lowing report
To The Honotable Board o. Supervisors of
Howard County Iowa.
Your com nsatte on Clerk of the District
Court accounts respectfully beg leave to rep
resent that the accounts and books; which
should have been kept by Mr.. J. H. B. Harris;
are in such confusion, that your COM
mittee were utterly unable to audit
said accounts, or examine said books.
Your committee found that the whole bus.
ness transacted at the last October term Of
the District Court was unrecorded, not even
the judgments having been entered up, ma
king it utterly impossible for the present
Clerk to issue executions, or proceed to collect.
We also found that executions had been iss-
ued and collected without the proper record
of the issuing and returning having been made
We are also informed that the making and
footing of the tax list which should have
been done by said Clerk by the first Monday
in November ofeach year, in order that it
may be charged up to the Treasurer and re-
ported to the Auditor of State, was not so
footed in 1859, until February A. D. 1860 and
that the tax list for 1860, was not prepared
until the lst. Of January A. D. 1861, was not
footed nor formally delivered and receipted
nor is it shown by said books that said Clerk
has made any report Of said tax to said Audit
or OF State as redulreu Dy IaW
And your committee would frrther report
that considerable suAs of money have been
received by said Clerk as shown by his re-
ceipts; for instance, his receipt on execution
in case of Lewis VS.. Serfoss, for One Hundred
and seventeen and 39-100 Dollars, and 9TH
ers fr which this county can show, neither
vouchers or credits, said Clerk having failed
to leave receipts, or pay ever said funds to his
successor in Office.
Your Committee would also say that we
sent for said Clerk for personal explanation
of said accounts; he said he had done all the
work for Howard County he should without
pay, unless compelled by duty: said former
CLERKS accounts were unfinished, therefore
his were in the same condition, said the Law
yers in q certain case had got the papers from
him, therefore be had failed to enter up any
of the cases for the October term; also &C
knowledged receiving payment for this work,
he expressed willingness to do said work
for which he had been paid, provided it
would be legal.
We are also informed that his attention
has been frequently called to this woIk, but
he has entirely neglected it. We asked him
about the receipts for money paid over to him
by virtue of his Office for third persons, he said
that was psrsonal matter of his, that he
kept said receipts for his own protection, that
the said money for Lewis he had sent by
draft to said Lewis Lawyer, and he had
heard nothing from it. that this county had
no right to said receipts and could not have
them but at the end of the law; also acknowl-
edged having at home, receipts relating to
School Fund. Therefore your committee
would most respectfully recommend that your
Honorable Body request the present Clerk to
call upon said JAS H. B. Harris for all pa
pers, receipts, moneys or other things belong
ing to said County of Howard, now in possess
ion of said Harris, and that he accounts for
all property received by him by virtue of the
Office of the Clerk of the District and County
Courts. And that he be requested to make
such arrangements with the present Clerk IN
relation to recording the business OF said
Court and County as shall be satisfactory and
legal. We would beg leave to refer your
Honorable Body to section 20SO, page 1868
of Revised Code, in relation to delivery OF
papers &c. ..
Your committee would further recommend
that in accordance with the statutes III rea-
tion to compensation of Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors your Honorable Body allow said
Clerk the reasonable sum of Six Hundred
Dollars per annum in all, or Four Hundred
over and above his regular fees from District
Court and other sources.
s: s. VI ". Gsss!' seei!y, Committee.
]. H. Boggess
On motion of }. w. Baird the report was
received.
CIV. Ostrander moved that the report be
adopted.
S. Radford moved to amend the report by
striking out the words 'or Four Hundred Do
lars over and above his regulrr fees from
District Court ahd other sources; the amend
ment carried.
J. w. Baird moved to amend the repor
by striking out the words lin alp and insert