The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-11-07
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Democrat of the 31st ult admits nearly
everything that charged upon you.
pass by your attempts at smartness, a'
they have no bearing upon the subject
You admit that you charged five pei
cent. for collecting the school house fund
and say that you did so "by special con
tract with the Board" That is virtually
admitting that the district meetings had
allowed only three per cent. ! will say
just this: if you had special contract
it can be shown, and would satisfy many
of YOUR friends, who have doubts on that
subject I will not say that there was
not such q contract, but l have good
reasons for believing there was none, and
if there was, you can produce it. Again
sir, if | can read, the law at that time
did not authorize the Board to make any
such contract, but said that the "guali
fed voters, when assembled shall have
the power to fix the compensation of the
Secretary and Treasurer Of the district
In reference to your charging ten per
cent. for collecting the rate bills, you
say:
"The absurity of his second charge,
in regard to the rate bills, is so obvious
in its statement that aay one but S. S.
Daniels would blush to make it. He
premises by stating that the law allowed
me 10 per cent. on all sums collected
from ten days after the close of the ses-
sion, and then makes himself ridiculous
by charging me with dishonesty in re.
ceiving the very percentage be before
conceded l was entitled to, or else he
would convey the idea tina. l had per-
formed the Hcrculean task of collecting
Sl,s6s within the ten days Immediately
following the close Ct the session, aud
consequently not entitled to any rcmuu-
Grafton for my labor. What consistent
decision. Truly Second Daniel has
come to Judgment or rather Daniels has
come to Judgment second time"
You say that you collected on rate bills
1855. l took my figures from report
of the Sub Director that was published
in the Advertiser, on the 24,h of July,
1858. In that report you are charged
with rate bills for four terms, and are
credited as follows:
BY amount Of vouchers and ten per cent
for collecting, &c, Sl,sG5 %
You admit that you charged ten per
cen: on the whole, for collecting. The
question is, whether you was entitled to
it. l don't believe you was, and here is
the law for my belief:
SEC. 5. The board shall have power,
and it shall be their duty,to fix the rate Of
tuition fees in their respective schools and
to designate a person, or persons, to
whom the same may be paid previous to
the issuing a warrant for the COLLECTION
thereof, and at Tie expiration of ten days
after the close Of each school term, to
make out "a "rate bill, containing the
name Of each person liable to pay tuition
fees, who shall not have paid them,
(prior to the ma liking out Of such rate
bilI' and issuing such warranty to the
person, or persons, designated by the
board for that purpose, and the amount
thereto sum not exceeding ten cents on
each dollar Of the sum due, for collectors
fees thereon, and to deliver such rate
bill, with the warrant annexed.
My judgmen. may be hard but | be.
l'eve it is according to law. You cbarg
ed those who paid within the ten days
just as much as you did those who paid
six months after the close of the term.
That was not the law and, as you did no.
follow 1t, you was not entitled to the ten
per cent or any part thereof. l know
your pecuIari,ies about being paid for all
You do, but you ought to know that if
you are going to take pay under law,
you mus, follow tina. law. If you should
be compelled to pay over the whole of the
ten per cent. that YOU have retained, a
| believe you should BE-, aud also two per
cent on the school house tax collected,
you would be working no cheaper than
other, just as good, men nave worked be-
fore you, 1t is said, and | think with
truth, that You charged five per cent. on
what was paid to you by your predeces,
sor, and also on certain notes Won took Of
those owing school house tax. Believing
these things to be true, have THOUGHT
that, as you have set yourself up as an
example before this wicked world, they
should be made known If YOU feel bad
about 1t, You must remember that you
made the facts while | have only told
them. S. s. Daniels.
The commander Of G. n. Fremou,'s
body guard, who led the brilliant and
successful attack on SprinofnId -, s.,