Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-26
A CARD.
AuDIroR's OFFICE, WHEELING,
WEST VA, Aug. 25. 1863.

/ A CARD.
AuDIroR's OFFICE, WHEELING, |
WEST Va, Aug. %, 1868.
To the Public:
The removal of the books and paper
of the late Auditors office, and the sur
rendering of them to Gov. Pierpoiut, is
Subject that is being used BY designing
men throughout the country to my preju
reason of the neglect of official duty on ny
part as the late Auditor of the State O
| Virginia this necessity arose.
| have suffered this charge to go uncor.
rected until find that cannot allow il
to go further without notice. I therefore
submit the following as statement of this
facts, accompanied by the publication o
the law said to be violated; as also the
official Hacts" that accompanied the re-
removal of these books and papers, that
the public may judge for themselves who
it is that is to blame for their removal
On the Sd day of February, 1868, the
General Assembly of Virginia passed the
following act:
1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of Virginia, That all property, real,
personal and mixed, owned by or apper-
tanning to this State, and being within the
boundaries of the proposed State of West
Virginia, when the same becomes one of
the United States, shall Lhereupon pass to
and become the property of the State OF
West Virginia, aud without any other as
signment, conveyance, transfer or delivery
than is herein contained; and shall include
among other things not herein specified,
alllands, buildings, roads aud other inter-
nal improvements, or parts thereof situa-
ed ~; ha
vested in this State, or in the President
and Directors of the Board of the Literary
Fund, or Board of Public Works thereof,
or in any person or persons, for the use of
this State to the extent of the interest and
estate of this State therein; and shall also
include the interest of this State, or of the
said President and Directors, or of the said
Board of Public Works, in any parent bank
or branch doing business within the said
boundaries; and all stocks of any other
company or corporation, the principal of
fee or place of business whereof is located
| within the said boundaries standing in the
name of this State OF of the said President
or Directors, or o.. the said Board of Pub.
lie Works, or of any person or persons, for
the use of this State.
q. Be it further enacted, That all unpaid
and uncollected arrearages of taxes on
lands, town lots, property tax, capitation
tax, license tax, militia fines, fines imposed
by courts, forfeitures and penalties, be-
longing to the State in the hands of sher.
ifs, collectors or individuals, in any or all
of fthe counties embraced within the bound
aries of the proposed State of West Vir-
giria, as also all bonuses on the capital
stock OF any bank, taxes on the dividends
declared by any bank, savings institution
or insurance company; dividends on stock
owned by the State, or by the Board of
Public Works, or the President and Di-
rectors of the Board of the Literary Fund,
| in any bank, bridge or other corporation
in any one of the counties aforesaid; also
taxes on seals, deeds, wills, writs and 9TH
er legal processes due from the clerks of
the courts, notaries public or the Secreta-
ry of the Commonwealth; taxes on passen-
gers aud tonnage due from railroad com.
panies, taxes on bank notes or other prop
erty transported by express companies
within the counties aforesaid; also all fines,
forfeitures and penalties incurred by rail-
roads, express companies or other parties or
persons within the counties aforesaid; also
all judgments, DEGREES or penalties incur
red by officers of the State, railroad or ex-
press companies, or other persons before
or since the reorganization of the State
government at the city of Wheeling; also
all suits and their results now pending in
the name of the Board of Public Works, or
of the President and Directors of the Board
of the Literary Fund in any court of any
of the counties aforesaid; also all taxes on
lands, town lots, property tax, capitation
tax. license tax, assessed in the counties
aforesaid. and due the State for the year
1868, in the hands of officers of the State
or individuals, together with all the rights
of the State, or of the Board of Public
Works, or of the President and Directors
of the Literary Fund to any aud all mo.
news and claims in the counties aforesaid
that may not be specifically mentioned in
this act, but that rightfully belong to the
State or corporations for the use of the
State, shall be the property of the State of
West Virginia, when the same shall be-
come one of the United States.
3. It shall be the duty of all sheritfs or
collectors of the public revenue, also of all
presidents or other officers of railroad, ex-
nress. bridge or internRl Improvement
companies, presidents and other officers of
hanks. savings banks and insurance COM
NAMES. clerks of courts, notaries public,
the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and
of individuals owing or having money in
their hands due the State, or the Board of
pnblic Works, or the President and Direc-
tors of the Board of Literary Fund, in any
of the counties aforesaid, to pay the same
into the treasury of the State of West Viz
ginia when the same shall become one Of
the United States.
q Re IL further enacted, For the purpose
of carving this act into effect, that snits
NAV be brought in the name of this Com
monwealth for the use of the State of West
West Virginia, when 1t becomes one of the
United States, or any bond or claim which
shall pass to or become the property Of
the State Of West Virginia by virtue ofthis