Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-10-01

per receipt, $l2763, 7O-percentage on $4,000
at 10 per ct.i $Io0O-percentage on $445O, Al
at per ct, l78.01-amount in Collectors
hands, S5O8, 76-total $I445O,47. TO amt
/ due Boise county on property tax, $5O8, TO-
This is to Sept. 23d, 1864.
! S. Pinkham, tax-eollector, in account with
Boise county to total amount of licenses col
lected to Sept. 5th, 1864, $l480O; by cash
paid County Treasurer as per receipt, $I4279,-
47-cash in collectors hands, $520,53. Sep
t9mber 9Th, total amount due Boise county
on license account, $520,53j
If the tax-collector is allowed by law per-
centage on licenses collected, as be claims,
he would be entitled to a credit of $499, AZ
percentage, and then the total amount of
money remaining in his hands would be
$529,8 80.
S. Pinkham, tax-collector, in account with
Boise county, to 33l2 poll-tax receipts reed
at 81 each, $l3248; by 2O2 receipts returned,
$8O8-by cash paid Co. Treasurer, $II196-
by percentage on $12440 at 10 per Ct, 1924
total, $l3248.
~, Jonas W. Brown, do hereby certify that
have examined the books of the County
Auditor and Treasurer, also the Assessment
Roll for 1864, and that the within is correct
statement of the poll-tax account, license ac-
count, and the amount of taxes on property
collected for the year 1864.
September %, 1864.
JONAS W. B Brown"
In addition to the above, your committee
would earnestly recommend to the attention
of the Grand Jury the vital necessity that
exists for more rigorous economy in regard
to the keeping of prisoners. By one report
it will be seen that almost one entire third of
the whole indebtedness of our county has
been incurred by this class of persons alone.
1t is not that we have any ground of COM
plant with reference to the management of
the present Sheriff, for we believe he has
economical as much as possible, bat that the
fault lies almost wholly with the action of
the District Attorneys who have filed the of
fee previous to the present one, and to the
Board of County Commissioners in allowing
either exorbitant bills, or bills that should
not have been allowed at ALL The INDECENT
sick account is a subject of equal Importance
with the above, and should be looked care
fully into by those who have it in keeping
We would also state that Mr. Underwood, the
present Auditor, rendered US every possible
assistance in his power, in explaining and
assisting us in making out the above abstract,
lin fact, we have the same to say of Mr.. S.
Pinkham, Mr.. Vajen the County Treasurer,
also the County Assessor, and the entire wish
of all the county officials was to have their
accounts looked into and set before the peo-
pie.
To casual observer it might seem that
this, the report of your committee, is perhaps
too brief, and that much more elaborate
might have been given; your com
mittee would simply say that in arriving at
the results shown in the above report, they
have accomplished all that can beaccomplsh- !
ed in the premises, and all that is necessary
without making complete transcript of the
books of the county-this we deem superAu-
Gus, and hence submit the same for the con-
sieeration of the Grand Jury, and also every
citizen of the county. FRANK BRITrEN,
Jos. 81. BRADLEY,
JONAS W. Brown,
JOHN CHARLTON.