Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-08
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

contingent fund bv the present Board Of Commits
sioners for he sum OF SS66 Is, In addition to the
amount issued by the former Board, all Of which
compounded In accordance with the contract orgin.
ally made by the trSt Board Of Commissioners At
this time the holders Of the warrants on the general
fund made general outcry aAinst the action OF the
County Commissioners In setting apart one-third Of
the revenues 10 pay contingent warrants, and
threatened the Board with suit, which, upon taking
counsel, We deemed II nJudiclous to defend. We
therefore passed an order aboshlng the contingent
iGni and drew warrants upon the general fund 10
the amount OF las 81, which sold for cash at
the rate of siNtyelght cents on the dollar, and re-
deemed all outstanding contingent warrants with
the money. AiteT that fund was abolished We were
still obliged 10 have cash 10 provide for the numerous
anu Increasing wants Of this new county, anu We
continued to sell warrants believing that we were
authorized so TO DO, and pay the most OF our bills In
cash, excepting what WAS provided for by statute,
such officers salaries, etc., believing that by so
doing We saved the county large amount OF money
in the aggregate, for no one would sell the county
necesSaries less than coin price, and II we paid in
scrip invariLby found that the price charged
more in proportion than We could cash the scrip Tor
ourselves and pay the bills In con In other words,
the scrip price asked the county for everything prr-
chased was at about the rate Of two for one. As
long "a We acted upon this plan OF selling warrants
ami paying bills In coin, our scrip never sold for less
than seventy cents on the dollar, and averaging
about Seventy-iOur cents; and even in May last,
during the session OF the last Grand Jury, we sold TO
q capitalist who was then equally as well informed
in reari 10 the financial condition OF the county as
when the report OF the Grani Jury was published.
warrants 10 the amount OF ten thousand dollars In
cash. at seventy cents on the dollar, but since the
action Of the Granl jury condemninS our plan OF
doinS business for the county, scrip has ialien TO
twenty-five cents on the dollar and that, too. In the
lace OF decision OI the Supreme Court that a taxes
must be paid in gold or silver con thus showing
that tne lear o. our scrP being & TsaseeI ~ IN SIesn en-
leave 10 the sound sense OF this community TO de-
eide whether the course pursued by Us heretofore, In
selling warrants for the highest prise and paying our
bills cash. not better tor the interests OF the
county than the plan recommended by the last
Granl Jury. ami now followed by the County Com
.a.SSiOne-s in pursuance OF their Recommendation.
Accompanying this report will be iounl fuil and
accurate statement Of ali cash received by the Com
miSSioners for the sale OF warrants. and from all
sources, from January A. D., lsoJ up TO the present
time; ana also full Statement OF the disbursements
o; the money by tleTn, Is copied from the youch-
erS, during the same time, period Of about nine
teen months.
The largest item of cash expended has been tor
the County Hospital One of the present Hospital
buildings had been commenced before our term Of
office: that building has been completed AMI FUR
nishei. Some time after its completion, under the
pressing demands for enlarged accommodations for
the inigeni sick, and at the urgent request OF the
Grand Jury. the County Commissioners erected an
O;her building furnished II comfortably, for the re-
cepton o. those patients whose circumstances conf
PEELED them TO apply TO the county for relief In
the erection and furnishing OF the Hospital build.
ingS, and in procuring supplies and assistants for
the wants and comfort OF patients, the Commi5-
stoners round Il necessary 70 pay cash, as many
thinS could not be procured for scrip unless was
issued at runouS rates to the county.
Taere has been admitted into our County Hospi-
tai. from the founding thereof 10 the pre- present
time. 80 patients; OF this number 80 have been
received during lhe present year. large proper
ton Of those admitted are properly Terri
toyial patients. as they had recently arrived
OF them belonged 10 other counties that are
not provided with Hospitals Every Coun-
y in tae Territory has had patients in our hos
pital AMI would recommend TO our delegation
In the next Legislature to procure the passage OF
law for the protection OF Storey county. and by
which other counties, and the Territory, shall be
compelled TO pay whatever may be Just and eqult-
able. for the support Of their INDECENT sick In our
Hospital.
been the hitting up and furnishing OF our Court
House. which Includes our District and Probate
Court Rooms. the judges Chambers, the District
anG County Clerks oIiices also the Sherifs, Asses
sors. Tax Collectors ami Recorders Offices respec-
IIve!y; and furnishing fuel for the same.
One Of the largest items which appears under the
head Of Expenditures for the past year. drawn on
the Iienerai Fund, is that Of Jurors Fees amount
ius In the aggregate 10 the sum OF S2,95S " This
sum has been issued during the past year. yet 4
larer portion of the Indebtedness was incurred pre-
viously, the warrants for which were issued on the
certificates OF service given BY the Clerk OF the Dis
trct Court, who alone Is authorized to issue such
certificates TO Jurors in said Court and whose Ger
iitcae is by law pTima faeia evidence Of the Coun
Tvs Indebtedness TO Jurors.
The present total indebtsdness OF the County
amounts TO the sum Of Sl7+,lsg O6.
From this report IL will be seen that the expenses
Of the County have been heavy for the past two
wears, Dut II SlOuIl Oc DOsue IN -
new County. We started without q dollar In our
treasury; We had TO provide for all the wants OF
new and growing county, at time when every
taing was high and money commanding high rates
OF interest.
Our county being the centre Of the population in
the Territory. has sweed our criminal expenses to
a LARGE amount. Hundreds Of patients have been
admitted and cared for in our Hospital. who other
wise must have suffered or perisaed for want OF &C.
AMI attention, all Of which has helped
10 create present Indebtedness, and although II
amounts to a large sum, yet We have never allowed
4 claim against the county until We were satisfied
that II lust. For the future our expenses Will
not be as heavy as they have been heretofore, for
the reasons that our Court House and County
Oniees are now all finished: our jail and the lot
on which IL stands Is paid for; and the road TO
our Hospital Is complete. our Hospital Grounds are
substantially enclosed; our large and commodior,
Hospital Buildings are finished, furnished and
supplied with all things necessary Tor the comfort OF
patients.
ALTHOUGH our wants as u county are many and
large yet our resources are great, and We are In
hopeS our revenue for tbs present year will nearly
uquiGate our Indebtedness.
An Of which Is respectfully submitted to the people
H. II. FLAGG,
MARTIN WHITE,
CHAS. II. KNOX,
County Commissioners.
Virginia August 5tb, 1854. aus 81
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