Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-03
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

contingent fund bv the present Board Of CommIs-
amount issued by the former Board, all Of which
compounded In accordance with the contract origin
ally made by the irst Board Of Commissioners. At
this time the holders Of the warrants the general
fund made general outcry aainSt the action OF the
County Commissioners In setting apart onethird OF
sse Solr gd wS sus Which, nSon atinS
counsel, We deemed It inJudicious to defend We
therefore passed order abolShing the contingent
the amount OF Sll,IFS 81, which We sold for cash at
the rate Of sixtyeight cents the dollar, and re-
deemed all outstanding contingent warrants with
the money. After that fund was abolished we were
and Increasing wants OF this new county, and 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 us officers salaries, ETC.. believing that by so
doing we saved the county a large amount OF money
In the aggregate, for no one would sell the county
necesSaries less than coin price, and If We paid In
scrip invariably found that the price charged was
more In proportion than could cash the scrip for
ourselves and pay the bills in coin In other words.
the scrip price asked the county for everything pur
chased was ut about the rate Of two for one. As
long We acted upon this plan Of selling warrants
and paying bills in coin, our scrip never sold for less
than seventy cents on the dollar, and averaging
about seventy-four cents; and even In May last,
during the session of the last Grand jury sold TO
capitalist who was then equally as well informed
In regard to the financial condition OF the county as
when the report OF the Grand Jury was published,
warrants to the amount Of ten thousand dollars in
cash, at seventy cents on the dollar, but since the
action Of the Grand Jury condemning our plan OF
doing business for the county, scrip has fallen to
TWENTY-FIVE cents the dollar and that, too, In the
face of decision Of the Supreme Court that all taxes
must be paid in gold or silver coin, thus showing
that the fear OF our scrip being redeemed IN green
backs was uniounded. Under this state OF facts we
leave to the sound sense OF this community to de-
eide whether the course pursued by Us heretofore, In
selling warrants for the highest price, and paying our
bills In cash. not better for the interests Of the
county than the plan Rs S cognT S Te coS
missiouers In pursuance OF their Recommendation.
Accompanying this report will be found fall and
accurate statement Of all cash received by the Com
missioners for the sale OF warrants, and from all
sources, from January, A D., 1853 up TO the present
time; and also full statement OF the disbursements
of the money by them, as copied from the voncn-
ers during the same time, period OF about nine
The largest item of cash expended has been for
the County Hospital One Of the present Hospital
buildings had been commenced before our term of
office; that building has been completed and fur
niShed. Some time after Its completion under the
pressing demands for enlarged accommodations for
the indgent SICK and at the urgent request Of the
Grand Jury, the County Commissioners erected an
other building furnished II comfortably for the re
eeption Of those patients whose circumstances com,
the erection and furnishing Of the Hospital build
ingS and In procuring supplies and assistants for
R ws1 Snd % paN :h as
things could not be procured for scrip unless II was
issued at ruinouS rates to the county.
There has been admitted into our County HoSp-
tai, from the founding thereof to the pre- present
time, 7e0 patients; Of this number 40 have been
received during lhe present year. Large proper
tion of those admitted are properly Terri
here from California and other places; some
OF them belonged 10 other counties that are
not provided with Hospitals, Every Coun-
" In the Territory has had patients In our hos
pltal and We 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 10 pay whatever may be just and equit-
able. for the support OF their INDECENT sick In our
Hospital.
Another larxe item Of our cash expenditure, has
been the hitting up and furnishing Of our Court
House, which Includes our District and Probate
and County Clerks Offices also the Sherin7s Asses
sor's, Tax Collectors and Recorders Offices respec-
lively; 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 General Fund. Is that Of Jurors Fees, amount
ing In the aggregate to the sum Of 81 959 W. This
sum has been issued during the past year, yet a
larger 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
trict Court, who alone Is authorized to issue such
certificates 10 Jurors IN said Court; and whose
ticate Is by law prima facts evidence OF the Coun-
ty'S indie btednesS to Jurors
The presen; total Indebtedness Of the County
amounts to the sum Of Sl7i,lS9 %. a-..
From this report II will be seen that the expenses
of the County have been heavy for the past two
years, bur II should be borne in mind that ours Is
new County. We started without dollar In our
treasury; We hsl to provide for all the wants OF
new and growing county, at . time when every
thing was high, and money commanding high rates
of interest.
Our county being the centre Of the population in
the Territory, has Swelled our criminal expenses to
q large amount. Hundreds Of patients have been
admitted and cared for In our Hospital, who other
wise must have suffered or persisted for want Of ac-
commodatonS and attention, all OF which has helped
10 create present indebtedness, and although II
amounts 10 large sum, yet We have never allowed
claim against the county until We were satisfied
that IL was just For the future, our expenses will
not be as heavy as they have been heretofore, for
the reasons that our Court House and County
Ofices are now all finished: our Jail and the lot
on which It stands Is paid for; and the road TO
our Hospital is complete. our Hospital Grounds art
substantially enclosed; our large and commodious
Hospital Buildings finished, furnished and
supplied with all things necessary for the comfort OF
patients.
Although our wants as county are many and
large, yet our resources are great, and we are In
hopes our revenue for tn, present year will nearly
liquidate our Indebtedness
All of which is respectfully submitted 10 the people
H. H. FLAGG,
MARTIN WHITE,