Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-06
NEW TeDAY.

scrip weinvariably found that the price CHARGED was
more In proportion than We could cash the scrip for
ourselves and pay the bills In coin. In other words
the scrip price asked the county for everything ptr
chased was at about the rate OF two for one AZ
long as 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
a capitalist who was then equally as wen Informed
In regard to the financial condition Of the county
when the report of the Grand. 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 Grand Jury condemning our plan OF
doing business for the county, scrip has fallen to
TWENTY-FIVE cents on 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 N green
backs was unfounded. Under this state OF lacts We
leave 1t TO the sound sense OF this 70 de-
eide whether the course pursued by Us IN
selling warrants for the highest price and our
bills In cash. not better for the interests OF tne
county than the plan RECOMMENDED oy tne oa lsse
misSioners in pursuance Of their recommendation
Accompanying this report will be found ful and
accurate statement Of all cash received by the Con
missloners for the sale OF warrants, and nom all
sources, from January, a D. 1858 up 70 the pIesen
time; and also full statement OF the disbursements
OF the money by them, as copied from the yonch-
ers, during the same time, period OF about nine
teen months.
The largest item Of cash expended has been for
the County Hospital. One Of the present Hospital
ONCE; that building has been completed and fur
nlshed. Some time AFTER its completion, under the
pressing demands for enlarged accommodations for
me INDECENT SICK and at me urgent reques. q .s
other building furnished II comfortably, for the re-
ception of those patients whose circumstances COM
the erection and furnishing OF the Hospital build
ingS and in'procuring supplies and assistants for
the wants and comfort OF patients, the Commits
sioners found 1t necessary 70 pay cash, as many
n nj h0 II arri
Issued at rulnous rates to the county.
There has been admitted into our County Hospi-
ta from the founding thereof to the pre- present
time $50 patients; of this number $50 have been
received during 1he present year. large pr0por-
tIon Of those admitted sre properly Terri
torial patients, as they mad recently arrived rived
Of them belonged to other counties that are
not provided with Hospitals. Every Coun-
Sts a mi We Would recommep9 70 our deegatIon
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
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
and County Clerks Offices also the Sheri7s, Asses
sor's Tax Collectors and Recorders ofices respec-
lively; aud furnishing fuel for the same.
One OF the largest items which appears under the
head Of Expenditures fOt the past year drawn on
ing In the aggregate to the sum Of S32959 o. This
sum has been issued during the past year, yet a
larger portion OF the Indebtedness was incurred pre-
certificates OF service given by the Clerk OF the Dis
trict Court, who alone Is authorized TO Issue such
certificates to Jurors in said Court and whose GER
titcate is by law prma faca evidence Of the Coun-
TVS Indebtedness to Jurors,
The present total Indebtedness OF the County
amounts TO the sum OF STA ,lS9 O6.
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