The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-08-04
& COUNTY TREASURER.

lat, He has never pursued the system Of &C
counts required by the statute, thereby prolongins
the labors of. the committee, and defeating in q
measure the objects Of the investigation SO far
they relate to this branch of the County orgaui
cation. He has departed from that system in
these essential particulars.
a: His accounts do not show the dates on which
county warrants have been redeemed, and the
Interest accruing at time -redemption-p. sol
1918.
b. They do not show any evidence of the fact
that he has redeemed the warrants of the County,
or in other words, he has never deposited the re.
tdeemed paper of the County in the hands of the
County Auditor and taken the receipt of that off
Ger for thesame as required by law-p. sol, Sl2I.
| Under these circumstances the Committee have
been reduced to the necessity of assuming that
his books, and his verbal statement that the war
rants have been burned, are correct. ~
c. They do not show that he has made the set
Elements required by law with the Comfy and
Territorial Auditors, or the amount Of moneys on
hand at any stated period-p. SOP, Sl26 and 124,
| and p. 428s $50. ssEs84tIse oaE s73tfGf Aafft
d. They do not show that he has ever attempted
to keep downlthe interest on the public debt, by
giving notice as required by law that there were
funds to satisfy the same
e.. They do not show any settlements with ihe
Tax Collector as provided for by s3l of the Reve
nue. Act. s. Asse -
f. They do not show achether or not lie ever re.
ceived any taxes on the s"Delinquent List" and
underline provisions Of SS4 of sale act.
g.. They do not show any account kept with the
County Auditor Of licenses issued during his term
of Office, thereby entirely precudng the Commits
sioners from any nq uiry upon this point, and re
moving the only evidence which would tend to
establish the correctness or incorrectness of the
books of the County Auditor.
LIST. By this inexcusable neglect of duty the
intent of the law that he should act in this par>
ticular as a check upon the County Auditor, is
frustrated and an unknown amount screened
I'd. He has deducted and credited himself with.
a per centage upon Territorial Funds, when by
The positive and unmstakable language of the.
statute he had forfeited the same-p. 429, $50. 81
Sd. He has charged, contrary to law, the funds
turned over to him by his predecessor in office
with per centage--p. 5O2 Sl23. sg.
4th.. He has violated the provision of the stat.
ute by charging per centage Of over per cent.
upon the gross amount of all moneys received, in
Guiding those appropriated by law fer school fund
purposes-p. 5O3, $3.50.
s.. He has illegally paid Especial warrants
to the amount of slS,717.12, p. 5O1, SI22.
9Th. He has entirely failed to show what dispo-
siton was made of the overplus i. E. down weight
which must necessarily have accrued in collecting
$85 900 in small amounts. His books simply eyi.
dence the receipt of the exact amount, to- w.t.
the sum above mentioned.
Query-If he received only $85. 900 how could he
have expended said amount upon county warrants
drawn III the majority of instances for small sums
without sustaining loss on the down weight.
Yet singular as it may seem has books balance II
he attempts to explain this by saying that the
down weight arising on the collection of the mon
eys supplied this deficiency. then as necessary
consequence he must have received more funds
than he has accounted for.
Why was not this account kept, and thereby
enable the representatives Of the County 10 ascer
tain the amount of profit or loss upon the gross
amount of moneys received and disbGrsed? Ow
ing to lack Of data the labors of your Committee
on this subject must terminate where they cons
nlenced, and they reluctantly leaving this very
interesting question involving several thousands
of dollars in the same questionable shape in which
it first presented itself.
7th. By illegally paying special warrants tothe
extent of about SIS 1872 and by failing to redeem
the public paper iii its order of priority, your
committee find that the credit Of the County has
been seriously injured, and that large interest
debt has accumulated, the amount (which it is
impossible to estimate owing to the peculiar (?)
condition in which they find the accounts of this
Office.
9Th. Upon careful examination of the Terri>
terial Fund as paid over by the late Treasurer to
the present incumbent, we find that large por-l
ton of it consists of the valuable article known toll
the commerce of this section of country as ''For>
ence sand, as in many instances of like charac-
ter which have arisen during the course of our
we most content ourselves with
the bare announcement of the fact. How, when
or where the said fund was thus manipulated are
merely matters OF conjecture and delicacY forbds
our indulging in any surmises which might reflect |
upon the high moral character Of the
DnrtleS thrOuOh whose hands it ma 3end