Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-12-19
conntr Commissioned Roport


In accordance with the order ofthe Court
Of Common Pleas Of Fayette County, we
publish in to-day HERALD, the Annual
Report Of the County Commissioners, to-
gether with the Report Of the Committee
appointed by the said Court TO examine
the said Commissioners Report.
The first item in the report ofthe Com
mittee needs a little explanations for by
the simple reading Of that item, the reader
would naturally infer that the Committee
give it as their opinion that The $55 o.
allowed to W. O. Gould for publishing in
the Register. the Tax notice of cur County
Treasurer, and the 800 90 allowed to VIM.
Millikan for publishing the same thing
lis not authorized by law, tie said notice
being required to be published in some
newspaper Of general circulation"
We do not suppose that the Committee
intended to report that the appropriation
by the Commissioners for paying for the
publication in the HERArD was illegal, but
simply that the Commissioners had no
authority to pay for publishing the notice
in two papers. but that is not the con
truction that the common reader would
naturally put upon the language of the re.
port.
So faras it, the HERALD is concerned, we
claim that is "soME NEWSPAPER of general
circulation" and that the Treasurer's no
tico was published in said newspaper for
six weeks in succession. by the order Of
the Treasurer of Fayette county, who is
the only officer authorized by law to order
the publication ofsaid notiee;and that our
charge ofSlOO 90 was less than is custom
aFy for publishing the same kind and
amounto work in other papers in the State
Ifthe Commissioners, in allowing bills for
the publication of the said notice exceeded
their legal powers, it was in making an al
lowance to pay for publishing The adver-
tisement in paper, not authorized by the
County Treasurer to make the publications;
and the County Treasurer had no legal
authority to have it published in more
than one paper
Mr., Gould, it is true, published the said
notice without authority from the Treasur
cr, made out his bill at halfprce, upon the
old maxum that "halfa loaf is better than
no brcad.') presented it to the Commis-
sioners and demanded payment and thro'
his representations to the Board, that i'll
was customary in other counties to pub
lish in eAch of the two party par ers, and
pay for the same.out of the county Treas
nry, his bill was enormously audited and
paid. II is not true, however, that it is
customary in other counties to publish the
Treasurcrs Tax notice in two papers,
simply for the reason that there is no law
authorizing Treasurers to do so,
The fact thatthe Commissioners allowed
Mr.. Gould's bill for this work ia no more
to US than it is to any other taxpayer
What we wish the people ofthis county TO
understand is, that we published the no
tice by authority of the County Treasurer,
who furnished us with the manuscript
copyj and that Mr.. Gould published it
from the printed copy in tho HERALD, with.
out authority from the Treasurer; that the
bill for publishing it in the HERALD was
properly and legally allowed, while the
bill Of Mr., Gould was improper and in
consequence ofmisrcprcaentation was ille-
gally allowed, and paid.