Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-08
THE SURVEYOR GENERAL ON
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State oficers-in his recently published
repor, is decidedly severe on the state
Board of Examiners. Under the head
| of contingent expenses of office, Up.
a. and 49)-he says that he was told,
last year, by persons whom he deemed
authorized to inform him, that the
Board of Examiners could allow his ac-
count for contingent expenses Of office;
and hence no bill for his relief was then
introduced. On April 20, 1866, he for
warded his account to the Board, for
con,ingents, amounting to SIP. He
publishes the reply which he received
on the 10th of May, 1866, and which
| officially reads:
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE,
Carson City, New, May Ii, 1866. !
Hon. S. II. MARLErrE,
Surreyor General, Virginia city, Ner.:
SIR-The following was the action on
your bill by the Board of Examiners,
April 30, 1866, viz: Approved for Si5.I5,
being amount Of proper contingent ex-
penses since January l, 1866. Rent
deemed improper charge, because there
is no authority Of law for allowing the
Surveyor General an office. Porterage
and printing Errata deemed improper
charges. All expenses incurred in 1864
and 1865 are rejected, on the ground
that the .4naual Report Of the Surveyor
General for the year 1865 page 2s)
shows that up to the close OF that year
the Surveyor Generals office had been
running on its W responsibility, and
paving its own expenses for p~ostofice
and express charges, stationery, fuel,
rent, etc. You will 6nd u warrant for
the amount approved, at the Controller
office. Respectfully,
(Signed( CHARLES MARTIN,
(Great Seal Clerk Of Board.
of State.
That the above is a remarkable doc.
umeut 10 issue from a Board consisting
of the Governor, the Secretary Of State
and the Attorney General of the State
OF Nevada, will, doubtless, be generally
conceded but, as your EScellency had
been for some time absent from the cap.
ital at the time Of its issuance, the glory
Of its authorship must be conceded
wholly 20 the other members Of the
Board. At first view, it appears like u
practical Joke perpetrated at my expense,
or like the bubble Of a tricky lawyer
employed by a dishonest debtor to de-
fraud Il creditor, but as the document
bears the impression Of the d" Great Seal
of the State of Nevada" it is doubtless
genuine and rs the Board was acting
under n solemn oath to faithfully per-
form its duties, the s~upposition Of a joke
or q bubble must not be entertained,
especially as the reason assigned by me
for asking for an appropriation is ostea.
~tatiously psraded by the Board AS Il
reason for rejecting my bill, viz THAT
this office has been running on its owu
responsibility, paying its W expenses
etc. :" in other words, that 1 had the en-
psnses, which the Board ought to have
known was the intended meaning, es'
pecially when followed by bill ofitems
youched for by affidavit. Does not IN
FOREGOING document declare that the BoGrC
reject, my claim for expense, Of this o6fe'
because I had paid those expenses? Such
a stul,ifying pretext for the rejection o.
a bill never should have been ackuowl-
edged by \ Secretary of a State and At.
toruev General. The bill for 1864 and
1865 amounts TO S+7+.25 in coin the
bill for the first four months Of 1866 is
S237.75 in coin.
Total, STl2 in coin, all of which wa:
rejected by the Board, except $40 IS o.
the latter bill, for the items designated
thus (~), for which I was offered u war
rant worth about $50, in coin, which
declined 10 accept. The Board die
allow six dollars for q record-book If
1865, the only sum received by the un'
dersigned for contingent expenses o.
this office since its organization, ovei
two years. to the close Of 1866, and b!
the liberal action Of the Board nigh
have received about $50 more, in coin.
or S26 10 ALA trile more than one
dollar per month. Has any equally rigic
economy qorsrned the Board in its actor
on the bills Of other State officers? A
rough hit. Ny bill for the last eigh'
months of 1866 amounts to S205 in coin
of which the Board would, if presented
to it, have rejected all but Ssh rs, fol
which it would probably have allowed O
warrant worth about SIS in coin. Tt
save time | therefore send this bill to b,
transmitted directly to the Legislature,
to which have appealed from the de-
cision of the Board upon my former bill
X Had n decent preteIt been giver
for rejecting the bill Of expense prior &c
1866, merely IL respectful appeal from
the decision Of the Board would have
been presented. But when it was re-
iec,cd under such q pretext, it appeared
10 me that Intentional insult had been
added 10 injury, and that a mild protes,
against the action Of the Board would
no, be out of place.
Tue law requires my report to b'
transmitted to your Excellency on or be
fore the fifteenth day Of December; ye'
last year, such report as | could have
transmitted ut the specified time woulc
have been comparatively worthless
Last year, though assisted by som
friends, | was compelled to have an as
sistaut for eight days, for which psic
$50 in coin, in order to be able to trans
NIT nv report on the thirty-irst Of Jan
uary. The Board deemed the $50 ar
Improper charge" 1t is now the eler'
enth Of February, and | have been I'M
able thus far to complete my report. al
though | have been greatly assisted by
nv partner, Mr.. Hunt, and By Mr.. Bruck'
man, and am also under obligations &c
Mr.. Hetzel and Mr.. K~rutschnitt, the
present Assessor of Storey county, and
to Mr.. Balch, Of the Board Of County
Commissioners. No improper charges
are made by these gentlemen. Las
years report was so full of errors, BY
fault Of copying clerk or the composition
as to be comparatively worthless.
paid $40 coin to the Enterprise for print
ing $500 copies of '~errata," nearly q
900 of which | sent &c the Secretary o.
State. Some of these were used, but
lone were inserted in the appendix &c
the Journals. But the Board deemed
the "cbarge" an Improper one" Tn,
Board allowed three dollars freigh'
on reports from Carson, and three dol
lars for distributing the same in thi.
city, but would not allow $40 for cor
recting an otherwise almost worthless