The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-12
the surplus to fall SO, where could his $500
extra salary, have come from?
We quote from him farther. He saws:


But to double the presumptuous falsehood, and
here will nail il upon by his wortls,-he says
the SLY did not come out of that extra, unspprop
rated fund.- because il Das ievicdP Did he not see In
scanning my account, that that lem was yet in the
hands Of the collectors and had been paid into
the Treasury, how then, ask, could pay him an
amount of money which the books show him, and aoch
he knocs not in my poSsession9 Shame shame =
na: there i no shame tinges the stony cheek of the
disgust from this disagreeabe picture"
!: y
Let him have full faith that we have scan.
ned his accounts, as far rs it relates to these
particulars. In account of his against Cecil
county, passed Nov. oath, 1852, we find the
following entry:
To receiving and dsbursing s5l6Oo levied to meet
deficiencies Of last year, and $500 for repairing Court
S30.4S"
Now in that $4,000 there entered as hav-
ing been received by him, was comprehend
ed the SIT, which we said had been levied
for us. We have elsewhere abundantly
proved that he had in his hands the s;1l7 to
pay us, under the order Of the Commission
ers, before he received n cent of the rail-
road money, and that he falsely entered it
in his statement Of the 22d of October. II
we had not done so, the above entry Of his,
if true, would strip him of every defence,
for he there charges the county with having
received and paid that money. If he did
not receive it, then he has made a false entry
against the county; and upon examining
the books further, we find that fact exhibited
that he never did receive one cent of that
sum. Consequently he did make false
entry, and did on false entry arrongfulb
Take money from the county.
Nor is that the only part Of that entry
| which is false. He never received and dis
bursed but $3.50 of that $500 levied for re.
pairing the Court House so that in that
one entry he falsely charges the county with
" per cent on $4,000, and received $2l ,49
which his conscience, if his "cheek' is not
too "stony," ought to induce him to restore,
or at least present to the poor. =
We now take UP the last paragraph of his
article. 1t relates to the $500 extra salary
received by him. Referring to it in former
article, we said-"without attaching any
blame to the late Clerk for receiving it, il
the Commissioners chose to pay it to him
we have to say 1T was an outrageous robbery
of the county" He does not see proper te
| accept the excuse we allowed him. We'll
then! let him stand in any other position
he likes better, or that he feels better suits
him. We repeat that that extra salary, by
whomsoever allowed, and by whomsoevel
induced, was an courageous robbery of thu
county," No service was rendered by Mr.
Scott to ontitle him to it.. Perhaps another
''sickening sensation will come over the
| 'racfc' man at tie announcement.
But let us see. Prior to the levylng O.
the Direct tax in 1871 the salary of the
| Clerk to the Commissioners was $500. F.
A. Ellis, Esq, who was Clerk in Al, when
a new assessment was made, received fol
that year $500. Before the next levy was
made, the Commissioners passed an order
that owing TO the increased labor growing
out OF the new assessment and the levyin.
of the direct tax, $500 extra should be
LIVED for Mr.. Ellis, in compensation for tho
said increased labor in the two years; this
S400 and the regular salary Of $500 was
| levied for him in 1912; so that he received
| ) 1000 salary for the two years he held the
office, or $500 a year. And there has been
no such labor performed in the Office as he
performed. The whole system of the books
now kept was arranged by him besides al
which he made copy OF the entire assess
mont in all the districts, for the Court Of
| Appeals, for which he received not ono
cent for extra pay. Mr.. J.. then received
but $500 II year, notwithstanding the new
| assessment, and the extra copy for the
Court Of Appeals, which cost $50 to be
| copied at EaSton. Mr.. G. Fl. Joyce col
$500 II year for the time he held the Office
the present Clerk received the same salary
while he held it prior to the election of 1851,
and Mr.. Scott received the same sum for
1852 but in 1888 he charges aud receives
$500 extra salary; which we now say was
| without precedent, without law, and with.
out any valuable consideration rendered.
He had no more labor to perform land the
books will show it, than he had the year be.
fore, or than had been performed by other
Clerks during the nine previous years and
he had nothing like as much labor to pcr.
form as Mr.. Ellis had at the time of, and
growing ont OF, preceding assessment, who,
| nevertheless, received but $500 year.
habits does not accept his right to receive
the $500 from the Commissioners, if they
chose TO pay it TO him, unless it was honesty
his due. that sensitive soul OF his which so
often ''sickensN and which compels him
so often to shout "shaner' "Shaneu'
ought to induce him to disgorge that $500
which he never earned, and .:ees;t.osa i 10 the
county: or ccc:3sso.ence smitteI, at least. he
should give it to the poor.
But there is another reason why he should
| not have had any extra salary if, indeed,
any salary at all and that is, that he has
so neglected the regular labors of the office,
as to leave the county in danger of losing
much, perhaps more than his regular salary
amounts to; neglect which can only be cor
rected and money which may only be saved,
by days Of patient research and extra labor.
Does the man of "pacific' and other habits
''turn with disgust from this disag, eeable
picture?' Let the matter be Submitted to
those able to decide.
The subject of the 3 per cent on the rail.
road money we will take up next week.
We shall take itup not as pertaining to this
controversy, but as d matter of public con.
Germ. II has been asserted that we received
percentage on certain sums of money, So
we did; and we shall expose those eases
also, and see what can be made of them.
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