The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-18
S0IdieTs' Relief and Bounty
Funds.
REPORT OF rHE COEMITTEE OF
TEVESTTgATTOE.
Complete VlndIcation Of Victor Bisch.

Complete flE1icatloA o. slct0T DlscH.
The County Commissioners met in
special session yesterday, for the pur-
pose Of hearing the report Of the com
mittee Of Investigation into the man
ner in which Victor Bisch had man
aged the Soldiers Relief and Bounty
Funds. Samuel Orr, Esq, and DR..
N. J. Bray, were appointed a com
mittee last March, to 90 over and ex-
anime the reports Of Mr. Bisch, and
A. L. Robinson, at whose request the
investigation was first ordered,
was directed to act with the
committee. The reports were quite
volumnious, and il was a big job to
undertake the matter; and Messrs.
Orr aud Bray not having time to indi
vidually attend to the same, requested
the County Commissioners to appoint
Henry W. Lauer, a Democrat, and
Thos. w. Peck, Republican. 10 60
over the reports, figure by figure, and
make report of the same. Messrs.
Lauer and Peck attended to their
duty in an able manner, and compared
every account with the vouchers sub
mitted, Of which latter there were
twenty FIVE thousand. The gentlemen
we're thirty days in making up
the report, and i5 was finished and
scaled up some days ago, and The
Board has been awaiting the attend
ance Of Major Robinson, in order 10
have the report read. There were
present, yesterday, the Commission
ers, Major Robinson, Messrs. OErand
Bray, aud Robert a. Hill, the County
Attorney. The reports we're read,
and the Commissioners concurred in
and approved the same. thereby com
pletely refining the charges that
have been made against Mr. Biseh
during the past two years.
Below We give tho full reports,
which are clear and accurate, and
from which it will be seen that Mr..
Bisch satisfactorily accounts for every
dollar that passed through his hands:
REPORT or THE INVESTIGATING COM
MITTEE ON THE RECEIPTS AND DIS
/ BURsEMENTs or THE RELIEF AND
! BOUNTY FUNDS
! To the Honorable, The Board of Commis-
sioners of the County Of Vanderburgh;
The undersigned, members Of
committee appointed by your Board
| to examine and report upon the cor
! rectness OF reports made by Victor
Bisch, ESD, of The receipts and eX-
penditures by him made IN his man
/ agement of the Bounty Fund aud the
/ Soldiers Relief Fund, would submit
the following report:
We have had i'll our possession Tie
reports of said Bisch, containing his
\ acknowledgment of receipts aud his
/ vouchers or receipts for expenditures
| thereof, and have examined them
! fully enough to satisfy ourselves Of
their regularity and genuineness. The
number Of said vouchers and the
volume of said reports being 50 great
as to require mere time IN the cons
/ parisOn Of names, dates and figures
! than would be consistent with our
/ other business engagements, we sug-
/ gested the employment By the Board
/ of Messrs. Henry W. Lauer and Th0s
| w. Peek, for the purpose of cZamin
| ing and comparing the names, dates
and figures of the vouchers, with those
/ contained in said several reports, and
for the purpose of reviewing all adj
| ditions and other calculations, which
| they have reported to US IL the words
and figures following:
REPORT ON SOLDIERS RELIEF FUND.
TO the Honorable Board a Conrniss ION ers 81
Vdnder6uTGh County
We having been appointed by your
! honorable Board to assist In examin-
ing the Report OF Victor Bisch, con
| corning his management of Soldiers
| Relief Fund, submit to you the re-
! suits Of our careful examination aud
Investigation of said Report. viz:
! By an examination of the Order
/ Book, we found that Mr. Biseh had
received, in behalf of and for the
Soldiers Relief Fund, S57 $50 40.
We then went to work to ascertain
| how the money received into the
/ Treasury of the Soldiers Relief Fund
had been disposed of, and we found
! by the examination Of orders from
County Commissioners and Township
| Trustees, from personal interview with
some of the Trustees and other parties,
that Mr. Bisch, as Treasurer ef the
Soldiers Relief Fund, has paid to in
dividuals entitled to the benefit Of
said fund, as follows, to-wit:
| By order o the Trustee of Pigeon
Township 626 co
! Trustee OF German ToWnsh; p...... $50 90
/ Trustee of Centre HOWnsbi D.. SIS so
| Trustee of Union Township ........ 792 so
/ Trustee of Perry TOWnshi Do 92g 80
| Trustee of Armstrong Towns hip. 425 %
/ Trustee OF scott TOWnshi p.......-... 500 90
| Trustee of knight TOWnship....... 565 50
/ BY order of the Trustees OF Pigeon
/ Township from 1852 TO IS59....-. 3,i25 90
county CoinmissioneTs.. -. sl9,1oa 50
and knowles, Scout Township s53 GO
Trustees and COmm'rS Prewitt
/ and knOwle German Town
ship .....,........ 927 Oh
/ Trustees and Comm iSsIOner Chas. L..
| Knowles, Armstrong Township l34 90
/ Trustees and Com missioner j.
| HOgue, Perry T0Wnship.--............ So 90
/ Trustees and Commissioner j.
Hogue, Union township, -. 81 co
1 Trustees and Com missioner J.
! He2ue, Centre TOWnship....-.... ... / 0SI 90
| trustees and Commissioner j.
urre, Knight TOWuSh p............ $50 co
! Trustees and COmmissiOner ID,
/ Nurre, Pigeon TOWuship...... 80 74I1 90
| Trustees and C-mmissi Jner B.
| Nurre, Pigeon TOWnship........... 3.SO2 90
/ To Trustees and Assessors, etc.,
rs SERVICES is SIS 4