The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-04-03

40 had been paid by the owners OF
real estate previous to April /, 1868,
aud the receipt of the contractor ia
ken therefor on the street improve
ment book. leaving the sum OF s., ,34o
76 (and not $8.3S1 63) due to the con-
tractor, and for this sum of IS $40 20
we find assessments on SAID DooK
against the owners of real estate, ex-
4 cent as to street crossings and city
| lots, which are assessed to the city.
RECONCILIATION.
To rccapitulate and finally close
this report, your Committee would
respectfully point out the following
facts for consideration:
l. That shortly after our appoint
ment by the Republican Executive
Committee Of Evansville, we were in
formed by His Honor the Mayor that
he would not meet with US.
That we three several times trans
mittei written communications to ais
/ Honor the Mayor requesting him to
! furnish us with the Register of Bonds
or the book IN which the bonded in
debtedness Of the city Is registered
That be, the said Mayor, each
time persistently refused. to submit
such book to our inspection and ex-
/ animation, and IN his last answer
attempts to avoid the direct issue,
when he says that he did not fud
any such book in the Clerks ofhce."
That he, the said Mayor, on the
morning of the 1st inst, TO Mr..
MeGriff, City Clerk, denied in posi-
/ tive terms ever having had IN his
/ possession a book IN which the bond
ed Indebtedness of the city Is regis
| tered"
That Mr.. McGriff, the City Clerk.
| testifies before your committee, that
| there IS a book in which the bonded
| indebtedness of the city IS registered,
and that he (McGriff) saU the same
] 10 the Mayors possession about SIX
} months ago.
/ That Mr.. George Liant testifes be-
fore your committee, that he has,
since last November. several times
been told by the Mayor that he (the
Mayor had in his possession such a
book, in which a register of bonds,
&c, issued by the city. is kept"
That Mr.. Samuel Vickery testltes
before your committee, that he. on
the 18th of January last, saw the
Mayor have the book herein above
referred to, In his possession In the
Mayors Office.
2 That by exchanging bonds with
George Liant, bearing six (6) per cent.
interest, not due at the time, such
exchange was made for bonds bearing
ten (10) per cent. the Mayor for the
city made very injudicious trade, and
unnecessarily lost money.
3. That the present Treasurer,
John d. Roche, received from his
predecessor the sum Of $747 06, as
shown by both the Treasurer's and
Clerks books, and the Treasurer S
receipt, and not $217 O6, as shown by
the Mayor in his Report.
E 4 That such part OF the Mayor's s
Report as refers to the item or gas,
shows an expenditure under that head
for (9) nine months only, except the
item OF lighting, and that 1t Is un-
fair to contrast Herewith the amount
Of expendi ure under the same head
for the previous year, when the latter
comprises a period Of thirteen (l3)
mon MS, aad when the amounts spent
for the extensions of palus aud cree
ton of posts exceeded that of the
last year by Sl,709.
, 5. That the Mayor, during the past
year, DOFfOWGu tEOm O1uAS O1 IHe
citys credit $67, ,372 q, of which sun
:. not one cent was placed In tao Treas
ury of the city aud disbursed accord
:. ing to law. Aud that while he re-
: ports the amount due by the city tC
banks, at the date Of his report, to bt
. $45, ,094 65, the eity's books only SHOW
= an indebtedness OF $2536 64.
= g. That the Clty Clerk books agree
80 v
- cept as to seven Items. amounting IL
the aggregate to $473 40 This differ
epce is explained by the fact tha
- moneys are paid into the Treasury OF
= accounts, such as cemetery lots, II
censes, &c, and the receipts not a
the time reported to the Clerk, tn
. Clerk cannot of course charge tn
:, Treasurer until the Treasurer s re
10 ceipt is brought to him; and afte
= noting the several amounts ackn0wi
- edged by the Treasurer to have bee
received by him, and the receipts nc
= handed to the Clerk, it reduces tn
: above apparent discrepancy Of S473 4
to twenty cents, which Is the eXaC
difference between the accounts Of til
II Treasurer and Clerk.
:. - z. That the Mayor reports havln
- during the past year issued bond
10 amounting to S150,623 48, while tn
~ City's Ledger shows only a record {
- $59. .421 05, showing a discrepancy
. $91 2U2 43, which can only be e.
= planned by referring to the book
which the bonds issued by the CT
" are registered.
r 8. That when the Mayor, in his r
tic port, institutes a comparison as to ii
of item OF attorneys fees, he shows
en- much smaller sum expended In lo'
ID. than there was expended In 1867, al
nm he therefore claims credit. He q
,at tempts wrongfully to misiead, In
.ge much as the total amount accruiI
he and expended for attorneys ie
proper for 1867 amounted only
.on S742. while an amount OF So, 800 W
he paid Messrs Hendricks aud Baker
matters of the j. l.. Railroad, for Sc
The vices extending over a term of :
years, and charged to the account
the Straight Line Railroad, where
YER properly belongs.
9. That the Mayor, in his writ
ay, communication. advised the Coun
to levy for the T.. & @. r. r. inter,
aid tax of 20 cents on the 800, vie
ing Twenty five Thousand Dolla
? a (S25. .OOO). when only Two Thousa
a Three Hundred and Ten Dolla
the (S2 310). or one-tenth of that amou
for was required.
10 That the Mayor reports an
day debtedness of the city to the teach
Ose in the Public Schools, on the 18th
liv- April, 1868, amounting to s., |
when the Superintendent boz
show that the teachers had been p
bir -, IN full to March St 1893 leav