The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-25
COUNTY ADYERTIsEMENTs.
Soldiers Relief and Bounty Funds.
Report of the Committee of IL
vestigatiOn = Complete Vindica-
finn off Vietnr Riseh


Report of the Committee of IL.
VestigatiOn = Complete Vindica
tion of Victor Bisch.
The County Commissioners met in special
/ session Friday, Sept. II, for the purpose OF
/ nearing the report of the committee of in
/ vest1gation into the manner in which Vic
/ tor Bisch had managed the Soldiers Relief
and Bounty Funds. Samuel Orr, Esq,
/ and DR.. NJ. j. Bray, were appointed COM
mtttee last March, to go over and examine
/ the reports of Mr.. Bisch, and A. L. Robin
/ son, at whose request the investigation
was first ordered, was directed to act with
! the committee. TherepOrts were quite Vo-
| luminous, and it was a big job to undertake
/ the matter; and MesSrs. Orr and Bray not
/ having time 10 individually attend the
| same, requested the County Commission
eTs to appoint Henry w. Lauer, a Demo-
| crat, and ThOs. w. Peck, a Republican, to go
4 over the reports. figure by figure, and
/ make report of the same. MesSrS. Iauer
/ and Peck attended to their duty in an able
manner and impaired every account with
/ the vouchers submitted, of which latter
| there were twenty-five thousand. The
! gentlemen were thirty three days II
/ making up the report, and it was finished
/ and sealed up some days ago, and the
Board has been awaiting the attendance
! of Major Robinson, in order to have the
/ report read. There were present, yester-
| day, the Commissioners, Major Robinson,
/ MeSsrs. Orr and Bray, and Robert A. Hill,
| the County Attorney. The reports were
| read, and the Commissioners concurred in
and approved the same, thereby COM
/ pleB9iy rGfutlng the charges That have been
| made against Mr.. Bisch during the past
Below we give the full reports, which are
clear and accurate, and from which IL will
be seen that Mr.. Bisch satisfactorily ac-
counts for every dollar that passed through
his hands:
ON THE RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF
THE RELIEF AND BOUNTY FUNDS:
To the Honorable, the Board of Commits
sioneIs of the County OF Vanderburgh:
The undersigned, members of a commits
tee appointed by your Board to examine
and report upon the correetn ess OF reports
made by Victor Bisch, Esq, OF the receipts
and expenditures By him made in his
Soldiers Relief Funo, would submit the
following report:
We have had in our possession the re-
ports of said Bisch, containing his ac-
acknowledgements of receipts and his
vouchers or receipts for expenditures
tnereof, and have examined them fully
enough to satisfy ourselves OF their regu-
larity and genu1neneSs. The number of
said vouchers and the volume OF said re-
ports being so great as to require more
time in the comparison of names, dates
and figures than woald be CONSTANT with
our other business engagements, we sug-
gested the employment by the Board of
MessTs. Henry W. Laner and homas W.
Peck, for the purpose of exam inIng and
comparing the names, dates and figures of
the vouchers, with those cont aimed in said
several reports, and for the puT pose of re-
viewing all additions and other ca. cuIa-
the words and figures following:
REPORT ON SOLDIERS RELIEF FUND
To the Honorable Board OF Commissioners
Marlborough County:
We having been appointed by your hon
oTable Board to assist in examining the
report of Victor Bisch, concerning his
management of Soldiers Relief Fund,
submit TO you the results of our careful
examination and investigation OF said
BY an examination of the order Book,
FrNFrw hat
S57 1856 40.
We then wsnt to work to ascertain how
the money received into the Treasury OF
the soldiers Relief Fund had been dis
posed of, and We found by the examine
ton OF orders from County Commissioners
and township Trustees, from personal In
teTVteW with some of the Trustees. and
other parties, that Mr.. BIsch, as Treasurer
of the Soldiers Relief Fund, has paid TO
individuals entitled to the benefit of said
fund, as follows, to-w1t:
By order Of the Trustee of Pigeon
Trustee OF German 9 S ~
Trustee OF Centre ToWnship...... 6s5 so
Trustee of Union Township - 792 so
Trustee OF Perry TOWNSHIP p....... $40 so
Trustee of Armstrong Township. 426 s.
Trustee of Scott ToWnship.........- gO9 so
Trustee of knight Township........ 5G5 so
BY order of the Trustees of Pigeon
Township from 1852 to iS69.:....... a,4s3 90
COUNTY mlssion sls.lo6 so
and Knowles, Scott Township s5Y 90
Trustees and Comm'rs Prewitt
and Knowles, German Town
ship ...............,...... 927 90
Knowles, Armstrong Township 5s4 90
Trustees and COMMISSIONER j
Hogue, Perry Tow nshi r,.......... g72 90
Trustees and commissioner J.
Hogue, Union Township....,... 54T GO
Trustees ana Commissioner i
Hegue, Centre Township....... / OsI 90
Trustees and Commissioner b.
Nurre, Knight Townsht p...... s85 90
Trustees and Commissioners X
Nurre, Pigeon Townshfp..... 74I4 90
| Trustees and Commissioner b
Nurre, Pigeon ToWnship.... 2 500 90
| To trustees and Assessors etc
services sos AZ
| TO A. q. Sullivan as trustee. 895 o.
TO Edward Burtls as trustee. I.l75 90
On hand In County orders, SI67 90:
Cash, I67 So
So, 1856 40
The total amount issued on account Of
| the Relief Fund, by Mr.. Blsch, and as
| shown by this foregoing report of your
Committee, is S57,SIS o., which, with si67 80
| on hand IN county orders and CASH equally
balances the total amount received I'M
/ n 40 E9ol4s II.