The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-04-05

Honor the Mayor requesting nun 10 /
furnish us with the Register of Bonds |
or the book in which the bonded IN
debtedness Of the city is registered.
That he, 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 find
any such book in the Clerks office"
That he, the said Mayor, on the
morning of the 1st inst, to Mr..
McGriff, City Clerk. denied in posi-
tive terms ever having had In MS
possession a book In which the bond
ed indebtedness of the city Is regis
That Mr.. MoGrif, the City Clerk.
testiGas before your committee, that
there as book in which the bonded
indebtedness of the city is registered,
and that he (McGriff) saao the same
in 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
book, in which register of bonds,
&c. issued by the city. is kept"
That Mr. Samuel Vickery testifes
before your committee, that he, on
the 10Th of January last, saw the
Mayor have the book herein above
referred to, in his possession 10 the
Mayors office
4 2. THAT by exchanging bonds with
/ George Liant, bearing six (6) per cent
4 interest, not due at the time, such
exchange was made for bonds bearing
ten 90 per cent, the Mayor for the
city made very injudiclous trade, ana
unnecessarily lost money.
3. THAT the present Treasurer,
John d. Roche, received from his
predecessor the sum of $747 O6, as
shown by both the Treasurer and
Clerks books, and the Treasurer 5
receipt, and not $247 06, as shown by
the Mayor in his Report.
4. THAT such part of the Mayor
Report as refers to the item or gas,
shows an expenditure under that head
for COZ nine months only, except the
item Of " lighting" and that it IS un-
fair to contrast Herewith the amount
Of expenditure under the same head
for the previous year, when the latter
comprises o period Of thirteen (I3)
months, and when the amounts spent
for the extensions of mains and cree
ton of posts exceeded that of the
last year by $1,709.
5. THAT the Mayor, during the past
year, borrowed from banks on the
city's credit $67, 372 q. Of which sum
not one cent was placed In the Treas
ury of the city and disbursed accord
ing to law. Aud that while he re-
ports the amount due by the city to
banks, at the date of his report, TO be
81, 09t 65, the city's books only show
an indebtedness of 81. 536 81.
6. THAT the City Clerks books
agree with those of the City Treasurer
except as to seven items, amounting IN
the aggregate to $473 10, This differ
ence is explained by the fact that
, moneys are paid into the Treasury on
accounts, such as cemetery lots, IL
censes, &c, and the receipts not at
the time reported TO the Clerk, the
Clerk cannot of course charge the
Treasurer until the Treasurer re-
ceipt is brought TO him; and after
2 noting the several amounts ackn0Wl-
, edged by the Treasurer to have beer
received by him, aud the receipts no
, handed to the Clerk, it reduces the
q above apparent discrepancy of $413 4.
to twenty cents, which Is the exac
| difference between the accounts of the
Treasurer and Clerk.
Z. THAT the Mayor reports having
during the past year issued bond
= amounting to $3.50, 623 48, while tn
City's Ledger shows only record 0
S59, 421 05, making discrepancy 0
. SOL 2U2 43, which can only be ex
planned by referring to the book i
which the bonds issued by the cit
are registered.
> 8. THAT when the Mayor, in his Re
port, institutes comparison as to tn
n item of attorneys fees, he show a
/, much smaller sum expended in 1856
h than there was expended in 1867, an
! he therefore claims credit. lie al
: tempts wrongfully to mislead, in a
D. much as the total amount aceruin
e, and expended for attorneys fee
:. proper for 1867 amounted only t
$742, while an amount OF So, 800 wa
paid Messrs. Hendricks and Baker
y matters Of the 5. l.. Railroad, for SCI
|. vices extending over a term of 81
, years, and charged to the account c
the Straight Line Railroad, where
properly belongs.
s 9. THAT the Mayor, in his write
s, communication. advised the Coune
j. to levy for the E. & @. r. r. interes
a tax of 20 cents on the 800, yield
ing Twenty-Five Thousand Dollar,
(S25. OOO), when only Two Thousan
j. Three Hundred and Ten Dollar
4: (S2, 310), or one-tenth of that amour
Z was required.
10. THAT the Mayor reports an in
L. debtedness of the city to the teacher
r, in the Public Schools, on the 18th c
\. April, 1868, amounting to So, 16I
+ when the Superintendent book
- show that the teachers had bees pal
d up in full to March 1st, 1868. leayin
r, due them for one m nth $1,000 onl,
o. That the Mayor reports an indebt
edness to the Fire Department, on til
18th April, of 81 300, which did nc
% then exist, as shown by MIR. Heilman
a. testimony before your committee.
0, That the Mayor reports an indebt
edness, on the 18th April, 1868, on az
count of gravelliDg on Fourth Stree
amounting to S., 381 60, when in re
ality there was due upon said work a
t. that date only So, 348 76, all of whie
e amount, except for street crossings