The Evansville journal., 1869-09-22
COUNTY ADYRRTTsEEIENTs.
Soldiers Relief and Bounty Funds.
Report Of the Committee Of IN
VeStigation = Complete VindiCa-
finn nf Vintnr Risch

Report Of the Committee Of IN
VeStigati0n = Complete VindiCa-
ton Of Victor Bisch.
I The County Commissioners met in special
| session Friday, Sept. IL, for the purpose Of
nearing the report of the committee Of in
/ vestigation INTO the manner in which Vic
| tor Bisch had managed the Soldiers Relief
and Bounty Funds. SaElueI Orr, Esq,
/ and DR.. N. J. Bray, were appointed COM
mittee last March, to go over and examine
son, at whose request the investigation
was first ordered, was directed TO act with
| the committee. Thereports were quite vO-
luminous and 1t was Dig 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, q Demo-
crat, ana Thos. w. Peck, a Republican, togo
over the reports, figure by figure, and
make report of the same. Messrs. Lauer
and Peck attended to their duty in an abIe
manner, and compared every account with
the vouchers submitted, Of which latter
there were twenty-five thousand. The
gentlemen were thirty y-three days in
making up the report, aud 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, Msjor Robinson,
Messrs. Orr and Bray, and Robert A. Hill,
the County Attorney the reports We're
and approved the same, thereby COM
pletely refuting the charges that have been
made against AIr. Bisch during the past
Below we give the fun reports, which are
clear and accurate, and from which il viii
be seen that Mr.. Bisch satisfactorily ac-
counts Tor every dollar that passed through
his hanos:
REPORT OF THE INVESTIGATING CoaTMTTTEE
cN THE RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF
THE RELIEF AND BoUSTY FUNDS:
To the Honorable, the Board of Commits
sfoneIs ofthe County sf Vanderburgh
The undersigned, members of commit
tee appointed by your Board to examine
and report upon the correctness or reports
made by Victor Biseh, Esq, of the receipts
and expenditures BY him made in mis-
management of the Bounty Fund and the
Soldiers Relief Fund, would submit the
following report:
We have had in our possession the re-
ports OF said Bisch, containing his ac-
knoWledgements of receipts and his
vouchers or receipts for expenditures
thereof, and have examined them fully
enough to satisfy ourselves of their regu.4
larity and genuineness. The number Of
said vouchers and the volume of said re-
ports being so great as to reQuife more
time in the comparison of names, dates
and figures than would be cOnSiStantsyyfth
our other business engagements, we sug-
gested the employment by the Board Of
Messrs. Henry w. Lauer and thomas W.
Peck, for the purpose Of examining and
the vouchers, with those contained in said
several reports and for the purp pose OF re-
viewing all additions and other ca cula-
tions. which they have reported to as in
the words and Il CURES followings
REPORT ON SOLDIERS RELIEF FUND.
To the Honorable Board or Commissioners
of fVanderburgh County:
We having been appointed byyour hon.
oiabIe 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
Report, viz:
By an examination of the order Book.
we found that MIR. Blsch had received, In
behalf of and for the Soldiers Relief Fund
S57, ,985 40.
We then went 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 examina-
tion of orders fcom County Commissioners
and township Trustees, from personal in
tervtew with some of the Trustees and
other parties, that Mr.. Bisch, as Treasurer
individuals entitled to the benefit OF said
fund, as follows, to-wit:
By order OF. the Trustee Of Pfoaon