The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-02-17
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Mr.. RcgtSLcr:
sIRREE-T saw in your paper Of two
or weeks issue ago an inquiry as 10 who
owns q $4,000 Bounty Bond of this
county levied for last spring and l have
not noticed in either Ofthe papers re-
Spouse to that question. Has any res.
pouso rsschs ed you YET? Is it not very
strange that no one Gao or will tell who
owns or claims that bond? Has The
Board Of Supervisors ben Isvying this
large sum without seeing the boud?-
Can, or will none Of that body tell who
claimed that large sum Of a tax ridden
community II none, not even the
President Of the Board can or viii tell,
esuuOt the Clerk Of che Board do It'll
OF is Il beneath the dignity or beyond
the power Of these. functiOnsries TO do
sos Cannot the Sheriff Who is to pay it,
tell to whom that large sum is payable?
These things to me is passing strange.
will however, Tell you what | have
learned Of the matter. Some time last
summer 1 saw stated 10 The papers the
county levy lOr county expenses and Tor
the expenses Of the poor. but without
any footing to either Of them, and such
mode Of stating The public indebted.
ness struck me with SO much force that
| put mysclfto the labor and trouble Of
adding both up. The poor levy footed
10 the sum of IS, 9s4 SO and the county
levy to the SUN of $2,64s 81 making
the whole amount SO, Gas Sc, and sss.
ing thai the levy was 90 cents on the
500 value, and ascertainiug that this
levy was laid on about seven millions
and 4 half of dollars, and seeing that 40
cents on the s10O 90 that sum would
give thirty thousand dollars asked a
neishbor Why it was that more than
twenty thousand dollars vas levied over
aud above the amount charged to The
county? After some time, l vas told
lha! was under great mistake, that
there was no such surplus levied and
that there was levied some $4,000 TO
pay county bounty bond and that some
SS,0u0 OF $4,000 was levied to pay an
instalment on the purchase money Of the
poor farm. So the account would stand
thus
County and Poor Levy, .."..$6 643 Sc
Inslalneut on Poor Fsrm.... 1000 90
County Bounty Bond, ."""..lOooo 90
Tolal....,....,,. ........... s20,64s 81
Still leaving seven or eight tbOuSsnd
dollars to cover deIingueats and sheriff's
commission for collecting; and nOtWitbs
StOndiog this large surplus ana told,
with Whist truth, know not, that Ihsrs
has really not been regular settlement
with the sherifs- If this county for years.
Is that the way the public business in.
volving thousands annually, is done by
the Board Of Supervisors Of Mason
county!
| will further tell you what l have
understood, 10 The year 1865 or 1851,
S6I, 900 bounty was levied on this Copn.
" and ii was said lhSt that was oil the
bounty that lhs county owed. Is there
. member Of The Board Of Supervisors
that has frmnssS enough Of tho next
meeting Of the Board that will so far
look into this matter as 10 call fOr aud
have produced the bonds heretofore paid
and see if it is possible that . bond Of
that amount was omitted 10 be levied for
81 that lime, ana in9uiTO rigidIy into the
the circumstances Of how il happened
lhatsO large an amount Of moneg due BY
The county to uny one has been LEFT un-
called fos for years, and years TOO Of
great peeuniary>pressare.
YouT. &c.,