The Placer herald., 1870-12-03
FOR THE PLACER HERALD,

Wv AA1 HLhSLR AERALD.
Mr.. Edaor:-You can perhaps give the
public some information about our County
affairs.
Rumors are ahoat that there was a raid
on the Treasury Of Placer county last week
and perhaps You can tell whether Dame Ru-
NOR has lied or not. 1t is rumored that the
raiders got from the Treasury between $3,-
300 and 81, 400 in gold COMA very good
haul-ncarly as good as that made on the
1st of March, 1868, when Dickerson was
robbed; but it seems that this has made no
noise-it is as hushcd as midnight. Is
there ring in Auburn, and is it the policy of
this ring to keep their doings in the dark I?
This raid Oh the Treasury has not been blazon-
ed over the county, nor has it created the
excitement that John Morgan's raid did in
the State Of Indiana, because this has
been done by loyal men.
1t appcare that the County Auditor is en-
titled to a small percentage on all moneys
that are actually collected and paid into the
County Treasury.
BY your paper Of last week it appears
that the Auditor drew from the Treasury
$1.971 36 percentage on S276 900. If
this amount Of money has been paid into
the Treasury, why is it that creditors are
paid off in County Scrip which they are
! forced to sell at discount. $3.50 600 of
this money was due the County for her Cen
| trail Pacific Railroad stock, which was sold
last spring. This money was never paid
into the Treasury The Supervisors swop-
ped off the stock for County Bonds which
are taken up and cancelled. The Auditor
claimed his percentage the same as if the
money had actually been received and paid
into the Treasury. He presented his bill to
the Supervisors for 81 ,971 4G, and it was
allowed. If the County should swop horses
a bill for percentage would be good, before
J the present Board of Supervisors.
Placer county had better not make trade
| until she counts the costs, and finds out first
what percentage she has got to pay into the
ring. This 1871 46 was slipped out of the
Treasury so cleverly, that the County Clerk
thought he ougb, TO share a slice before the
money was all gone, 80 lie gets bis Attorney
to draw him ~P lht)c complaint, after the
Supervs sors had gone home, and probably
gone to bed, and when the Court was about
to adjourn, the Distric, Attorney is asked to
appear for the County, without any Sum
mons being issued and without any noise be-
ing made TO wake up the Supervisors, so
that the Judge could decide tina. the poor
Clerk was entitled to 81 ,440 extra fees, for
services never rendered consider ng that Q
is so poorly paid.
Short and few the words that were said,
A short little prayer of the Complaint WAS read
convenient old Statute, passed long ago
was found, and judgment was rendered
against the County in fa:or of the Clerk for
the sum of 81 40 and tlu', raid No. 2
was successful.
1t is also rumored that raid No, 3 Is to be
made soon by the cx-Recorder Of Placer
county for extra compensation, under tie
same convenient Statute that was so service
able to the Clerk, and he is entitled to sue
coed the same way, as there is now a good
precedent for it, The Railroad Com
pany have joined the ring-.hey are getting
smar:-they understand how TO accomplish
their ends better than they use> to. They
made raid on the Supervisors a. their last
session, and were eminentlv successt,'. The
Assessor John Boggs, assessed the Rail
road this year at S. 900 a mile, and the Su-
pervisors, acting as Board of Equalization,
raised the assessment in September last to
$4,000 per mile; after full hearing of
Railroad witnesses (and they never lack for
good swearers) and after a full and loud ar
gument by Railroad lawyers. When the
Board met in November, they quietly re-
scinded their former action, and dropped the
assessment to only $6,O 900 per mile Just
what the Railroad Company have been con-
tending for for the last six years. Thus,
they have at last cleverly succeeded. If
the Supervisors had allowed the original as
sessment to stand at the figures the Asses
sor fixed, it would not have been strange,
but to raise it up to SIC, 900 in September,
and then quietly drop it down again to the
original figures, is one of the most astonish-
ing tricks of lcgerdeman ever exhibited be-
fore the eyes of the people of this County.
How this little trick was done the public do
not know. The Supervisors suddenly changed
'front.' and went over to the enemy, horse,
foot, and dragoon, and left it to Time to dis
close their motives. Public attention should
be drawn to these matters in your paper, be-
cause, in all probability, this is not the last
of series of transactions already begun, to
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