The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-07-20

Now gentlemen. ii you VIII exam
Inc my report on file, you will see
that on pages 1 to 6 [ give the names
and amounts Of the " double listings,"
aoith the page of the duplicate where
found.
On pages Z, 8, g. 10. II. ID and IA
of my said report, [ give, in the same
way, the "polls and personals erro-
neous; " that is. the polls of
and the polls and personals of men
who could not be found in the city.
terpolated the delinquents errone-
GUS; that is, a list of persons re.
turned by former Collectors as delin-
quent, who produced their receipts
for the amounts. L say unfor-
tunately," because this grave offense
is doubtless one of the evidences
upon which these two wise young
men so severely ceusure me for care
lessness and disregard of my duties.
On page 10 of said report, [ give in
the same way, q. e. name and amount
and page of Duplicated the deductions
by Council, from the taxes charged on
the duplicate.
Now as to every one of these items.
exceptthe last mentioned, (the 1925 IS
" L IL 0aBAAS0NO was o4iOmC0
by Council on settlement,) the foot
ing is exactly what / have claimed for
it. [ defy any intelligent investiga-
tor to show a wrongful entry of a
name or amount, or a difference
against me of a dollar. The last
mentioned item. deductions by Coun-
Gil, on page 10 of my report, will be
found to foot up 1923 81 or $50 less
than the 1913 81 / claim. This sum
is made up of the following deduc-
tions made by the late Committee on
Erroneous Assessments, and by them
for reasons of their own. directed not
to be shown on the duplicates:
To Thomas Bulleu 90
8 80 90
" q. 10 W
W
Should you desire further informa-
ton as to why these last deductions
were kept off the duplicate, l respect
fully refer you to Messrs. Hopkins,
Orr and Wiltshire. of said committee.
thi0k no intelligent person, with
his eyes open, can make the examina-
ton to which I have invited you, and
DENY that [ am entitled to the credits
[ claim. instead of the $2,437 70 al
lowed me by Messrs. Bippus q Mann.
The difference, $3.50 66, is conse-
ouently to be added to the above bal
anee in my favor, making due me by
the city according TO their report (cor-
rected), $1.243 IA
The trouble with these nice young
men was that they did not have their
ewes open. They were either natu-
rally blind or williully shut their eyes
when they came to the nub of the
thing. | am confirmed in my incllna'
ton to believe the latter to be the
truth by other evidence furnished by
this report.
They say that BIZ my report to The
Mayor Of ApTitttl, 1870, 1 make
the total delinquent tax coll
lected by me on the delinquent
-.---...-.--... s1,IZo IS
whereas they, by a careful ex-
and actual count
make sI,l56 50
to which they add:
sReceipts for taxes since report-
I'd to have been paid""----.. sos "a
sl.255 CO
And they append the result as fol-
lows:
difference due from Creek. s12s O6
(which DELINQUENCY, 1926 O6,
has not yet been paid to the Treasu-
rer by Mr.. Greek"
What do you think of that as evil
denoe of their deliberately shutting
their eyes and going it bliud, when
YOU are told that to that report of
mine, pohen they saw IL. which report
was in four lines only, as follows:
Whole amount collected on delIn.
ouent list. 81 1875 IS
Less commlssions.-.---".-----. q 81
Amount paid Treasurer, April 9Th,
sl,O9S IS
Voucher iled herewith.
JoHN GREEK, City Collector.
attached, with mucilage, the City
Clerks receipt for the voucher re-
to-attached 10 such a manner
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