The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-02
Gard from Victor Blsch.
Editors Journal:

and refers to an order OF dismissal
passed by the Board of Commission.
ers, [ would state that he appealed
from said order to the Supreme Court
of the State, and that I neUer sought
to dUaiJ nlyself of said ordtr, and that
/ was ready and anxious to have the
case tried in court. [ will now notice
q few of the items Of his bill of par
ticulars, and plainly show the absurd
ity of the claims made against me by
the said Judge.
The two first items are for So, 600 SO,
said to be for assessing omitted prop
erty. There was no allowance made
for any such thing. Here is the true
state Of facts:
In 1864, the appraisement was very
deficient. The Auditor, then as now,
assessed omitted property as such
came to his notice. The Board of
County Commissioners found that the
whole work was so incomplete that a
| great portion of the real estate would
escape taxation for Eve years. unless
the whole appraisement 1Cds renlsed,
and desiring to have the work done
| thoroughlz and made to pay for itself,
| they passed the following order:
| Commissioner Record Nj, pages
50 and sc (order). Now, here the
Board, being convinced that number
of lots and tracts of land were omitted
by the Appraiser on his returns, and
consequently not on the duplicate, and
there being a necessity for having tie
books examined and compared, to
secure the taxation of all lands and
lots; 1t is therefore ordered that
Victor Bisch, County Auditor, be, and
he is hereby ordered, to do said
work, to trace up each and every tract
of land and see that they be duly
| listed, and assess all such as are not
listed, together with the improve
ments, and it Is hereby agreed that
Victor Bisch shall receive for his ser
vices a sum similar to one half of the
amount Of taxes derived from the
property assessed by said Bisch from
the first day of March, 1860, and
charged against such assessed or APP
praised lands and lots and improve
ments on the collection of 1865, and
it is also agreed that, should said
amount coming to the Auditor not be
an ample and sufficient com pensation,
then this Board agrees that they Will
make said Auditor al additional al
lowance TO compensate him for such
services"
At once | procured, at my own ez
pense, additional clerical force, and
compared every lot or tract of LAND
with the records and plats and
searched for all omissions. After seven
months work. the result was an addi-
tional assessment Of $7,201 Is of
taxes, for which [ received an amount
equal to one-half of that sum, leav-
ing to the public treasury the advan-
tages of the taxation on such property
for every year till 1861 The bills
| filed claim the amount for searching
and revising the dpproGsenlent of eat
estate of 1854
The pettlfoggiug manner in which
Criminal Judge Robinson puts his
charges will be readily perceived. l
| dare him to show me the law requir-
ing any such duties of an Auditor, as
those specified in the special order of
the Board of Commissioners.
Again. In his bill of particulars he
says: For two trips to indianapolis,
$2,500" Had the Judge not often be-
fore this wil!ully and maliciously mis-
represented facts, [ should have con-
sidered this an error on his part, but
l am convinced that it was an inten-
tional lie. There was no allowance
made for any such thing. Aside from
the services rendered at the State
| Board Of Equalization, in 1864, of
which the taxpayers are well aware,
the Board at different times, by special
| orders, employed me to attend to
matters In which the county was
largely interested. In the perform
/ az In I
was required to visit the Capital some
five or six times. and having succeed
ed in saving the county large sums of
money, aside from the 20 per cent.
annually for FIVE years on our ap-
praisement-in single instance near
| SIS, GOETHE Commissioners allowed
me said amount for successfully at
tending to business totally foreign to
the duties of an Auditor. Had they,
at the time, known the eminent
capacity of the Judge, and could that
gentleman haze spared the time from
the Grdaous duties Of has permit mill
on Third Street, they could as well
have employed him in the premises
Here Is their order made upon bill
fled:
$2,500-Bk. m. p. 81.
| NUM- AGI6 INT OOaI0 TAKE luEO
consideration the services rendered
by Victor Bisch in the matter of the
State Board of Equalization, and also
the Relief Law to soldiers families !;
and in consideration Of his repeated
visits to the Capital on behalf of this
county, the services rendered by him,
the expenses incurred, and the time
devoted to said service, it is ordered
that the said Victor Bisch be allowed
the sum of twenty hundred dol
lars for the same.
Again the Judge makes sundry
charges for attending the school
/ fund" These are true, but he must
be ignorant of the statute allowing
the Auditor four per cent. on all dis.
bursements of school fund interest,
and for his information | refer him
to section 107 of the school law, acts
of 1865, page %. This charge also
was brought either by malice or igno-
rance. Again he charges me with
thousands of dollars as over
charges" Now, all these allowances
were made upon bills duly itemized
from five cent fees upwards. The bills
have been examined. by the County
Attorney and Commissioners before
the allowances were made. Subse-
quently the Grand Juries who inva-
riably made the counts larger than the
bill called for. AS an instance, l will