The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-02-11
TIE DRRALCATI0Ns IN THE STATE
TREASURY.

We have preferred to wait the results
OF the Investigations now being made
;cto the affairs Of the State Treasury,
ss left BY the late Mr.. E. Rhoades, be-
fore venturing upon any comments with
reference to the alleged defalcations
oct an article which appeared in yes
serday's Enterprise and which contains
certain statements calculated to cause
al unjust Impression in regard of the
Coutroller and other State officers, calls
for such comments At our hands as may
nth prop:iety be made AZ this juncture.
Moreover, the credit of the State is in
,,mntely involved 10 the matter as pre-.
scented BY our contemporary and for
mat reason, also, We feel i0:uced TO
state some facts which have not ye,
oeen made known to the public. The
Enterprise says il is authorized to say
,aat the sum of the deficit amounts to
come $lO9, 600; and We infer from the
connection in which this statement is
made that the figures we're obtained
f-om tie Hon. G. C. Batterusn, the
crescent Treasurer; and that those
hgures are. therefore, correct. But our
oo;empora-y re in error IF We have been
correctly info, med) when it says thar
the money seems to have been taken
principally from the General Fund )"
FOG, as We are given 10 understand, sixty
add thousand dollars of the missing
aooey usst have been taken from the
special deposits of school land purcha-
.srs; aud twenty odd thousand dollars
rom the proceeds arising from the sale
6! State stamps. In fact an aggregate
81 something like ninety thousand dol
is.s is deficient ou account of these two
sources of revenue; leaving the General
Fund deficient, if it is at all so, less
than twenty thousand dollars. We
make this statement a. a basis upon
vhich to refute the insinuation convey
I'd in the following paragraph in our
-eighbor's article:
/; is scarcely possible that the Treasurer
causd have abstrac:ed this large amount of
money without the knowledge of the Con- !
--olley and one or two other of the State Off |
oers-espeeially since last July, at which |
,irae an examination showed the several |
tuncs to be in their places-and it behooves
10 ia discover who were the accomplices of
he Treasurer in his raids upon the public
Flnds.
To illustrate the injustice of this ex-
27essed suspicion against the Controller
sc have bet to aliude to two or three
slain facts. The bulk of this missing
nosey, as we have shown, is from lsnd
purchasers epecisI deposits, aud the
-oney scc:Uing from the sale Of Stare
revenue clamps. New, when al appIi-
ant 70. the purchase Of school lands
makes the required deposit, the Con-
roller has no more o sicisi kno.ledge OF
! than aay private citizen. Upon max
'ng bis deposit, the applicant receives
4. certificate Of such deposit when he
gets his deed to tie land he has filed
Or, &c presents his certificate to
he CcntrOIler, who then, for the 6rs,
Inc, has Official knowledge Of the mat
t.r aad who then orders the Treasurer
70 place the amount of said deposit in I
~aiehese, one of tie Funds it belongs
~. AID Ios, With regard 10 the mo-
1eys arisiug from the sale OF revenue
stamps. Il IS made the Controllers I
iIty to lave those stamps printed aud
- place them 10 the Treas1rer's hands.
After that time, further than AS to
.,.e ssGbes of stamps furnished to the
: treasurer. the Controller has no means
If knowing what number of stamps are
cold or What amount of money has
arisen from such saies. The matter is
setirely within the control of the Treas
erer; and By consequence Of . most las
sud insufficient statute, 10 is almost en-
t.rsiy relieved from any responsibility
~ 20 the custody Of those moneys
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