Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-08
&l,636,GSG II.
$2,740,291 81.

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and making total of
$2,740,291 81.
for keeping the armories repaired and fur
nished from Nov. %, 1868, to April 16, 1870,
(the period for which the bills have been
rendered and paid,) being an average of
Sill $50 80 per month for repairing and fur
nishing nine or ten armories.
Let us see how this is done On September
20, 1863, Garvey received a check for
Sl5,SlO, for work alleged to have been done
up to June l6, 1869. On March IA, 1870 he
received two checks amounting to 500, $50 for
work said to be done to Nov. %, 1869. Ten
days later he received check for $40, 343 50
for work supposed to have been done up to
Oct. "a, 1869. On April ., 1870, he received
two checks-one to Dec. for S53. $50, and
one to Dec, % 1.-TWO days. for S35, 400 80. On
April 8, (seven days after the date of the last
two.) he received another check for work
said to have been done up to Nov. u (passing
over the same ground again for S39, 1876 II.
A week later he received check for work
said to have been done up to Nov. %, for
S30,975. On June 20 he received two checks
amounting to So1.90l 81, for work from June
26 to Oct. 20. Four days later he received
two other checks amounting to SIS, 40 10,
for work supposed to have been done up to
Dec. %. Six days later he received two
other checks amounting to SS9,00S 81, and on
Aug. he received another check for S72,-
015 0S, for work supposed to have been done
up to Dee. 2l-thus receiving thirteen checks
amounting in the aggregate to
%j3O.41j BIB.
for plastering and kalsomining nine or ten
armores from June l6 TO Dec. 30, (six months
and seven days, Ca period that was fully COW
cred by his first check Of April 2.
The same curious operations are manifest
in every claim presented by Keyser for
plumbing and gasttting i'll armories and drill
rooms. During the year lSG9, he received ten
checks, amounting in the aggregate t0Sl90,-
45G 81, and during the year 1870 he received
six checks, amounting to S240,G72 30. We
explained in former article that there has
been no repairs made on several of the ar
mories for considerable time, and in some
instances for many years. And yet for keep
ing few gas pendants and water-closets in
ordsr, in those that have been repaired, John
II, keyser has been paid
$i3l,I29 20.
during lS69-7o, and 4 proportionately large
amount during the present year. The three
last checks that he received in 1869 cover the
same ground, within few days, for which
he has been paid previously. On September
20, 1869, he received check for SD. 53l 81,
for work said to have been done between
May and June 80. 1869. October | ! he re-
ceived check for Sl4 ,070 IS for work said
to have been done between June 18th and
July 9Th, (twenty days. Nineteen days later.
(Oct. 80, he received check for SIS, 697 3S
for work alleged to have been done from
March l6 to June 20. On March A. 1870, he
received check for S27, 742 40 for work done
from Sept to Dec. /, 1869, but on the 3Oth
of March he took check for work which
he claimed to have done between January
4, 1869, and November %, 1869. On June
20 he received check for $50, 953 So for
work said to have been done between Sept.
20, 1869, and Nov. g. lSG9-a period of forty
five days. Some days later he had forgotten
this, and received another check for S44-
3SS G7 for work said to have been done be-
tween May 10 and July II, 1869 July s, he
received another check for SOS, 239 50 for
work said to have been done between April
3 and June TO-, 1869, thus apparently going
over the same ground seven or eight different
times. and receiving in five months S240,
G12 % for work that was alleged to have been
done between the dates covered by his check
of March 81 for $50, 959 81.
The same rule applies to George S. Miller,
who is merely the tool of Ingersoll. He
makes out bills without any regard to dates
and charges seven or eight times over for
what was only an imaginary service in the
first place. Thus during the nine months
ending October IL, 1869, he had received
eight checks, amounting in the aggregate to
$202, 1906 and during the five months end
ing August 9th, 1870, he received thirteen
checks amounting to sos, 1888, so, making a
total of
$51O,jl3 Sc
that he received within fourteen months for
work supposed to have extended over peri
cd of seventeen months, but for which there
is absolutely nothing to show. Those who
are most familiar with the armories of the
National Guard will readily admit that the odd
| five hundred and thirteen dollars would pay
most literally for all the carpenter work that
| has been done in the armories during the pc.
Rod named, leaving 4 balance of $40, 900
on this one transaction, auaccounted for.
And lngersol who in the head and front o
every scheme that is concocted in connection
with armories and county Offices, does no
| even stop when he has charged ten times over
for the same service, but he employs dummie.
to aid him. The name of C.. ID. Bollar & Co
is down for furniture and cabinet-work in the
armories and county offices. This firm i,
! supposed to have received seven checks
amounting to 1892, 705.4G, between May 18th
1869, and Nov 24th, 1868, and to have re
ceived ten other checks amounting to $5S3
! 4l9.52, between May 7th, 1870, making
! total of
S9AGfol on