The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-03-23

your hands II so, now ala you aSCeTtaln
it?
A I did ascertain the amount by
going through the sales books line by line
and entering on the list each redemption
on said books that stood open | mean.
by redemption, still open, all redemptions
on said books not marked paid and can
celled OR paid and endorsed.
Q 3. What was the amount Of the
redemption fund paid over to your sue
cessor, and do you hold his receipt or re-
ceipts for the same?
\. 1927, 40 for which amount | hold
his receipts. In going over the books the
first time, some errors were made which
were afterwards discovered and corrected,
By my paying to him the amount which
is included in said receipts.
o. Have you Bach's receipts and
viii you exhibited them to the Commit
tee?
A. The witness for answer exhibited
receipt, dated January ID 1865, signed
VIM. Bach for $49l6,O7
also one dated March 1865 for 3ll,42
Making total of 1927 40
Upon comparing the two lists accom-
panying the above receipts, witness finds
an error by duplicating .-redemptions in
the two lists to the amount Of 225, rs
which, deducted from the foregoing,
leaves the corrected amount receipted
for, $500I,74.
Wm Bach having first been duly sworn
made answers to questions as follows:
Q |. What amount Of redemption
money did you receive from y. Nittmann
and how did you ascertain it to be cor
rect ?
A. The exact amount received from
Whitman [ do not recollect 1t was a
little over $4,000. Afterwards he paid
a couple hundred more. | gave him re-
| ceipts for all sums paid by him to me;
[ ascertained the amount by list furnish
ed By him, which [ afterwards compared
with the sale books, by going through
the same line by line and taking down
| an sums of redemption money that ap-
| peared thereon as still open, that Is : not
| paid or endorsed. -Four certificates mark
ed redeemed on sale books with the
amount, which certificates I. Mueller
| held amounting to SIS, IS were not paid
to me and these redemptions are still open
| on the books.
o.. In going through the books of
sale and abstracts OF the same, did you
| include in the aggregate amount OF each
fund appearing On said books not marked
| paid and cancelled or paid and endorsed?
A. Yes
Q3. Is the amount stated in your an
! swer to question one the whole amount
| Of redemption money on hand, or what
the books called for at that time?
A. Yes.
o.. Were the books Of sale so kept,
that at any time during your term Of Of
| fee the true amount Of redemption mon
ely on hand copld have been ascertained
in the way you have described, that is by
taking line by line and setting down each
amount not marked: Paid and cancel
led'' or Paid and endorsed
A. Yes
O.. Did you marke all redemptions
on the books Of sale or abstracts Of the
same, when paid out and certificate can
celleG or endorsed
A | intended to.
q 6. Did you file for each year, 10y
themselves the certificates paid and can
celled by you?
4. la the main did. There is one
bundle of miscellaneous.
@ 7. Were you careful to cancel, by
writing across the face or otherwise, all
certificates paid by you?
4. | intended to. by writing across
the face or by putting them onto the can
ceiling stand in every instance.
q s. Do the packages thus fled con
tain all the certificates taken up by you
y. 1t was intended that they should
contain all.
| O.. On delivering up the Office to
your successor, would the books Of sale,
as You kept them, show the amount Of
redemption money IN your hands?
90. Did you so through the books
as you have described, line by line, to as
certain the true amount of the rcdcmp-
ton fund, that should be on hand and
delivered over 20 your successor?
~ No; ! intended to do it, but never
did.
Oil. What amount Of redemption
money did you pay over to your successor
A. I paid him $5,0l0,U0
OH. Was the amount named in
your last proceeding answer the whole
amount of the redemption fund, that
should have been on hand at that time
A. To the best of my knowledge then
it was That amount covered every re-
| demption on the books that stood open.
please, whether this amount 5000, 90
| was pau W yUuI SuCCSSSOi III iilOHCS iiOtCo,
orders or certificates, Or how much OF
each -?
A. I paid him, Henry B@tz
note ......... ................... $1,000 60
Check on Henry B;etz-.................... 500 90
| Check on T. G. Shove, Banker SOC co
nredecessorsl. 500 90
| County ortIers. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50 GO
| Village ortlers..... ....... so 90
Cash ............ l 90
Total .............................$ 5000 co
OLA. IF the books of sale should
| chow n nreatnr amount nf rndnm ntion