Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09

Total. ................... So, l3J 81
The above table shows that the courts
cost the county 33,06S.06; charities, coun-
ty asylum, pauper account, allowances to
pauper, lunatic asylum, pest house and Or
phan asylums have cost the county $15,-
S02.30-all other items had cost So, 1892
Total $50, 1887, on which had beenHpaid
$45, 533.77; leaving the amount due $780,
605.S0, to which add amount of accounts
reported at the present term $5,276.29,
making total of Sal, $500. The COM
mittee reports balance unpaid Jan. l, 1872,
SIC, 225.55; increase since that time $15,-
1864, showing that the county debt is
rapidly increasing. The county cannot pay
its debt except by increased taxes and di-
intuition of the appropriations by
the Court. 1t is not the
object of the Court to perpetuate the inter
es's of spectators in County warrants.
The Court should heed the claims of the
people and the creditors of the county. The
levy of last year was insufficient, and with
out retrenchment on the one hand and in
crease of taxation on the other, the finan-
cial condition of the county would neces-
sarily grow worse. The remainder of the
fund received for the sale of the Edgefeld
and Kentucky Railroad, and placed in the
hands of the County Trustee to pay coup
ons of the county, will perhaps be
sufficient to pay those due previ-
Gus to April l, 1872, but at
that time $14,490 became due, and he
did not have the amount of funds required.
In its report of July, 1871, the committee
showed that bonds of the county of $780,
600 would be due in 1873. The County
Trustee was daily censured for not having
funds with which to pay claims against the
county. He received very small amounts
in cash, payments to him being mainly in
coupons and county warrants.
In order to continue the present system
of bookkeeping for the county, required
that suitable person be selected, whose
duty it should be to keep up the auditors
books of the county, in which every
claim should be entered. Had there
been such an officer, this report would not
have been so long deferred, and might have
been made in a more satisfactory form.
On motion Of Justice Maxey, the report
was received and ordered to be filed.
AUDITED ACCOUNTS.
Audited accounts amounting to some
$4,000 were allowed. The printing office
and book store accounts, aggrega.iDg sew
eral hundred dollars, were again referred
for revisement.
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
A communication was received from DR..
John II. Calender, Superin-
tendens of the State Lunatic Asylum,
respecting the number and character
of charity patients allowed to each county
in that institution. The paper makes refer
ence to the excess of patients already in
the asylum from Davidson county, and
embraces a bill of 5000 for their support.
1t also expresses desire on the part of the
Superintendent for a committee of the
court to visit the institution, and see in
what manner its charity inmates are pro-
vided for. On motion, the communication
was referred to a committee consisting of
Judge Smiley, the County Asylum Com
missioners, and Justices Maxey, Ewing,
Bigley and Hardy, with instructions to ex-
anime the whole matter and report. The
committee will visit the asylum at O'Clock
Thursday afternoon.
Court adjourned until 10 o'clock this
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