Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-08-05

{ NeNtua, tutt tueN employ some compe-
( tant person to make q thorough and ac-
curate examination of the books of every
| financial officer or agent of the county
/ government, or continuing the examina-
ton begun by ourselves.
We commenced our examination with
4 the books of the County Assessor, and
/ find the following condition of affairs:
With the exception of the book con-
I tanning the Assessment Roll Of the Pro-
ceeds of the Mines" there has not been
/ either any book Of record or accounts kept
in this office, or at least so We were in
! formed by the Assessor, and consequent
| ly We have been compelled to arrive at
our conclusions from such information
as could be gathered from outside sources.
and such stubs of Personal Property
Tax receipts as were furnished us:
MINING TAX.
The Mining Tax for fourth quarter,
ls72, payable on Merch 10, 1873,
Less commission for collection ...... III 10
Net amount due the county. s23,lS9 %
The Treasurer's books show credit to
the Assessor. and the Auditors
books charge to the Treasurer of s22 ,3o7 80
Making a deficit on this tax of........ ssi 50
The Assessor exhibited to us two du-
plicate receipts signed by the Treasurer
or his Deputy:
Marcn S22.3 OI 81
March 2O......-..........'... Sol q
Making deficit OF only seven cents. 500, ls9 II
The Treasurer claims that the pay
ments made tn him were.
March Observation-Disclosures. ssl 81
So. 3O7 80
For which amount, ut the request of
the Assessor he issued a consolidated re-
ceipt without taking up the two receipts,
as the Assessor stated that they were lost
along with his overcoat. The Assessor
on the other hand claims that the two
receipts, now in his possession, repre-
sent the amounts actually paid on those
days. Without attempting to decide be-
tween the two parties, one thing is GER
tain that the county is short 1881. 80 on
the mining tax for fourth quarter 1872.
The returns and money paid on account
of tax for first quarter, 1873, is correct.
POLL TAXES.
The Assessor has received fifteen humid
red poll tax receipts, worth $4,000, less
commissions 10 per cent. So, 400, for
he should account either by money paid
into the Treasury receipts on hand.
He has paid into the Treasury May It'll,
500, and on July 2Sth 81 500; equal to
Gil receipts, amounting to $4,000. He
has shown us 81 spoiled receipts worth
less commissions S2l9.60; the whole az
gregating -, 4l9.60. Leaving to be ac-
counted for S2S poll tax receipts, for
which nothing has been shown to US.
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
In the investigation of this branch of
the Assessor work, we have been COM
PEELED to resort to outside means of in
formation. The Assessor furnished us
with but one book of stubs of receipts
issued as being, with the exception OF
about seven or eight from another book,
all that had been issued during the year.
This book commenced April It'll and
ended April Goth. From the list fur
nished US by two gentlemen of the
amounts paid by them, we find thirty
receipts dated within that time, for which
We cannot find any stubs in this book.
Besides they furnished us with list of
eighty-two receipts paid for by them since
the 29th of April; and one of them states
that he has at one and the same time
seen at his office two Deputy Assessors
each with a seperate book of personal
property tax receipts. What has BE-
come Of this other book or books of
stubs We are not able to learn.
We would note the following as some
of the inaccuracies existing between the
amounts paid by certain parties and the
amounts as entered on the stubs: