Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06


Wherever l happen to be; IS
For the Father is always watching.
And no harm can come to me.
am only little sparrow,
bird Of low degree.
But know the Father loves me-
Have You less faith than me.
REPORT OF
Committee appointed by the
Court of Common Pleas
Examine the Annual
Report
OF THE
Commissioners Of Holmes
County,
Year Ending on the Second Monday of
September, 1872.
This day came John 7. Maxwell and
David F. Ewing, the committee hereto
fore appointed by the Court, with L. r.
Hoagland, Prosecuting Attorney, to ex-
anime the report of the Commissioners
as made to the Court of Common Pleas
at the September session, 1872, and here
by report their proceedings in the prem
ises in the words and figures following,
to-wit:
To the Court Of Common Pleas, of Holmes
County, Ohio: XXI. 10
In the matter of the examination)
OF the Annual Report of the COM Report
missioners OF Holmes Co., for the of
saf.mss1 on ise fir. Monday of Examiners
The undersigned Committee and
Prosecuting Attorney Of said county,
to whom was referred for examination
by the Court of Common Pleas of said
county, the Annual Report of the COM
missioners of said county for the year
ending on the first Monday of Septem-
Der, A. d. 1872, made to said Court at
its September term, 1872, for said coun-
ty, and then referred by said Court for
as above stated, having
had the same under consideration from
time to time, as opportunity afforded,
during the vacation of said Court, and |
from AN examination and comparison of
which with the Commissioners Journal
and from an examination of other books,
papers and vouchers in the Auditors |
Office having bearing thereon and up
OH the financial condition of the county
find and report as follows:
L. That the levies for taxation for all
the different purposes have all been
made, as to rates, within the law, none
the maximum, except the levy
for county purposes; and that all have
been made under the proper enactments
md at the prescribed times, except the
evy for road and bridge purposes-it
being made at their March Session un-
Ter the act of 1871; whereas, it should
have been made at their extra session
in May under the act of April 26th, 1872.
Laws of Ohio, Vol. 60, Page 1l3, true,
levy was made, it was under
md in pursuance of the law then au-
thorizing it, but as that law was re-
pealed by said act of April 26th, 1872,
without saving clause as to prior or
existing levies, they should have made
, levy for such purposes at their extra
session in May, and abrogated their
March levy. z4-s-s-
2. That improvements in the way of
bridges, culverts and bitches, according
% the exhibit, have been Somewhat ex-
,ensive and necessarily involving con-
siderable outiay of public funds. Some
thirty or more new bridges and culverts
having been constructed within the
asst year. One, an iron bridge, at n
,ost of 10000. All, bridges and cul-
'erts, aggregating about $4,000 90; and
n addition to- this, there has been much
lone in the way of repairs and othe r
matters incident to, and rendered neces-
'ary by, the erection of new structures,
involving considerable outlay also, and,
IF necessity, must have required much
lime and attention on the part of the
which is apparent, when
t is considered that the allowances for
his class of service, which, for conven-
ence, we term itinerant, aggregates
,ver $sOO,O0; add to this the Auditors
allowances for session services, and
heir compensation for the year, ap-
,rOximates in the aggregate 81 100000,
alling probably $4,000 short of this
they must have been en-
,lOyed in one way or the other in look
ng after the public interests, near one i
hundred days-consldering that they i
low receive per diem compensation of ,
800, and for session service, mileage +,
ldded; (while before the act of April I
9th, 1872, it was even less,) and evil 8
lences that they have given to the pub 6
ic interest good, if in deed, not ex- $
ravagant attention. /
8. We find on the Com missioners' 9
Journal, and not appearing on the re- {
,ort, an item of $500 allowed at Sep 9
ember session 1871 to Werlich, Gasche I
Co., for material for repair of public !