Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-05-01

been paid twice, however, without
somebody in this Office discovering the
fact.
JAMES Il. RYAN.
James B. Ryan being first duly
sworn testified as follows:
@. (by r. M. Clark Did you ever
act in the capacity of Deputy Auditor
" hile | was in this office?
a. acted as clerk in the Office; I
was not sworn.
i @. Who was in the habit of counting
the bonds and coupons i'll the Treas
urer'S Office, during my term Of Office ?
a. l suppose / counted them as
much as any one, for three settlements
| am certain. or may be four; l know
I did the Fall of 1868 and the Spring
and Fall OF 1869.
@. Al the time you counted these
bonds and coupons what Was the man
ner of counting them
A. / used to go down TO the Treas
urer's Office and take with me the bond
Register and the bond book with the
butts. We would first separate the
bonds into roads, by The Register and
by the bond hook; we counted each
separately, carefully; | would count
them first and Irwin afterwards; they
were sealed up in envelopes and
brought up here (AuditOr's otfice) and
orders issued for them Immediately.
@. Do you recollect whether orders
were issued on all of these settlements?
A. There were at all that l had any
thing to do with.
O. Are you sure that there were Or
ders issued for these bonds and cou-
pons, or whether the Treasurer merely
received credit in this Office?
4. The ones I had anything to do
with the orders We're issued within a
few minutes. Twice, at least, l took
the orders down myself and brought
tho books back, and the orders were
for the same amounts that tha bonds
were.
Q. What disposition was made of
these bonds after they came into this
(Auditor's) office?
A. They were brought to this office
and left in the safe until marked re-
deemed.
@. The bonds that you brought from
the Treasurer's ofiice-were they can
celled by the Treasurer at the time?
A. Some were; | cannot say as to
all of them. l did not examine as to
that; l was in the Treasurer's Office
part of the time and know that some
of the bonds were cancelled.
@. Do you recollect after any bonds
had been brought here from the Treas
urer's office, of their being cancelled in
this office? bonds that had not been
cancelled in the Treasurer's office?
A. l do not.
@. Do you recollect about any bonds
being punched in this Office after they
left the Treasurer's office?
A. There may have been, but 1 was
not present; don't recollect any.
@. Did you ever own bond?
A. Never in my life, sir.
Q. Did you ever present bond to
the Treasurer for redemption?
A. I never did.
Q. Did you ever fill up bond?
A. No, l never did.
@. (by Kennon) What do you mean
by "orders issued"?
A. Orders on the Treasury, the same
as any man who presented bill here
would get an order on the Treasury
for it.
@. If orders were issued on the
Treasury for these bonds and coupons
where would these orders appear in
the Auditors office?
4 A. In the butts of the books and on
the Register; | can show you the
numbers of some on the Register, up
to 1870, think.
J, Q. Who made the entries of the
credits given the Treasurer upon the
Auditors Register?
A. think it was Clark part of the
time, and the last year Adams kept
, Register up. | had nothing to dc
with that: never made an entry on
the Register.
Q. Did you ever help compare the
? bonds returned by the Treasurer to the
, Auditors Office, with the bond Regis
ter?
! A. / read the bonds to Clark and he
would mark them redeemed, that wa:
!? once or twice, don't know how often;
but one time | believe | marked them
. redeemed myself, some are in my hand
2 writing; that was the last settlement.
2 Q. When you compared the bonds
S thus redeemed with the Register, die
you ever discover anything wrong
: that any of the bonds had ever beer
redeemed before?
A. No sir; / never found a bond thai
j had been redeemed twice.
Y Q. (by Patterson.) Did you notice
whether the amount credited to the
= Treasurer was the same as the amount
: of the bonds brought from the Treas
e urer's office?
e A. Yes sir, it always was, and not ;
p cent more, that exactly.
4 @. Where were these redeemed
5 bonds kept?
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