The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1876-10-05

mortgage SOU, and cancelled tn same
Nov. y, lco9; ii 20, it could not haze come
IN on the ref-,rs 10 the Comptroller 81 hat
year. for We reported in October, snd have
no recollection OF your reporting any mort
cages cancelled BY you in the iall OF 1860,
except that Of Alex. Cons, which was,
think, $500. / want you 10 Look Up the
matter aud s,rsighien il with the commits.
sioners, and il it is anything that ave
Jailed to deliver up, il the money Was paid
to me, will pay the same With inters.;
Just take dav and look the matter up
Carefully, and write me the result of your
investigation. 1t does not seem possible
that the amount was paid in on our 1860
days, for If il had, the excess would have
shown itself, and I shonld have looked W
the cause for such excess.
"Iou received all the moneys of 1853
and transacted the business at the Medina
bank. think you mus, be mistaken stou,
reposting 1t at o meeting in the fall oi
1860. 1 shah not be able TO be home BE-
lore election. Look the matter up before
the board meets and write me about it.
Your Friend
lr IT. E. u. PErTINeILL"
Deponent desiring to have the account:
made complete by settlement again wrote
COMMISSIONS PettingiiI, this time from
Rochester, Pennsy lvanis, while en- route
west, and south, and informing him tha.
the papers and records of the transaction
were at deponent's residence end upon 10
his inspection. To this he replied by let.
ter as follows:
Treasury , apartment, Third Auditors
Office, October Is. 1865. Mr. Geo. I. An.
thoDy-Msdam will YOU have the kind
ness 10 send me a copy of the Loan Com
missioner's memorandum (your husband
and myself), for 1859. l received a letter
from Mr. Anthony today stating that he
left it with you with instructions TO let me
examine it when called for it, As shall
not be able 10 be home before election de-
sire very much that you will send NE q
copy of the zane. Your husband wrote me
from Rochester, Pennsy lvania, and said he
thought he should g. to New Orleans be.
fore he returned. Please copy il in the
form that il is in, ami all the writing and
figures that are on it. Trusting that YOU
will do 20 at your earliest possible conve-
nience, as the matter requires to be attend
ed to soon, remain truly your husbands
friend and yours
i. IA. VI Eiil' uilL.
Deponent proceeded diligently to find
the correspondence in relation TO the turn
ing over of this said sum OF 1853 60 to Com
missioner Pettingili, to be by him account
ed in the final report which was made bv
him, the deponent being then resident OF
the city Of New York. such nerds were
found, placing it beyond the possibility Of a
doubt on the part of the depOnent, that the
sum In deficit, viz, 1859 69, was due from
Mr.. Pettingiil, and not himself 1.-THE depo-
nent) Whereupon the said Commissioner
PeitIngill Was so informed and demand
again made upon him to make good the
amount Iequlrd to correct the err
Since that date, about June, 1866, depo-
nent has never heard one word about the
matter, and had every reason to believe
that it had been settled by Commissioner
PetiiDgill, AS above stated. Depo-
nent knows nothing Of the legal pro-
Gee lings sgaiDst himself and sureties never
Lavirg been notified by service, notice, or
otherwise, either by the State authorities or
his surelies, Of such suit, although one of
said sureties, Mr.. A. NJ. Ives. vas former
partner, a personal friend, and the same
who certifies in general letter and joins
II + s. Whalen in persOnal letter, now
in the hands Of the Republican State Com
miitee OF Kansas, c.rIiiying to The honor
and uprightness OF deponent and his limo
with the Loan Office or other connection.
Deponent further states that he is now
and has been ready to show that he is not
in default tn the smou OF one cent to the
said Loan Fund, and that he has written
his said sarety, A. NJ. Ives. the only survi-
wing one of said surelies, for a full and
explanation Of the matter. That
no other cum or error was ever found in the
accounts OF said Pettingiil and deponent,
and that he verify believes this 10 be the
matter In controversy in the said suit Of
record as claimed GEO I. ANTHONY
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 9th day Of Sep,em-
LIS Der, A. H., 1876.
g. F. PARMALEE.
Notary public.
STATE OF KANSAS, 50
COUNTY OF sHAw>EE,
Benjamin NJ. Anthony, being first duly
worn, deposes and says that he has read
he affidavits OF Geo. I Anthony, his broth
pr, herewith, and that the statement Of the
,"iu NScs tnC run Vi
80 was paid and delivered to True E q
Pettingill, Loan Commissioner, a. therein
,ared, is true; that the deponent did, on or
bout the 20Ih of September, in the year
500, go to the village of Albion, in the |
,ountv Of Orleans, and State of New York, |
md by written request and direction of the |
aid Geo. I. Anthony. deliver the ,aid mon
= to the said True Z. G. Pettingill.
b NJ. ANTHONY.
Subscrit ed and sworn to before me this
~ dav of September, A. ID. 1876
II. S. Il. F PAkMALEE,
Notary Public.
In addition TO the documents above given
n Connection with his statement, Mr.. An
hony presented his muster in role as cap
ain of the l7rh n. Y. Battery, his commits
ion and Brevet Commission and honorable
i.charge from the army, and also q copy
his sworn denial to similar charges made
gainst him some four years ago.
i have no. deemed il necessary to print
lese docum.nts. believing they were not
sential to the end sought in this publica-
on. J C. WILSON,
Ch'm'n Rep State Cen. Com.