The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14


i. For paying money out of the coum
~ treasury on account of school funds for
WHICH no vouchers are produced as fol-
Feb. 9th 1878 to H. P Miller, $40. 90
Dec', 3lst 1874 toe. Gregoric, $500
1874 to T. III. Fits. a. 90
=" to Emily Moore, 81 $500
~. Muckenfuss,S - $500
Iroubletield, $500
Iriuus Kelly $500
Nov. 10 1872 to Muckcnfuss & T. 24O. CO..
:. For paying out money in his hands
appropriated to school purposes without
the approval of the county school COM
missioner as follows
Feb. 3. 1874 to H. T. Labitut $4,000
Apl. % 1874 TO Priscilla Sans, 1900
March 1874 to ]. G. Rivers, $500
Emily Muckcnfuss, 81. 90
- Emily Moore, 8O.OO
Feb. % 1874 Peter Crosby, 125.00
y For paying out money in his hands
appropriated to school purposes on
teachers pay certificate No. 81 "a" for
$4,000 in favor of John A. Hume school
District No. 8 said certificate not bcing
signed by the Board of School trustees
of said School District
For paying in full registered school
certificate No. 93 for $500 in payment
of salary of M. A. Youmans, which GER
tihcate is not signed by the Board of
school trustees of school district No. 4.
This certificate could be paid properly
only in pursuance of an Act of the Cen
erai Assembly approved March 3 1874
entitled IAN Act to provide for the
payment OF pas due school claims in the
several counties of this State.
For paying the original and duplicate
teachers pay certificate No. 1874 for w.
.. B. Hoyt, dated Jan. s 1874 amounting
to 800 making the illegal over pay.
ment $500.
4. For paying out school funds with
out vouchers and charging said payments
as ''contingents." |3
Besides the foregoing irregularities,
the Grand Jury huve noticed others an
among the following which, if not actua,
offences against the letter are certainly
Offences against the spirit of the law
namely r ~
1. Charging and deducting commissions
to the amount of $6O318 for collection
OF the taxes raised for school purposes
Tor the fiscal year ending Oct. 81 1874, in
addition to charging and deducing
commissions to the amount of $3.25O for
collecting State and County taxes,
whereas sec. 81 of the Act of March 10
1874 (vol. 10 page 1855 St. of s. C.) the
of said county treasurer was
limited to $4,000 ner annum.
g Paying Thomas E. Miller school
commissioner $50 for office expenses for
oct. 1873, as per certificate No. 455.
For
m tne same against properly of Homer
WI hams, John Wright and Decsmber
Johnson for taxes for the year 1878,
the same Williams, Wright and
Johnson had paid in tul. the taxes for
said year and held the RECEIPTS of said
county treasurer therefor. Said receipts
ana executions are In possession of the
Grand Jury.
A. For paying certificate number ss
lated March, IA in favor of T. g. Webb
ior $4,000 out of school funds collected
for the year 1879.
Inc witnesses necessary to prove the
looVc chnrges are W. j. Goodlng. w. c.
Danner, Shepherd d. Gilbert, school
Homer Williams, John
wright and December johnson.
The Grand Jury In this connection
iesire to call the attention of the court
10 the fact THAT their committee made
several demands on said county treasurer
or the stub receipt books .D' & sF' for
'he tscal year 1884, containing about
TWO Thousand fcccipts and also tho oniy
record of the payments made by him on
account OF the illegal capitation tax
objected during the fiscal year ending
Oct. 81 1873. =
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For tho amounts paid by said county
treasurer on improper vouchers and on
no vouchers at all, the Grand Jury
would recommend that the county com
mlssloners bring an action to recover the
same from the said county treasurer.
Complaint was made this day to the
Grand Jury of certain alleged official
ON the part of the coroner in
'eizing property from the sheriff IN an
action brought against him and sur.
rendering the same to the plaintiff ON
an insufficient bond and before the time
provided by law for the holding of such
property In custody had expired. The
Grand Jury have had no time TO exam
Inc into this matter but would
recommend that the solicitor INQUIRE into
the facts and prepare bill for, the ao-
ton Of the Grand Jury at its next term
should 1t be advisable TO do so. 10
1t has been reported to the Grand
Jury that In some case the bodies of per
SONS who have come to violent and
sudden death have been buried beyond
he limits of the county before due in
luiry was made by the coroner as to
he mode of death. This is a clear
,iolation of law and the grand jury
1eem it proper to take this method Of
Ealing public attention to this illegal
practice 1....
The Jail and poor house were visited
md their administration found oe al