The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-04-26
HAWKINS COUNTY FINANCES
James HI. Walkers Explanation
Retrieved.

! county treasury. After giving M
last letter in full, AIr. Walker says
If.I do not mistake his meaning
Mr.. Gillenwaters here broadly as
serts that we ought now to have il
the county treasury, a net balance
! of $18, 900. collected as railroad tax
es, after the payment of The entire
interest on our bonded Indebtedness:
since the war. and after making due
allowance for losses, commissions
etc, in the collection of taxes"
Mr.. Walker must have knowingly
misstated my position here, because
the fact was before him in the table
/ gave, that / treated the railroad
tax as a special tax levied for 9
specific purpose. and therefore de-
Quoted only the interest on the
| $40, 900 railroad bonds, proper. and
treated the $1,000 turnpike bonds
and The $4,000 bonds issued to fund
the county warrants, as a county
1 debt to be paid out Of the county
tax, proper.
The conclusion reached by Mr..
Walker is, / suppose, satisfactory TO
himself. He calls it an explanation.
/ look upon it as an attempt made
In the light of facts and figures to
pcrvert the truth. and mislead the
people If am wrong in this. Mr.,
Walker is responsible for the error,
and if he will correct himself then l
will stand corrected bat. until he
does this, I stand by what | have
heretofore asserted and what now
assert In :his paper.
Mr.. Walker refers TO a /" Report
of the Chairman of the County
Court, made to the April term.
1874 and aohich report he tells gou
aeds adopted by the Court and spread
ofreeord This report was made by
JameS Fl. Walker, Chairman of the
County Court of Hawkins county,
and in the making of.this report Mr..
Walker was assisted by two able
attorneys who received fee paid
by the people of $3.50. This report
ought 10 be correct, and it being a
part of the record of the County
Court. have right to say that it
speaks the truth.
Now, / want Mr.. Walker and the
people to understand that get my
facts ard figures from this report of
Mr.. Walkers, as it now appears Of
record and / want you to take this
paper in one hand and then the fig
nres of the record Mr.. Walker has
made with the other and read-see
and understand that | speak from
and by the record.
There is one fact known to every
tax payer of Hawkins county-that
Mr.. Walker ignores in his explana-
ton, to-wit, that the County Court
levies a tax for county purposes,
which is the county ta1, proper, to
meet the current expenses of the
county, and also levies railroad
ta9 to pay interest on the railroad
debt of the county. These two
taxes are levied separately--kept
separate on the tax books, and the
railroad tax is collected separately
from the county tax, proper. and, as
the people well know, the railroad
tax is payable in money, and can
not be paid in county warrants.
Mr.. Walker gives us the railroad
tax only, and then, with this, pays
off the interest on the $4,000 turn
pike bonds and the $4,000 bonds is
sued by the court to fund county
warrants-neither of which are part
of the railroad debt of the county,
and the railroad tax ought not to
have been applied to this indebted
ness. From the report to which Mr.
Walker refers, and which he made.
submit the following table, show
ing the amount of net revenue paid in
during each year from 1865 to 1874.
and also liabilities for each year,
with balance for or against the eoun-
ty at the close of each year-the
balance being carried forward in
each statement:
TABLE 1" A.,
STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR 1965-LIABIL-
titles.
To variants issued to cover
for the year.. So, ,265 81
CONTRA.
BY net amount of cash in
county treasury. $4,328 66
Balance against county,. $937 25
FOR THE YEAR 1S66-LIABIL-
ITIEs.
To warrants issued to cover
for the year.. So, 153 72
60.
1865, brought down. ......... 937 20
Total liabilities. .......... $1,000 81
CONTRA.
BY net amount of cash in
county treasury ....t. .s-.s..- 80, 10 u
------
Balance against county,. 965 50
FOR THE YEAR 1867--LIABII.-
ITIEs.
To warrants issued to cover
for the year. :. SO, 4S2 20
10 balance against county
for 1866, brought dowm.....-. $500 80
Total liabilities. ........... s7,44S o5
CONTRA.
BY amount of net cash in
county treasury. ..s.-, s., 4S1 90
Balance against county,. 81, ,966 30
FOR THE YEAR 1S6S-LIABlL-
TILES.
To warrants issued to cover
for the year.. 80, ,0S2 10
TO balance against county
Cor 1867, brought down.. 81 ,906 so
To claim paid j. w. Cald-
we'll, for which no warrant is
sued s..............-,. 123 53
Total liabilities .......s.. .$1o,172 20
CONTRA.